Veranstaltungen

Wie verlief die Hexenverfolgung in Schottland? Und was genau waren die Salem With Trials?

Prof. Dr. Ina Habermann, Alex Van Lierde & Alexandra Grasso, University of Basel

Debates about national identity have received new currency in recent years in a context of demonstrations of national self-assertion, which has resulted for…

2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of a historical period that arguably came to a close with the deaths at the Altamont Free Concert in 1969.

Was für Hexenbilder finden sich in Neubearbeitungen der Artussage seit der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts? Und wie haben Autor*innen seit Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts die klassischen Hexenbilder des Märchens umgedeutet?

What makes a person look up a word? When do you use a dictionary?

An exciting series of Research Seminars and Guest Lectures at Université de Lausanne, organised by Denis Renevey.

Prof. Dr. Laura Marcus - University of Oxford (UK)

Guest Speaker: Prof. Jill Doerfler (University of Minnesota-Duluth); Organizers: Patrizia Zanella and Prof. Thomas Austenfeld

This workshop will deal with issues of power (or the lack thereof) at the end of life.

Lukas Etter - University of Siegen

Guest lectures in Zurich and Geneva by Prof. Dr. Lionel Pilkington (NUI Galway)

In their pioneering 1996 study Terror and Taboo, cultural anthropologists Joseba Zulaika and William Douglass point out a curious paradox in the contemporary preoccupation – or, rather, obsession – with terrorism: whereas the topic of…

SANAS Symposium & AGM (Saturday 30 November 2019. 10-17h. University of Geneva)

Symposium on the Irish Revolutionary Period

English Department, University of Zurich (14–15 February 2020)

POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19 VIRUS: Prof. Dr. Mita Banerjee (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) will give a lecture on "Narrative Medicine and the Black Maternal Mortality Crisis" and also teach a colloquium on "'Life' (Narrative Medicine,…

On Thursday, 9 April 2020 a workshop on the topic of Imagining the Digital World: Identity, Society, Surveillance will take place at the University of Bern (Hallerstrasse 6, room 205).

After serving for 34 years as Professor in the Department of English at the University of Fribourg, Prof. Dimiter Daphinoff will retire at the end of the current spring semester.

Fourth Annual Conference, 10-12 June 2020 - University of Zurich (UZH)

Keynote Speakers: Christoph Bode, Biancamaria Fontana, and Paul Hamilton

Die Tagung «Wissen | Zeigen: Digitale Vermittlung von Text, Bild, Objekt» findet in der Robinson-Bibliothek im Kunst(Zeug)Haus in Rapperswil-Jona statt.

Originally scheduled for May 2020, but postponed due to COVID-19

This online workshop explores Songlines as a potential methodology for mapping Nature-based Adaptation projects.

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Sobecki, University of Gröningen

Nicholas Allen (University of Georgia)

Hosted by the SNSF-Project "The Beach in the Long Twentieth Century"

Dr. Alexandra Campbell (University of Glasgow)

Hosted by the SNSF-Project "The Beach in the Long Twentieth Century"

University of Zurich, 14 and 15 May 2021

Annual General Meeting, Saturday, 15 May 2021, 1pm

Initially scheduled for June 2020, the Fourth Annual Women Money Markets Conference on "Female Economies" will finally take place on 9-11 June in a digital format.

The CSLS is delighted to announce a guest lecture series on the topic of Language and Social Justice this semester. The series runs weekly on Wednesdays at 16:15, from 29 September - 15 December, 2021.

Guest Lecture

Prof. Dr. Janet Catherine Berlo, University of Rochester

Prof. Shane Denson (Stanford University)

Across literature, film, radio, television, and computational media, seriality and serialization have been important formal and narrative strategies for popular media cultures from the nineteenth…

After a few introductory words on Anglophone Liberian literature and Kona Khasu's work (by Martin Mühlheim and Léa Gbeassor), Kona Khasu reads a selection of his poems.

The first event organised by the LALP project team is a one-day International Workshop on Speech Representation in Late Modern English Text Types: Historical Sociolinguistic and Stylistic Perspectives that takes place on Zoom on Friday, 12…

Guest speakers:

Emily Eels, Megan Girdwood, Lilian Louvel, Claire Rowden, and Emmanuel Vernadakis

with Neil O'Driscoll, visual artist (Dublin)

sponsored by the Swiss Centre of Irish Studies and the Embassy of Ireland, Switzerland.

The English Department at the University of Basel in Switzerland is proud to host the book launch for M.G. Sanchez’s new novel The Fetishist.

Friday, November 26, 2021

speakers: Dr. Shane Walshe, Dr. h.c. Fritz Senn, and Dr. Anne-Claire Michoux

Guest lecture by Christian Meyer (Universität Konstanz)

A two-day workshop, supported by the University of Bern Fund for Promotion of Young

Researchers. Deadline for Proposals: 15 Dec 2021.

Wed 27 April 2022 | 17.15-19.00 | UniS | S003 | University of Bern

This year's SANAS Spring Reading Group will take place in the fall semester for a change. We are delighted to be able to invite American poet Rachel Blau DuPlessis to Basel on November 11, 2023.

This year's SANAS Spring Reading Group will take place at the University of St. Gallen on May 18th. We are very pleased to welcome Brian Ward to share his work with us.

The upcoming biennial conference, "American Futurisms," will be held at the University of Geneva on November 7-8, 2024.

Approches comparées des rencontres entre littérature et théories du psychisme

This year's SANAS Spring Reading Group will take place at the University of Fribourg on Saturday, May 10th. We are very pleased to welcome Beth Ann Fennelly.