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Dr Olha Lehka-Paul involved in research on COVID-19 conducted by the Faculty of Human Geography and Planning (AMU)

Submitted by etomczak on 16 February, 2021 - 22:03.

We are pleased to announce that dr Olha Lehka-Paul from the Department of Psycholinguistic Studies has been involved in research on COVID-19 conducted by the Faculty of Human Geography and Planning at Adam Mickiewicz University (Principal Investigator: Prof. dr hab. Paweł Churski).

More details about the project are available here (#14).

Congratulations!

The PsychLing Discussion Club Meeting, 29th Jan 2021 (Friday), 11:30 via MS TEAMS

Submitted by etomczak on 29 January, 2021 - 01:00.
2021-01-29 11:30
2021-01-29 13:00

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The Department of Psycholinguistic Studies cordially invites you to participate in the second meeting of the PsychLing Discussion Club!

Our topic is "First and second language acquisition in childhood".

The meeting will be chaired by dr Hanna Wysocka.

Date: 29th January 2021 (Friday)
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Place: MS Teams
To join the meeting via MS Teams, please use the code: l25eflk

Culture Vultures meeting: Ian McEwan's Machines Like Me: Or Benefits and Risks of AI by dr Urszula Kizelbach, Jan 27, 6:30. p.m., MS Teams

Submitted by tomski on 27 January, 2021 - 01:00.
2021-01-27 18:30
2021-01-27 20:00

The Culture Vultures reading group invites everyone to a meeting moderated by dr Urszula Kizelbach devoted to artificial intelligence, inspired by a novel Machines Like Me by a contemporary British author Ian McEwan.

Charlie Friend is thirty-two. A former electronics whiz kid, he has squandered his youth on dilettantish studies in physics and anthropology, followed by a series of botched get-rich-quick schemes. Perhaps out of some desire for correction, Charlie sells his mother’s house to finance the purchase of Adam, one of twenty-five cutting-edge androids built to serve as an “intellectual sparring partner, friend and factotum.” In this “retrofuturist drama”, Alan Turing makes a few soliloquizing cameos as a commentary on the ethics of AI and human relationships (Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 2019)

McEwan's Machines Like Me or Benefits and Risks of AI

When? Wednesday, January 27, 6:30 pm
Where? MS Teams
How? Use the code: g9h9jtl

WA Friday Lunch Talk, Jan 22, 13:15-14:15, "Recall Me If You Can: The brain dynamics of emotional memory in bilingualism." by dr Rafał Jończyk

Submitted by tomski on 22 January, 2021 - 11:11.
2021-01-22 13:15
2021-01-22 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 ONLINE (MS Teams) "Recall Me If You Can: The brain dynamics of emotional memory in bilingualism" by dr Rafał Jończyk (Friday, January 22, 13:15-14:15).

dr Rafał Jończyk

Department of Pragmatics of English

Recall Me If You Can:
The brain dynamics of emotional memory
in bilingualism

LINK TO THE TALK on MS Teams, Jan 22, 13:15-14:15

ABSTRACT

Recent evidence in bilingualism and emotion research suggests that bilinguals may be less sensitive to negative information in their second language (e.g., Gao & Luo, 2019; García-Palacios et al. 2018; Iacozza, Costa & Duñabeitia, 2017; Wu & Thierry, 2012). In neurocognitive studies, this is typically indexed by a reduced amplitude of physiological (e.g. pupil dilation, skin conductance response) and/or neurophysiological (e.g. event-related potentials, brain oscillations) signals when bilinguals read negative words or sentences in their L2. Recently, we demonstrated that this effect – although lower in magnitude – may also be observed at the anticipation stage, ca. 0.5 second before a negative stimulus is presented on the screen (Jończyk, Korolczuk, Balatsou & Thierry, 2019). Considering ample cognitive and neurocognitive evidence showing better memory for emotional rather than neutral information (Buchanan, 2007; Kensinger & Corkin, 2003; Kensinger, 2009), surprisingly little is known whether the reported reduced sensitivity to negative information in the second language would have an impact on later word recollection.
To address this question, in this talk I present the results of our recent electrophysiological experiment that investigated the recollection of emotional words in L1 (Polish) and L2 (English) of Polish-English bilinguals, using an old/new ERP paradigm. Building on prior anticipation research in memory (Otten et al. 2006; Otten, Quayle & Puvaneswaran, 2010) we also explored whether pre-stimulus brain activity could predict later recollection.

REFERENCES

Buchanan T. W. (2007). Retrieval of emotional memories. Psychological bulletin, 133(5), 761–779. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.133.5.761
Gao, S., & Luo, L. (2019). Criticism in a foreign language hurts less. Cognition & Emotion, 0(0), 1–9. http://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1668751
García-Palacios, A., Costa, A., Castilla, D., del Río, E., Casaponsa, A., & Duñabeitia, J. A. (2018). The effect of foreign language in fear acquisition. Scientific Reports, 8(1). doi:10.1038/s41598-018-19352-8
Iacozza, S., Costa, A., & Duñabeitia, J. A. (2017). What do your eyes reveal about your foreign language? Reading emotional sentences in a native and foreign language. PloS One, 12(10), e0186027–10. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186027
Jończyk, R., Korolczuk, I., Balatsou, E., & Thierry, G. (2019). Keep calm and carry on: electrophysiological evaluation of emotional anticipation in the second language. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 14(8), 885–898. http://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsz066
Kensinger E. A. (2009). Remembering the Details: Effects of Emotion. Emotion review : journal of the International Society for Research on Emotion, 1(2), 99–113. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073908100432
Kensinger, E.A., Corkin, S. Memory enhancement for emotional words: Are emotional words more vividly remembered than neutral words?. Memory & Cognition 31, 1169–1180 (2003). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03195800
Otten, L. J., Quayle, A. H., & Puvaneswaran, B. (2010). Prestimulus subsequent memory effects for auditory and visual events. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(6), 1212–1223. http://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2009.21298
Otten, L. J., Quayle, A. H., Akram, S., Ditewig, T. A., & Rugg, M. D. (2006). Brain activity before an event predicts later recollection. Nature Neuroscience, 9(4), 489–491. http://doi.org/10.1038/nn1663
Wu, Y. J., & Thierry, G. (2012). How Reading in a Second Language Protects Your Heart. The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 32(19), 6485–6489. http://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6119-11.2012

Rafał Jończyk is an assistant professor of linguistics at the Faculty of English AMU. He is passionate about the human mind and brain. In his research, he has investigated how people predict, perceive, and produce emotional content when they communicate in their first and second language(s). His recent research interests also include investigating the brain dynamics during creative ideation and the dynamics and constraints on moral decision making.

 

Dr Katarzyna Burzyńska’s podcast “With child? How dost thou know’t?”: Anabella’s pregnant embodiment and the early modern medical discourse on reproduction for MEMSA, Durham University

Submitted by tomski on 19 January, 2021 - 21:28.
2021-01-19

Please feel invited to listen to a podcast “With child? How dost thou know’t?”: Anabella’s pregnant embodiment and the early modern medical discourse on reproduction presented by Dr Katarzyna Burzyńska from the Department of Studies in Culture and prepared in cooperation with MEMSA (Medieval and Early Modern Student Association) at Durham University. Ahead of the release of the podcast in the series Crossing Borders, Contesting Boundaries Dr Burzyńska also gave a short interview where she talks about herself and her research.

 

Link to the PODCAST

Link to the INTERVIEW

Culture Vultures meeting: Thanksgiving Myth CHALLENGED, Jan 14, 6:30. p.m., MS Teams

Submitted by tomski on 14 January, 2021 - 01:00.
2021-01-14 18:30
2021-01-14 20:00

The Culture Vultures reading group invites everyone to a meeting moderated by dr Elżbieta Wilczyńska devoted to the 400th anniversary of the first apparent celebration of Thanksgiving in 1621, following the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the Mayflower in North America (in January, not in November, so that you may already forget about the myth challenged then).

 

Thanksgiving Myth CHALLENGED

What was it really like?
Or was it?

To find out, please join us:

When? Thursday, January 14, 6:30 pm
Where? MS Teams
How? Use the code: g9h9jtl
 

The U.S. Presidential Election Process Explained - a talk and Q&A by Esther Bell, US Embassy Warsaw, Dec 15, 11:30 a.m.

Last updated by grzegorz on 2020-12-16. Originally submitted by tomski on 2020-12-12.
2020-12-15 11:00
2020-12-15 13:00

The Department of Studies in Culture welcomes everyone to a talk "The U.S. Presidential Election Process Explained" by Esther Bell, Environment, Science, Technology, and Health Officer, U.S. Embassy Warsaw, Dec 15, 11:30 a.m. on MS Teams.

 

The U.S. Presidential Election Process Explained
by
Esther Bell
US Embassy in Warsaw

Dec 15, 11:30 a.m.

To join the meeting via MS Teams, please use the code: gfetc8k

The U.S. presidential election is a massive undertaking which officially lasts over ten months from the start of primary season to the general election. Learn more about the U.S. presidential election process, how COVID-19 affected the 2020 election, and what a presidential transition looks like. 


Esther Bell joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 2009 after completing a B.A. in International Relations at Johns Hopkins University.  She currently serves as an Economic Officer at the U.S. Embassy Warsaw.  Prior to her assignment in Warsaw she worked as a Staff Assistant in the State Department’s European Bureau (2017-2018) and a Public Diplomacy Officer in the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (2015-2017).  Her previous overseas assignments include consular tours in Bogota, Colombia (2013-2015) and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2010-2012).  Esther speaks Polish, Spanish, Amharic, and some French.

WA Friday Lunch Talk, Dec 11, 13:15-14:15, "Planes, trains, automobiles: The road movie and (dis)embodied travel in American experimental film and video" by dr Kornelia Boczkowska

Submitted by tomski on 9 December, 2020 - 21:00.
2020-12-11 13:15
2020-12-11 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 ONLINE (MS Teams) "Planes, trains, automobiles: The road movie and (dis)embodied travel in American experimental film and video" by dr Kornelia Boczkowska (Friday, December 11, 13:15-14:15).

dr Kornelia Boczkowska

Department of Studies in Culture

Planes, trains, automobiles:
The road movie and (dis)embodied travel in American experimental film and video

 

LINK TO THE TALK on MS Teams, Dec 11, 13:15-14:15

ABSTRACT

Although road movies are particularly endemic to Hollywood cinema, they have also appealed to experimental filmmakers who continuously counteract the genre’s gendered and representational nature and challenge the hegemonic master narratives, breaking the taboos and censorship of the mainstream (film) culture. However, despite an unabated interest in automobility, also from the perspective of literary fiction (Pearce) and film genre (Archer), and the growing popularity of the road movie scholarship, recently in the non-American (Mazierska and Rascarolior; Lie) and global context (Duarte and Corrigan), there are no accounts on how the road movie and its derivatives function in experimental film and video. Echoing the new mobilities paradigm and recent turn to phenomenology in film studies (Sobchack; Lant; Marks; Barker), which have revealed the growing potential of experimental films to elicit heighted kinaesthetic response to the image, many avant-garde projects empower the haptic over the optical and revise the road movie’s automotive mobility by both embracing and extending the phenomenology of car use to other means of transportation to provide an exuberantly embodied experience of travel. As road movies’ (auto)mobilization of the gaze clearly articulates a phenomenological sensation of movement, I will follow up on what Osterweil referred to as the corporeal turn in American avant-garde cinema, typically associated with sexually explicit films, to discuss the road movie aesthetics in experimental filmmaking, often informed by the diary film lyricism, home movie performativity, cinematic excess, embodied subjectivity, slow and ecocinema or experimental ethnography and anthropological film practice. Particularly, I will build on various theoretical approaches related to haptic visuality (Marks; Ross), also known as embodied spectatorship (Eisaesser and Hagener), and a spatial-corporeal dimension of mobility (Sheller and Urry 2006) to present how selected films use traditional and new (hybrid) media formats to question the concept of mobility and the “classic” road movie’s conventions, including the genre’s traditional reliance on cultural critique and the representation of a (dis)embodied travel, landscape and gender.Hopefully, this research will contribute to expanding the canon of and filling a lacuna in the history of American experimental film, including highlighting the largely underrepresented work of both women and men filmmakers working on the margins of the avant-garde and outside of feminist theory. It will also shed new light on the extent to which “mainstream” genres can migrate to and function differently in the experimental film community and will help gain a better understanding of the contemporary cultural dynamics between the popular and the marginal.

This research is funded by the National Science Centre, Poland, under the project Lost highways, forgotten travels: The road movie in the post-war American avant-garde and experimental film through the lens of women and men filmmakers (grant no. UMO-2018/31/D/HS2/01553).

Selected references:
Archer, Neil. 2017. “Genre on the Road: The Road Movie as Automobilities.” Mobilities 12 (4): 509-519.
Barker, Jennifer. 2009. The Tactile Eye: Touch and the Cinematic Experience. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Duarte, José and Timothy, Corrigan. 2018. The Global Road Movie: Alternative Journeys around the World. Bristol: Intellect.
Eisaesser, Thomas and Malte Hagener. 2010. Film Theory: An Introduction Through the Senses. New York: Routledge.
Marks, Laura U. 2000. The Skin of the Film Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses. Durham: Duke University Press.
Marks, Laura U. 2002. Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Mazierska, Ewa and Laura Rascaroli. 2006. Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie. London: Wallflower Press.
Lant, Antonia. 1996. “Haptical Cinema.” October 74: 45-73.
Lie, Nadia. 2017. The Latin American (Counter-) Road Movie and Ambivalent Modernity. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Osterweil, Ara. 2014. Flesh Cinema: The Corporeal Turn in American Avant-Garde Film. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Pearce, Lynne. 2012. “Automobility in Manchester Fiction.” Mobilities 7 (1): 93-113.
Sheller, Mimi and John Urry. 2006. “The New Mobilities Paradigm.” Environment and Planning A 38: 207-226.
Sobchack, Vivian. 2004. Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Ross, Miriam. 2015. 3D Cinema: Optical Illusions and Tactile Experiences. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Kornelia Boczkowska is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Studies in Culture at the AMU Faculty of English. She is the recipient of several research grants as well as author and co-editor of two books and circa. thirty other publications on independent, experimental and avant-garde film in addition to new media and astroculture. Her current research is on the postwar American avant-garde and experimental film and is funded by a National Science Center post-doctoral grant. Her other projects focus on the study of slow cinema, eco-cinema and postdigital aesthetics, particularly in the context of independent filmmaking and new media.

 

Q&A on the Equal Rights Amendment with Lawyer and Women’s Rights Activist Kate Kelly, Dec. 10, 6 p.m.

Submitted by tomski on 9 December, 2020 - 19:00.
2020-12-10 18:00
2020-12-10 19:30


The US Embassy in Poland invites you to a Q&A with Kate Kelly about the history and rebirth of the campaign for women's rights in the United States. Many people, including Americans, would be surprised to hear that equal rights for women are not enshrined in the U.S Constitution.  The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was designed to fill that gap by guaranteeing equal legal rights for all Americans regardless of gender.  Although Congress passed the amendment in 1972, it fell short of the necessary ratifications by state legislatures.  Now, a new movement is reviving the fight - lawyer and activist Kate Kelly is one of the people leading the charge.

   

WHEN: Thursday December 10 at 18:00
WHERE: ZOOM (a link will be sent to you soon)

A live Q&A session in English on ZOOM, moderated by Dr. Anna Mazurkiewicz, Associate Professor and Deputy Dean for Research at the Faculty of History, University of Gdansk and Anna Podciborska, Graduate Student at the Doctoral School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Gdańsk, specializing in American Studies.
 
Registration required. To register please sign up at:
https://bit.ly/33OjJdZ

Number of participants limited. Registered participants will receive a link to the event by email by 12:00 on December 10. If you have questions for Kate Kelly, please include them on the registration form.

 

Kate Kelly is a zealous advocate and passionate activist. She has a JD from American University Washington College of Law, the only law school in the world founded by, and for, women. She graduated cum laude in 2012, and received the Class of 2012 Peter M. Cicchino Award for Outstanding Advocacy in the Public Interest. She is a vocal women’s rights champion in the U.S., and around the world. In her legal career she has had various incredible opportunities including working as an Ella Baker Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights; a law clerk at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights; a research assistant to the Chair of the United Nations Committee Against Torture in Geneva, Switzerland; a post-grad fellow at the Women’s Refugee Commission; an attorney at the RFK Center for Justice & Human Rights; Legal Advisor for Legal Action Worldwide working on sexual violence legislation in Somalia, and litigating before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights; consultant for the United Nations High Commission on Refugees report Women on the Run; and Strategic Advocacy & Policy Counsel at the Planned Parenthood Association of Utah; Legal Fellow for the Human Rights in the U.S. Project at Columbia Law School; Human Rights Attorney at Equality Now. Kate believes the simple and popular adage that women’s rights are human rights, and is committed to legal advocacy and education for women and other marginalized groups. She is a nationally-known advocate for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, and Host of the podcast Ordinary Equality. She has a forthcoming book (Spring 2022) called “Ordinary Equality” about the history of the women who have shaped the U.S. Constitution.

Poznański Festiwal Nauki i Sztuki 2020 na Wydziale Anglistyki. Wykłady popularnonaukowe prof. Joanny Pawelczyk, prof. Magdaleny Wrembel i dr Magdaleny Zabielskiej

Last updated by grzegorz on 2020-12-16. Originally submitted by tomski on 2020-12-08.
2020-12-08

Serdecznie zapraszamy do obejrzenia trzech wykładów popularnonaukowych w ramach tegorocznego Poznańskiego Festiwalu Nauki i Sztuki. Wykłady zostały przygotowane przez wykładowczynie Wydziału Anglistyki we współpracy ze Studiem Filmowym UAM w Poznaniu.

 

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Oh you almost throw like a guy:
Why and how ‘nice’ comments may feel sexist

Prof. UAM dr hab. Joanna Pawelczyk
Dziekana Wydziału Anglistyki

In this presentation we will discuss the most common type of sexually harassing behavior, i.e., gender harassment. Real-life examples from Polish and English will be presented with the question: why are they discriminatory? We will consider the importance of language and context in producing gender harassing acts and behaviors and discuss why seemingly innocent and ‘nice’ comments can feel disrespectful and offensive to others. Finally we will discuss how we can become more sensitive and respectful speakers as well as what we can do when a harassing remark is targeted at us.

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Wielojęzyczność: fakty i mity, korzyści i wyzwania

Prof. UAM dr hab. Magdalena Wrembel

Wielojęzyczność staje się normą, a nie wyjątkiem we współczesnym świecie. Osoby mówiące kilkoma językami obcymi są bardziej kreatywne, komunikatywne i lepiej radzą sobie z rozwiązywaniem problemów. Wykład ma na celu rozpowszechnianie w społeczeństwie wyników badań i informacji na temat wielojęzyczności, różnorodności językowej i edukacji wielojęzycznej oraz budowanie świadomości w tym zakresie.

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Walka, maszyna i rynek – o metaforach w języku medycyny

dr Magdalena Zabielska

Prezentacja przybliża pojęcie metafory oraz pokazuje, iż nie jest ona cechą charakterystyczną jedynie tekstów literackich. W tym celu najpierw zostanie krótko zdefiniowana sama metafora jako środek stylistyczny, następnie przedstawione zostaną jej liczne typy używane przez lekarzy oraz pacjentów, które na koniec zostaną zilustrowane fragmentami zarówno z polskich jak i anglojęzycznych fachowych czasopism medycznych oraz czasopism popularnonaukowych.

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