Old English Student Society KNA UJ

19/01/2026

With great pleasure we announce our third special guest 📣📣

Monika Opalińska is Associate Professor of historical linguistics at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Her scholarly interests focus on historical phonology of Germanic languages, history of the English language, and manuscript studies. She is currently working on Old and Middle English versified translations of the Pater Noster and the fragmentary N-Psalter from 11th-century England.
Monika Opalińska is the coordinator of SIGLUM Research Group for the Study of Manuscripts: https://siglum.uw.edu.pl/en/siglum/

More information about her interests and projects can be found here:
https://ia.uw.edu.pl/instytut/wykladowcy/szczegoly/monika-opalinska

16/01/2026

We are happy to have received many abstracts already, but we are still waiting for those that are written last minute!
Just a gentle reminder that today is the last day when you can submit your abstract!

09/01/2026

08/01/2026

📣ROOM CHANGE📣
Dear All, we were notified that we need to change the room for our Old English Student Session. You can find us this Saturday in room 401 in Collegium Paderevianum B. See you there!

06/01/2026

Hwaet!
If you would like to listen to some student papers in a less formal setting, join us at our semiannual Old English Student Session!
See you there!

02/01/2026

Happy New Year everyone! :) To begin this year on a good note, we have a gift for you! We are exting the deadline for the submission of paper proposals!
We are very happy to have received several proposals already, but we also want to give others a bit more time to work on their abstracts. Make sure that writing an abstract for 8OESC lands on your New Year's Resolutions list!

02/01/2026

We are not done announcing our dear special guests! 📣📣

Anna Cichosz currently works at the Institute of English Studies (University of Łódz). Her research activities are centred around historical linguistists, with the main focus on history of English and other Germanic languages, Old English syntax and phraseology (especially word and constituent order) and the influence of Latin on Old English.

You can find out more about her research and publications here:
https://www.uni.lodz.pl/pracownicy/anna-cichosz

20/12/2025

Today we have the pleasure of announcing the second special guest of our conference 📣📣

Lindy Brady is currently Reader in Medieval History at Edge Hill University (Ormskirk, United Kingdom), having previously taught at the University of Mississippi in America and University College Dublin in Ireland. She is an editor of the journal Early Medieval England and its Neighbours and the author of Writing the Welsh Borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England (Manchester University Press, 2017), The Origin Legends of Early Medieval Britain and Ireland (Cambridge University Press, 2022), and Multilingualism in Early Medieval Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2023). During the 2025-26 academic year, she is the recipient of a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship for her project Multilingualism in the Global Viking Age.

You can find out more about her research and publications here:
https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/person/dr-lindy-brady/staff/

18/12/2025

It is our great pleasure to reveal the first special guest of 8OESC! 📣📣

Thijs Porck is Senior University Lecturer (Associate Professor) of medieval English at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, the Netherlands. He has published on Old English language and literature, cultural history of early medieval England, English historical linguistics and medievalism (esp. Tolkien). He is the current President of the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England (ISSEME) and PI of the ERC-project “Early Medieval English in Nineteenth-Century Europe” [EMERGENCE].

You can find out more about his research and publications here:
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/thijs-porck -1

We are extremely happy to host him in Kraków in May!

07/11/2025

Hwaet :) We are back!

Old English Student Conference is organised by Old English Student Society KNA UJ in association with the JU Institute of English Studies.

20/10/2025

Hwaet! We would like to remind you that you can either come to Collegium Paderevianum A to room A2 today or join us online for a wonderful lecture. Don't miss it!

Please use this link to join the meeting (starting at 17.15):
https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/3461232493012?p=BdDQmvlnaU0LW23O9S

If you have any problems, please e-mail us at: [email protected]
Our brave warriors from the OESS will be looking at our e-mail box before the meeting begins and checking whether some of you neeed to be added to the meeting manually.

18/10/2025

We would like to thank all of the participants of our "Fate and Future" workshop yesterday! You were an absolutely magnificent group, and we are happy to have many of you join our fyrd!
Thanks to our discussions yesterday, all of us will now be dreaming about dragons flying over us and about accepting fresh cheese from people :)