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UZH English Department News: 2025

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  • December 16 & 18, 2025: Jane Austen - 250-year anniversary events

  • Guest lecture on 04.12.2025: "Modals and modality in World Englishes"

  • Online Panel Discussion on 17.11.2025: "New Directions in Critical Military Studies"

  • Guest lecture on 07.11.2025: "Kinesic Analysis and Spatial Expressiveness"

  • Guest lecture on 07.11.2025: "The Matter of Embodiment / The Matter of Cognition"

  • Guest lecture on 06.11.2025: "Women Writing Natural Philosophy"

  • PhD position in English historical linguistics

  • Guest lecture on 03.11.2025: "The hapax legomena in Beowulf"

  • Guest lecture on 29.10.2025: "When Gods Descend: Vernon Lee’s ‘Dionea’ and Late Victorian Gothic"

  • Guest lecture on 22.10.2025: "When Tie Strength Matters - Network Theory and its Application in Social Media Linguistics"

  • Guest lecture on 22.10.2025 on the topic of reconciling generative and usage-based approaches in SLA and their use for language pedagogy

  • Guest lecture on 08.10.2025: "Political Metaphors Used by Democrats and Republicans on Social Media"

  • Guest lecture on 01.10.2025: "Challenges and Opportunities in Applying Open Science Principles to Social Media Research"

  • 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

  • Guest Lecture on 30.09.2025: "The Poetics of Intergenerational Guilt in Mimi Khúc and Diana Khoi Nguyen”

  • UZH Welcome Event 2025 for Bachelor Students

  • Looking for South Africans in Switzerland

  • Symposium: "Nightmare on ILM Street" on July 8th and 9th, 2025

  • Looking for tutors for "Language Skills and Culture" module from HS 2025 onwards

  • Lecture: "Reading and Writing in the Age of Social Media: Sally Rooney's 'Intermezzo'" by Professors C. Lötscher and B. Straumann

  • DramaSCAPEs project: Two talks on Shakespeare by Professors R. Martin (University of New Brunswick) and K. Curran (University of Lausanne)

  • Workshop: "Introduction to RStudio: Data cleaning, statistics, and visualization" by Dr. Mason Wirtz

  • Talk in German: "Queer Joyce: Von perversem Vergnügen und eigenwilligen Frauen" on May 9th, 2025

  • Exhibition: "James Joyce, Ulysses, and the Law"

  • UPDATE! Guest lecture: "Testing lexical processing in SLA: Comprehension and production tasks" by Professor G. J. Poarch taking place ONLINE

  • Looking for a PhD Assistant in Early Modern English Literature

  • Looking for a Postdoc in Computational Linguistics

  • Looking for a part-time Student Assistant in Social Media

  • Exhibition: "Virginia Woolf and Mrs Dalloway" at Museum Strauhof

  • Emily Dickinson in facsimile and student-creators in person

  • 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

  • Shakespeare Week 2025 - Update!

  • DocNetCH kick-off meeting

  • Announcing a talk with Yara Rodrigues Fowler

  • Announcing the official start of the WAW-ME project

  • Looking for a Senior Assistant in English Linguistics

  • Looking for an Administrative Assistant

  • Job Advertisment: Tutor Introduction to English Linguistics

  • Job Advertisement: Tutor Methods and Theories

  • Guest lecture on 01.12.2025: "Metamorphoses on an Aquatic Planet: Relationality, Mami Wata and Queerness in Nnedi Okorafor's 'Lagoon'"

  • Guest lecture on 02.12.2025: "Body Language: Jennifer Egan’s 'The Invisible Circus' and the Rise of New Sincerity Writing"

  • 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?"