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Special Christmas Meeting
Date: 13.12.2024

Meeting 130 (prof. Pashalis Nikolaou)
Topic: Some Creative Aspects of (Poets) Translating Poetry
Date: 04.12.2024

Meeting 129 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: The Iconography of Witchcraft and Magic
Date: 27.11.2024

Meeting 128 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Liminality in Sir Orfeo
Date: 24.04.2024

Meeting 127 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: The Backrooms - Where's the Liminality?
Date: 14.03.2024

Special Christmas Meeting
Date: 15.12.2023

Meeting 126 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: "The Bonny Swans" as a ballad
Date: 05.09.2023

Meeting 125 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Fairies in the works of W. B. Yeats
Date: 02.09.2023

Meeting 124 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Fairies and liminality
Date: 24.05.2023

Meeting 123 (dr Katarzyna Ojrzyńska)
Topic: From Freaks to Crips: Disability, Language, and Activism
Date: 04.04.2023

Special Christmas Meeting
Date: 17.12.2022

Meeting 122 (Charlie Ivamy)
Topic: Speaking Idiomatically
Date: 30.11.2022

Meeting 121 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Fairy Belief and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Date: 09.11.2022

Meeting 120 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
Date: 16.08.2022

Meeting 119 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure
Date: 08.03.2022

Special Christmas Meeting
Date: 13.12.2021

Meeting 118 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Alfred Tennyson's "Mariana" and "Mariana in the South"
Date: 08.12.2021

Meeting 117 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Marie de France - "Yonec"
Date: 03.11.2021

Meeting 116 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Marie de France - "Bisclavret"
Date: 17.08.2021

Meeting 115 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: John Webster - The Duchess of Malfi
Date: 27.06.2021

Meeting 114 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Christopher Marlowe's Edward II
Date: 23.02.2021

Meeting 113 (Christmas meeting, dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Middle English carols
Date: 22.12.2020

Meeting 112 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
Date: 03.10.2020

Meeting 111 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka - critical approaches
Date: 28.02.2020

Special Christmas Meeting
Date: 19.12.2019

Meeting 110 (Adam Marczak) - joint meeting with the United Students Society
Topic: Grendel in America
Date: 13.11.2019

Meeting 109 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Lessons from biblical hermeneutics - The Epistle to the Romans
Date: 07.11.2019

Meeting 108 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: RSC's 2009 Hamlet
Date: 16.05.2019

Meeting 107 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Entertainment and Didacticism in Mariken van Nieumeghen
Date: 20.03.2019

Meeting 106
Topic: Slavic Supernatural Creatures and Beyond
Date: 31.01.2019

Special Christmas Meeting
Date: 20.12.2018

Meeting 105 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Liminality in Topography and Literature
Date: 8.11.2018

Meeting 104 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Franz Kafka's short story The Burrow
Date: 11.04.2018

Meeting 103 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Sir Orfeo and the Notion of Liminality
Date: 07.03.2018

Special Christmas Meeting
Date: 19.12.2017

Meeting 102 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Fairies in British Folklore and Literature
Date: 07.12.2017

Meeting 101 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Elizabeth Sawyer - The Witch of Edmonton
Date: 25.11.2017

Meeting 100 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Renaissance Magic and Renaissance English Literature
Date: 29.05.2017

Meeting 99 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: The Daemonologie of James VI of Scotland
Date: 27.04.2017

Meeting 98 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: The Nature of Witchcraft and the Rise of the Witch-Craze in Late Medieval/Early Modern Europe
Date: 27.03.2017

Meeting 97 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Chaucer's pronunciation
Date: 23.02.2017

Meeting 96 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Marie de France's "Lanval" and the Middle English Sir Launfal
Date: 27.10.2016

Meeting 95 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Child Ballads 37 and 39 - "Thomas the Rhymer" and "Tam Lin"
Date: 17.05.2016

Meeting 94 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Marie's "Bisclavret" and the problem of identity
Date: 07.05.2016

Meeting 93 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Shakepearean Fairies and Victorian Painting
Date: 19.04.2016

Special Christmas Meeting
Date: 19.12.2015

Meeting 92 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Fairy Belief
Date: 17.12.2015

Meeting 91 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: On Ritual Purity and Pollution - a discussion of Purity and Danger by Mary Douglas
Date: 14.11.2015

Meeting 90 (dr Piotr Spyra) [GCSS Summer School]
Topic: The Confessions of Isobel Gowdie: The Demonic Pact and the Visionary's Accountability
Date: 08.08.2015

Meeting 89 (dr Piotr Spyra) [GCSS Summer School]
Topic: The Confessions of Isobel Gowdie: a Shamanistic Perspective
Date: 08.08.2015

Meeting 88 (dr Piotr Spyra) [GCSS Summer School]
Topic: The Confessions of Isobel Gowdie: Demonological and Folkloric Elements
Date: 07.08.2015

Meeting 87 (dr Piotr Spyra) [GCSS Summer School]
Topic: The Confessions of Isobel Gowdie: Introduction
Date: 07.08.2015

Meeting 86 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: A Religious Interpretation of "Yonec" by Marie de France
Date: 23.05.2015

Meeting 85 (dr hab. Janusz Pietrzak)
Topic: The history of beer production from antiquity to the early modern period
Date: 16.03.2015

Special Christmas Meeting
Date: 19.12.2014

Meeting 84 (dr Katarzyna Ojrzyńska)
Topic: Brian Friel's Wonderful Tennessee
Date: 16.12.2014

Meeting 83 (dr Katarzyna Ojrzyńska) [GCSS Summer School]
Topic: The Irish Lughnasa: A Feast of Body and Spirit
Date: 02.08.2014

Meeting 82 (mgr Joanna Ludwikowska) [GCSS Summer School]
Topic: Witches, Ghosts, Comets and the Wrath of God: Puritans and the Supernatural
Date: 02.08.2014

Meeting 81 (dr Piotr Spyra) [GCSS Summer School]
Topic: Fairies in Early Modern Scotland: Robert Kirk's Secret Commonwealth
Date: 02.08.2014

Meeting 80 (dr Piotr Spyra) [GCSS Summer School]
Topic: The Demonization of Fairies in the Early Modern Period
Date: 01.08.2014

Meeting 79 (mgr Joanna Ludwikowska) [GCSS Summer School]
Topic: The Evil, the Good and the Religious: the Puritans in England and New England
Date: 01.08.2014

Meeting 78 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: W.B. Yeats's "The Song of the Wandering Aengus"
Date: 30.06.2014

Meeting 77 (mgr Maciej Wieczorek)
Topic: Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan
Date: 03.06.2014

Meeting 76 (Professor Andrew Tomlinson)
Topic: How to Have Your Own Revolution: Ideology, the Establishment, and Lindsay Anderson's 'If...'
Date: 06.05.2014

Meeting 75 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Thomas Middleton's The Witch
Date: 22.04.2014

Meeting 74 (dr Katarzyna Ojrzyńska)
Topic: Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa and Nostalgia
Date: 18.03.2014

Meeting 73 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Rupert Goold's Macbeth with Patrick Stewart
Date: 15.01.2014

Special Christmas Meeting
Date: 18.12.2013

Meeting 72 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Romeo and Juliet vs. Romeo + Juliet
Date: 13.12.2013

Meeting 71 (dr Krzysztof Majer) - joint meeting with the United Students Society
Topic: Gothic Canada - Barbara Gowdy's stories
Date: 30.10.2013

Meeting 70 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Child Ballads - "Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight" and "Hind Etin"
Date: 25.04.2013

Meeting 69 (dr Katarzyna Ojrzyńska)
Topic: Vincent Wood's At the Black Pig's Dyke and the Tradition of Irish Folk Drama
Date: 15.04.2013

Meeting 68 (prof. Jadwiga Uchman)
Topic: Sławomir Mrożek - Tango
Date: 21.03.2013

Meeting 67 (Maciej Wieczorek)
Topic: Mark Ravenhill - Some Explicit Polaroids
Date: 10.01.2013

Meeting 66 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: What is an Author? An outlook on the Shakespeare Authorship Issue
Date: 03.01.2013

Special Christmas Meeting
Date: 19.12.2012

Meeting 65 (Joanna Matyjaszczyk)
Topic: William Wordsworth's "The Idiot Boy"
Date: 06.12.2012

Meeting 64 (dr Piotr Spyra) - joint meeting with the United Students Society
Topic: Filming H. P. Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu"
Date: 21.11.2012

Meeting 63 (dr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Saint Augustine's Confessions
Date: 08.11.2012

Meeting 62 (Maciej Wieczorek)
Topic: Sara Kane's Cleansed and the Theatre of Cruelty
Date: 05.06.2012

Meeting 61 (Professor Andrew Tomlinson)
Topic: The Gathering Storm (dir. R. Loncraine)
Date: 17.05.2012

Meeting 60 (dr Michał Lachman) - joint meeting with the United Students Society
Topic: Neil LaBute - The Shape of Things
Date: 10.05.2012

Meeting 59 (mgr Monika Kocot)
Topic: William Blake, the Mystic
Date: 26.04.2012

Meeting 58 (prof. Jadwiga Uchman)
Topic: Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
Date: 08.03.2012

Meeting 57 (mgr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: The Winter's Tale
Date: 05.01.2012

Special Christmas Meeting
Date: 20.12.2011

Meeting 56 (mgr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Arden of Faversham
Date: 08.12.2011

Meeting 55 (mgr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: The Middle English Pearl
Date: 24.11.2011

Meeting 54 (mgr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Chaucer - "Man of Law's Tale"
Date: 03.11.2011

Meeting 53 (mgr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Chaucerian pronunciation
Date: 27.10.2011

Meeting 52 (mgr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Hamlet - Royal Shakespeare Company, 2009
Date: 17.05.2011

Meeting 51 (mgr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Christopher Marlowe's Edward II
Date: 10.05.2011

Meeting 50 (prof. Irena Janicka-Świderska)
Topic: King Lear
Date: 29.03.2011

Meeting 49 (mgr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Alternative readings of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Date: 08.03.2011

Meeting 48 (mgr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Faerie Meetings - Caryl Churchill: The Skriker
Date: 10.01.2011

Special Christmas Meeting
Date: 16.12.2010

Meeting 47 (mgr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Date: 09.12.2010

Meeting 46 (mgr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Ciaran Carson's Shamrock Tea
Date: 17.05.2010

Meeting 45 (mgr Monika Kocot)
Topic: The poetry of Edwin Morgan
Date: 26.04.2010

Meeting 44 (mgr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Film adaptations of Beowulf
Date: 30.03.2010

Meeting 43 (Maciej Grabski)
Topic: Poe vs. Freud: a Freudian analysis of "The Fall of the House of Usher"
Date: 09.03.2010

Meeting 42 (mgr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: The Middle Dutch Play Mariken van Nieumeghen
Date: 14.01.2010

Special Christmas Meeting
Date: 17.12.2009

Meeting 41 (mgr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: John Gardner's Grendel
Date: 10.12.2009

Meeting 40 (mgr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Pearl-Poet's "Patience"
Date: 19.11.2009

Meeting 39 (Professor Andrew Tomlinson)
Topic: Idiomatic English
Date: 7.04.2009

Meeting 38 (mgr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Faerie Meetings - John Keats: "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
Date: 31.03.2009

Meeting 37 (mgr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Faerie Meetings - "Sir Orfeo"
Date: 17.03.2009

Meeting 36 (mgr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Faerie Meetings - Faerie Ballads: "Tam Lin" & "Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight"
Date: 24.02.2009

Meeting 35 (mgr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Faerie Meetings - "Lanval" by Marie de France
Date: 12.01.2009

Special Christmas Meeting
Date: 15.12.2008

Meeting 34 (dr Greg Miller)
Topic: A Place in the Sun (1951) - the movie
Date: 01.12.2008

Meeting 33 (mgr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation of Hamlet
Date: 03.11.2008

Meeting 32 (mgr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Alfred Tennyson's "Ulysses" and the Death of the Author
Date: 23.04.2008

Meeting 31 (mgr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: The Lady of Shalott (1833 version)
Date: 02.04.2008

Meeting 30 (mgr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Chaucer's pronunciation
Date: 09.01.2008

Special Christmas Meeting
Date: 19.12.2007

Meeting 29 (dr Michał Lachman)
Topic: Conor McPherson's The Weir
Date: 12.12.2007

Meeting 28 (mgr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: P. B. Shelley's "Fitful Alternations of the Rain"
Date: 21.11.2007

Meeting 27 (mgr Piotr Spyra)
Topic: P. B. Shelley's "Ozymandias"
Date: 14.11.2007

Meeting 26 (dr Joanna Kazik)
Topic: Music in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Date: 30.05.2007

Meeting 25 (dr Kevin Ornellas)
Topic: Songs in Shakespeare
Date: 16.05.2007

Meeting 24 (prof. Andrzej Wicher / Łukasz Kucharski)
Topic: Tolkien's Inspirations
Date: 25.04.2007

Meeting 23 (dr Magdalena Cieślak)
Topic: The Aesthetics of Camp
Date: 09.03.2007

Meeting 22 (Piotr Spyra)
Topic: S. T. Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"
Date: 17.01.2007

Meeting 21 (Wit Pietrzak)
Topic: Yeats's Byzantium Poems
Date: 15.12.2006

Meeting 20 (dr Michał Lachman)
Topic: Mark Ravenhill's plays: Product and The Cut
Date: 13.12.2006

Meeting 19 (Agata Witczak)
Topic: Sara Kane's Cleansed
Date: 01.12.2006

Meeting 18 (Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as a Christmas poem
Date: 22.11.2006

Meeting 17 (Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Alfred Tennyson's "Lady of Shalott"
Date: 17.11.2006

Meeting 16 (Piotr Spyra)
Topic: Manipulative strategies in Alfred Tennyson's "The Coming of Arthur"
Date: 17.10.2006

Meeting 15 (mgr Krzysztof Majer)
Topic: Flannery O'Connor
Date: 20.03.2006

Meeting 14 (dr Michał Lachman)
Topic: Patrick Marber - Closer
Date: 31.01.2006

Meeting 13 (dr Michał Lachman)
Topic: Frank McGuiness - Someone Who'll Watch Over Me
Date: 14.12.2005

Meeting 12 (dr Michał Lachman)
Topic: David Hare - Stuff Happens
Date: 29.11.2005

Meeting 11 (mgr Paulina Mirowska)
Topic: Harold Pinter - The Birthday Party
Date: 5.05.2005

Meeting 10 (dr Michał Lachman)
Topic: Brenton & Hare - Pravda
Date: 21.04.2005

Meeting 9 (dr Joanna Kazik)
Topic: The Corpus Christi Carol
Date: 13.04.2005

Meeting 8 (dr Joanna Kazik)
Topic: Carols as a genre
Date: 30.03.2005

Meeting 7 (mgr Krzysztof Majer)
Topic: Postmodernism - Barth, Coover, Calvino
Date: 06.01.2005

Meeting 6 (dr Joanna Kazik)
Topic: "The Slaughter of the Innocents" & "The Death of Herod" - English Mystery Plays
Date: 26.05.2004

Meeting 5 (dr Joanna Kazik)
Topic: Robert Henryson - The Thre Deid Pollis
Date: 05.05.2004

Meeting 4 (prof. Andrzej Wicher)
Topic: Chaucer - The Romaunt of the Rose
Date: 28.04.2004

Meeting 3 (dr Joanna Kazik)
Topic: I weende to dede - Middle English lyrics
Date: 14.04.2004

Meeting 2 (prof. Andrzej Wicher)
Topic: Chaucer - Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Date: 07.04.2004

Meeting 1 (prof. Irena Janicka-Świderska)
Topic: Dance Of Death
Date: 24.03.2004