Canada Week at the Faculty of English

Canada Week at the Faculty of English: Schedule

All sessions will be broadcast live on Zoom and the Faculty of English Facebook page. If you wish to receive the Zoom link, please register here: https://forms.office.com/e/fmpApu0EFL

Monday, March 18 | 11:30-13:00 | room 236
Student session (in English)

• Aleksandra Jurga: "The experience of the Holocaust in selected memoirs of the Azrieli Holocaust Survivor Memoir Program"
• Hanna Błauciak: "Why should you care about postcolonialism and Latinos in Canada?"
• Julia Chojnacka:  "Indigenous wisdom: Traditional ecological knowledge in the face of climate change"
• Michał Bankiewicz: "Mors Kocharski - 'The more you know, the less you carry' - the legendary bushcraft instructor from the Northern Forest"

Tuesday, March 19 | Aula im. Hrynakowskiego
9:45-11:15

• Marcin Markowicz (UAM): "The past and present of queer activism in Canada"
• Mateusz Świetlicki (UWr): "High school, queerness, and indie pop. The intersections of Canadian young adult literature and popular culture"

11:30-13:00 (session in Polish)

• Agnieszka Rzepa (UAM): "Czarna Kanada: dylematy przynależności"
• Michał Obszyński (UW): "Od Black is Beautiful do Black Lives Matter: polityczno-kulturowa afirmacja czarnoskórej mniejszości w Kanadzie od lat 1960 do dziś"

13:15-14:45

Jeff Bremer (Iowa State University): "A brief history of Canada: First Nations and Europeans to 1867"
Weronika Suchacka (USz): "Practices of intersectionality in Canadian literature"

Source: Faculty of English Website