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Excursion scheduled for April 3-7, 2017 - number of participants is limited.
Tuesday, December 5 (Gallery ART FORUM UTE BARTH) and Wednesday, December 6 (UZH Main Building, KOL-E-18)
Friday, December 1 and Saturday, December 2 (PLH-102)
Friday, November 24 and Saturday, November 25: guest lectures by Prof. Dr. Heike Paul, Prof. Dr. Katja Kanzler, and Dr. Katharina Gerund
"Punks, Punjabis and Rastas: A New Culture Emerges" (Tuesday, November 21, 2017 -- room KOL-G-221, UZH Main Building)
Tuesday, November 21, 2017, 8.00 a.m. (room PLH-105, Plattenstrasse 47)
Positive media coverage - including on TV (3sat-"Kulturzeit")
Tuesday, October 31st, 14.15-15.45h, PLH-E-5 (Plattenstr. 47)
"Saving and losing face in politics: The pragmatics of power in Shakespeare's history plays" -- Tuesday, 24 October 2017, 16:15-18:00 h (KOL-E-21, UZH main building)
Friday, 27 October 2017 - RAA-G-15, Rämistrasse 59
"The Art of Being Other: Britishness Today" (Wed, October 4, 2017 - room PLH-102)
"Reconstructing historical Englishes and their speakers: macro- and micro perspectives" (Thu, 26 October 2017, 14-16, PLH 5)
The Welcome Event 2017 (for exchange students and Master students who did their Bachelor elsewhere) took place on Tuesday, September 19, 2017.
Students, members of staff, and the general public are cordially invited to attend the lecture series "Debating the Anglosphere: History, Hegemony, Identity."
The following Power Point presentations contain all the information presented at this year's Erstsemestrigentag
Did you ever wonder why humans speak and animals don’t? Why we have such weird things as subordinate sentences, suffixes and agreement? And how come that the basic matter human language is made of (about 20 to 60 different sounds) is enough to create a multi-volume bestseller such as Harry Potter?
"Der Reiz des Glossars: Mittelalterliche Wortlisten und ihre Bedeutung" - Monday, September 4, 2017 (Musiksaal, Dekanatsflügel des Stiftsgebäudes, Klosterhof 6b, St. Gallen)
The University of Zurich advertises a professorship in Early Modern Literatures in English.
"Going North! Imagining the Transnational Arctic" - Monday, May 22, 2017, 2 p.m. (room KO2-F-150)
“Demographic change and its impact on rural English dialects” - Tuesday, May 23, 2017, 14.00-15.45 (room PLH-102)
“The Asia Mission: India and Japan in Early Modern European Narratives" -- Thu, May 18, 2017, 6.15 p.m. (room PLH-102)
May 15-16, 2017 - Registration deadline: Wednesday, May 10, 2017
May 5-6, 2017 - for everyone who has officially signed-up (organized by Prof. Dr. Ana Sobral)
The 2017 Shakespeare Week will take place from 5 August to 13 August, 2017.
The following is an incomplete list of summer schools that may be of interest to students of English.
The trial lectures for the Chair 19th- and 20th-Century Literatures in English (successor Prof. Dr. Martin Heusser) will take place on March 1-2, 2017, in room KOL-G-217.