Hee hee.
Academia, you guys, am I right?
Was just invited (on facebook!) to trial lectures by potential English professors in Zürich. The lecture titles are MUST-READS.
The English Seminar has an 8th professorship that has been vacant for about 3 years. On November 15 and 16, 6 candidates will hold a lecture in order to apply for the open position. The students have a representative in the search commitee and can take part in the decicion making. It is crucial that as many students as possible attend these trial lectures and fill in their opinions on a questionnaire. The program looks as follows:
Montag, 15. November 2010 (KOL-G-217)
08.00 Uhr: Dr. Patricia Ronan (Zürich) The emergence of do-support in Middle English: more on whence and why
10.00 Uhr: Dr. Martin Hilpert (Freiburg i.Br.) Constructional change in English derivational morphology: The life and death of -ment
14.00 Uhr: Dr. Simon Horobin (Oxford) What’s new in Chaucer’s language?
16.00 Uhr: Dr. Olga Timofeeva (Helsinki) Latin and Old English: interaction between the medieval lingua franca and the vernacular
Dienstag, 16. November 2010 (KOL-G-217)
13.00 Uhr: Dr. Anita Auer (Utrecht) „But, and I were a pope, not only thou, but every mighty man sholde have a wyf”: The origin and development of the iffy-an(d) conjunction
15.00 Uhr: Dr. Tine Breban (Leuven) Making the most of historical data: micro-processes and multi- item comparison
It should be obvious, but I’m pulling for Dr. Patricia Ronan and her classic whence/why talk on do-support in Middy Engy.
