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News
added on May 04, 2012

Canadian Studies Centre invites everybody for the 2012 edition of the Day of Canadian Culture at the University of Silesia on May 9th, 2012.

A detailed program of the event can be found in the attached pdf file.


added on January 16, 2012
On November 30th, Marek Kusiba, a Polish and Canadian poet and journalist, visited the Canadian Studies Centre at the Institute of English Cultures and Literatures. During the open meeting with students entitled “Otherness in the Canadian Context”, Mr Kusiba talked about the life of a poet thousands of kilometres away from home, his affiliation to the motherland and the country of residence, as well as his friendship with Ryszard Kapusciński.

People

Eugenia Sojka, Ph.D. - Director (See IECL profile)
Paweł Jędrzejko, Ph. D. (See IECL profile)
Katarzyna Michalczyk, M.A. (See IECL profile)
Alina Grygierczyk, M.A. (See IECL profile)
Rafał Madeja, M.A. (See IECL profile)

Events
added on May 04, 2012

3-24 March, 2012
Vancouver, Vancouver Island University, and Alert Bay

Thanks to a Government of Canada Student Mobility Program Grant, won by Dr Eugenia Sojka (director of Canadian Studies Centre, Institute of English Cultures and Literatures, University of Silesia), two M.A. students (Karolina Juroszek and Dorota Sokołowska) and one B.A. student (Kinga Kowalska) had the opportunity to go on a student research trip to Vancouver, Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, and Alert Bay Indian Reserve, which took place from 3 to 24 March, 2012. The students were selected on the basis of their involvement in and dedication to the activities of the Canadian Studies Student Circle, as well as their academic achievement.


more events...
Research profile
  • Canadian literature and culture
  • Canadian Life Writing
  • Canadian minority writing and arts
  • Multiculturalism and transculturalism
  • Transcultural, diasporic, postcolonial and gender studies
  • First Nations literature and arts
read more...
Contact Information

Canadian Studies Centre
enoffice@ares.fils.us.edu.pl
Institute of English Cultures and Literatures
University of Silesia
41-205 Sosnowiec
ul. Gen. S. Grota-Roweckiego 5
POLAND