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

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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
27 Nov 2025
18:00  - 19:30

Sempacherstrasse 10, Luzern
Organizer:
ZHB Luzern

Public event

Book Bans und Triggerwarnungen: Bibliotheken im Kulturkampf

Die ZHB wirft einen Blick auf das zensurfreudige Amerika und stellt ihre eigenen, taufrischen Regeln zum Umgang mit problematischen Medien vor.
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»

The James Joyce reading group with Ulrich Blumenbach and Andrew Shields

Past Events

/ Guest lecture / Talk

Creativity and emergent multilingual practices in ELF interactions: Transient International Groups (TIGs) in VOICE

PD Dr. Marie-Luise Pitzl (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien)
/ Guest lecture / Talk

Demographic change and dialect levelling in southern England

Prof. Dr. David Britain (Universität Bern)
/ Colloquium

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in a Swiss context: The role of translanguaging and technicality in biology lessons taught in English (CLIL) and German (non-CLIL)

Dr. des. Aline Bieri (Universität Basel)
/ Guest lecture / Talk

"What Kind of England Do We Want?": Contemporary New Writing for the British Theatre and National Identity

Dr. Aleks Sierz FRSA (Boston University London)

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