April Conference is a triennial international conference which has been organized by the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University since 1978. The conference is an opportunity to bring together scholars working in various fields of English and American Studies.

The fifteenth edition of the conference will be held in the historic buildings of the Jagiellonian University: Collegium Maius and Collegium Novodvorscianum. It will cover topics from such fields as British and American literature, general and applied linguistics, translation and cultural studies, the teaching of English as a foreign language and other related areas.

The plenary speakers will include Susan Hunston (University of Birmingham), Kenneth P. Minkema (Yale Divinity School), Nancy Schultz (Salem State University), Virginia Pulcini (Università degli studi di Torino), Tiffany Stern (The Shakespeare Institute), and Laurence Davies (Joseph Conrad Society UK).

For more information, visit the conference website.