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A Great American Education: Perspectives on Traditional and Non-Traditional Approaches - an information and Q&A session with Prof. Pamela Howland, Nov 15, 3 p.m., C1

WA Distinguished Professors' Lectures: Making the Radical Palatable: The Political Effects of U.S. Mainstream Drama by Prof. Jacob Juntunen, 09.11.2017, 6.30 p.m., room C1, Collegium Novum

  • 2017-10-25 20:30


    WA Distinguished Professors' Lectures Series     features internationally renowned scholars visiting the Faculty of English to share their research and professional expertise with WA faculty and students.

     

    Making the Radical Palatable:
    The Political Effects of U.S. Mainstream Drama

    by

    Prof. Jacob Juntunen

    Thursday, November 9, 6.30 p.m., C1, Collegium Novum

    Utilizing data from my first book, Mainstream AIDS Theatre, the Media, and Gay Civil Rights (Routledge 2016), this lecture will demonstrate the political potential of mainstream theatre in the United States at the end of the 20th century. I will examine the Broadway premiere of one play in detail, Angels in America (1993), in order to show how it helped create a political shift in the United States. I use reviews as evidence for historical reception alongside material study—such as the theater’s location, architecture, merchandise, program notes, and advertising—to create a rich description of this production and its ideological effects.


    Jacob Juntunen is a playwright and theatre scholar whose work focuses on theatre’s role in forming imagined communities, paying particular attention to marginality. He is the author of Mainstream AIDS Theatre, the Media, and Gay Civil Rights: Making the Radical Palatable (Routledge 2016), and his plays are for those “who want to leave the theatre changed and moved,” as one Chicago critic described. He is the Head of the Playwriting MFA and PhD programs at Southern Illinois University, where he is Associate Professor of Dramatic Literature, Criticism, and Playwriting, as well as the Department of Theater’s Director of Graduate Studies. His current book project expands his geographic scope to examine artistic resistance to the genocidal discourse of the Nazi and Soviet regimes, particularly examining the theatre of Polish auteur Tadeusz Kantor. His reviews and articles have been published in Theatre Journal, European Theatre Journal, Polish-AngloSaxon Studies, Peace History, HowlRound.com, and several anthologies. Jacob’s scholarship and playwriting have been supported by the Fulbright Program, Krakow’s International Cultural Center, the Illinois Arts Council, SIU’s Seed Grant, and Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. His plays have been produced or workshopped Off-Broadway, in Chicago, Los Angeles, Austin, Washington, DC, and across the U.S. and Europe.

    Wszyscy studenci, Pracownicy, Strona główna, Wydarzenie publiczne, International students, Guest Lecture, Alumni, Komunikaty Samorządu Studentów WA

Culture Vultures meeting: NIGHT MUSIC: Perspectives on the work of Frederic Chopin and Kazuo Ishiguro by Pamela Howland, Ph.D., Oct 24, 6.30. p.m., 101A

The Internationalization of American Higher Education - a talk by U.S. Vice Consul to Poland Nicklaus Laverty, Oct 24, 11:30, room 109A Novum

  • 2017-10-22 13:51

    The Faculty of English invites everyone to a talk by U.S. Vice Consul to Poland, Nicklaus Laverty, Ph.D. on the Internationalization of American Higher Education. October 24, 2017, 11.30 a.m., room 109A Collegium Novum.

    The talk will cover general trends in increasing international student representation in American higher education, especially in graduate programs. It will also highlight the advantages of this more internationalized context, as professional success largely depends on greater comfort with international travel and other national cultures. Intra-academic advantages of intellectual and methodological diversity will be discussed, when compared to previous eras of higher education.

    Nicklaus Laverty holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He taught courses in comparative politics, international relations, and US foreign policy at Keene State College, New Hampshire. He is currently a United States Foreign Service officer in the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw.

    Wszyscy studenci, Pracownicy, Strona główna, Wydarzenie publiczne, International students, Guest Lecture, Alumni, Komunikaty Samorządu Studentów WA

Prof. Marcin Kilarski elected member of the Executive Committee of SLE

WAMU - new Moodle platform of the Faculty of English

  • 2017-10-01 21:16

    Dear Students,

    As many of you will know by now, as of 2017-2018, which is just kicking in, we have a new Moodle platform, stored on central AMU servers, called WAMU Moodle.

    The address is 
     
    https://www.elearning.amu.edu.pl/wa
     
    and you will always find the quick link to it on the Faculty website:
     

    If you have been studying with us, and using the previous Moodle, nothing is lost, and you will retain access to that archive version of our e-learning platform.

    However, new courses will operate exclusively from the new platform.

    Logging in shouldn't be difficult.

    Your login name is your COMPLETE AMU student email address - with the "@st.amu.edu.pl" part at the end.

    Your password is the same as your USOS / Eduroam / AMU email password.

    (Please note that your account on WAMU does NOT "remember" your previous activity on the previous Moodle, so for older stuff, if needed, you will always have to go back to the previous platform. The link to it is given on WAMU Moodle's home page.)

    Happy Moodling :)

    P. Kaszubski
    WAMU Moodle chief admin


    Wszyscy studenci, International students

Guest lecture by Dr. Lorraine Wong, University of Otago: "Chinese Latinization and its Communization of Writing", June 13, 11.30. 601A.

  • 2017-06-12 09:00

    The Department of Studies in Culture is honoured to invite everyone to a talk by Dr. Lorraine Wong from the University of Otago, New Zealand: "Chinese Latinization and its Communization of Writing" 13th June, 2017, at 11.30, room 601A.


    Dr. Lorraine Wong is a Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She received her BA in English from the University of Hong Kong, MPhil in Sociology from Cambridge University and Ph.D in Comparative Literature from New York University. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary Chinese literature in the global context as well as minor literatures written in non-Mandarin Chinese. She has published in both English and Chinese. Her work appears in Literature Compass, City on the Edge: Hong Kong, China, Boundaries and Borderland, and Journal of Hangzhou Normal University. Currently, she is working on a book manuscript tentatively entitled Script and Revolution in China’s Long Twentieth Century. Her talk at AMU is drawn from her analysis from this manuscript, and she will also present her work at the American Comparative Literature Association annual conference at Utrecht University.


    Wszyscy studenci, Pracownicy, Strona główna, Wydarzenie publiczne, International students, Guest Lecture, Alumni

Two guest lectures by Dr. Mario Frendo, School of Performing Arts, University of Malta (June 7, 16:45 - 18:15; June 8, 18:30-20:00, C1)

  • 2017-06-06 20:00

    It is our great pleasure to announce two guest lectures by Dr. Mario Frendo, International Director of the Theatre Studies Department, School of Performing Arts, University of Malta.


    Ancient Greek Theatre: A Mediterranean Phenomenon
    Wednesday, 7th June 16:45-18:15
    C1, Coll. Novum


    Musicalised Dramaturgies: Ancient Tragedy, Performance, and the Poetics of Aristotle
    Thursday, 8th June 18:30-20:00
    C1, Coll. Novum


    Everyone more than welcome to attend.

    Mario Frendo is a lecturer of theatre and performance and Director of the Centre for Research in Culture and Performance of the School of Performing Arts at the University of Malta. As one of the directors of TARF (Malta) – a research platform investigating contemporary performance practices – he is a co-founder of Icarus Publishing together with Odin Teatret (Denmark) and the Grotowski Institute (Poland). Mario Frendo’s research interests include musicality in theatre, relationships between culture and performance, and interdisciplinarity in performance.


    Wszyscy studenci, Pracownicy, Strona główna, Wydarzenie publiczne, International students, Guest Lecture, Alumni, Komunikaty Samorządu Studentów WA

WA Speakers' Corner - speaking classes for students seeking extra English practice - SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS!

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