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The information meeting for the Shakespeare Week 2014 will take place on Monday, April 14 (room PLH-5, 10-12).
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).
Tickets for the Blueprint Masquerades' production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnst are available now!
Students and members of staff are cordially invited to attend the trial lectures for the "Nachfolge Esterhammer" (February 24 and 25, 2014).
The new booking form for the Bachelor Thesis is now available.
On February 14-15, 2014 Tom Conley (Harvard) will be in Zurich for a PhD Workshop on "The Cinema of Raoul Walsh."
Due to technical problems with the booking of the Bachelor Thesis module, we are currently revising the booking procedure.
We would like to congratulate Fritz Senn on being awarded the Zürcher Festspielpreis 2014.
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.
“Subjectivities of Debt in Liberal Capitalism” - room: PLH-105 - Thursday, December 5, 2013, 4.15 p.m.
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.
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.
"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).
"Variational Pragmatics: New Trends" - Monday, December 1, 2014, 2.00 p.m. (room PLH-1-105, Plattenstrasse 47).
"Untot im Museum: Mumien, Zombies & Vampire als Theorie-Vermittler_innen filmischer Geschichtlichkeit (und Ungeschicklichkeit)" - Thursday, November 20 (Seminar für Filmwissenschaft, room E-019).
"Linguistic Anthropology Past and Present: Key Concepts and Methods" - Wednesday, November 26, 10.15 a.m. (room KOL-F-117).
"Nobody canna cross it": Styling hyper-correct speech in Jamaica - Monday, November 24, 2014, 4.15 p.m. (room PLH-E-05).
"Variationist Sociolinguistics: The Scientist in the Street" - Wednesday, November 19, 2014, 10.15 a.m. (room KOL-F-117).
Deadline for paper proposals: November 28, 2014.
"Comedy, Mimesis and Avarice" - November 7-8, 2014 (room PLH-102).
Zurich James Joyce Foundation (Augustinergasse 9) - Sunday, October 26, 2014 (10 a.m. to ca. 7.30 p.m.).
Friday, October 31, 2014, 10.15-12.00 -- "The place of the Bahamas on the World Englishes map" (room KOL-E-21).
"Beowulf's Japanese Contemporaries" - October 16, 2014, 10.15-12.00 (room PLH-105).
"Samuel Johnson's Rasselas: Jaded Beginnings, Promising Ends?" - Tuesday, November 18 - for everyone who's read Rasselas.
Lecture "Recessional - or, The Time of the Hammer" (Monday, December 8, 2014) and Workshop for doctoral candidates "On Buffering: Satin Island" (Tuesday, December 2014).
"30 Years of Cognitive Linguistics" - October 22, 2014, 10.15-12.00 - Room KOL-F-117.
The times for the "Language Skills and Culture: Introduction" tutorials are now available.
Venue: Room PET-04, Pestalozzistr 50. Wednesday, October 15, 12:30-13:30.
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.
PhD Workshop "Discursive Possession of Western by African Thought," with Prof. Wendy Laura Belcher (Princeton University) - September 26-27, 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.
For students who weren't able to attend the Erstsemestrigentag 2014 (or who would simply like to download the presentation slides).
Students who are unsure about whether or not to continue their studies may want to participate in the study "Weiterstudieren?!? Ja oder Nein?"
Reading and discussion with the renowned science-fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 - 8.15 p.m. (at Seebad Utoquai, Zurich).
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.).
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.
"Probabilistic Analysis of Scribal Dialects" and "Syntactic Variation and Elliptical Constructions" (Thursday, June 5, 2014, 10.30 a.m. - room PLH-102).
Additional slot to be filled on Friday, May 23, at 8.00-8.45 a.m. - PLH-102
"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
"The Twang, the Drawl, and those Damn Yankees" - room KOL-F-121 - Friday, May 16, 2014, 10.15 - 12.00
An English translation of the manual for electronic services at the UZH is now available online.
Doctoral Workshop with Jean-Michel Racault on "Utopias, Travels and Insularity" - May 8-10, 2014.
With Christiane Frey (New York), David Martyn (St Paul) and Rembert Hüser (Frankfurt) - April 11-12, 2014.
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).
"Geschichten von zwei Liebenden: Mittelalter gegen Renaissance in Boccaccio, Chaucer und Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini" (March 12, 2014 - 6.15 p.m.).
