UZH English Department News: 2016
News list
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Opening of the Zurich Shakespeare Festival 2016
April 2, 2016 (at Kulturmarkt, Aemtlerstrasse 23, 8003 Zurich - bar opening at 5 p.m. - admission: free)
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Guest Lecture Prof. Dr. Misha Kavka (Auckland)
"It's Her: Scarlett Johansson, Cyber-femininity and the new It Girl" - Wednesday, April 6, 6.30 p.m. (KO2-F-152)
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Guest Lecture Prof. Dr. Misha Kavka (Auckland)
"It's Her: Scarlett Johansson, Cyber-femininity and the new It Girl" - Wednesday, April 6, 6.30 p.m. (KO2-F-152)
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Guest Lecture Prof. Dr. Zoë Lehmann Imfeld (Berne)
"Sheridan Le Fanu and the Gothic Ghost Story" -- Wednesday, November 30, 2016 -- 2 p.m. (room RAA-E-29)
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Conference "Shifting Grounds: Literature, Culture and Spatial Phenomenologies"
English Department, 25-27 November 2016
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Guest Lecture Prof. Dr. Hugh Haughton (York)
"All Changed: Easter 1916 in Irish Poetry Then and Now -- Wednesday, November 30, 2016, at 6. p.m. (University Main Building, room KOL-E-18)
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Now Available: Prof. em. Dr. Andreas Fischer's Book on History of English Studies in Zurich
The book Es begann mit Scott und Shakespeare: Eine Geschichte der Anglistik an der Universität Zürich can now be bought at the Department Library or ordered at anniversary@es.uzh.ch.
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PhD Workshop on Debt (Dienst/Roxburgh/Suter)
Friday, November 4 (4.15-6 p.m.) and Saturday, November 5 (11 a.m.-6 p.m.) -- room PLH-5
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Studying and Teaching Abroad 2016: Power Point Slides
The Power Point Slides from this year's Study and Teaching Abroad information meeting are now available here.
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Welcome Event 2016
The information event for incoming exchange students and new Master students who did their Bachelor elsewhere took play on Tuesday, September 20. The Power Point slides can be downloaded here.
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Fresher's Day Information (Erstsemestrigentag 2016)
You can download the Power Point slides from this year's Fresher's Day here.
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English Seminar closed on 12 September 2016 (Knabenschiessen)
The English Seminar remains closed on 12 September 2016 (morning and afternoon) because of a staff event.
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Guest Lecture Prof. Dr. Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (KU Leuven)
Friday, November 4, 2016 - 8 a.m. (room PLH-105)
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Shakespeare Week in Stratford-upon-Avon and London
The 2016 Shakespeare Week will take place from 20 August to 27 August, 2016.
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Opening of the Zurich Shakespeare Festival 2016
April 2, 2016 (at Kulturmarkt, Aemtlerstrasse 23, 8003 Zurich - bar opening at 5 p.m. - admission: free)
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FS 2016: Changes to the Lehrdiplom Regulations
More information is available at www.es.uzh.ch/en/teaching/Lehrdiplom.html.
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Cancellation Midsummer Night's Ball
It is with a heavy heart that we must announce the cancellation of the Midsummer Night's Ball due to unforeseen circumstances. Tickets that have already been purchased will naturally be refunded to the buyers as soon as possible. We offer our heartfelt apologies to everyone who was looking forward to the ball and thank you for your interest in the Zurich Shakespeare Festival 2016.
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Guest Lecture Prof. Dr. Margaret Reynold (Queen Mary, University of London)
“Jane’s Orphans, Aurora’s Strays: Prodigy, Poetry and Displaced Children” - Wednesday, May 25, 2016 (4.15 p.m.), room PLH-102
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Queer Shakespeare @ Pink Apple
Tuesday, May 3, 2016 (7 p.m.), at Kulturhaus Helferei, Kirchgasse 13, 8001 Zürich (in German)
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Workshop "Youth and Socialism: Transnational Perspectives"
May 7-8, 2016 - English Department, Plattenstrasse 47
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Workshop and Concert by Poetic Pilgrimage (UK)
Concert: May 26, 2016, 9 p.m. (Rote Fabrik) - Workshop: May 27, starting at 9 a.m.
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Guest Lecture Dr. Ursula Kania (Liverpool)
"That’s brand new! Well, ish…: A corpus-based study of the degrammaticalization of ‘ish’" - Wednesday, May 18, 2016 (4.15 p.m. - PLH-105).
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One-Day Reading of John Milton's Paradise Lost
Saturday, April 16, from 8 a.m. (in the Kafistübli)
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The Blueprint Masquerades Present William Shakespeare's The Tempest
Get your tickets now!
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Guest Lecture Prof. Dr. Misha Kavka (Auckland)
"It's Her: Scarlett Johansson, Cyber-femininity and the new It Girl" - Wednesday, April 6, 6.30 p.m. (KO2-F-152)
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PhD Workshop Dr. Elizabeth DeLoughrey (UCLA): Literature, Globalization & the Environment
Thursday, 10 March 2016, 10-12 am / Friday, 11 March, 4-7 pm / Saturday, 12 March, 10-12 am & 2-4 pm
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Workshop with Prof. Dr. Franco Moretti (Stanford)
"The Bourgeois" - Tuesday, 8 March 2016, 6-8 pm (Clausiusstrasse 59, RZ‑F‑21, ETH Zürich)
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Guest Lecture and Workshop Prof. Dr. Catherine Belsey (Swansea)
Lecture: "Hamlet’s Beard - Shakespeare and the History of Gender" (Thursday, 17 March 2016, 6-8 pm, KOL-F-118) & Workshop: "Ghost Stories" (Friday, 18 March 2016, 4-6 pm, tba)
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CUSO Workshop 'Relations between England and Europe in the Romantic Period'
Lectures by Prof. Allen Reddick and Prof. Paul Hamilton (Queen Mary University of London) - Neuchâtel, Friday, 26 February 2016
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Elisabeth Bronfen: Lecture and Book Premiere Mad Men, Tod und der Amerikanische Traum
Cabaret Voltaire - December 14, 2015 (7 p.m.)