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WA Friday Lunch Talk, January 21, 13:15-14:15, "Mimesis of Mind: Stylistics and Stream of Consciousness Narration" by Dr Eric Rundquist (AULA Heliodori and ONLINE)

Submitted by tomski on 18 January, 2022 - 14:00.
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WA Friday Lunch Talks are monthly meetings with presentations of current research results or research in progress by WA faculty, PhD students and guests. Each talk is of 45 minutes (+15 minutes for discussion). This time the Department of Studies in Culture has the pleasure to welcome all to a talk "Mimesis of Mind: Stylistics and Stream of Consciousness Narration" by Dr. Eric Rundquist from Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Friday, January 21, 13:15-14:15, Aula Heliodori and MS Teams).


Dr. Eric Rundquist
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Mimesis of Mind: Stylistics and Stream
of Consciousness Narration

January 21, 13:15-14:15, AULA HELIODORI 

LINK TO THE TALK on MS Teams

ABSTRACT

What is it like to be somebody else, to be alive inside of their mind, to see the world from their point of view? One of the central problems in consciousness studies is that any given person, no matter how smart they are or what technology they use, can only really have direct access to their own mental experience. We can, of course, make inferences about other people’s thoughts and emotions based on what they say or do; and scientists can use neuroimaging technology to predict experiences based on patterns of electricity in the brain. But when it comes to actual first-person experience, to what it’s really like to be somebody, this is by nature bracketed off for all but oneself.

However, there exist certain tools – artforms – that can be used to mimetically represent conscious experience, and this defies the natural limitations on subjectivity by providing direct access to the mind of another person – albeit a fictional one. Fiction, to put it another way, can make minds transparent to a degree that is not possible in real life.

In this lecture, I will argue that the most precise and effective artistic technique for representing the mind is the stream of consciousness technique in narrative fiction. Working within the discipline of literary linguistics (aka stylistics), we’ll explore the mechanics of meaning in stream of consciousness narration. We’ll analyze some classic examples in English literature in order to describe the semantics of the language in relation to characters’ mental activity; and we’ll discover how authors take us beneath the surface level of their characters’ consciousness by essentially translating non-verbal cognition into language.

Eric Rundquist is a professor of English linguistics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He is the author of the book Free Indirect Style in Modernism: Representations of Consciousness (John Benjamins, 2017) and several academic articles, including “The Cognitive Grammar of drunkenness: consciousness representation in Lowry’s Under the Volcano” (Language and Literature, 2020) and “Cognitive semantics as character conceptualization: re-orienting the cognitive stylistic analysis of character discourse and Free Indirect Style” (Literary Semantics, 2020). He obtained his PhD from the University of Nottingham in 2016. His research areas include stylistics, discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics, narratology, English grammar, language acquisition and philosophy of mind. He serves as the PALA ambassador to Chile for the Poetics and Linguistics Association.


 
 

OnAfrican American Music – a new interactive course book coauthored by Stan Breckenridge

Submitted by tomski on 5 January, 2022 - 18:11.
2022-01-05

The Department of Studies in Culture is happy to announce the publication of OnAfrican American Music – a new interactive book coauthored by Dr. Stan Breckenridge. The book is designed as a course on African American music with interactive content, supplemental readings, bibliographic resources, and meaningful assessments.

 

OnAfrican American Music illuminates the music and cultural connections of black music from the 1600s to the present, embodied in its multiple genres, both secular and religious, such as plantation songs, folk spirituals, ragtime, blues, jazz, gospel, R&B, freedom songs, hip-hop, and neo- soul, as it explores the historical depth and profound impact of this music in the United States and the world.


See an overview of the book in the link below:

https://connect4education.com/coming-soon-onafrican-american-music/

Culture Vultures meeting: Human Figures, States, and Spaces: The Liminality of the Mise-en-scène in Squid Game (2021) by dr Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska, Jan 11, 6:30 pm on ZOOM

Last updated by grzegorz on 2022-01-11. Originally submitted by tomski on 2022-01-05.
2022-01-11 18:30
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The Department of Studies in Culture and Cultures Vultures reading club invite everyone to a talk: "Human Figures, States, and Spaces:The Liminality of the Mise-en-scène in Squid Game (2021)" by Dr Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska from the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (Jan 11, 6:30 PM on ZOOM).

 

Human Figures, States, and Spaces:
The Liminality of the Mise-en-scène in Squid Game (2021)
by
dr Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska

When? Tuesday, January 11, 6:30 PM
Where? Join us on ZOOM (Meeting ID: 919 6979 7298
Access code: t28ypk)

     

WA Distinguished Professors’ Lectures: Online language learning: How effective is it? by Prof. Shawn Loewen, Dec 17, 2021, 1:15 p.m., MS Teams

Submitted by tomski on 17 December, 2021 - 07:59.
2021-12-17 13:15
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WA Distinguished Professors’ Lectures Series features internationally renowned scholars visiting the Faculty of English to share their research and professional expertise with the faculty and students. This time we have the honour to host Prof. Shawn Loewen, who is staying with as a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Humanities and Social Sciences. He will deliver a lecture “Online language learning: How effective is it?” that will take place on 17 December 2021 (Friday) at 1:15 p.m. on MS Teams.


Online language learning: How effective is it?
by
Prof. Shawn Loewen
Friday, December 17, 1:15 p.m. on MS Teams

LINK TO LECTURE


The use of online resources for second language learning has been popular for years. However, with the increase in online instruction due to the pandemic, the use of such materials has increased even more. However, instructed second language acquisition (ISLA) researchers have been slow to investigate these resources, in part because of some of the strong claims made by commercially available programs, (e.g., Speak a language in 21 days. Most people can speak within 5 hours. 90-95% success rate with 35 hours.) Nevertheless, I maintain that ISLA research should be interested in any of the ways that individuals attempt to learn a second language, regardless of our own feelings about their effectiveness. This presentation examines several types of online language learning resources, such as commercial language learning apps and video-conferencing platforms, and considers empirical evidence for their effectiveness (or lack thereof). Issues pertaining to pedagogical approaches and user motivation will be addressed, in addition to evidence of language learning by learners.

Culture Vultures meeting: The sense of place in contemporary popular imagination. The construction of a character in The Affair by prof. Alena Smiešková, Dec 7, 6:30 pm on ZOOM

Last updated by grzegorz on 2021-12-07. Originally submitted by tomski on 2021-12-03.
2021-12-07 18:30
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The Department of Studies in Culture and Cultures Vultures reading club invite everyone to a talk: "The sense of place in contemporary popular imagination. The construction of a character in The Affair" by Professor Alena Smiešková from Comenius University in Bratislava (Dec 7, 6:30 PM on ZOOM).

The talk deals with the spatial paradigm and how increasingly important it has become in contemporary culture. The focus of the talk is to describe the protagonist of The Affair (2014 - 2019 Showtime TV series) Alison Bailey as a character tied to the place where she has lived, and died - culturally, socially, and symbolically, and to examine how her story is also a story of American culture, and the medium in which it is presented.

 

"The sense of place in contemporary popular imagination. The construction of a character in The Affair"
by
prof. Alena Smiešková

When? Tuesday, December 7, 6:30 PM
Where? Join us on ZOOM (Meeting ID: 864 9281 3502, Passcode: 6VaqnC)

Alena Smiešková is Assistant Professor at the Department of English and  American Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, where she teaches and lectures courses on contemporary American literature and culture with the specific focus on ethnicity, film, and the role of   visual culture in contemporary art. She is the author of a book on Philip Roth, and postmodernism, and co-authored the book on ethnic writing. She has also published on film, and literature in national, and international publications. She was a Fulbright scholar at the UCSC in 2009 at the Center for Cultural Studies, and spend a year at Indiana University, Bloomington as a part of the non-degree  program at the Department of English funded by the Open Society Fund (1995 - 1996). Her research is often interdisciplinary and at present it is focused on representations of city in diverse cultural forms. She founded and served as an editor-in-chief on the editorial board of Ars Aeterna journal (from 2009 - 2018). She was also the head of the Czech and Slovak Association of American Studies.
 

Premiera trzeciego tomu Dziejów kultury europejskiej autorstwa prof. Wojciecha Lipońskiego

Submitted by tomski on 29 November, 2021 - 15:00.
2021-11-24

24 listopada 2021 roku ukazała się trzecia część sześciotomowej historii kultury europejskiej zatytułowanej Dzieje kultury europejskiej. Renesans autorstwa prof. Wojciecha Lipońskiego z Zakładu Badań nad Tekstami Kultury. Więcej informacji o książce oraz przygotowywanych kolejnych tomach serii można znaleźć na STRONIE WYDAWNICTWA PWN.


Dwa pierwsze tomy Dziejów kultury europejskiej: Prehistoria-starożytność oraz Średniowiecze ukazały się w latach 2019 i 2020. Obecnie prof. Lipoński pracuje nad czwartym tomem cyklu pt. Dzieje kultury europejskiej: Barok–oświecenie.

Culture Vultures meeting: After Apollo 11: US manned space flights 1969–1975 by dr Grzegorz Michalski, November 9, 6:30 p.m., room 215

Last updated by grzegorz on 2021-11-12. Originally submitted by tomski on 2021-11-02.
2021-11-09 18:30
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Tying in with the 60th anniversary of Alan Shepard’s flight, the Culture Vultures reading club invites everyone to another presentation on US manned space flight programmes. During a previous meeting (in May 2021), we went through the Mercury, the Gemini, and all the Apollo programme flights leading up to and resulting in the first landing on the Moon (Apollo 11). The upcoming meeting will focus on the Apollo missions that followed once the goal of “landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth” had been achieved (Apollo 12 through Apollo-Soyuz). With dozens of photos from NASA and commentary by Grzegorz Michalski.

After Apollo 11:
US manned space flights 1969-1975


When? Tuesday, November 9, 6:30 pm
Where? Room 215, Collegium Heliodori

WA Friday Lunch Talk, Oct 29, 13:15-14:15, "Mastering Uncontrol”: Exploratory Tropes and Spaces of Interiority in Contemporary North American and Polish Poetry" by prof. Paulina Ambroży

Last updated by tomski on 2021-10-28. Originally submitted by tomski on 2021-10-25.
2021-10-29 13:15
2021-10-29 14:15

WA Friday Lunch Talks are monthly meetings with presentations of current research results or research in progress by WA faculty, staff, or PhD students. Each talk is of 45 minutes (+15 minutes for discussion). We welcome all to a TALK: "Mastering Uncontrol: Exploratory Tropes and Spaces of Interiority in Contemporary North American and Polish Poetry" by prof. Paulina Ambroży (Friday, October 29, 13:15-14:15).

prof. Paulina Ambroży

Department of American Literature

"Mastering Uncontrol:
Exploratory Tropes and Spaces
of Interiority in Contemporary
North American and Polish Poetry"

October 29, 13:15-14:15
The talk will take place in

AULA HELIODORI
AND
LIVE ON MS TEAMS


ABSTRACT

The goal of the presentation is to examine the relation between new materialist, posthumanist and ecocritical discourses and revisionary modes of lyric address in selected contemporary North American and Polish poetry. My primary focus will be the last couple of decades which have brought the most significant shifts in onto-epistemological, ethical as well as aesthetic conceptions of life and of the self. Those shifts, which recognize the complex interconnectedness of human and non-human matter, have shaped current discourses of subjectivity, agency, identity, memory and interiority central to the lyrical project. Experimental poetry in particular has proven sensitive to the new materialist and posthumanist turn, seeking alternative ways to probe and redefine spaces of lyrical interiority outside the habitual anthropocentric frames. The particular focus of my inquiry will be spatial metaphors and forms deployed by the selected poets in their quests for the increasingly elusive interiority of the lyric self. As will be argued, the exploratory tropes and modes dominant in their spatial imaginary, such as navigation, echolocation, anatomy and cartography, reveal not only a desire to reach new levels of self-understanding and new depths of lyrical intimacy but serve also to articulate an anxiety about the posthumanist “unsealing” of the autonomous self. At once haunted by the solipsism of the lyric mode and working to overcome it, the poets under scrutiny question as well as expand the habitual spaces of lyric expression. To showcase this productive tension, I have selected the following volumes: Adam Dickinson’s Anatomic (2018), Evelyn Reilly’s Echolocation (2018), and Marcin Mokry’s Świergot (2019). The methodological framework informing the following inquiry will fuse new lyric studies, which explore revisionary modes in contemporary lyric practice, with ecocritical, posthumanist and new materialist concepts of subjectivity and matter.

Paulina Ambroży is Associate Professor and Head of American Literature Department at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Her research centers on American ¬(more recently also Canadian and Polish) avant-garde and experimental poetry. She is interested in intersections between poetry, literary philosophy, science and the visual arts. She is the author of (Un)concealing the Hedgehog: Modernist American Poets and Contemporary Critical Theories (Poznań, 2012), which received the 2014 American Studies Network Book Prize for remarkable research in American studies, and which focused on Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams and Mina Loy. With Liliana Sikorska, Joanna Jarząb-Napierała and Marta Frątczak-Dąbrowska she has authored Between the Self and the Other: Essays on the Poetry of Paul Muldoon (2018), a study which fuses four perspectives: autobiographical, geopoetic, postcolonial and intertextual. She is a recipient of two research grants from the Polish-American Fulbright Foundation: a Junior Fulbright Research Grant (Stanford University, 2002-2003). Her current book project is devoted to intermediality and provisionally titled Turn of the Sign: Crisis of Representation in American Poetry and the Visual Arts. Concurrently, she is working on a comparative project involving posthumanist approaches to the North American and Polish.



Powitanie studentek i studentów Wydziału Anglistyki UAM w roku akademickim 2021/22 // A welcome message to the students of the Faculty of English of Adam Mickiewicz University in the academic year of 2021/22

Last updated by tomski on 2021-10-14. Originally submitted by tomski on 2021-10-11.
2021-10-11

Z początkiem pierwszego pełnego tygodnia zajęć na Wydziale Anglistyki UAM zapraszamy do wysłuchania powitania studentek i studentów naszego wydziału w roku akademickim 2021/22 przez Dziekanę prof. UAM dr hab. Joannę Pawelczyk oraz Prodziekanę ds. studenckich prof. UAM dr hab. Agnieszkę Setecką // With the start of the first full week of classes at the AMU Faculty of English, you are warmly invited to listen to the welcome address to the students of our Faculty for the academic year 2021/22 by the Dean Prof. Joanna Pawelczyk and the Vice Dean for Student Affairs Prof. Agnieszka Setecka.

 

Polish Association for the Study of Australia and New Zealand’s 3rd Biennial RANZ International Conference, 23 September 2021

Submitted by tomski on 22 September, 2021 - 21:22.
2021-09-23

The Polish Association for the Study of Australia and New Zealand (PASANZ) welcomes all to join us for a one-day online conference “Redefining Australia and New Zealand: Insularity, Solidarity, Disunity?”, 23 September, 2021. During the conference, scholars from Australia, New Zealand and Poland will be debating some issues related to the theme of the conference as well as other points of their research.

 


Plenary lectures will be given by:

Dr Beate Josephi (Edith Cowan University)
Prof. Jan Lencznarowicz (Jagiellonian University)
and poetry will be read by Andrew Taylor (Edith Cowan University)

Conference PROGRAM and the BOOK OF ABSTRACTS:
http://wa.amu.edu.pl/pasanz/conferences.html


REGISTRATION LINK:
https://forms.office.com/r/2Yi0CETtHX

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