Events 2020

Guest Lecture:
What is Fiction? A Historical Perspective
Prof. Nicholas Paige (UC Berkeley)
April 14th via Zoom
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Information Event:
MA NTS Information Event
Prof. Mark Stein
May 27, 2020 | 2 pm (CET) | via Zoom

Symposium:
Video Games and Foreign Language Teaching
Organised by Daniel Becker and Prof. Dr. Frauke Matz
Keynote: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Domsch (University Greifswald)
February 12, 2020 | 9 am - 4 pm | Senatssaal, Schlossplatz 2

Project & Poster presentation:
Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of phonology and phonetics by multilingual children and adults
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Gut, Romana Kopečková
February 11, 2020 | 6-8pm | ES 131

Teacher education:
Learning with Nigeria
Organised by Prof. Dr. Frauke Matz and the English Language Education Team
February 4, 2020 | 2-5 pm | English Department

Events 2019

Performance/Play:
The English Drama Group (EDG) presents: "Habeas Corpus" by Alan Bennett
Performed by the EDG
January 11, 12 & 19, 2019 | 8 pm | Studiobühne Münster, Domplatz 23

Guest lecture:
The acquisition of English in the multilingual classroom. Insights from Germany and Norway
Lecturer: Eliane Lorenz (Trondheim, Norway
December 16, 2019 | 10 am - 12 pm | ES 2, English Department

Performance/Play:
The English Drama Group (EDG) presents: "Habeas Corpus" by Alan Bennett
Performed by the EDG
December 13 & 15, 2019 | 8 pm | Studiobühne Münster, Domplatz 23

Guest lecture:
How to study sound learning during conversation: The ventriloquist paradigm
Lecturer: Mirjam Broersma (Radbound University, Nijmegen, Netherlands)
December 2, 2019 | 10 am 12 pm | ES 2, English Department

Guest lecture:
The longitudinal development of clausal and noun-phrasal complexity in written intermediate learner English
Lecturer: Steffen Schaub
November 18, 2019 | 10 am - 12 pm | ES 2, English Department

International conference:
2nd ADiBE parnter meeting
Prof. Dr. Frauke Matz
Official ADiBE website
October 24 - 26 | Senaatssaal, Schlossplatz 2

Guest lecture:
Brexit: What Does it Mean for Britain, Germany and Europe
Lecturer: Sir Peter Tony
More information on the guest lecture
October 24, 2019 | 10 am | Auditorium S10, Schlossplatz 2

Guest lecture:
West African publishing, diasporic connections: A publisher’s perspective
Lecturer: Akoss Ofori-Mensah (Accra, Ghana)
October 15, 2019 | 12 pm | JO1, Johannisstr. 4

Information events for 1st-semester students:
Information event organised by departmental staff (student advisory service)
Organised by Amrei Sander (Tue) and Dr. Silke Stroh (Fri)
October 1, 2019 | 1 - 3 pm | Audimax (English Department)
October 4, 2019 | 10 am - 12 noon) | Audimax (English Department)
Information & meet-and-greet events organised by the department's student representatives
Organised by Fachschaft Anglistik

International Conference:
Intellectuals Across Borders: Writers, Artists, Activists
September 5-6, 2019 | English Department
More information on the international conference

Reading group:
Native American and First Nations Literatures: Indigenous Women Writers
July 9 & July 16, 2019 | 4 - 6 pm | ES 129

Guest lecture:
A.S. Byatt's Possession and the Commodification of Neo-Victorian Fiction
Lecturer: Dr. Marlena Tronicke
July 2, 2019 | 10:15 | AE 11, Aegidiistr. 5

Guest lecture:
A World of Translation
Guest lecturer: Prof. Theo D'haen (KU Leuven)
June 6, 2019 | 6 pm | Festsaal, Schlossplatz 5

Discussion:
Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 shortlist discussion
June 5, 2019 | 2 pm | Book Studies Library

Discussion:
Republican vs. Democrat Discussion
Guest speakers: Ralph C. Freund & Matt LeMieux
June 4, 2019 | 6 pm | JO 1, Johannisstr. 4

General meeting:
Student Journal SATURA
May 28, 2019 | 4-6 pm | Die Brücke, Room 106

Guest lecture:
The Modern Dystopia – a Response to Post-Factualism and other 21st Century Challenges?
Guest lecturer: Karmen Heup
May 23, 2019 | 8 pm | ES 131

Guest lecture:
About the INTER and the INTRA in L2 development: Investigating the age factor from two different perspectives
Guest lecturer: Prof. Dr. Simone Pfenninger, University of Salzburg
May 21, 2019 | 2 - 4 pm | F5 Fürstenberghaus

Guest lecture:
/S/-Retraction in American English. The analysis of social factors in a change in apparent time
Guest lecturer: Wiebke Ahlers, University of Osnabrück
May 21, 2019 | 10 - 12 am | ES 202

Guest lecture:
English in Bangladesh: From colonization to globalization
Guest lecturer: Dr. Laura García Castro, University of Vigo
May 15, 2019 | 2-4 pm | JO 1, Johannisstr. 4

Information Event:
Master of Arts: National & Transnational Studies (MA NTS)
April 17, 2019 | 6 pm | ES 226

Guest lecture:
Thru' Words that Still, Frames that Freeze: A Backward Glance at the Cracked Earth and its Fragmented Worlds
Guest lecturer: Prof. Sridhar Rajeswaran
April 09, 2019 | 12:15| JO 1, Johannisstr. 4

Guest lecture:
The Idea of South Asia and the Construct of South Asian Diasporic Literatures
Guest lecturer: Prof. Nilufer E. Bharucha
April 02, 2019 | 12:15| JO 1, Johannisstr. 4

Guest lecture:
German Influences on the Palaces of London
Guest lecturer: Prof. John R. Davis
March 21, 2019 | 8 pm | ES 131

Conference:
7th TEFL Day
February 12, 2019 | English Department

International conference:
Pluricentricity vs. Pluriareality - Models, Varieties, Approaches
February 8-10, 2019 | English Department

Guest lecture:
Brexit - The Role and Responsibility of Civil Society & What is the scope for Brexit to shape and (re)define the next-generation of British-German relations?
Guest lecturer: Amanda Jane Diel
February 6, 2019 | 8 pm | ES 131

Lecture series:
Hotspots in Literary/Cultural Studies, Book Studies, Linguistics, & TEFL
Guest lecturer: Various

Guest lecture:
Windrush: The second generation
Guest lecturer: Bénédicte Ledent
January 14, 2019| 12:15 | JO 1, Johannisstr.

Guest lecture:
The English Book on the Continent
Lecturer: Dr. Marie-Luise Spieckermann
January 7, 2019 | 2 pm | ES 131