Events

We are a very active and vibrant research community. The events presented here are a selection of conferences, guest lectures and other events hosted and organised by members of our department.

MA English students must attend three guest lectures as part of their study plan requirements. For each lecture attended, they must complete a separate form.

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 Date Title
Organizer
23. August - 01. September 2024

Theater Production: Queersummer Night's Dream

Students of the English Department
08. November 2022

Alexandra Kleeman: Something New Under The Sun

SNSF Sinergia 2021 – 2024 in collaboration with the Collegium generale

06. - 09. July 2022

The Art of Language

Prof. Dr. Crispin Thurlow, Dr. Gwynne Mapes, Lara Portmann
05. November 2021

Culture and Sustainability: Visions of the Future(s)

Jonathan Sarfin, Georgina Sánchez Celaya, Andrea Bordoli, Alice Gustson

18. November 2021

The ecological crisis seen through a blueberry filter: A conversation with George Steinmann

Sinergia Forschungsprojekt «Mediating the Ecological Imperative"
09. April 2020

Imagining the Digital World: Identity, Society, Surveillance

PD Dr. Julia Straub
09. - 11. November 2018 "the War To End All Wars" - Performance Faculty of Humanities
02. - 04. May 2018

X-Scapes:10th Linguistic Landscape Workshop

Prof. Dr. Crispin Thurlow
11. - 12. December 2017

City Talk: Urban Identities, Mobilities and Textualities

Joseph Comer, Gwynne Mapes
 8-10 Nov. 2017 Visualizing (in) the New Media
Prof. Dr. Crispin Thurlow, Vanessa Jaroski
10. - 13. October 2017

International Workshop on the Senses, Past and Present

Prof. Dr. Annette Kern-Stähler
15. - 16. September 2017

Cuso Workshop 2017: The Materialities of American Culture

Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rippl, PD. Dr. Julia Straub, MA Sofie Behluli
 09. - 10. March 2017 Studies of Paradise: Where Language Meets Culture in the Pacific Dominique B. Hess, Tobias Leonhardt, Sara Lynch

Spring 2026

Autumn 2025

Spring 2025

Autumn 2024

Spring 2024

Autumn 2023

Spring 2023

Autumn 2022

Spring 2022

Autumn 2021

Spring 2021

Autumn 2020

The CSLS (Center for the Study of Language and Society) host a lecture series on "Jugendsprache". To see their programme, click here. 

The BMZ (Berner Mittelalterzentrum) has a lecture series on "Fremdbilder - Selbstbilder: Juden und Christen im Mittelalter." Some lectures are held in English. Click here to see their programme.

Attending guest lectures from both these lecture series may be counted towards MA Students' 1 ECTS guest lecture requirement, if the chosen lecture is held in English. Moreover, if the lecture is online, students are required to write a one-page summary of the lecture.

 

Spring 2020

Due to COVID-19, all guest lectures were cancelled or postponed.

Autumn 2019

Spring 2019

Autumn 2018

Spring 2018