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The Culture Vulture reading group has the pleasure of inviting everyone to its last meeting this academic year. We will be watching the documentary I Am Not Your Negro (2016) by Raoul Peck, based on James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript "Remember This House". The screening will be followed by a discussion moderated by dr Elżbieta Wilczyńska. 

Im Am Not Your Negro by Raoul Peck

Tuesday, June 5, 2018
6.30 p.m.
Room 153, Collegium Chemicum

Wydział Anglistyki UAM serdecznie zaprasza wszystkich zainteresowanych na koncert w wykonaniu Pameli Howland i Stana Breckenridge'a pt. Fuzja dwóch muzycznych światów, który odbędzie się 28 maja 2018 r. o godz. 18.00 w Auli UAM przy ul. Wieniawskiego 1 w Poznaniu. Wstęp wolny // The AMU Faculty of English is honored to invite everyone to a concert A Fusion of Two Musical Worlds by Pamela Howland and Stan Breckenridge, May 28, 2018, 6 p.m. AMU Concert Hall, ul. Wieniawskiego 1. Admission free.

Utwory fortepianowe – solowe oraz wykonywane na cztery ręce – zapoznają słuchaczy z różnorodnymi stylami muzycznymi. Usłyszymy Negro spirituals, piosenki ludowe, ragtime, blues, jazzoraz utwory znane z Broadwayu i amerykańskiego kina. Artyści – Pamela Howland i Stan Breckenridge – zaprezentują powyższe style samodzielnie oraz wspólnie, grając na cztery ręce. Koncert to prawdziwa uczta dla uszu! Znakomicie dobrany repertuar oraz niezwykła charyzma wykonawców są gwarancją niezapomnianych przeżyć dla najbardziej nawet wymagających melomanów.

Solo and 4-hand piano performances will include styles such as  spirituals, folk songs, ragtime, blues, jazz, Broadway and American film. Pamela Howland and Stan Breckenridge will perform these styles as individuals, then come together in a spectacular performance of Piano for Four Hands! The artistic program and the unusually charismatic pianists will make the concert an unforgettable experience and will likely set a new benchmark in entertainment for the listeners.

9 i 18 maja 2018 roku odbyły się kolejne wykłady w cyklu wydarzeń szekspirowskich pod patronatem Wydziału Anglistyki w 38. Liceum Dwujęzycznym im. Jana Nowaka-Jeziorańskiego. 9 maja 2018 dr Katarzyna Burzyńska zaprezentowała wykład pod tytułem „Rurki, ramoneski i renesans: o teatrze Szekspira w filmie i serialu”. 18 maja 2018 dr Urszula Kizelbach i dr Katarzyna Burzyńska przeprowadziły wykład na temat życia i twórczości Williama Szekspira pod tytułem „William Szekspir: fakty i mity”. Wykład pod tytułem „Shakespearean manipulation in House of Cards” autorstwa dr Urszuli Kizelbach zakończył cykl wydarzeń na temat dzieł i biografii Williama Szekspira.

Link do strony Liceum: http://liceum38.poznan.pl/aktualnosci/szekspir-znany-i-nieznany/

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On the 9th and 18th of May further lectures in the cycle of Shakespeare events under the patronage The Faculty of English in the Jan Nowak-Jeziorański Secondary School in Poznań took place. On the 9th of May Dr Katarzyna Burzyńska presented a lecture “Jeans, leather jackets and the Renaissance: on Shakespeare’s theatre in film and TV series”. On 18th of May 2018 Dr Urszula Kizelbach and Dr Katarzyna Burzyńska presented a lecture on the life and works of William Shakespeare entitled “William Shakespeare: facts and myths”. The lecture “Shakespearean manipulation in House of Cards” by Dr Urszula Kizelbach concluded the cycle of events devoted to Shakespeare’s life and works.

See 38th Secondary School website: http://liceum38.poznan.pl/aktualnosci/szekspir-znany-i-nieznany/

On Thursday 10th May, we will be refreshing the look of our Faculty Website. We hope you like the new experience when ready.

However, be prepared for the site to occasionally misbehave, appear strange, maybe even go down for some minutes etc. between 11:00 - 13:00.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

Przemysław Kaszubski (WA Website Manager)
Tomasz Drewniak (WA Computer Centre)
Bas van der Ham (Developer)

British and American Culture Week at the Faculty of English May 8-10, 2018. Competitions, performances, movie screenings, lectures and fun for all WA students! More detailed info about the Culture Week will appear in April 2018, Please, contact the lecturers listed below each event for details.

May 8
A masterclass/workshop for students
by Pamela Howland and Stan Breckenridge
dr Elżbieta Wilczyńska elzbietw@amu.edu.pl 

May 8
Shakespeare on Screen: Lady M (in Kino Pałacowe)
prof. Jacek Fabiszak, mgr Aleksandra Pytko, Magdalena Lewandowska  Contact: apytko@wa.amu.edu.pl

May 9
A performance by WA SHAKESPEERS
  prof. Jacek Fabiszak, mgr Aleksandra Pytko, Magdalena Lewandowska
Centrum Kultury Zamek, 18:00, Sala Nowa

May 9
Speech Contest
dr Elżbieta Wilczyńska elzbietw@amu.edu.pl
MOODLE - Speech Contest
16:30, sala 152 Chemicum

May 7-10
Translation Contest
dr Katarzyna Burzyńska kburzynska@wa.amu.edu.pl, dr Urszula Kizelbach kula@wa.amu.edu.pl
MOODLE - Translation Contest

The WA Shakespeers theatre group has the pleasure of inviting everyone to their first stage performance of 2018: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard. The show will take place on May 9 at 6:00 p.m. in Centrum Kultury ZAMEK Scena Nowa as part of a three-day event Dni Szekspira 2018. Admission free.

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The Culture Vultures reading group has the pleasure of inviting all students to a masterclass/workshop with Pamela Howland and Stan Breckenridge that will take place in Collegium Novum room 316A, on May 8 at 6:30 p.m.  Students interested in performing during the workshop, please contact ASAP dr Elżbieta Wilczyńska at elzbietw@amu.edu.pl.

26 kwietnia br. król Norwegii Harald V mianował prof. zw. dr. hab. Jacka Fisiaka kawalerem Królewskiego Orderu Zasługi I klasy. To zaszczytne odznaczenie zostało przyznane byłemu wieloletniemu dyrektorowi Instytutu Filologii Angielskiej oraz Rektorowi UAM w uznaniu zasług na rzecz współpracy naukowej pomiędzy polskimi i norweskimi badaczami i uniwersytetami.

Panu Profesorowi serdecznie gratulujemy kolejnego prestiżowego wyróżnienia!

The Faculty of English invites everyone to a concert  CHOPIN MEETS THE BEATLES:  Songs of Love, Loss & Longing by Fulbright Visiting Professor Pamela Howland. The concert will take place on Saturday, April 28 at 4:00 p.m., at "Szachownica" in Stary Browar (chessboard courtyard in the Stary Browar mall) in Poznań.

Steinway Artist Pamela Howland is a classically trained concert pianist, a specialist in the works of Polish composer Frederic Chopin, and a fan of The Beatles - but primarily, she communicates emotions to audiences through the language of music. Vivacious, imaginative, sensitive and just a trifle unconventional, she is that rare classically trained performing artist who thrives as an entertainer. Pamela Howland has created original piano arrangements of beloved Beatles tunes, transporting the Fab Four back to Chopin’s musical landscape. In her spectacular recital, Beatles arrangements will be paired with favorite Chopin pieces and Pamela Howland will also talk to the audience about her artistic process in spotlighting musical ideas that fascinated the pop-rock heroes and the venerated composer alike. Chopin Meets the Beatles promises to take the audience on a fascinating musical journey.

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. The Faculty of English welcomes everyone to a lecture on Language Change Across the Lifespan by Prof. Dr. Isabelle Buchstaller from University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. The lecture will take place on April 26, 2018, at 6:30 p.m. in room C1, Collegium Novum.

Language Change Across the Lifespan

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Prof. Dr. Isabelle Buchstaller

Thursday, April 26, 6:30 p.m.,
room C1, Collegium Novum

This talk explores the question to which extent individual speakers change their linguistic behaviour across their lifespan. I explore a small panel sample of six speakers recorded in 1971 and again in 2013 in in the urban community of Tynesidein the North East of England. The analysis relies on two variables differentiated by the level of linguistic structure at which they are situated: The realisation of (t) as well as the expression of stative possession. The notion of what constitutes a change in speaker’s grammar is a contentious one and my talk explores the comparability of results yielded by different heuristics commonly employed in empirical linguistics. The results are complex yet consistent across the two variables: A sub-set of speakers participate in community wide patterns. But while the unstable behaviour of these speakers across their lifespan provides support that our internal grammar can and indeed does change across the lifespan (McKenzie 2014), ongoing work needs to model in more detail the factors that condition the extent to which speakers replicate patterns in the community that surrounds them. The kind of scaling up and down between individual and community grammars (Meyerhoff and Klaere 2017) addresses the important question of how variation in the individual is related to variation in the community (Guy 1980).

Prof. Dr. Isabelle Buchstaller is a Professor of English Linguistics and Language history at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. Her main areas of expertise are language variation and change, corpus linguistics and models and methods for collecting and analyzing linguistic data. She is particularly interested in dialectal, morpho-syntactic and discourse phenomena. She has worked on a range of varieties of English, most notably on Hawaiian Creole, Tyneside English, Californian English and most recently on the variety of English spoken in the Marshall Islands. She is interested in global trends and contact-induced changes in the English language, which invariably brings up typological questions as regards the underlying causes of linguistic variability and change. She is the director of the newly created Sociolinguistics Lab in Essen.