Events & Conferences

The main celebration for SAUTE's 75-year anniversary will take place at the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern on Friday, 4 November 2022 in the afternoon. More information will follow soon.

Prof. Dr. Mita Banerjee (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Main) discusses Baldwin's Essay "Stranger in the Village" (6. October, University of Bern)

26. September 2022, Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen, Musiksaal im Dekanatsflügel, Klosterhof 6b, 9004 St. Gallen

18.15 - ca. 19.45, mit anschliessendem Apero.

Eintritt frei; das Event findet auf Englisch statt.

This is a guest lecture by Dr. Huma Yaqub at the University of Bern. It will take place on May 23rd 2022 at 12:15.

For SAUTEs jubilee event at Basel University there will be brief presentations about British and Irish life in Basel, English as a lingua franca, a lecture to mark the centenary of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses, Irish dancing,…

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

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

Researchers. Deadline for Proposals: 15 Dec 2021.

This event will commemorate the modernist centenary of 1922 (an annus mirabilis, considering the publication of both T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and James Joyce’s Ulysses among so many other things) while making visible the vibrant work of…

Joyce’s novel was published on his 40th birthday, February 2 1922; we will celebrate the centenary on February 25 2022, at the University of Lausanne. Professor Anne Fogarty, Director of the James Joyce Centre at University College Dublin,…

Guest lecture by Christian Meyer (Universität Konstanz)

Friday, November 26, 2021

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

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.

with Neil O'Driscoll, visual artist (Dublin)

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

Guest speakers:

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

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…

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.

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…

Guest Lecture

Prof. Dr. Janet Catherine Berlo, University of Rochester

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.

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.

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

University of Zurich, 14 and 15 May 2021

Dr. Alexandra Campbell (University of Glasgow)

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

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Sobecki, University of Gröningen

Nicholas Allen (University of Georgia)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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).

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,…

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

Symposium on the Irish Revolutionary Period

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

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…

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

Lukas Etter - University of Siegen

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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…

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