The Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities (IAS) is an umbrella structure and a no-wall institution intended to assist the AMU academic community in increasing its international research collaboration within social sciences and humanities.

In the academic year 2023/4, the IAS Invited Lecture Series organized at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan focus on the theme Sociolinguistic Aspects of Historical Orthography. They are organized by prof. Marcin Krygier and prof. Hanna Rutkowska from the Department of the History of the English Language.

The speakers’ profiles are presented on the main IAS website. If you want to see the details of the lectures, add them to your calendar or join them on Zoom follow this page: Schedule for the upcoming lectures in 2023/4.

In the academic year 2022/3, the themes were grouped around three themes:

• Bilingualism and Multilingualism, organized by prof. Magdalena Wrembel and prof. Anna Ewert; view speakers’ profiles here
• Challenges and Affordances of Qualitative Methodologies, organized by prof. Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak and prof. Joanna Pawelczyk; view speakers’ profiles here
• Multilingual History of English, organized by prof. Marcin Krygier and prof. Matylda Włodarczyk; view speakers’ profiles here

If you want to view the videos of the past IAS lectures, visit our Repository.