Instytut Anglistyki UW

Next Wednesday, May 27, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Faculty of Modern Languages (ul. Dobra 55), 4EU+ Alliance is organizing a special event open to the entire University of Warsaw community, with a particular focus on students.

The program includes a variety of activities designed to bring students together and introduce them to 4EU+ in an engaging and interactive way.

“ I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose?”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Page Turners are back for the last chapter before the summer break! This time we’re stepping into the gilded world of Oscar Wilde’s only novel, which feels less like Victorian fiction and more like a prophecy written just for us…

Have you ever wished you could freeze yourself at your most beautiful and let someone else carry the weight of your choices? Dorian Gray gets exactly that. And what follows is a slow, terrifying unravelling that psychology today would immediately recognise as the fracture between the self we show to the world and the self we hide even from ourselves. 🪞🌹🗡️

Narcissism. Moral disengagement. The violence of vanity. Wilde explored it all in 1890, long before social media made this our everyday reality.

This isn’t just a gothic horror story—and it will make you question how much of what you present to the world is really you. 🎭👁️

Join us on May 29th at 4:30 PM at Biblioteka Wydziału Neofilologii UW for our discussion — followed by a picnic on our faculty’s rooftop garden! 🌿☀️ It’s a potluck, so bring your favourite snack to share, and let’s enjoy the evening together! 🧺🥗🍓

Text and photo by Aleksandra Skoczylas

🎤 Join a special workshop, “Speech and Language Research Using Ultrasound and Other Experimental Techniques”, which will take place on May 28! 📅

We are delighted to welcome distinguished guests from Indiana University Bloomington, USA 🇺🇸 — Professor Steven Lulich, Professor Małgorzata Ćavar, and Professor Jeffrey Lamontagne — who will deliver invited lectures on various aspects of experimental approaches to the study of speech articulation 🗣️🔬

The workshop is part of a collaborative project between Indiana University and the University of Warsaw 🤝, aiming to advance research in the field of speech articulation using a range of instrumental techniques 📈🎓

The event is organised by Professor Beata Łukaszewicz (from our Institute), Professor Anita Lorenc (from the Faculty of Polish Studies), and Professor Karolina Broś (from the Faculty of Modern Languages) in collaboration with the Indiana University team ✨

Between May 18–20, a group of 24 students from Justyna Włodarczyk’s and Joanna Ziarkowska’s classes took part in a field trip to Mazurskie Centrum Bioróżnorodności i Edukacji Mazurskie Centrum Bioróżnorodności i Edukacji KUMAK , a research station of the Faculty of Biology. Over two busy and engaging days, we explored popular representations of animals and Native Americans in American popular culture.

During the trip:

• We attended Dr. Korneliusz Kurek’s fascinating lecture on the wolf population in the Mazury region.
• We watched Dances with Wolves (1990) and had a lively discussion about wolves, Indigenous peoples, and other animals in representations of the Wild West.
• We also watched Wolfen (1981), a horror film about mythical wolf-like creatures roaming an abandoned neighborhood in the Bronx — which, unsurprisingly, gave us plenty of laughs 😊
• We listened to excellent presentations by Paulina Pycz and Magdalena Kowalczyk on cultural and scientific representations of wolves.

Our canine participants, Mia and Tereska, had a wonderful time as well. There were countless new places to sniff, and Tereska made sure to socialize with nearly every student.

The trip was a great success, and we sincerely hope it will become a yearly tradition.

We are honoured to invite you to the conference
"The Gothic Labyrinth: Trauma, The Real, and The Unreal" organized by Beyond Theory and Bookin' It. Our panelists and lecturers will present a wide array of topics, from literature to cinema, from philosophy to critical theory, from history to politics, from the past to the future through the present. All in service to understanding the Gothic; and through the Gothic understanding the world.

Room 1.128

One more event this week!

Today!

📣 Upcoming Events | 19–22 May 2026

Join us for a week of lectures, discussions, and film screenings!

🎓 NMiCC Lecture — Gianfranco Polizzi
📅 Tuesday, 19 May
🕒 3:00–4:00 PM
💻 Zoom
Promoting Media Literacy in the Age of AI: Insights and Future Directions
🔗 https://uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/j/99715265183?pwd=YcwWTE7Wd2aZGwwfmTYWsMCrWQ2KP6.1&jst=3

🎬 Cinemates Birthday Meeting
Screening of Ashes and Diamonds (Popiół i diament)
📅 Tuesday, 19 May
🕠 5:30–9:00 PM
🏢 Room 2.014

🎓 Open Lecture — Prof. Masatoshi Sato
📅 Wednesday, 20 May
🕐 1:15 PM
🏢 Room 2.014
Learner Psychology and Second Language Acquisition Research in the Classroom

🕯️ OPEN LECTURES & CONFERENCE
organized by Bookin' It and Beyond Theory
The Gothic Labyrinth: Trauma, The Real and The Unreal
📅 21-22 May 2026
🕘 9:15 AM–4:45 PM
📍 Dobra 55, Room 1.128, Warsaw

From Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto to contemporary Gothic explorations of trauma, memory, technology, and identity, this conference brings together perspectives from literature, cinema, philosophy, history, politics, and critical theory.

We warmly invite everyone interested in Gothic studies and contemporary culture to attend!

📚 Linguistics or Literature & Culture?
📚 Still deciding which path to choose?
📚 Join the meeting for BA Year 1 students and learn more about the specializations, courses, and opportunities ahead.

📅 19 May 2026 (TODAY)
🕒 3:00 PM
🏢 Room 1.008