UZH English Department News: 2014
News list
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Shakespeare Week: Information Meeting on April 14
The information meeting for the Shakespeare Week 2014 will take place on Monday, April 14 (room PLH-5, 10-12).
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Inaugural Lecture PD Dr. Carolin Biewer
Students, staff, and members of the general public are cordially invited to PD Dr. Carolin Biewer's inaugural lecture "Linguistische Feldforschung in der Südsee: Von der Theorie zur Praxis" (Monday, March 17, 2014 - 5 p.m. - Aula UZH).
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Tickets for The Importance of Being Earnest
Tickets for the Blueprint Masquerades' production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnst are available now!
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Trial Lectures in English Literature ("Nachfolge Esterhammer")
Students and members of staff are cordially invited to attend the trial lectures for the "Nachfolge Esterhammer" (February 24 and 25, 2014).
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Bachelor Thesis: New Booking Form Available
The new booking form for the Bachelor Thesis is now available.
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PhD Workshop with Tom Conley (Harvard)
On February 14-15, 2014 Tom Conley (Harvard) will be in Zurich for a PhD Workshop on "The Cinema of Raoul Walsh."
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Bachelor Thesis: Revised Booking Procedure
Due to technical problems with the booking of the Bachelor Thesis module, we are currently revising the booking procedure.
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Zürcher Festspielpreis Awarded to Fritz Senn
We would like to congratulate Fritz Senn on being awarded the Zürcher Festspielpreis 2014.
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CANCELED - The Tragedy of King Richard III - CANCELED
Unfortunately, the Cambridge European Theatre Group have had to cancel their tour due to last minute hospitalisation of two crew members, including the female lead.
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Guest Lecture lic. phil. Mischa Suter
“Subjectivities of Debt in Liberal Capitalism” - room: PLH-105 - Thursday, December 5, 2013, 4.15 p.m.
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Shakespeare Week 2014
The preliminary programme of the Shakespeare Week 2014 is now online! Visit www.es.uzh.ch/stratford, section "Programme" to see the list of plays and further activities.
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Guest Lecture Prof. Klancher
Prof. Dr. Jon Klancher(Carnegie Mellon University) „The Media Turn 1800/2000: Romanticism, Mediations, Institutions“ This guest lecture will take place on Friday, November 12, at 14:15 in room KOL-E-018.
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Two Guest Lectures with Tom Wylie (Exeter)
"Landscape Theory, the Wild, and the 'New Writing' in the UK" and "Landscape, Distance and Displacement" (December 3, 2014 - 10.15 in room KOL-H-321 and 16.15 in room PLH-102).
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Guest Lecture Prof. Dr. Klaus P. Schneider (Bonn)
"Variational Pragmatics: New Trends" - Monday, December 1, 2014, 2.00 p.m. (room PLH-1-105, Plattenstrasse 47).
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Lecture by Drehli Robnik (Vienna)
"Untot im Museum: Mumien, Zombies & Vampire als Theorie-Vermittler_innen filmischer Geschichtlichkeit (und Ungeschicklichkeit)" - Thursday, November 20 (Seminar für Filmwissenschaft, room E-019).
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Guest Lecture Dr. Brook Bolander (Zurich & FRIAS)
"Linguistic Anthropology Past and Present: Key Concepts and Methods" - Wednesday, November 26, 10.15 a.m. (room KOL-F-117).
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Guest Lecture Axel Bohmann (Austin, TX)
"Nobody canna cross it": Styling hyper-correct speech in Jamaica - Monday, November 24, 2014, 4.15 p.m. (room PLH-E-05).
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Guest Lecture Prof. Dr. Sali Tagliamonte (Toronto)
"Variationist Sociolinguistics: The Scientist in the Street" - Wednesday, November 19, 2014, 10.15 a.m. (room KOL-F-117).
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Call for Papers: Images of Identity - Symposium at the UZH
Deadline for paper proposals: November 28, 2014.
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PhD Workshop with Mladen Dolar (Ljubljana)
"Comedy, Mimesis and Avarice" - November 7-8, 2014 (room PLH-102).
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James Joyce's Dubliners: Marathon Reading
Zurich James Joyce Foundation (Augustinergasse 9) - Sunday, October 26, 2014 (10 a.m. to ca. 7.30 p.m.).
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Guest Lecture Prof. Dr. Stephanie Hackert (München)
Friday, October 31, 2014, 10.15-12.00 -- "The place of the Bahamas on the World Englishes map" (room KOL-E-21).
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Workshop with Prof. Dr. Masako Hiraga (Rikkyo University)
"Beowulf's Japanese Contemporaries" - October 16, 2014, 10.15-12.00 (room PLH-105).
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Guest Lecture Dr. Enit Steiner (Lausanne)
"Samuel Johnson's Rasselas: Jaded Beginnings, Promising Ends?" - Tuesday, November 18 - for everyone who's read Rasselas.
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Lecture and Workshop with Tom McCarthy
Lecture "Recessional - or, The Time of the Hammer" (Monday, December 8, 2014) and Workshop for doctoral candidates "On Buffering: Satin Island" (Tuesday, December 2014).
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Guest Lecture Prof. Dr. Martin Hilpert (Neuchâtel)
"30 Years of Cognitive Linguistics" - October 22, 2014, 10.15-12.00 - Room KOL-F-117.
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Tutorial Times for "Language Skills and Culture: Introduction"
The times for the "Language Skills and Culture: Introduction" tutorials are now available.
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Study/Teach Abroad Information Session
Venue: Room PET-04, Pestalozzistr 50. Wednesday, October 15, 12:30-13:30.
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"Kreolsprachen": New Elective Module for Bachelor Students
A new 3-ECTS elective module for Bachelor students of the Vertiefungsstufe has been added to the course program for the current semester: "Kreolsprachen," taught by Dr. Philippe Maurer.
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PhD Workshop with Wendy Laura Belcher (Princeton University)
PhD Workshop "Discursive Possession of Western by African Thought," with Prof. Wendy Laura Belcher (Princeton University) - September 26-27, 2014.
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PhD Program in English and American Literary Studies: Opening Event 2014
This year's Opening Event of the PhD Program in English and American Literary Studies will take place on Wednesday, 1 October at 6pm in the Kapistübliand is both for currently enrolled and prospective doctoral candiates. Everyone is cordially invited.
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Information Erstsemestrigentag 2014
For students who weren't able to attend the Erstsemestrigentag 2014 (or who would simply like to download the presentation slides).
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Study on Decision-Making by Students
Students who are unsure about whether or not to continue their studies may want to participate in the study "Weiterstudieren?!? Ja oder Nein?"
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"Canton Mars": Reading and Discussion with Kim Stanley Robinson
Reading and discussion with the renowned science-fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 - 8.15 p.m. (at Seebad Utoquai, Zurich).
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Freshers' Test 2014
For students taking the "Language Skills & Culture: Introduction" module: mandatory Freshers' Test on Friday, September 19 (room: HAH-E-11; time: 12.15-13.45 p.m.).
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Cancellation Joanna Nykiel's Guest Lecture
Joanna Nykiel unfortunately had to cancel her talk on June 5; Jacob Thaisen’s guest lecture will take place as scheduled at 10:30 in room PLH-102.
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Guest Lectures Dr. Jacob Thaisen and Dr. Joanna Nykiel
"Probabilistic Analysis of Scribal Dialects" and "Syntactic Variation and Elliptical Constructions" (Thursday, June 5, 2014, 10.30 a.m. - room PLH-102).
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Bachelor Students of English Needed for Probelektion for New Member of Lektor Staff
Additional slot to be filled on Friday, May 23, at 8.00-8.45 a.m. - PLH-102
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Guest Lecture Dr. Fabienne Collignon
"USA Murated Nation or, the Sublime Spherology of Security Culture: David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and the Legacy of the Cold War." - Room PET 4 - Wednesday, 21 May 2014, 12.00-13.00
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Guest Lecture Prof. Dr. Lars Hinrichs
"The Twang, the Drawl, and those Damn Yankees" - room KOL-F-121 - Friday, May 16, 2014, 10.15 - 12.00
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Manual for Electronic Services at UZH
An English translation of the manual for electronic services at the UZH is now available online.
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PhD Workshop with Jean-Michel Racault (La Réunion)
Doctoral Workshop with Jean-Michel Racault on "Utopias, Travels and Insularity" - May 8-10, 2014.
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PhD Workshop on Seriality
With Christiane Frey (New York), David Martyn (St Paul) and Rembert Hüser (Frankfurt) - April 11-12, 2014.
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Trial Lectures in English Literature ("Global Literatures")
Students and members of staff are cordially invited to attend the trial lectures for the new assistant professorship in Global Literatures (April 2-3, 2014).
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Guest Lecture Prof. Dr. Neil Cartlidge
"Geschichten von zwei Liebenden: Mittelalter gegen Renaissance in Boccaccio, Chaucer und Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini" (March 12, 2014 - 6.15 p.m.).