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Calendar
Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Linguistics
Application date: 3. July 2018 Ref. nr.: 2018/1669 One Post-doctoral Research Fellowship within Linguistics (Cognitive Linguistics: Empirical Approaches to Russian) is available in the Department of Language and Culture at the University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway (UiT). The position is affiliated with the CLEAR research group, Cognitive Linguistics: Empirical Approaches to […]
Diversity in Local Contexts: Adaptation and Heritage
KREAS, ISIS and REACH research teams invite to a research workshop focused on exploring the relationship between urban heritage and cultural identities in their historical, geopolitical and socio-cultural dimensions and contexts with a number of outstanding speakers.
Suzanne Ryan (Editor in Chief, Humanities at Oxford University Press): Navigating the Academic Book Publishing Process
The Department of Musicology is happy to invite everyone interested to a lecture by Suzanne Ryan, Editor in Chief, Humanities at Oxford University Press.
Life and Biography in the Middle Ages: A Dark Hero
Tronege Hagen and the Sinister Thread of the Middle High German Nibelungenlied Young German scholar Florian Deichl (Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität München) will speak about the sinister figure of Hagen in the German medieval Song of the Nibelungs and try to uncover the origins of the human fascinations by so called “dark heroes”. poster The series is organized by the […]
Starvation, Rationing, and Black Markets in the Soviet Union During World War II
How did the Soviet people survive the war? After the Nazi invasion, the Soviet state quickly established a hierarchical rationing system to ensure food to the population. Yet the loss of the occupied territories created severe shortages. By 1942, people had begun to starve. Even industrial workers, who received the highest rations, were living on a single […]
Slavery and Resistance on the High Seas
Marcus Rediker will speak about the subject of his recent book: the transatlantic life and times of Benjamin Lay, an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who was one of the first to demand the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. Mocked and scorned by his contemporaries, Lay was unflinching in his opposition to […]
Amira K Bennison: Relations between Rulers and Ruled in the Medieval Maghrib
The Department of Middle Eastern and African Studies, CUFA, cordially invites you to the lecture Relations between Rulers and Ruled in the Medieval Maghrib by Professor Amira K. Bennison (University of Cambridge). Recommended reading: ‘Relations between Rulers and Ruled in the Medieval Maghrib: The ‘Social Contract’ in the Almoravid and Almohad Centuries, 1050-1250’, Comparative Islamic […]
Life and Biography in the Middle Ages: A Jewish Jesus
Sorcerer, Rebel, or Pious Fool? Jewish Narratives about Jesus and Their Medieval Afterlives Young Czech Hebraist Milan Žonca (Charles University, Prague) will speak about spectacular, scurrile and blasphemous Jewish medieval narratives about the life of Jesus Christ poster The series is organized by the Department of Scandinavian Studies and the Centre for the Study of the […]
Prof. Manfred Markus (University of Innsbruck): The survival of Shakespeareʼs language in English dialects (on the basis of EDD Online)
Professor Manfred Markus (University of Innsbruck) is a specialist in English historical and corpus linguistics, with research and teaching interests also in Dialectology, Varieties of English and Middle English Literature. He was chairholder for English Linguistics and Medieval English Literature at the University of Innsbruck from 1981 to 2009, Director of the Innsbruck project that created […]
Dr. Lee Schwartz: Geographic Perspectives on Global Hot Spots – Views from the U.S. Geographer
Lee Schwartz is the State Department’s 8th Geographer, a position that bears the statutory responsibility for providing guidance to all federal agencies on questions of international boundaries and sovereignty claims. His recent focus has been on projects related to geographic information documentation and coordination related to participatory mapping, complex emergencies, and sustainability. Lee was the State […]
Life and Biography in the Middle Ages: Jesus
The Late Medieval Lives of Christ Hungarian scholar David Falvay (ELTE Budapest) will speak about the late medieval lives of Christ and evaluate them as reflections of the medieval Christian piety. poster The series is organized by the Department of Scandinavian Studies and the Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages of the Faculty of Arts […]
Prof. Manfred Markus (University of Innsbruck): Selected Features of Spokenness in Late Modern English: A survey based on Joseph Wright’s EDD (online)
Professor Manfred Markus (University of Innsbruck) is a specialist in English historical and corpus linguistics, with research and teaching interests also in Dialectology, Varieties of English and Middle English Literature. He was chairholder for English Linguistics and Medieval English Literature at the University of Innsbruck from 1981 to 2009, Director of the Innsbruck project that created […]
Current events
TEMA+ European Territories – Heritage and Development – Now accepting applicants!
The 2 year-long (120ECTS) TEMA+ proposes the analysis of the importance of cultural heritage in a European context by applying a multinational, interdisciplinary approach that none of the existing Masters degree in cultural heritage can offer. The application for the TEMA+ and for an Erasmus Mundus scholarship is open from the 1st of January until 31st of […]
