Upcoming Events
08 Dec 2025
16:00 - 17:30
Public event, Guest lecture / Talk
"The BBC vs. The BBC: British ‘Heritage’, A Hole in Babylon and Public Service Broadcasting as Contested Space?"
Vortrag von Dr. Katie Crosson (University of Exeter) 08 Dec 2025
18:00
Seminar für Italianistik, Maiengasse 51, aula O105
Public event, Guest lecture / Talk
VirGIL - Virgil’s Georgics in Italian Literature.
Presentazione del progetto di ricerca post-doc di Francesco Davoli 08 Dec 2025
18:00
Seminar für Italianistik, Maiengasse 51, aula O105
Public event, Guest lecture / Talk
"Ecosemiotic Signals in the “Po Valley Trilogy”: A Comparative Approach to Celati’s Melville and London Translations."
Presentazione del progetto di ricerca post-doc di Sara Massafra 09 Dec 2025
13:00 - 14:00
English Seminar, Room 11
Public event, Guest lecture / Talk
"Swiss Information Labour in Colonial Britain, 1688–1756"
Vortrag von Philippe Bernhard Schmid (University of Basel) 09 Dec 2025
16:15 - 18:00
Alte Universität, Hörsaal -101
Organizer:
Isabelle Chariatte & Sandra Schlumpf-Thurnherr
Guest lecture / Talk
"Ancient Egyptian: A linguistic crossroads between Africa and the Near East"
Gastvortrag von Marwan Kilani (Universität Basel) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Languages and Literatures in Africa: Plural Forms of Living-Together // Langues et littératures en Afrique: formes plurielles du vivre-ensemble“ 09 Dec 2025
18:15 - 20:00
Slavisches Seminar, Nadelberg 8, Seminarraum 13
Colloquium
Kolloquium Slavistische Forschungen
Anna Hodel (Basel) stellt einen Entwurf ihres Forschungsprojekts zum Thema "Dezentralizing Decolonial Feminisms" vor. 10 Dec 2025 - 11 Dec 2025
Università di Basilea e via Zoom
Workshop
L’italiano istituzionale facile. Riflessioni teoriche e buone pratiche per una comunicazione istituzionale inclusiva in Svizzera. Workshop HPSL
Con gli interventi di Floriana Sciumbata (Università di Trieste), Chiara Fioravanti (CNR), Angela Ferrari (Università di Basilea), Filippo Pecorari (Università per Stranieri di Siena), Valeria Qualatrucci (Centro di competenza per la lingua… 10 Dec 2025
18:00 - 20:00
Englisches Seminar, room 12
Public event, Colloquium
"Finnegans Wake"
The James Joyce reading group with Ulrich Blumenbach and Andrew Shields 15 Dec 2025
16:15 - 18:00
Seminar für Italianistik, Maiengasse 51, aula E005
Public event
L’eredità di Natalia Ginzburg: immaginario femminile, memoria e spazio traumatico nelle opere di Elsa Morante ed Elena Ferrante
Katrin Wehling-Giorgi (Durham University) 15 Dec 2025
18:15
Seminarraum 212, Kollegienhaus
Public event, Informational event
How to go abroad
Infoanlass für Austauschprogramme 2026/2027Past Events
28 Nov 2025
17:30
Cargobar (St. Johanns-Rheinweg 46)
Events, Other events
DPL-Stammtisch
For the first DPL-‘Stammtisch’, we will meet on 28 November at 5:30 p.m. at the Cargobar. All DPL members are warmly invited to come and chat with each other in a relaxed atmosphere. 27 Nov 2025
18:00 - 19:30
entral- und Hochschulbibliothek Luzern Standort Sempacherstrasse
Public event
"Book Bans und Triggerwarnungen: Bibliotheken im Kulturkampf"
Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Philipp Schweighauser an der ZHB Luzern 26 Nov 2025
10:30 - 12:30
Alte Universität, Besprechung 003, Rheinsprung 9
Public event
Incontro di studio nell'ambito del seminario "Tradurre e comparare la testualità"
Con gli interventi delle relatrici ospiti Corinne Rossari e Claudia Ricci (Université de Neuchâtel) 25 Nov 2025
18:15 - 20:00
Slavisches Seminar, Nadelberg 8, Seminarraum 13
Colloquium
Kolloquium Slavistische Forschungen
‘Exploded Dawn’: Soviet Internal Colonialism & Cinematic Experience of Repair in the Kyiv School of Popular Science Film (1960s –1970s) mit Oleksii Kuchanskyi (Basel) 25 Nov 2025
16:15 - 18:00
Alte Universität, Hörsaal -101
Organizer:
Isabelle Chariatte & Sandra Schlumpf-Thurnherr
Lecture series
"Living-together in a multilingual and multicultural community. Negotiations of politeness via English in urban Namibia"
Gastvortrag von Anne Schröder (Universität Bielefeld) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Languages and Literatures in Africa: Plural Forms of Living-Together // Langues et littératures en Afrique: formes plurielles du vivre-ensemble“ 24 Nov 2025
16:00 - 18:00
Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 120
Organizer:
Dr. Mirjam Weder und Dr. Michiel de Vaan
Lecture series
"Kognitive Prozesse des Lesens – Theoretische Grundlagen und empirische Befunde"
Gastvortrag von Eliane Gilg (PH FHNW) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Literalität: soziale, kognitive und historische Perspektiven auf Lesen und Schreiben" 21 Nov 2025
10:15 - 11:45
English Seminar, Room 11
Guest lecture / Talk
"Social Dimensions of Resistance: Afghan Women’s Lived Experiences Across the “ABC of Resistance”"
Sabera Aitabar (Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran) 21 Nov 2025
Universität Basel
Public event, Informational event
Infotag Bachelor
Besuche uns am Infotag und erfahre alles über ein Bachelor-Studium an unserem Departement. 20 Nov 2025 - 21 Nov 2025
09:00 - 17:30
Online via Zoom
Public event
Voci sul Paradiso di Dante
Una nuova lettura della terza cantica 18 Nov 2025
16:15 - 18:00
Alte Universität, Hörsaal -101
Organizer:
Isabelle Chariatte & Sandra Schlumpf-Thurnherr
Lecture series
"What is happening with colonial languages in African literature?"
Gastvortrag von Yarri Kamara (writer and translator) and Edwige-Renée Dro (writer and translator) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Languages and Literatures in Africa: Plural Forms of Living-Together // Langues et littératures en Afrique:…Quick Links