Upcoming events, guest lectures and conferencesEvents at the Department of English
04 Nov 2025
13:00 - 14:00
Englisches Seminar, room 11
Colloquium
102 years of the Mourning/Melancholy Binary (1917-2019)
Lindsay Parkhowell (Universität Basel) 05 Nov 2025
10:15 - 12:00
Ethnologisches Seminar, grosser Seminarraum
Organizer:
Prof Philipp Schweighauser
Guest lecture / Talk
Re-Reading Don DeLillo: Media, Irony, Visual Art
Prof Peter Schneck (Universität Osnabrück) 05 Nov 2025
10:15 - 12:00
Englisches Seminar, Grosser Hörsaal
Organizer:
Dr Zeynep Köylü
Guest lecture / Talk
Teaching English as an Influencer in the Age of Social Media
Associate Prof Erhan Aslan (University of Reading) 12 Nov 2025
14:15 - 16:00
Englisches Seminar, Grosser Hörsaal
Organizer:
Dr Thomas Messerli
Guest lecture / Talk
Reimagining Influence: A Corpus-Assisted Analysis of Evolving Discourses about “Influencers” on the microblogging platform BlueSky
Prof Daria Dayter (Tampereen yliopisto) 12 Nov 2025
18:00 - 20:00
Englisches Seminar, room 12
«Finnegans Wake»
The James Joyce reading group with Ulrich Blumenbach and Andrew Shields 17 Nov 2025
19:30 - 20:30
Klostergasse 5, Basel
Organizer:
Stadtkino Basel
Public event
Wartime cinema, Englishness and Propaganda – Michael Powell and the 'Pressburger Touch'
Vortrag und Buchvernissage mit Ina Habermann 21 Nov 2025
10:15 - 12:00
Englisches Seminar, room 11
Organizer:
Dr Danièle Klapproth
Guest lecture / Talk
Social Dimensions of Resistance: Afghan Women’s Lived Experiences Across the “ABC of Resistance”
Sabera Aitabar (University of Alzahra/دانشگاه الزهرا, Tehran) 26 Nov 2025
18:00 - 20:00
Englisches Seminar, room 12
«Finnegans Wake»
The James Joyce reading group with Ulrich Blumenbach and Andrew Shields 09 Dec 2025
13:00 - 14:00
Englisches Seminar, room 11
Colloquium
Swiss Information Labour in Colonial Britain, 1691–1757
Dr. Philippe Bernhard Schmid (Universität Basel) 10 Dec 2025
18:00 - 20:00
Englisches Seminar, room 12
«Finnegans Wake»
The James Joyce reading group with Ulrich Blumenbach and Andrew Shields 17 Dec 2025
18:00 - 20:00
Englisches Seminar, room 12
«Finnegans Wake»
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