Conferences
Conferences since 2007
The English Department has been involved in the organisation of several international scholarly conferences, workshops, and symposia. They have included the following.
2021
SWELL Conference 2021(March 12, 2021)
2020
Women, Money and Markets (1600-1900) - "Female Economies" – Changes and Challenges (June 10-12, 2018)
2019
The Figure of the Terrorist in Literature, Film and Media – Changes and Challenges (November 8-9, 2018)
2018
Zurich Conference on Postcolonial Language Studies – Changes and Challenges (June 4-6, 2018)
2017
Over Her Dead Body Redux: Feminism for the 21st Century (October 20-21, 2017)
Egodocs – International Interdisciplinary Symposium (March 9-10, 2017)
The 5th international symposium on History of English Lexicography and Lexicology (HEL-LEX5; February 16-18, 2017)
2016
Shifting Grounds: Literature, Culture and Spatial Phenomenologies (November 25-27, 2016)
5th Biennial Conference of the Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies: What Is an Image in Medieval and Early Modern England? (September 9-11, 2016)
Spanish and English in Contact: World Languages in Interaction (June 27-29, 2016)
2015
International Symposium: Images of Identity (January 30-31, 2015)
2014
3rd Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) 2014
2013
Travelling Narratives: Modernity and the Spatial Imaginary (November 29 - December 1, 2013)
Swiss Works in English Language and Linguistics (SWELL) 2013
2012
SANAS / AAAS Joint Conference 2012
17th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 17) 2012
Popular News Discourse Workshop 2012
- Runes, ICE and Other Riddles. Symposium in Honour of Udo Fries and Andreas Fischer (February 10, 2012)
2010
English as a Contact Language (ECoLa) 2010
2009
2008
International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English Conference (ICAME 29) 2008
2007
- Legacies Conference (September 28, 2007)