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Since autumn 2009, the Institute of Computational Linguistics, the English Department, the Institute of German Studies and the Institute of Romance Studies together have offered an Interdisciplinary Master: "Multilingual Text Analysis" ("Multilinguale Textanalyse", "Analyse multilingue de texte"). Applications for autumn 2012 should be made to the coordinator at the Institute of Computational Linguistics between December 1, 2011 and April 30, 2012.
Since 2009, the English Department has offered a Master's program: "M.A. in English Studies". Applications for autumn 2012 should be made between Dec. 1, 2011 and April 30, 2012.
We would like to draw students’ attention to the following Blockveranstaltung, which can be counted towards the Wahlteilof a Bachelor degree in English: SHAKESPEARE AND THE CINEMA (3./4./8./9./10. FEBRUARY 2011).
The Shakespeare Week in Stratford-Upon-Avon and London will take place from 11-20 August 2011. For more information, please visit www.es.uzh.ch/stratford or contact Nadia.Fries@ggaweb.ch
Prof. Dr. Lieselotte Anderwald, University of Kiel. Friday 18th March 2011, 10.15-12.00 in room KOL F-109, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich. Title: Investigating dialect grammar - the construction of FRED. Students, lecturers and other interested persons are welcome.
Einladung
zu einem Gastvortrag von
Frau Prof. Dr. Lieselotte Anderwald,
Universität Kiel,
am
Dienstag, 1. März 2011, 14 Uhr,
Raum 5 PLH des Englischen Seminars,
zum Thema:
"CEECE2
Compiling a corpus of 19th-century letters"
Einladung zu einem Gastvortrag von Prof. Dr. Deborah Madsen, Université de Genève, am Dienstag, 5. April 2011, 16.30 Uhr, am Englischen Seminar, Plattenstrasse 47, Raum PLH 102, mit dem Titel: Modern Indians: An American Contradiction
Einladung zu einem Gastvortrag von Prof. Dr. Miriam Locher, Universität Basel, am Montag, 7. Februar 2011, 14.00 Uhr, am Englischen Seminar, Plattenstrasse 47, Raum PLH 105, mit dem Titel: Facebook status updates in two focus groups
Shakespeare Week in Stratford-upon-Avon: Information Meeting.
The 2011 Shakespeare Week will take place from August 11 to August 20, 2011 (weeks 32 and 33). Nadia Fries (nadia.fries@ggaweb.ch), who is in charge of organizing the excursion, will hold an information meeting on April 15, 2011, from 12.15 to 1.30 pm, at PLH 105, Plattenstrasse 47, 8032 Zürich. For more information, please visit
Dr. Anne Whitehead from the University of Newcastle will give a lecture on "Prosopagnosia, or the Problem of Reading Faces: Refiguring Empathy in Ian McEwan's 'Saturday'". The lecture takes place on Monday 19 December 2011, from 18:30 to 19:30 in Room PLH 102 of the English Department, Plattenstr. 47, 8032 Zürich. This event is organized by the doctoral program "English and American Literary Studies".
As guest of the Peer-Mentoring Group "Genius for Hire" and Prof. Angela Esterhammer, Prof. Alan Richardson will give a guest lecture on "The Romantic Imagination and the Neuroscience of Dreaming". Monday, 12 December 2011, 16:15-17:45, Room PLH 105 of the English Department (Plattenstrasse 47). All are welcome.
Monday, 5 December 2011, 18:30-19:30. Guest lecture on "Matter and Memory: Bill Morrison's Decasia" by Prof. Dr. Bernd Herzogenrath, from the Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt a. M. Prof. Herzogenrath will be discussing the New York experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison and his 2002 film "Decasia: The State of Decay". Clips from the movie can be found on the film's official homepage: www.decasia.com/index_full.html. Venue: Room 102 of the English Department (Plattenstrasse 47, 8032 Zurich). This event is organized by the doctoral program "English and American Literary Studies". For more information about the program please visit www.es.uzh.ch/teaching/PhD/phdlit.html.
Dr. Christina Wald (University of Augsburg), author of "Hysteria, Trauma and Melancholia: Performative Maladies in Contemporary Anglophone Drama" will give a lecture on "Communion and Cannibalism in Thomas Lodge's A Margarite of America (1596)" on Monday, November 21, 18:30-19:30, in room PLH 102 of the English Department. The event is organized by the doctoral program "English and American Literary Studies". For further info, visit www.es.uzh.ch/teaching/PhD/phdlit.html.
The European Theatre Group (ETG) stages WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S KING LEAR in the auditorium of the Rudolf Steiner School (Plattenstrasse 37) next to the English Department building, on December 8, 2011, at 6.30pm, doors open at 6.15pm. Tickets can be purchased at the Secretariat of the English Department (20- chf). See poster:
See attached pdf for details of vacant position within the English Department.
Well-known literary translator Ulrich Blumenbach will conduct a workshop on literary translation. The workshop, organised by the ES (within the framework of the MA "Advanced Translation" course) in tandem with the Uebersetzerhaus Looren, will focus on an excerpt of David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest". It will take place on Wednesday, 23rd November 2011, at 8.10am, room PLH 102 of the English Seminar. The workshop will be in German. If you would like to receive the text in advance of the discussion, please contact Jane Dewhurst (dewhurst@es.uzh.ch).
As guest of the English Department, Prof. Dr. Tobias Döring (LMU München) will give a lecture on "Imaginary Homelands?: The Rossettis between Italy and England". Monday, November 28, 12:15-13:45. Venue: K02-F-150 (Karl-Schmid-Strasse 4). All are welcome.
Dave Britain will present a lecture on "The Spatial Diffusion of Linguistic Innovations". Friday, 18th November 2011, 10.15-12.00, in room KOL F 117 of the University of Zurich main building.
Dr. Jane Hodson of the University of Sheffield will give a guest lecture on "Jane Austen and the Prescriptivists". Tuesday, 06 December 2011, 14.00-15.30, room PLH105 at the English Department (Plattenstrasse 47). All are welcome.
Students who are interested in studying/teaching abroad are invited to attend this information session where our study abroad programmes (Erasmus, Amity, etc.) will be presented. Venue: room PET-04, Pestalozzistrasse 50. Tuesday, October 18, 12:00-13:15. For further information please contact: cschlote@es.uzh.ch
As a guest of the English Department and the Faculty, Prof. Kathryn Sutherland will give two guest lectures on Jane Austen: "Jane Austen, her Publishers, her Manuscripts, and the Practice of Meaning". Tuesday, 15 November 2011, 14.00-15.30, Room PLH 105. "Jane Austen's Juvenilia". Tuesday, 15 November 2011, 12.15-13.45, Room PLH 105. Everyone interested is welcome to attend one or both events.
As guest of the Peer Mentoring Group "Genius for Hire", Prof. Dr. Felicity Nussbaum (UCLA) will give a lecture on "Oriental Drama and Tragic Muse Mary Anne Yates" on Friday, 28 October 2011, at 13.30 in room PLH 105 (Plattenstr. 47). Professor Nussbaum specializes in the long eighteenth century, with a particular focus on issues of race, gender and genre. Everyone interested in most welcome to attend the event.
7 Nov. 2011. READING BY ARNO CAMENISCH. The bilingual Grisons novelist Arno Camenisch will give a reading from both his German and Rhaeto-Romanic prose. One of the presented texts is first published in the current issue of 'Variations', entitled "Zeitgenossenschaft / Le contemporain / Contemporaneity", which will be presented and celebrated at this event. The reading will be followed by an apéro. Venue: Zürich, AVL, Room 211, Plattenstrasse 43, 18.00. All welcome.
Bologna-Day Meeting - Friday, 2.15 p.m. (room PLH-105).The English Department's Bologna-Day Meeting will take place on Friday, April 1, at 2.15 p.m. (room PLH-105). Everyone interested in the reform is cordially invited to join the discussion.
22-23 October 2011: Professor David McKitterick (Cambridge), the prolific author of classic, groundbreaking studies of the book such as "Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order, 1450-1830" and editor of the multi-volume "Cambridge History of the Book in Britain" will give a workshop on "Exploring Some Current Bibliographical Issues" on October 22-23 at the English Department. This is a unique opportunity for discussion with the perhaps premier student of the creation, distribution, collection and importance of books across history in the English-speaking world. The workshop is open to everyone interested.
The European Theatre Group (ETG) stages WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S KING LEAR in the auditorium of the Rudolf Steiner School (Plattenstrasse 37) next to the English Department building, on December 8, 2011, at 6:30pm, doors open at 6:15pm. Tickets can be purchased at the Secretariat of the English Department (20- chf).
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Guest Lecture by Dr. Karen Junod As a guest of the English Department, Dr. Karen Junod, University of Fribourg, will give a lecture with the title "From Grand Tour to Bummel and from Fact to Fiction: Travelling to Germany". Venue: K02-F-150 (Karl-Schmid-Strasse 4). Monday, October 10, 12:15-13:45. All are welcome. For further information please email christa.schoenfelder@es.uzh.ch
Dame Gillian Beer, King Edward VII Professor of English Literature Emerita at the University of Cambridge, author of Darwin's Plots (1983), and one of the leading figures in literary criticism, will give a lecture on "Alice in Time" in the Advanced Research Colloquium in Seventeenth- to Nineteenth-Century Studies, on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, at 16:15 in room PLH 105. Everyone interested is most welcome to attend the event.
Under the title ""The Backbone Shiver": Darwin and the Arts" one of Britain's most eminent literary critics, DAME GILLIAN BEER from the University of Cambridge, will be giving a lecture at the English Department on Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 18:30, Room PLH 102.
Beginning of Semester Apero. The FAVA (Fachverein) invites everyone to their apero on THURSDAY 29 SEPTEMBER, 6-10pm in the Kafistübli of the English Department.
Doctoral Program "English and American Literary Studies". Here you can find details of the lecture series for the Doctoral Program, Fall Semester 2011.
Placement Test (Freshers' Test), 23 SEPTEMBER 2011. All students wishing to start the Language Skills and Culture module this academic year must take the Placement Test, which will be held on Friday 23rd September 2011 at 12:00 o'clock. Room KO2-F-180.
Dr. des Daniela Janser, Fotomuseum Winterthur, will give a lecture on "On the Couch: A Psychoanalytic Reading of American TV Series" as guest of the English Department. Venue: Room PLH 102, Plattenstr. 47, on Thursday, 3 November 2011, 16.15-18.00. All are welcome. For further information contact Barbara Straumann
24-25 September 2011. Workshop with Mladen Dolar on Literature and Modernity, English Department, University of Zurich. Mladen Dolar, eminent cultural theorist, philosopher and expert in psychoanalytical theory is Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is the author of a number of books, including (with Slavoj Zizek) Opera’s Second Death and more recently the highly discussed A Voice and Nothing More. In his workshop at the English Department Dr. Dolar will take a look at modern literature’s paradoxical task of putting experiences into words which escape language. Contact: j.binotto@es.uzh.ch. For more information visit: http://www.es.uzh.ch/teaching/PhD/phdlit.html
Prof. Dr. Jeffrey N. Cox, University of Colorado at Boulder, will give a guest lecture on "Byron’s Manfred and the Melodrama". Prof. Cox will be appearing as guest of the Peer Mentoring Group "Genius for Hire". Monday, 5 September 2011, 13.30-15.15, Room 4 of the English Department, Pestalozzistrasse 50. All are welcome to attend.
Under the title "Should We Read Literature Now, and, If So, How? - Text; Action; Space; Emotion in Conrad's Nostromo", one of the world's most prominent literary critics, Professor J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine, will be giving a lecture at the English Department, Plattenstrasse 47, on Wednesday, July 20, at 15:00 in room PLH 102. For more info visit www.es.uzh.ch/teaching/PhD/phdlit.html or contact j.binotto@es.uzh.ch.
All are invited to a Guest Lecture by Professor David Crystal(Bangor University) on "New techs, new texts". The lecture will take place on Wednesday, 8 June 2011, at 10.00am in Basel, Alte Universität, Rheinsprung 9. It is part of the conference "Language as a Social and Cultural Practice".
All are invited to a guest lecture by Frau Dr. Anita Auer (University of Utrecht), as part of Prof. Hundt's seminar on The Language of Letters. The guest lecture on "Catching a Glimpse of Lower-Class Language Use: Evidence from LModE Letters" will take place at the English Seminar, Plattenstrasse 47, Room PLH-E-5 on Tuesday 24th May 2011 at 2pm.
June 17-19, 2011. "The Violence of Aesthetics -- The Aesthetics of Violence". This joint doctoral workshop (Uni Zurich -- CUSO) organised by Profs. Elisabeth Bronfen (UZH) and Margaret Tudeau-Clayton (UNINE) offers the opportunity to hear and meet distinguished scholars (John Drakakis, Andreas Höfele, Garret Stewart and Bran Nicol). Venue: English Department, Plattenstrasse 47. If you wish to participate, please get in touch with Prof. Bronfen (bronfen@es.uzh.ch). See attached pdf for syllabus and abstract.
Notice: The application deadline for taking part in this year's Shakespeare Week in Stratford-upon-Avon and London has been extended. The deadline for applications is Monday, 16th May 2011. For further information please visit www.es.uzh.ch/stratford or contact Nadia.Fries@ggaweb.ch.
As guest of the Peer Mentoring Group "Genius for Hire", Prof. Dr. Nicholas A. Mason(Brigham Young University) will talk on "Literary Marketing and the Shaping of British Romanticism". The lecture will take place on Thursday, 19 May 2011, 16.15-17.45, in Room PLH 5 of the English Department, Plattenstrasse 47. All welcome.
All are welcome to attend the guest lecture by Frau Dr. A. Sairio on "Letters of the Bluestocking network: 18th-century private correspondence in historical sociolinguistics and social network analysis", on Tuesday, 3rd May 2011, 14.00 in room PLH-E-5 of the English Department. The lecture is part of Prof. Hundt's seminar "The Language of Letters".
Everybody is cordially invited to Prof. Dr. Galin Tihanov's Guest Lecture on "Cosmopolitanism in 18th- and 19th-Century Literature." Galin Tihanov is Professor of Comparative Literature and Intellectual History at the University of Manchester, GB. His publications include The Master and the Slave: Lukács, Bakhtin, and the Ideas of Their Time(2000), books on Bulgarian literature, on Bakhtin and the Bakhtin Circleand on photography. Venue: PET 4of the English Seminar (Pestalozzistrasse), Monday, April 18, 4pm-6pm.
Information Meeting: Master Thesis and Final Exams in Anglistik. How does one book the Master Thesis? Is there a time limit? And when is it possible to enrol for the modulübergreifende Prüfung? Simone Heller-Andrist and Martin Mühlheim will answer these and other questions at the "Information Meeting: Master Thesis & Exams in Anglistik". Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 12.15pm (Room PLH-5).
All are invited to a presentation by Ulrich Blumenbachon literary translation. The presentation (in German) will take place on Friday, 15th April 2011, at 12.00 in PLH 102 at the English Seminar. Herr Blumenbach will discuss a text by Stephen Fry that he is currently translating into German.
