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Workshop: Literatur im Anthropozän

Im Januar 2026 führen Alexander Honold und Hubert Thüring in Kooperation mit Dozierenden der Universität Wroclav in Wroclav einen Workshop zum Thema «Literatur im Anthropozän» durch. Studierende der Deutschen Philologie oder…

Benvenuto a Francesco Davoli e Sara Massafra

Il Seminar für Italianistik dà il benvenuto a Francesco Davoli e Sara Massafra, che lavoreranno in autonomia sui loro progetti di ricerca post dottorato all'interno dell'équipe di Letteratura italiana. 

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„Wir brauchen einen Aufstand der Demokraten, aller Demokraten – jetzt!“

Bericht zur Preisverleihung des Geschwister-Scholl-Preis an Carolin Amlinger und Oliver Nachtwey.

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"Auch heute dürfen wir nicht warten"

Rede zum Geschwister-Scholl-Preis von Carolin Amlinger und Oliver Nachtwey.

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«Volle Energie für das, was gerade läuft»

Carolin Amlinger und Oliver Nachtwey im Gespräch mit bajour.

Rachael Moorthy (centre) at the award ceremony at the Kur- und Festspielhaus Badenweiler
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Rachael Moorthy receives Basel's Stephen Crane Award

We congratulate 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 thesis on American literature or…

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"Come difendere l'italiano in Svizzera"

Intervista di Filippo Pecorari nel programma Alphaville di Rete due - RSI

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Luigi Picchioni divulgatore dell'italianità

Zeynep Köylü
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Dr. Zeynep Köylü Awarded SNSF Starting Grant for Groundbreaking Project on Study Abroad

Das Projekt der Sprachwissenschaftlerin Dr. Zeynep Köylü analysiert, wie sich sprachliche, interkulturelle und einstellungsbezogene Fortschritte während eines Auslandsaufenthalts über die Zeit erhalten, weiterentwickeln und in zukünftige…

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"Mein Buch: Hermann Hesse anders lesen."

In der aktuellen Uni Nova Ausgabe (No. 146, November 2025) erklärt Prof. Dr. Alexander Honold, wie man Hermann Hesse "anders" lesen kann und berichtet, wie die Idee zum "Hesse Handbuch" entstanden ist.

Upcoming Events

08 Dec 2025
Time: 12:00  - 14:00

Location: Departement Geschichte, Room 501

Organizer: Profilbereich Osteuropa, Zentrum für jüdische Studien

Public event, Guest lecture / Talk

Between Privileges and Ideologies: Baltic Jewish Photographers in South Africa's Racial Landscape

Lunchtalk with Karina Simonson (Vilnius University).
08 Dec 2025
Time: 16:00  - 18:00

Location: Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 120

Organizer: Dr. Mirjam Weder und Dr. Michiel de Vaan

Lecture series

"Wie Bücher soziale Unterschiede kommunizieren. Einblicke in die Lesesoziologie"

Gastvortrag von Carolin Amlinger (Uni Basel) im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Literalität: soziale, kognitive und historische Perspektiven auf Lesen und Schreiben"
08 Dec 2025
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
Time: 18:00

Location: 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
Time: 18:00

Location: 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
Time: 13:00  - 14:00

Location: 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
Time: 16:15  - 18:00

Location: 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
Time: 18:15  - 20:00

Location: 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

Location: 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
Time: 18:00  - 20:00

Location: Englisches Seminar, room 12

Public event, Colloquium

"Finnegans Wake"

The James Joyce reading group with Ulrich Blumenbach and Andrew Shields

Past Events

20 Apr 2023
Time: 08:30  - 10:00

Location: Englisches Seminar, Grosser Hörsaal

Organizer: Englisches Seminar

Guest lecture / Talk

How are humorous effects derived from inferences at the level of text, mental frame and culture?

Prof. Francisco Yus (Universitat d'Alacant)
20 Apr 2023
Time: 08:30  - 10:00

Location: Kollegienhaus, Room 117

Organizer: Anglistik

Public event, Guest lecture / Talk

"How are humorous effects derived from inferences at the level of text, mental frame and culture?"

Francisco Yus, University of Alicante
18 Apr 2023
Time: 16:15

Location: Deutsches Seminar, Seminarraum 4

Organizer: Deutsches Seminar

Public event, Guest lecture / Talk

"Die Donau korrigieren - Flussregulierungsdiskurse im 19. Jahrhundert."

Der Gastvortrag von PD Dr. Edit Király (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien) findet im Rahmen des von Prof. Dr. Alexander Honold und Prof. Dr. Markus Krajewski veranstalteten Seminars «Flüsse. Kulturtechniken, Narrative,…
18 Apr 2023
Time: 13:00  - 14:00

Organizer: Englisches Seminar

Guest lecture / Talk

“Communication is everything.” Identities and gender at work: a linguistic perspective on agile IT.

Joelle Loew (lecturer in Business Communication at Lucerne School of Business)
14 Apr 2023
Time: 14:00  - 15:30

Location: Englisches Seminar, room 11

Organizer: Englisches Seminar

Guest lecture / Talk

Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery"

Teaching literature to secondary students. Guest lecture by Tyler Burba (High School For Health Professions & Human Services, New York)
14 Apr 2023
Time: 10:00  - 11:30

Location: English Seminar, Great Lecture Hall

Organizer: English Seminar

Lillian Hellman's "The Children's Hour"

Teaching literature to secondary students. Guest lecture by Tyler Burba (High School For Health Professions & Human Services, New York)
13 Apr 2023
Time: 16:15  - 17:45

Location: Departement Geschichte, Hirschgässlein 21, Seminarraum 2

Organizer: Seminar für Nordistik

Guest lecture / Talk, Colloquium

Vaterschaft und Emotion in Þorsteins þáttr stangarhǫggs und Egils saga

Vortrag von Jan Wehrle (Freiburg/Breisgau) im Rahmen des Kolloquiums "Nordwesteuropa im Mittelalter"
13 Apr 2023
Time: 16:00  - 18:00

Organizer: Deutsches Semninar

Public event, Guest lecture / Talk, Other events

Doppelleben: Alain Claude Sulzer im Gespräch mit Studierenden am Deutschen Seminar der Universität Basel

11 Apr 2023
Time: 14:15  - 15:45

Location: Englisches Seminar, Room 11

Organizer: Anglistik, Uni Basel

Guest lecture / Talk

"Teaching Literature to Secondary School Students: Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”"

Guest lecture Tyler Burba, High School for Health Professions & Human Services, NYC
03 Apr 2023
Time: 18:00

Location: Aula O 105, Maiengasse 51, Basel

Organizer: Seminar für Italianistik Universität Basel

Public event

ALBERTO NESSI in dialogo con JACQUELINE AERNE: La seconda bellezza di Alberto Nessi

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