05.04.2021Doctoral Program Lecture Series Fall 2011

Doctoral Program "English and American Literary Studies". 

This lecture series is organized by doctoral students and Mittelbau members of the English Department unless stated otherwise

September 27:

Dame Gillian Beer (Cambridge): "The Backbone Shiver": Darwin and the Arts
18:30, Room PLH 102
English Department, Plattenstr. 47, 8032 Zürich.

October 28:

Felicity Nussbaum (UCLA): Oriental Drama and Tragic Muse Mary Anne Yates.

Organized by the peer-mentoring program “Genius for Hire”. 
For more information visit http://www.es.uzh.ch/Subsites/events/PeerMentoring.html

Time & place: tba
English Department, Plattenstr. 47, 8032 Zürich.

November 21:

Christina Wald (Augsburg): Communion and Cannibalism in Thomas Lodge's A Margarite of America (1596)
18:30, Room PLH 102
English Department, Plattenstr. 47, 8032 Zürich.

December 5:

Bernd Herzogenrath (Frankfurt): Matter and Memory: Bill Morrison's Decasia
18:30, Room PLH 102
English Department, Plattenstr. 47, 8032 Zürich.

December 12:

Alan Richardson (Boston College)

Organized by the peer-mentoring program “Genius for Hire”. 
For more information visit http://www.es.uzh.ch/Subsites/events/PeerMentoring.html

Time & place: tba

English Department, Plattenstr. 47, 8032 Zürich.

December 19:

Anne Whitehead (Newcastle): Prosopagnosia, or the Problem of Reading Faces: Refiguring Empathy in Ian McEwan's Saturday
18:30, Room PLH 102
English Department, Plattenstr. 47, 8032 Zürich.

Preparatory material for the individual lectures may be found on OLAT.

Search for: „Lecture Series 2011“ or use the following link:

https://www.olat.uzh.ch/olat/url/RepositoryEntry/3869999108?guest=true&lang=de

For more information about the lecture series and the doctoral program visit

http://www.es.uzh.ch/teaching/PhD/phdlit.html

Contact: j.binotto@es.uzh.ch