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Job opening: Post-doc position in English linguistics (60%)

Starting date: 1st August 2026

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Job opening: PhD position in English linguistics (60%)

Starting date: 1st August 2026

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Job opening: Professor in English linguistics (open-rank)

Starting date: 1st February 2027

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Ausstellung «London Calling. Schweizerisch- britischer Kulturaustausch 1580 –1780»

Eine Ausstellung zum Forschungsprojekt «SwissBritNet: Swiss-British Cultural Exchange and Knowledge Networks, 1600–1780» (6/2023–5/2027), gefördert vom Schweizerischen Nationalfonds, Leitung: Ina Habermann und Lukas Rosenthaler (Universität…

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Annual Report 2025 out now

The Annual Report 2025 of the Department of English is published and available for download.

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Special screening of "Dont Let The Sun" (2025) and Q&A with the director

/ Guest lecture / Talk

Walt Whitman: Garden Poet?

Prof Dr Christine Gerhardt (Universität Bamberg)

«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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Eco-fictions: the stories Ecology tells

Letizia Ambrosetti (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

«Finnegans Wake»

The James Joyce reading group with Ulrich Blumenbach and Andrew Shields

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Past Events

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CANCELLED

Prof. Dr. Rosamond Mitchell (University of Southampton)
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CANCELLED: Home Under Threat in "Homes and Gardens", "Documenting the Invisible", "No Place Like Home: Echoes from Kosovo" and "The Home Front"

Melanie Friend (University of Sussex
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CANCELLED: "Afro-Punk" (2003)

documentary directed by James Spooner
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CANCELLED: "Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution" (2017)

German documentary directed by Yony Leyser

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