Monday, 24 March, kicks off Canada Week at the AMU Faculty of English. The first day featured lectures, a speech and a student Q&A session with H.E. Canadian Ambassador Catherine Godin. The Ambassador responded to questions related to not only Canadian politics but also its culture. Before the Q&A, H.E. Catherine Godin attended a meeting with the AMU Vice-Rector for International Cooperation, Prof. Rafał Witkowski, and the dean's authorities of the Faculty.
On Tuesday, the lectures will be held simultaneously in English and Polish. The main topic of the Polish-language presentations will be Canadian popular culture. A session of student lectures will also be held on 25 March.
Canada Week will conclude on Wednesday with a movie night. Assembled in the auditorium of the Faculty of English, the audience will enjoy a production entitled. "The English Patient".
Canadian Studies courses have been offered by the Faculty of English regularly since 1989, in the mid-1990s. The Canadian Literature Workshop was established as a separate unit within the Faculty in 2012.
Canada Week (originally Canada Day) has been organised by the Faculty for fifteen years. Maple Syrup Day has also been included in the events calendar for approximately ten years. The Faculty also hosts a Canadian section of the English Studies club - the Canadian Literature in Perspective (CLiP). Each year, the Canadian Literature Workshop offers a variety of courses for first- and second-level studies, primarily for full-time English majors (but also for part-time students). Some courses are open to students from other majors and run by the Faculty. The new American Studies major offers students courses in literary studies and Canadian realist studies. Approximately 60 students are enrolled in Canadian Studies programmes this academic year. In recent years, two individuals defended their doctorates on Canadian topics.
The detailed Canada Week programme can be found here: https://anglistyka.amu.edu.pl/en/events/2025/canada-week-2025
Photo by Przemysław Stanula
