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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…
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Album released: “Now everybody—” Visit Interprets Songs by Thomas Pynchon
On 8 May 2020, NYC band Visit released their album “Now everybody—” Visit Interprets Songs by Thomas Pynchon.
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Regula Hohl Trillini's latest book reviewed in 'Cambridge Quarterly'
Regula Hohl Trillini's Casual Shakespeare: Three Centuries of Verbal Echoes, a monograph based on her work on HyperHamlet, has just had a rave review: "There is clearly much to celebrate in this innovative contribution to Shakespeare…
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Ed Sanders: The Ups and Downs of Hippie 1967–1969: Three Years in the Universe
1960s countercultural figure Ed Sanders lectured on the ups and downs of Hippie at the conference "The Prolonged Death of the Hippie, 1967–1969" at the English Seminar in September 2019. The lecture—a combined reading, recitation, singing,…
Christian Hänggi’s “Pynchon’s Sound of Music” Published
The first monograph on all things musical in the work of the American novelist Thomas Pynchon was just published by Diaphanes.Gebäudeschliessung
Aufgrund der aktuellen Lage rund um die Ausbreitung des Coronavirus sind die Gebäude des Departements Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften am Nadelberg 4, 6 und 8 sowie in der Maiengasse 51 bis auf weiteres nur für Mitarbeitende des…Bibliotheksschliessung
Die Fachbereichsbibliotheken des Departements Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften bleiben aufgrund der am 16. März 2020 vom Bundesrat erklärten "ausserordentlichen Lage" und den damit verordneten Massnahmen bis auf weiteres geschlossen.…