text by Maria Szafrańska-Chmielarz This year the annual British Association of Chinese Studies (BACS) Conference was held from September 3rd until September 5th in Leicester and was hosted by the University of Leicester. With around 300 participants and a variety of scholars from different fields – from economics to history to culture – it was […]
text by Magdalena Pypeć One of the pressing social issues that deeply concerned Charles Dickens was the need for universal education and comprehensive sanitary reform, both of which he deemed essential to improving the lives of the poor. In Dickens’s view, these two causes were inextricably linked. This connection is vividly illustrated in A Christmas […]
text by Dorota Osińska Working with young people and students has taught me that I need to be up-to-date with the latest technologies and I cannot escape it. During our classes at university, names such as ChatGPT, Perplexity or DeepL keep popping up and while some students are absolutely delighted by the prospect of using […]
