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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…
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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,…