Events Allgemein

“The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries,” a talk by Prof Andrew Hui (Singapore), who is currently a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, will take place at 6.15pm in Seminarraum 6. Drawn from his new book forthcoming with Princeton University Press, Hui’s talk engages with the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance library by tracing how Europe’s cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics from the 15th century onward. His talk tells the story of the Renaissance studiolo – a “little studio” – and reveals how these spaces dedicated to self-cultivation became both a remedy and a poison for the soul.

Auf der Infoveranstaltung begrüßt das IAAK alle Erstis des Jahrgangs 24/25. Die Erstis werden in den Studiengang English Studies eingeführt und es gibt Gelegenheit, Fragen zu stellen.

Annual Event Series on Gender and Intersectionality Throughout history children have been subjected to violence, coercion, forced labor and separation. Children also developed strategies to cope with their oftentimes deplorable living conditions. This conference is interested in the archival, visual, and material traces some of these children have left - aiming at reconstructing social and emotional worlds of children in early modern global history. With keynotes by Ann Laura Stoler (New School for Social Research), Bianca Premo (Florida International University) and Johanna S. Ransmeier (University of Chicago).

With the Welcome Days we would like to welcome all new students and doctoral students from abroad to Bonn and facilitate a successful start of their studies. You will find all important information on this page.

Thirty years on from the euphoria accompanying the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the celebrated victory of liberal democracy and global capital-ism, we are now in a very different historical conjuncture. Globalisation, free market (neoliberal) capitalism and even democracy itself are increasingly called into question amidst various crises ranging from growing wealth inequalities, the climate emergency, heightened geopolitical tensions and growing disaffection among much of the public at this state of play. While such problems defy easy solutions, Andrew Cumbers suggests in this talk that one thing urgently required is a very different form of political economy, based around more democratic and collective forms of ownership and decision-making. In this context, he will highlight some of the interesting experiments and innovations emerging from the trend towards de-privatisation at the local level: a process known as remunicipalisation...

Niq Mhlongo is a South African writer and travel journalist. He is the author of five novels Dog Eat Dog (2004), After Tears (2007), Way Back Home (2013), Paradise in Gaza (2020), The City Is Mine (2024) and the collections of short stories Affluenza (2016), Soweto, Under the Apricot Tree (2018) and For You, I’d Steal a Goat (2022). His work has been awarded and nominated for numerous prestigious prizes, including the Mar De Letras Internacionale and the Herman Charles Bosman Prize for English Fiction. Dog Eat Dog and After Tears were adapted into radio drama series by the BBC, Bush Radio, SAFM, and Swedish Radio.

Salman Rushdie übersetzen - Ein Abend mit seinem Übersetzer Bernhard Robben Montag, 25. November, 19 Uhr Saal im Haus der Bildung

The Erasmus Office would like to invite you to their annual Erasmus information event, which will take place in seminar room 7 (Rabinstraße 8) at 5:30 p.m on November 25. Please feel free to bring along interested fellow students and friends. If you have any questions, please contact outgoings.anglistik@uni-bonn.de.

The Welcome Days are an opportunity for new students and doctoral students from abroad to gather information on the most important issues, such as registration with the local authorities, finances and health insurances. Getting to know fellow international and German students as well as doctoral students during recreational activities is another benefit of the Welcome Days.

For our next lunchtime conversation, we invite everyone to an open discussion about issues pertaining to the current state of Native America. Topics addressed may include social and political challenges, Native activism, as well as trends and developments in the discipline of Native American Studies. Rolf-Lessenich fellow Prof. Dr. Jill Doerfler (Department Head of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth and White Earth Anishinaabe) will join our conversation and offer inside thoughts and reflections.

This talk will provide an overview of the architecture that underpins modern AI language models including n-gram language models, word embedding models, and modern transformer models. These models will be examined for alignment with theories of human language processing. The talk will also focus on how AI models recreate classical language processing pipelines associated with computational linguistics and language processing.

This talk and its subsequent workshop will explore lexical properties in the English language and methods to automatically calculate lexical features. The follow-up workshop will focus on introducing natural language processing tools for lexical studies and how they can be used to assess language learner data in a large corpus collected in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) setting. Data analysis techniques and hands-on data exploration will provide practical applications using learner corpora.

This talk and its subsequent workshop will introduce approaches to measuring syntactic properties in the English language, with a specific focus on large- and fine-grained syntactic measures. Approaches to measure syntax automatically through part-of-speech (POS) taggers and dependency parsers will be covered. The follow-up workshop will focus on how POS taggers and dependency parses can be used to assess language learner data at the large- and fine-grained levels in a large corpus focusing on English as a Second Language (EFL) learners. Data analysis techniques and hands-on data exploration will provide practical applications using learner corpora.

The Welcome Days are an opportunity for new students and doctoral students from abroad to gather information on the most important issues, such as enrollment, registration with the local authorities, and opening a bank account. Getting to know fellow international and German students and doctoral students during recreational activities is another benefit of the Welcome Days. You will find information about events offered, how to participate and everything else there is to know.