UZH English Department News: 2025
News list
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Online Panel Discussion on 17.11.2025: "New Directions in Critical Military Studies"
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Guest lecture on 29.10.2025: "When Gods Descend: Vernon Lee’s ‘Dionea’ and Late Victorian Gothic"
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Guest lecture on 22.10.2025: "When Tie Strength Matters - Network Theory and its Application in Social Media Linguistics"
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Guest lecture on 22.10.2025 on the topic of reconciling generative and usage-based approaches in SLA and their use for language pedagogy
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Guest lecture on 08.10.2025: "Political Metaphors Used by Democrats and Republicans on Social Media"
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Guest lecture on 01.10.2025: "Challenges and Opportunities in Applying Open Science Principles to Social Media Research"
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Guest lecture on 01.10.2025 on the topic of form and function of nominal address in 19th-century letters written by German immigrants in the USA
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Guest Lecture on 30.09.2025: "The Poetics of Intergenerational Guilt in Mimi Khúc and Diana Khoi Nguyen”
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Lecture: "Reading and Writing in the Age of Social Media: Sally Rooney's 'Intermezzo'" by Professors C. Lötscher and B. Straumann
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DramaSCAPEs project: Two talks on Shakespeare by Professors R. Martin (University of New Brunswick) and K. Curran (University of Lausanne)
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Workshop: "Introduction to RStudio: Data cleaning, statistics, and visualization" by Dr. Mason Wirtz
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Talk in German: "Queer Joyce: Von perversem Vergnügen und eigenwilligen Frauen" on May 9th, 2025
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UPDATE! Guest lecture: "Testing lexical processing in SLA: Comprehension and production tasks" by Professor G. J. Poarch taking place ONLINE
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Guest lecture: "Life Writing and the War on Terror: Military Femininities in Love My Rifle More Than You and I'm Still Standing" by Dr. M. Spychala
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Guest lecture on 01.12.2025: "Metamorphoses on an Aquatic Planet: Relationality, Mami Wata and Queerness in Nnedi Okorafor's 'Lagoon'"
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Guest lecture on 02.12.2025: "Body Language: Jennifer Egan’s 'The Invisible Circus' and the Rise of New Sincerity Writing"
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Report on conference at University of Vienna in September 2025: "S c a n d a l ! Exploring the Scandalous: Scandal as a Catalyst of Progress?"