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12 November 2018

Philipp Schweighauser in discussion with Russ Castronovo (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Philipp Schweighauser discusses Charles Brockden Brown's novel Wieland, the gothic, noise, and information theory with Russ Castronovo (University of Wisconsin, Madison): https://youtu.be/r55MWWgmhkk.

12 September 2018 / News, Research, Doctorate/PhD, Studies

Three start-up grants for doctorates in literary studies

The Doctoral Program in Literary Studies of the University of Basel calls for applications for three one-year start-up grants of CHF 30,000 each.

15 June 2018 / Studies

The Road to Brexit: A Students' Podcast from a Research Seminar

In a podcast, Prof. Ina Habermann and some students of her research seminar “The Road to Brexit” present their findings about the reasons why so many Britons voted to leave the EU.

11 May 2018 / Research, People

The Pynchon Playlist: Orbit publishes catalog of 927 musical references

Orbit, an open-access journal of contemporary American fiction, publishes Christian Hänggi’s article “The Pynchon Playlist: A Catalog and Its Analysis,” another puzzle piece of his exploration of music in Thomas Pynchon’s work.

16 April 2018 / Research

Seducing with words: The role of language in the pick-up artist’s make-believe

Daria Dayter writes a post for the university's science blog 'Sci Five' covering her collaborative research with Sofia Rüdiger (University of Bayreuth) on the discourse of pick-up artists, a self-proclaimed speed-seduction community.

Upcoming Events

• 21 Nov 2018 18:15 - 20:00 / Lecture series

  ORLAN – Performance/Talk

  ORLAN (Paris)

• 05 Dec 2018 14:15 - 16:00 / Guest lecture / Talk

  English as a Lingua Franca in ASEAN and the Role of Local Varieties

  Prof. Andy Kirkpatrick (Griffith University)

• 05 Dec 2018 18:15 - 20:00 / Lecture series

  Living in New Atlantis: how do we talk about the Baconian project as it moves toward transhumanism?

  Jon Turney (Bristol)

• 07 Dec 2018 10:15 - 12:00 / Guest lecture / Talk

  Repetition in Sitcom Humour

  Dr. phil. des. Thomas Messerli (University of Basel)

• 11 Dec 2018 18:00 - 20:00

  «Finnegans Wake» Reading Group

  The twentieth meeting

• 13 Dec 2018 18:15 - 20:00 / Lecture series

  Post-Cinematic Prometheus: From 'Frankenstein' to 'Ex_Machina'

  Shane Denson (Stanford)

• 18 Dec 2018 18:18 - 19:19 / Public event, Guest lecture / Talk

  The Prolonged Death of the Hippie, 1967–1969

  Dr. Peter Price (Philadelphia) presents a guest lecture on the repeated instances in which the hippie has been declared dead.

• 19 Dec 2018 18:15 - 20:00 / Lecture series

  Jonas Lüscher, Autorenlesung aus dem Roman 'Kraft' / Jonas Lüscher im Gespräch mit Oliver Nachtwey und Alexander Honold

  Moderation: Ina Habermann

Past Events

• 16 Nov 2018 18:00 - 20:00 / Public event, Guest lecture / Talk, Workshop

  Machine Patterning and Alien Imagination: Guest Lecture and Workshop with Dr. Luciana Parisi

  Dr. Luciana Parisi (Goldsmiths, University of London) holds a workshop and presents a lecture on the topic of machinic thinking and imagination as part of the lecture series New Developments in Theory.

• 14 Nov 2018 18:15 - 20:00 / Lecture series

  Menschen machen. Prokreation, Natur, Künstlichkeit

  Caroline Arni (Basel)

• 08 Nov 2018 18:00 - 20:00

  «Finnegans Wake» Reading Group

  The nineteenth meeting

• 08 Nov 2018 10:15 - 12:00 / Guest lecture / Talk

  Shakespeare and the Making of the Modern City

  Ewan Fernie (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)