A memorial workshop in honor of Prof. Joanna Błaszczak,

11th December 2021 (Saturday)


MEMORIAL TALKS


9:30-9:40 OPENING, Bożena Rozwadowska

Moderator: Marzena Żygis

9:40-9:55

Gisbert Fanselow (University of Potsdam), a memorial talk

9:55-10:10

Bożena Rozwadowska (University of Wrocław), a memorial talk

10:10-10:25

Dorota Klimek-Jankowska (University of Wrocław) and Katarzyna Sówka-Pietraszewska (University of Wrocław), a memorial talk

coffee break

Moderator: Dorota Klimek-Jankowska

10:45-11:30

Hanna Kędzierska (University of Wrocław), Jennifer Dorman, Veranika Puhacheuskaya (University of Alberta), Wojciech Milczarski (University of Wrocław), Katarina Manojlovic (University of Wrocław), Anna Borkowska (University of Wrocław), Daria Baikova (University of Wrocław), Rahima Khalilli, Julia Globa, Markus Saint-Pettersen a joint memorial talk

11:30-11:35

Natalia Gagarina (Humboldt University of Berlin, ZAS Berlin), a memorial talk

11:35-11:40

Susann Fischer (University of Hamburg), a memorial talk

11:40:11:50

Manfred Krifka (ZAS Berlin), a memorial talk

lunch break

RESEARCH-RELATED TALKS

Moderator: Hanna Kędzierska

13:00-13:25

Anna Michońska-Stadnik (University of Wrocław), Positive psychology for life and education

13:25-13:45

Dorota Kołodziejczyk (University of Wrocław), Autism as a mode of an existential refugee in literature

break

Moderator: Sarah Wesolek

13:55-14:15

Ewa Willim (Jagiellonian University), Towards a typology of Voice heads. The case of Polish

14:15-14:35

Anastasia Giannakidou (University of Chicago), What Joanna’s work told us about the future

break

Moderator: Anna Borkowska

14:55-15:15

Marzena Żygis (ZAS Berlin), Piotr Gulgowski (University of Wrocław), Sarah Wesolek (ZAS Berlin), GRANITUS project - Grammatical illusions in accented speech comprehension

15:15-15:35

Loren A. Billings (Lund University), Multiple wh-questions in Slavic

15:35-15:50

André Meinunger (ZAS Berlin), Some aspects of a project planned in tight connection with Joanna

coffee break

Moderator: Wojciech Milczarski

16:10-16:30

Radek Šimík (Charles University), On Czech indefiniteness

16:30-16:50

Mojmír Dočekal and Martin Juřen (Masaryk University), Czech deverbal abstract nouns: defaults and shifts (preliminary corpus queries and descriptive stats)

16:50-17:10

Marcin Wągiel (Masaryk University), Polish indefinites: Some puzzles

break

Moderator: Wojciech Witkowski

17:20-17:40

Ljudmila Geist (University of Stuttgart), (joined work with Joanna): Distributed plural hypothesis

17:40 - 18:00

Beste Kamali and Hedde Zeijlstra (Georg August University of Goettingen), Universal NPIs, existential PPIs, and the landscape of polarity sensitivity

break

Moderator: Bożena Rozwadowska

18:10-18:30

Barbara Tomaszewicz (University of Cologne) and Roumyana Pancheva (University of Southern California), Focus association in sentence processing

18:30-18:50

Lida Veselovská (Palacký University Olomouc), Czech Complex Complementizers


Organizers:

Bożena Rozwadowska

Marzena Żygis

Dorota Klimek-Jankowska

Hanna Kędzierska

Piotr Gulgowski

Wojciech Witkowski