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SNSF awards Starting Grant to Dr Zeynep Köylü

Dr Köylü's research project  LINC: The Long-Term Impact of Study Abroad on Linguistic Proficiency, Intercultural Competence, and Plurilingualism: Gains, Maintenance, and Transferability is one of 41 chosen by the Swiss National Science…

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Rachael Moorthy receives Basel's Stephen Crane Award

The Department of English heartily congratulates Rachael Moorthy, the winner of Basel's Stephen Crane Award for Research in North American Literary and Cultural Studies for 2025. The prize is awarded biennially for the best MA thesis or PhD…

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Unisonar S7|EP5: Überzeugungskunst auf Reddit

Wie können wir andere mit Argumenten überzeugen und was macht eine gute Online-Diskussion aus? Dr. Thomas Messerli untersucht die Debattenkultur auf dem Subreddit «Change My View».

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Ina Habermann publishes new book

Prof Ina Habermann's new book Wartime Cinema, Englishness and propaganda: Michael Powell and the ‘Pressburger Touch’ has now been published by Manchester University Press. A book launch will take place on Monday 17th November, 7:30 pm, at…

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Kristina Ehrsam defended her PhD

HPSL doctoral student Kristina Ehrsam successfully defended her doctoral thesis, entitled English as a Mediating Language in German as a Foreign Language Courses, Investigating Language Choices at Swiss University Language Centers from a…

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Social Dimensions of Resistance: Afghan Women’s Lived Experiences Across the “ABC of Resistance”

Sabera Aitabar (University of Alzahra/دانشگاه الزهرا, Tehran)

«Finnegans Wake»

The James Joyce reading group with Ulrich Blumenbach and Andrew Shields
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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.
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Swiss Information Labour in Colonial Britain, 1691–1757

Dr. Philippe Bernhard Schmid (Universität Basel)

«Finnegans Wake»

The James Joyce reading group with Ulrich Blumenbach and Andrew Shields

«Finnegans Wake»

The James Joyce reading group with Ulrich Blumenbach and Andrew Shields

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Welcome meeting for all 1st-semester students of English

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Welcome meeting for all 1st-semester students of English

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Welcome meeting for all 1st-semester students of English

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A Sinister Resonance

Guest speaker Julie Beth Napolin talks about Joseph Conrad, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the voice in modernist literature.

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