Autumn 2025 Course Booklet Now Available: 2025 Autumn Course Booklet. Latest update 11.06.2025 CSLS Course Titles added
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Deadlines Spring Semester 2025 Please click here to see all the deadlines for Spring Semester 2025 (KSL registration, thesis registration, Advanced Reading List).
Let's talk about waste! The UniAktuell features a new article in which Professor Crispin Thurlow and doctoral researchers Laura Wohlgemuth and Alessandro Pellanda talk about the SNSF-funded “Articulating Rubbish" project.
New Research Grant: 'Becoming Axolotl: Empathy, Simulation, and Embodiment in Medieval Narratives' (Co-PIs: Prof. Dr. Annette Kern-Stähler, Bern; Dr. Mirko Sardelić, Zagreb; Dr. Catalin Taranu, Bucharest; July 2025-July 2029) Funded within MAPS (Multilateral Academic Projects) – a multilateral funding instrument with Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania, implemented under the second Swiss Contribution, mandated by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. Situated at the intersection of cognitive literary studies, affect studies, sensory studies, new materialism, and narratology, this project explores the role of medieval narratives in the simulation of cognitive, emotional, and sensorial experiences of radical others, both human and more-than-human (animals, plants, objects, spirits, gods, monsters).
SAMEMES Book Prize Dr. Hannah Piercy was awarded the 2024 SAMEMES (Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies) Book Prize for her monograph, 'Resistance to Love in Medieval English Romance: Negotiating Consent, Gender, and Desire'. Her books is available open access thanks to the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Das andere Lehrveranstaltungsverzeichnis Autumn 2025 Please click here to have an overview of the Lehrveranstaltungsverzeichnis for Autumn 2025.
BA and MA Students A-L Consultation Hours BA and MA students can sign up for in-person and virtual consultation hours with study counsellor Helen Shepherd. Students can select one time slot if it is not already taken by another student.
BA and MA Students M-Z Consultation Hours BA and MA students can sign up for in-person and virtual consultation hours with study counsellor Sabine von Rütte. Students can select one time slot if it is not already taken by another student.
International Coordinator: Stay Abroad Enquiries Please find more information on planning your stay abroad, completing your stay abroad, and other students' experiences and reports on this page.
Master's Open Days 2025 Are you about to change from a Bachelor's to a Master's Degree Program and still have a lot of questions? We will inform you on site and online on March 18-20.
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