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Wydział Anglistyki @wauampoznan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

18 student speakers. 5 discussion panels. 1 roundtable. Join us on June 10th, 11:30 in Sala Górna, Coll. Heliodori! We invite everybody to a WA Student Seminar Pride and Prejudice: Marginalised voices in the History (and Present) of English Scan the QR code for programme and e-book of abstracts!

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Katarzyna Burzyńska @prof-burzynska.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

After 4 years in the making, I explore the mythology and politics of milk in Shakespeare and the early modern period—linking race, gender, and species, while centring non-human maternal bodies 🐐🍼 @wauampoznan.bsky.social #Shakespeare #EarlyModern #AnimalStudies

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Wydział Anglistyki @wauampoznan.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Join us for a WA Student Seminar on language, identity, discourse & representation: Pride & Prejudice: Marginalised Voices in the History (and Present) of English June 10, 11:30–15:30 Sala Górna, Coll. Heliodori Scan the QR code or click the link for the programme & abstract book. qrfy.io/zfkH_qxQxp

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Wydział Anglistyki @wauampoznan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Dept. of Studies in Culture invites you to a lecture: War and Politics in Polish Shakespeare Posters by Dr Sabina Laskowska‑Hinz. Explore how art meets politics & resistance. 27 May 2026, 13:00, Aula im. Hrynakowskiego in Collegium Heliodori. Exhibition in Dean’s hall. Join us!

The poster is set against a clean white background and features clearly arranged text blocks with information about the lecture and the speaker. At the top of the layout, there is a photograph of the speaker. The lower section of the poster includes two black-and-white images, which visually complement the central theme of the event. The top image depicts the lecturer, while the bottom picture is Gustave Doré's Battle of the Angels.

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Wydział Anglistyki @wauampoznan.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

History of English Language Lovers meetup: Wednesday, March 25th, 11:30, room 213 in Collegium Heliodori. We're exploring the world of fake news and viral content in the pre-internet times. Gore porn, execution ballands, creative ways of faking virginity – we have the tea!

A sensationalist engraving from a historical newspaper featuring a man and a woman disembodying a female

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Wydział Anglistyki @wauampoznan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

New article by the members of the Department of Psycholinguistic Studies! The research team has examined how bilinguals process morally charged content presented in their native language (L1) and a foreign language (L2). Read more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Screenshot of a research article published in the journal Brain and Language (Elsevier). The article is titled “Neural markers reveal weakened sensitivity to moral violations in a foreign language.” It appears in Volume 274, March 2026 (article number 105715). The authors are Roksana Szczypek, Katarzyna Jankowiak, and Marcin Naranowicz.

Below the title is a scientific figure showing EEG/ERP results related to language and moral processing. The figure is labeled “N400 (300–500 ms) | Sentence type × Language.” It contains multiple waveform graphs plotting brain response amplitude (µV) over time (milliseconds), comparing semantically correct, semantically incorrect, moral and immoral sentences.

Red lines represent Polish (L1) and black lines represent English (L2). Circular scalp maps on the sides show voltage differences (L2 – L1) using red and blue color gradients. The figure illustrates differences in neural responses when processing information in a native versus a foreign language.

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Wydział Anglistyki @wauampoznan.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

The Celtic Research Circle cordially invites you to an introductory talk and singing workshop on traditional Irish-language songs with James Foran. The meeting will take place on 14 January 2026 at 1:15 pm in room 230 in Collegium Heliodori. Everyone welcome!

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Wydział Anglistyki @wauampoznan.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Culture Vultures zaprasza na prezentację i dyskusję o Hamnecie Maggie O’Farrell. 14.01.2026, 11:30–13:00 Collegium Heliodori, sala 214 Prof. Katarzyna Burzyńska (@prof-burzynska.bsky.social) opowie o Anne Hathaway/Agnes Shakespeare. Zapraszamy!

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Wydział Anglistyki @wauampoznan.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Culture Vultures Reading Group invites you to a presentation & discussion of "Hamnet" by Maggie O’Farrell. 14.01.2026, 11:30–13:00, Collegium Heliodori, room 214. Prof. Katarzyna Burzyńska (@prof-burzynska.bsky.social) will talk about Anne Hathaway/Agnes Shakespeare. All welcome!

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Wydział Anglistyki @wauampoznan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Celtic Research Circle invites everyone to a student-to-student workshop “Methodology of linguistic research” that will be conducted by Joanna Człapa (2MA) on 26 November, 1:15 pm in room 230 in Collegium Heliodori Święcicki.

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Wydział Anglistyki @wauampoznan.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

In their latest publication, Prof. Guillaume Thierry and Dr. Rafał Jończyk with their team demonstrate that negative emotions conveyed through nonverbal stimuli (images) can block access to first language (L1) representations in bilinguals! ➡ Head to: doi.org/10.1111/nyas...

Figure from a scientific article titled Affective Modulation of Cross-Language Activation is Domain General published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by Wanyu Zhang, Rafał Jończyk, Siyu Zhu, Yuan Meng, Zhao Gao, Jiehui Hu, Guillaume Thierry, and Shan Gao.

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Wydział Anglistyki @wauampoznan.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

📍 Lubisz spotkania na żywo, rozmowy i wymianę doświadczeń? Mamy bogatą ofertę kursów stacjonarnych w ramach Uniwersytetu Otwartego UAM! 🎓 👉 10 kursów od wykładowców WA (linki w wątku poniżej): zajęcia, które pozwolą Ci rozwijać pasje i zdobywać nowe umiejętności.

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Wydział Anglistyki @wauampoznan.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

🌍 Does a second language open us up to other cultures? Dr. Rafał Jończyk (@raffelectrified.bsky.social) co-authored a new publication showing the first evidence that using a second language fosters greater acceptance of foreign cultural norms. #bilingualism #EEG #neuroscience #culture

A screenshot of a journal article from Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences titled “Foreign cultural norms are better accepted in the second language,” authored by Jiehui Hu, Aina Casaponsa, Wanyu Zhang, Rafał Jończyk, Yan Jing Wu, Shan Gao, and Guillaume Thierry.

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Wydział Anglistyki @wauampoznan.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

W ostatnich tygodniach ukazały się dwa tłumaczenia literackie autorstwa dr Marty Listewnik. Z języka walijskiego przełożony został „Ostatni dzień” O. Owaina, powieść dystopijna z lat 60-tych. „Cyswllt” (Kontakt), tom wierszy Jadwigi Graboś, to pierwszy od 1985 r. przekład z polskiego na walijski.

Zdjęcie okładek dwóch książek. Po prawej „Ostatni dzień Owaina Owaina z rysunkiem przedstawiającym głowę pół-człowieka, pół-robota; po prawej „Cyswllt” Jadwigi Graboś z rysunkiem przedstawiającym dwa ręczniki na wieszaku, jeden zmięty i bardzo kolorowy, drugi szary, zwyczajny.

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Wydział Anglistyki @wauampoznan.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Koła naukowe Wydziału Anglistyki Culture Vultures i BLAST zapraszają na wykład Profesora Michała Urbańczyka, WPiA, UAM, pt. „Trumpinator 2.0, czyli o polityce wewnętrznej i zewnętrznej USA w czasach międzyepoki.” 28 maj 2025, godz. 11:30, w Sali Górnej Collegium Heliodori Święcicki.

Na plakacie promującym wykład oprócz tekstu znajduje się zdjęcie Prof. Urbańczyka oraz plakat pokazujący Donalda Trumpa w stylu robota lub cyborga, przypominającego postać Arnolda Schwarzeneggera w filmie "Terminator".

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Wydział Anglistyki @wauampoznan.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Invitation to a talk at the Faculty of English, AMU! Prof. Mary Ellen Curtin: Rethinking Race and Political Biography: Barack Obama’s DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE. 14 May 2025, Collegium Heliodori, 11:30 am, room 211

The poster contains a photo of Professor Mary Ellen Curtin, a photo of President Barak Obama, logos of two organizations involved in organizing then event: the Culture Vulture club and the Fulbright Program. It also features a book cover of the book that will be discussed during the meeting: Dreams from My Father.

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Dr Agata Dymarska @agatadymarska.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

April was a great month for publications! 🌸 Two new papers with @louiseconnell.bsky.social are now out in open access (with prereg, open data & materials) - here’s a quick rundown. 🧵 First up: what drives activation in a word association task? sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/7

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Wydział Anglistyki @wauampoznan.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

New paper from dr Agata Dymarska! A large-scale comparison of word knowledge in native vs non-native English speakers reveals key differences in sensorimotor and lexical contributions to language processing. Now available in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. bit.ly/3QXQuxi

Frequency over semantic richness: word recognition in non-native English speakers
Agata Dymarska
Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland and 2
Department of Psychology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
Abstract
Recognition of a word and its meaning benefits from the sensorimotor information about
concepts. However, this phenomenon has been underexplored in second-language (L2) speakers
who may rely on more “shallow” representations. Using a megastudy dataset, I investigated how
sensorimotor strength affects first-language (L1) and L2 word recognition performance. Bayesian hierarchical regressions revealed that variables associated with physical sensations
(interoceptive strength, motor action) and communication experience (head or mouth movement, auditory strength) produced strong effects in both groups. On the other hand, variables
associated with concrete objects (visual, haptic experience) and with taste/smell (olfactory,
gustatory experience) influenced L1 word recognition performance to a larger extent than in
L2. In L2, reliance on semantic information during word recognition was reduced, with stronger
effects of lexical variables compared to L1. The findings provide implications for understanding
L2 processing mechanisms and demonstrate the usefulness of megastudy datasets in investigating L2 conceptual representations.
Highlights
• Semantic richness facilitation in word recognition remains underexplored in second language (L2).
• Megastudy data revealed that L2 speakers relied more on lexical information.
• In first-language (L1) speakers, all aspects of sensorimotor information facilitated performance.
• In L2, taste- and smell-related concepts did not benefit from additional facilitation.
• In L2, auditory processing facilitated responses the most

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Dr Agata Dymarska @agatadymarska.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

New paper alert! A large-scale comparison of word knowledge in native vs. non-native English speakers reveals key differences in sensorimotor and lexical contributions to language processing. Open access in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition bit.ly/3QXQuxi 🧵1/3

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Frequency over semantic richness: word recognition in non-native English speakers | Bilingualism: Language and Cognition | Cambridge Core

Frequency over semantic richness: word recognition in non-native English speakers

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Wydział Anglistyki @wauampoznan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

BLAST's next meeting on 9.04.2025 at 11:30 am in room 215, Coll. Heliodori, with a talk by Hanna Stelmaszczyk on the horror of the biological gaze in Jeff VanderMeer's 'Annihilation'

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Wydział Anglistyki @wauampoznan.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Dr. M. Naranowicz and Dr. K. Jankowiak explored how mood affects neurocognitive mechanisms involved in accessing gender stereotype in language. The study published in NeuroImage reveals that a positive mood facilitates access to gender stereotypes at the stage of meaning integration.

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Wydział Anglistyki @wauampoznan.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

New book! “Abbreviating Middle English: scribal practices, visual texts and medieval multimodalities” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025). Justyna Rogos-Hebda examines how abbreviation symbols – medieval predecessors of LOLs and ASAPs – helped create linguistic and cultural meanings of texts before print.

Book cover featuring the title and an illustration from a Middle English manuscript by John Lydgate

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Wydział Anglistyki @wauampoznan.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Celtic Research Circle invites you to Amhránaíocht trí Ghaeilge - Singing in Irish 26.02.2025, 11:30-12:45, room 213 (Heliodori) An introductory talk and singing workshop on Irish-language song with James Foran. Sheet music will be available. If you want to bring along instruments, feel free to!

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