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Important dates and times for the WiSe 2024/25 can be found here. (Version 8th October 2024)

Other important dates and announcements

Winter semester 2024/2025

January 23, 2024

Workshop: "Laying the groundwork: recognizing and understanding Antisemitism"

Organised by the equal opportunities office of the Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures (FB10), and the CNMS in cooperation with the Anne Frank Institute, this workshop addresses the recent occurrences of Swastika graffiti in the elevators of the D-Block of the department and looks at the actions we can undertake as a society to try to understand how this ideology can take hold and what we can do against it. All students and staff of the Philipps University Marburg are greatly welcome to attend!

Date: 23rd January 2025
Time: from 4 til 8 PM
Venue: will be announced upon registration
To register please send an email to helena.hanneder@uni-marburg.de
Registration deadline: 19 January 2025

Past events

July 10 - 14, 2023	MARA-funded Workshop Advanced Statistical Methods (in Linguistics) with R hosted by Prof. Dr. Stefan Th. Gries (UC Santa Barbara and JLU Giessen)
July 06,2023	Third Meeting of the Language Lovers' Lunch Club (3LC) Additional Information can be found here.
July 04, 2023	Canada Day Lecture on BUFFALO POWER: ORIGIN STORIES& MÉTIS FUTURISM IN CHELSEA VOWEL'S "MICHIF MAN" by Prof. Dr. Stefanie Schäfer For additional information see the official poster of the event.
June 06, 2023	Second Meeting of the Language Lovers' Lunch Club (3LC) Additional Information can be found here.
January 19, 2023	Guest lecture by Prof. em. Dr. Michael K. Legutke (University of Giessen) Insights into the Communicative Language Classroom: From Tasks to Projects (guest lecture in the context of Prof. Dr. Sandra Götz-Lehmann's class "Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language") When: January 19, 2023, 12-14 Uhr (c.t.) Where: WR 01H01
December 22, 2022	Guest Lectures by Prof. Dr. Claudia Lange (Technische Universität Dresden) Lecture I: English in India: Goddess or killer language? (In the context of Prof. Dr. Sandra Götz-Lehmann's seminar "HS Varieties of English") When: 22 Dezember 2022, 02-04 pm (c.t.) Where: WR 08D03 Lecture II: We speak like that only': Focus marking in Indian English (In the context of Kathrin Kircili's Seminar "PS Language Structure: Syntax") When: 22 Dezember 2022, 12-02 pm (c.t.) Where: WR 01D05
November 30, 2022	Guest lecture by Dr. Gea De Jong-Lendle on "ANYTHING YOU SAY, MAY BE USED IN EVIDENCE..." The Role of Linguistics in Forensic Investigations Further information can be found here.
July 4-5, 2022	Trial lectures for the advertised professorship (W2) for Media Cultures in North American and British Studies The invitation for the trial lecturers with additional details can be found here.

June 9-11, 2022

𝕁𝕠𝕦𝕣𝕟𝕖𝕪𝕤 𝕒𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕤𝕤 𝔹/𝕆𝕣𝕕𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕚𝕟 ℂ𝕒𝕟𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕒𝕟 𝕊𝕥𝕦𝕕𝕚𝕖𝕤
09 – 11 June 2022
𝕀ɴᴛᴇʀɴᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴀʟ ℂᴏɴғᴇʀᴇɴᴄᴇ
𝕄ᴀʀʙᴜʀɢ ℂᴇɴᴛʀᴇ ғᴏʀ ℂᴀɴᴀᴅɪᴀɴ 𝕊ᴛᴜᴅɪᴇ𝕤
𝕌ɴɪᴠᴇʀ𝕤ɪᴛʏ ᴏғ 𝕄ᴀʀʙᴜʀɢ, 𝔾ᴇʀᴍᴀɴʏ

March 23, 2021

Workshop: "Pandemics and Their Socio-Cultural Effects"
Further information on the event can be found here.
The respective report can be found here.

The COVID-19 pandemic is omnipresent. Starting in China, it has quickly spread all over the world. People are confronted with the virus in everyday life: Schools, shops, and museums are closed; people are wearing masks to go grocery shopping; online meetings with friends, families, and colleagues have replaced meetings in presence. The interdisciplinary workshop “Pandemics and Their Socio-Cultural Effects” — with participants from American Studies, Social Psychology, the History of Medicine, and History — offers an investigation into how pandemics are perceived through the lens of writers and artists in comics, short stories, poems, novels, and memorials. It examines how cultural work is shaped by pandemics and how writers and artists in general portray their own experiences in their art. Additionally, the workshop provides a closer look at the socio-cultural impacts of a pandemic and how literary works engage with this change in society.