Upcoming events, guest lectures and conferencesEvents at the Department of English

18 May 2026
Time: 18:15  - 19:00

Location: Englisches Seminar, courtyard

Organizer: Thomas Manson

Public event

Mad Moll's Revue: Staging the Renaissance

A workshop performance of excerpts from four early modern plays
19 May 2026
Time: 13:00  - 14:00

Location: Englisches Seminar, room 11

Colloquium

Conflict in Translation: A Discourse-Pragmatic Study of English, French, and Italian Short Fiction

Simona Nisticò (Universität Basel)
21 May 2026
Time: 10:15  - 12:00

Location: Englisches Seminar, room 11

Organizer: Dr Zeynep Köylü

Guest lecture / Talk

Different Learners, Different Futures: A Longitudinal Look at the Effects of Study Abroad

Prof Nicole Tracy-Ventura (Oklahoma State University)
21 May 2026
Time: 12:15  - 14:00

Location: Kollegienhaus, Aula (room 033)

Organizer: Dr Ana Sobral

Guest lecture / Talk

Making one’s place the center: The literary and philosophical word-views of Allan N. Derain

Annette Hug, M.A. (translator & author)
27 May 2026
Time: 18:00  - 20:00

Location: Englisches Seminar, room 12

«Finnegans Wake»

The James Joyce reading group with Ulrich Blumenbach and Andrew Shields
09 Sep 2026
Time: 16:15  - 17:45

Location: Englisches Seminar, Grosser Hörsaal

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Phlipp Schweighauser

Retake exam for the lecture «American Literature Survey II/IV: American Renaissance to Naturalism»

(course no. 27426)
10 Sep 2026
Time: 14:15  - 15:45

Location: Englisches Seminar, Grosser Hörsaal

Organizer: Prof. Dr. Ina Habermann

Retake exam for the lecture «A Survey of English Literature II: The Long Eighteenth Century»

(course no. 20918)
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