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).
Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Bronfen has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Guestlecture Prof. Dr. Anita Auer (University Lausanne) "Urbanisation and the Development of Standard English"
Guest Lecture Peter Siemund (Universität Hamburg): Why pronouns in English(es) do not tend to change very often. Do they?
Workshop mit Mithu Sanyal - Wie «Race», «Ethnicity» und «Diversity» an der Hochschule unterrichten?*Artist Talk Mithu Sandal and Elisabeth Bronfen "Wie über Identitäten sprechen"*
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
Guest Lecture Martin Pickering (University of Edinburgh, UK)Understanding Dialogue: Language Use and Social Interaction
Prof. Dr Andreas H. Jucker has been reelected President of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE).
International Conference: Women, the Law and Women’s Rights in the Philosophy, Sciences, Arts and Legal Practice of the Eighteenth Century
Guest lecture Prof. Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University, UK) - "Corpus Pragmatics: Some Reflections"
Guest Lecture Christina Stuka (Universität Giessen) on "Language Attitudes and Norm Development in Barbados"
Guest Lecture Natalia Levshina (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) "Communicative Effiency and Language Evolution"
Guest Lecture by Prof. Anita Auer (University of Lausanne)"Language Variation and Change in Late Modern England: Case Studies from the Lower Orders"
Guest Lecture by Prof. Erez Levon (Universität Bern) "Language, Gender and Social Stereotypes in the Courtroom"
Zurich Early Modern Online Resources Seminar (ZEMORS):promoting digital resources for early modern English studies
Guest Lecture: Dr. Katrin Menzel (Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken)Medical Discourse in Late Modern English: Insights from the Royal Society Corpus
Vacant Position - GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE (16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES) University of Geneva
Workshop with Dr. Kathryn Allan (University College London) and Dr. Philip Durkin (Oxford English Dictionary)
