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New national search portal for academic libraries
We are facing a new library system from December 7. Please find more information about the new user registration and returning borrowed items here: https://ub.unibas.ch/en/swisscovery/
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Regula Hohl Trillini interviewed by filmmaker Andrew Smith
BAFTA-winning filmmaker Andrew Smith has interviewed our very own Regula Hohl Trillini for his new weekly Hamlet podcast To Be Or Not To Be: Lockdown Shakespeare.7 & 11 October: Radio Features on Pynchon and Music
Two upcoming radio programs will celebrate music in Pynchon's work, taking their cues from Christian Hänggi's book Pynchon's Sound of Music and NYC band Visit's album "Now everybody—" Visit Interprets Songs by Thomas Pynchon. Swiss radio…
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Prof. em. Werner Brönnimann's "King Lear – König Lear" published
Werner Brönnimann's annotated and commented German translation of William Shakespeare's play King Lear is part of the long-running series Englisch-deutsche Studienausgabe der Dramen Shakespeares – currently published by Stauffenburg Verlag…Prof. Miriam Locher's research team reports first results
The project team on relational work and communal TV watching of K-drama on a streaming platform reports first results: Locher, Miriam A. (2020). Moments of relational work in English fan translations of Korean TV drama. Journal of…/ Studies
Library service from June 8
Dear Students, due to the space limitation of our Seminar library, we keep the building closed until further notice. We offer individual time slots in order to consult books. To arrange a visit please get in touch with Mario Piscazzi:…/ Research, Events
Call for Papers: 13th International Symposium on (Im)Politeness & 7th iMean Conference
In 2021 the 13th meeting of the international Symposium on (Im)Politeness and the 7th meeting of the biannual iMean (interaction and meaning) conference will be merged for a meeting on the “pragmatics of translation” on 24-26 June, 2021…