UZH English Department News: 2021
News list
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Lecture Series "Ireland in the World"
We are excited to announce a lecture series scheduled at UZH for the fall semester 2021.
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Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Bronfen has been elected a member of the University Board of the University of Regensburg, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS).
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Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Bronfen has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg.
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Guest Lecture: An Van linden (Université de Liège) Noun incorporation in English
Time: Friday 10 December, 10.15-12.00
Location: online via Zoom
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Guestlecture Prof. Dr. Anita Auer (University Lausanne) "Urbanisation and the Development of Standard English"
Time: Dec 9, 2021 10:00 AM Zurich
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Guest lecture Manon Burz-Labrande (University of Vienna) "Women and the Victorian Penny Dreadful"
Wednesday 1st December 2021, 10:15 a.m.-12 p.m. on Zoom
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Zurich Early Modern Online Resources Seminar (ZEMORS)
Monday, 29th November, 2-4 p.m. (we start at 2 sharp Swiss time, UTC +1).
in Zoom
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Guest Lecture Peter Siemund (Universität Hamburg): Why pronouns in English(es) do not tend to change very often. Do they?
Time: Friday 26 Nov 2021, 10:15-12:00
Location: online via Zoom
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Workshop "Modelling constructional variation and change: Agents, networks, and vectors"
15 and 16 November 2021
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Workshop mit Mithu Sanyal - Wie «Race», «Ethnicity» und «Diversity» an der Hochschule unterrichten?* Artist Talk Mithu Sandal and Elisabeth Bronfen "Wie über Identitäten sprechen"*
Datum: 2. November 2021
Zeit: 10:15-12:00 Uhr
Ort: KO2-F-152
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Guest Lecture Prof. Dr. J. Jesse Ramírez (University of St. Gallen) Rules of the Father: Fatherhood, Masculinity, and the Ruins of Neoliberalism in The Last of Us
on Monday, October 25, 2021, 18.15-19.30
in Room: RAA-E-29
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Guest Lecture Martin Pickering (University of Edinburgh, UK) Understanding Dialogue: Language Use and Social Interaction
Thursday, October 7, 2021, 16:30
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Prof. Dr Andreas H. Jucker has been reelected President of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE).
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Symposium: Feministische Literaturgeschichte Heute / Feminist Literary History Today
Zürich, 3. September, 14-19 Uhr
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International Conference: Women, the Law and Women’s Rights in the Philosophy, Sciences, Arts and Legal Practice of the Eighteenth Century
Zurich - September 1-3, 2021
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Einsamkeit: Was wir von Robinson Crusoe lernen können
Robinson-Bibliothek im Kunst(Zeug)Haus, Rapperswil-Jona -- Mittwoch, 14. Juli 2021, 18.30 Uhr
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Vacancy Tutorat Textual Analysis (TA)
Th deadline for the application is Friday, 9 July 2021.
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Anglistik-Student*in für Übersetzung eines Selbstmanagement Trainings- manuals
The deadline is Monday, 19 July 2021.
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Summerschool of the University of Zurich 2021 «Spekulatives Erzählen: Die Zukunft (in) der Literatur»
14. - 16. June 2021 at the University of Zurich
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Women, Money and Markets (1600-1900) - "Female Economies"
Fourth Annual Conference, 09-11 June 2021 - University of Zurich (UZH)
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Guest lecture Prof. Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University, UK) - "Corpus Pragmatics: Some Reflections"
Monday, May 17, 2021, 10.15 – 12:00 h on Zoom
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SAUTE Conference 2021 "Migrations and Contacts"
University of Zurich, 14 and 15 May 2021
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Guest Lecture Christina Stuka (Universität Giessen) on "Language Attitudes and Norm Development in Barbados"
on Wednesday, the 12th of May at 08:45-09:45 in Zoom
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Guest Lecture Natalia Levshina (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) "Communicative Effiency and Language Evolution"
On Monday 10 May, 10.15-12h on Zoom
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Guest Lecture by Prof. Anita Auer (University of Lausanne) "Language Variation and Change in Late Modern England: Case Studies from the Lower Orders"
Date: Friday May 7, 10.15h-12.00h
Zoom Meeting
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Prof. Dr. Isabel Karremann Appointed New Editor of the Shakespeare-Jahrbuch
The Shakespeare-Jahrbuch is the world’s oldest literary journal.
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Guest Lecture by Prof. Erez Levon (Universität Bern) "Language, Gender and Social Stereotypes in the Courtroom"
4 May 2021, 2pm in Zoom
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Global Experience Talks Spring 2021
25.03.2021 / 08.04.2021 / 15.04.2021 / 22.04.2021
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Zurich Early Modern Online Resources Seminar (ZEMORS): promoting digital resources for early modern English studies
Monday, 29th March, 2-3.30 p.m. (Swiss time, UTC+1)
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Guest Lecture: Dr. Katrin Menzel (Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken) Medical Discourse in Late Modern English: Insights from the Royal Society Corpus
Thursday, Mar 25, 2021 16:15-17:45
Join Zoom Meeting
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Vacant Position - GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE (16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES) University of Geneva
Applications must be received by the deadline, 12 March 2021
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Trial Lectures: Successor for Prof. Dr. Andreas H. Jucker
The trial lectures take place on March 10 and 11, 2021.
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Closing Times Winter Break 2020/21
English Department buildings closed from December 23, 2020 to January 3, 2021
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Senior Assistant Position in Linguistics (50%)
For more information, see http://www.jobs.uzh.ch/jobDetail.php?jobID=7070
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Public Lecture Prof. Alexandra Walsham (University of Cambridge)
"Down with Dagon: The Art of Iconoclasm and the Afterlife of the English Reformation" - Saturday, September 10, 11.30-12.30 (KOL-G-201, i.e. Aula)
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Workshop with Dr. Kathryn Allan (University College London) and Dr. Philip Durkin (Oxford English Dictionary)
Thursday, September 15 to Saturday, September 17, 2016