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Pragmatics and Translation

22 Sep 2023 / Research

Edited collection on “Pragmatics and Translation”

Miriam Locher, Daria Dayter and Thomas Messerli are happy to announce the appearance of this edited volume which presents innovative research on the interface between pragmatics and translation. Taking a broad understanding of translation,…

14 Sep 2023 / Doctorate/PhD

Start-up Grants, CHF 30,000 each: Call for Applications

The Doctoral Programme in Literary Studies of the University of Basel calls for applications for two one-year start-up grants of CHF 30,000 (start: 1 April 2024).

04 Aug 2023 / People

Ridvan Askin promoted to Privatdozent

shortED

16 Jul 2023

Students of English feature in university's 'shortED' explainer videos

Anna Püntener and Rachael Moorthy-Mäder feature in two of the first three short videos realised by the university's New Media Centre wherein students explain topics from their field of study.

28 Jun 2023 / Research, Events

Call for Papers: "Interdisciplinary Symposium: Decolonial Imaginaries in Literary and Urban Studies"

9–10 November 2023, University of Basel

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11 Oct 2023 18:00 - 20:00

«Finnegans Wake»

The James Joyce reading group with Ulrich Blumenbach and Andrew Shields
12 Oct 2023 10:15 - 12:00 / Guest lecture / Talk

Terpsichore crossing the Channel (or not): From Molière to Ravenscroft and from Weaver to Noverre

Prof. Dr Hanna Walsdorf (Universität Basel)
16 Oct 2023 12:15 - 14:00 / Guest lecture / Talk

Fragments of Postcolonial Urbanisation: A Pluriversal Survey of Southern Urban Studies

Dr Nitin Bathla (ETH Zürich)
25 Oct 2023 12:15 - 14:00 / Guest lecture / Talk

Sensuous Steel

Sokari Douglas Camp (British Nigerian sculptor)
25 Oct 2023 18:00 - 20:00

«Finnegans Wake»

The James Joyce reading group with Ulrich Blumenbach and Andrew Shields
26 Oct 2023 14:15 - 16:00 / Guest lecture / Talk

Examining Lexical Borrowings in the History of English

Prof. Dr Olga Timofeeva (Universität Zürich)
08 Nov 2023 18:00 - 20:00

«Finnegans Wake»

The James Joyce reading group with Ulrich Blumenbach and Andrew Shields
09 Nov 2023 – 10 Nov 2023 / Congress / Conference / Symposium

Interdisciplinary Symposium: Decolonial Imaginaries in Literary and Urban Studies, 9-10 November, University of Basel

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18 Sep 2023 18:15 - 19:15 / Informational event

Welcome meeting for all 1st-semester students of English

19 Sep 2022 18:15 - 19:15 / Informational event

Welcome meeting for all 1st-semester students of English

24 Nov 2021 18:00 - 19:30 / Events, Guest lecture / Talk

A Sinister Resonance

Guest speaker Julie Beth Napolin talks about Joseph Conrad, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the voice in modernist literature.
20 Sep 2021 18:15 - 19:15 / Informational event

Welcome meeting for all 1st-semester students of English

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