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Prof. Dr. Philipp Schweighauser

Department of Languages and Literatures
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Research Foci 18th to 21st c. American literature and culture literary history literary, cultural, and media theory literature and science literature and anthropology life writing sound studies aesthetics 21st c. Native American literature

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2038  - Membership (FDB import)

Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft, Member

2038  - Membership (FDB import)

International Association of University Professors of English, Member

2035  - Membership (FDB import)

American Society for Eighteenth-century Studies, Member

2030  - Membership (FDB import)

Swiss Association for North American Studies, Member

2030  - Membership (FDB import)

American Studies Association, Member

2030  - Membership (FDB import)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, Member

2030  - Membership (FDB import)

Deutscher Hochschulverband, Member

2030  - Membership (FDB import)

European Association of American Studies, Member

2030  - Membership (FDB import)

International Vladimir Nabokov Society, Member

2030  - Membership (FDB import)

Modern Language Association, Member

2030  - Membership (FDB import)

Salzburg Global Seminar, Fellow

2030  - Membership (FDB import)

Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, Member

2030  - Membership (FDB import)

Swiss Association of University Teachers of English, Member

2030  - Membership (FDB import)

University of Basel Centre of Competence Cultural Topographies, Member

2029  - Membership (FDB import)

Short Fiction in Theory & Practice, Reviewer

2029  - Membership (FDB import)

Stephen Crane Award Committee, Member of Committee

2024  - Membership (FDB import)

Short Fiction in Theory & Practice, Member of the Editorial Board

2024  - Events for the Public (e.g. Uni-Nacht)

The US Election Night Event, organized by Prof. Philipp Schweighauser, took place at Kulturlokal "Atlantis" from November 5th to 6th. The event featured live election broadcasts, expert insights, discussions, and American-style music, food, and quizzes.

2024  - Invited Presentations (imported)

“What Was Contemporary Native American Literature?”

2024  - Invited Presentations (imported)

“Contemporary Native American Bird Sonics.”

2024  - Invited Presentations (imported)

“Nature/Native/Nation: The (Post-)Coloniality of Tommy Pico’s Nature Poem.”

2024  - Other Activities

Panel on “Decolonising and Indigenising Anthropocene Narratives”. Post/Colonial Environments: Annual Conference of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS)

2024  - Invited Presentations (imported)

“Fluck and the Early American Novel.”

2024  - Other Activities

Panel on “Intercultural Negotiations.”

2024  - Invited Presentations (imported)

Aesthetics and Politics in the Study of the Early American Novel. (Keynote Speech)

2024  - Invited Presentations (imported)

Participation in Public Conversation on the Question “Are We in a Crisis of the Humanities?”

2023  - Membership (FDB import)

SPELL (Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature), Member of Editorial Board

2023  - Membership (FDB import)

Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature, Member of the Editorial Board

2023  - Other Activities

Panels on “Urban Bodies” and “The Unseen City.” Decolonial Imaginaries in Literary and Urban Studies.

2023  - Events for the Public (e.g. Uni-Nacht)

Outreach: Local Talks & Public Events

2022  - Invited Presentations (imported)

Der Sklave als Selfmademan. Olaudah Equianos Interesting Narrative, Ringvorlesung Kulturtechniken: Basler Perspektiven

2022  - Other Activities

Panel on “Species, Bodies, Secrets.” Who Tells Your Story? Biennial Conference of the Swiss Association for North American Studies.

2021  - Invited Presentations (imported)

Further Reflections on Literary Acoustics, Kolloquium Historische Klangforschung, University of Berne

2021  - Events for the Public (e.g. Uni-Nacht)

Outreach: Local Talks & Public Events

2021  - Other Activities

Panel on “Work and Its Others.” Work: The Labors of Language, Culture, and History. Conference of the Swiss Association of North American Studies

2021  - Invited Presentations (imported)

Living in the Woods: Henry David Thoreau's 'Resistance to Civil Government' and Walden, Gastvortrag, University of Berne

2021  - Invited Presentations (imported)

Boasian Verse: The Poetic and Ethnographic Work of Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead, Gastvortrag, Jilin University (China)

2021  - Invited Presentations (imported)

Ideology, Interpellation, Negativity: Marxist Criticism from Marx to Althusser and Adorno, Gastvortrag, University of Fribourg

2020  - Membership (FDB import)

Amerikastudien/American Studies, Reader

2020  - Membership (FDB import)

Swiss Association for North American Studies, President

2020  - Editorial Board Member, listed by Name, with Journal Name

Editorial Board: Short Fiction in Theory & Practice

2019  - Other Activities

Sound & Literatur, Universität Basel

2019  - Invited Presentations (imported)

Boasian Vistas: The Poetic and Visual Work of Sapir, Benedict, and Mead, Gastvortrag, Collegium Helveticum, Zürich

2019  - Invited Presentations (imported)

Boasian Vistas: The Poetic and Visual Work of Sapir, Benedict, and Mead.

2018  - Invited Presentations (imported)

Of Literary and Social Innovation: Margaret Mead's Lyrical Work, Twentieth Century and Contemporary Colloquium, Harvard University

2018  - Invited Presentations (imported)

45 Degrees: Autoimmunity in Beckett's Film, Theater and Performance Colloquium, Harvard University

2018  - Other Activities

Project 1: Boasian Poetry: The Lyrical Work of Edward Sapir, Ruth F. Benedict, and Margaret Mead; Project 2: Anthropology & Aesthetics: Boasian Vistas; Project 3: Beckett and the Media, Departments of English of Harvard University and Boston University

2018  - Invited Presentations (imported)

Beautiful Deceptions: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Early American Novel, Gastvortrag, Obama Institute, University of Mainz

2018  - Membership in the Organization Committee of Congresses, listed by Name

Beckett and the Media. International Conference. University of Basel

2018  - Membership in the Organization Committee of Congresses, listed by Name

Beckett and the Media. International Conference. University of Basel

2018  - Other Activities

Beckett and the Media. International Conference, University of Basel

2018  - Invited Presentations (imported)

45 Degrees: Autoimmunity in Beckett’s Film.

2018  - Invited Presentations (imported)

Angles of Immunity: Beckett’s Film.

2018  - Invited Presentations (imported)

Beautiful Deceptions: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Early American Novel.

2018  - Invited Presentations (imported)

Of Literary and Social Innovation: Margaret Mead’s Lyrical Work.

2017  - Invited Presentations (imported)

The Poetic and Medial Practices of Boasian Anthropology, Gastvortrag, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

2017  - Invited Presentations (imported)

Margaret Meads Gedichte zwischen Privatheit und Öffentlichkeit: Ein Forschungsbericht, Vorlesungsreihe "Privatheiten und Öffentlichkeiten", University of Freiburg

2017  - Events for the Public (e.g. Uni-Nacht)

Outreach: Local Talks & Public Events

2017  - Other Activities

Annual EUCOR English Trinational MA and PhD Conference, EUCOR English

2017  - Invited Presentations (imported)

Literature in the Digital Age: An Open Online Course of the University of Basel, Thursday Lunch Talk, University of Mulhouse

2017  - Invited Presentations (imported)

Playing Seriously with Genres: Sapir's 'Nootka' Texts and Mead's Balinese Anthropology, RANAM 50: Discourse, Boundaries and Genres in English Studies: an Assessment, University of Strasbourg

2017  - Invited Presentations (imported)

The Poetic and Medial Practices of Boasian Anthropology.

2016  - Membership in the Organization Committee of Congresses, listed by Name

Anthropology, Literature, the Senses: Questions of Cultural, Poetic, and Medial Alterity. International Workshop. University of Basel

2016  - Other Activities

Panel on "Community, Power, Resistance." American Communities: Between the Popular and the Political. Conference of the Swiss Association of North American Studies

2016  - Other Activities

Panel on "Community, Power, Resistance." American Communities: Between the Popular and the Political. Conference of the Swiss Association of North American Studies .

2016  - Events for the Public (e.g. Uni-Nacht)

Outreach: Local Talks & Public Events

2016  - Invited Presentations (imported)

Writing Literature, Filming Culture: The Poetry and Multimedial Ethnographic Work of Edward Sapir, Ruth Fulton Benedict, and Margaret Mead, EUCOR English Trinational PhD Symposium, University of Strasbourg

2016  - Other Activities

Anthropology, Literature, the Senses: Questions of Cultural, Poetic, and Medial Alterity.

2016  - Editorial Board Member, listed by Name, with Journal Name

Editorial Board: SPELL (Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature)

2016  - University Awards, with/without money received

University of Basel "Treading New Paths" Category, Shortlist

2015  - Events for the Public (e.g. Uni-Nacht)

Outreach: Local Talks & Public Events

2015  - Other Activities

Panel on "Utopisches Denken jenseits der Repräsentation." 2015 Annual Meeting of 2015 of the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft. Utopien - Wege aus der Gegenwart.

2015  - Membership in the Organization Committee of Congresses, listed by Name

Literature & Philosophy. Joint International Workshop of the Swiss Philosophical Society and the Swiss Association for North American Studies. University of St. Gallen

2015  - Other Activities

Literature & Philosophy. Joint International Workshop of the Swiss Philosophical Society and the Swiss Association for North American Studies, Swiss Association for North American Studies & Swiss Philosophical Society

2015  - Other Activities

Panel on “Other Multiculturalisms--World." American Multiculturalism in Context.

2015  - Editorial Board Member, listed by Name, with Journal Name

Editorial Board: Amerikastudien/American Studies (Reader)

2014  - Invited Presentations (imported)

Some Reflections on European-American Relations: A Field Report, Cross-Cultural Leadership--United States of America. Trinational MA Program in International Business Management, Basel

2014  - Other Activities

Literature and Philosophy (EARS Meeting), EARS (English and American Rhenish Scholars)

2014  - Membership in the Organization Committee of Congresses, listed by Name

Literature, Ethics, Morality: American Studies Perspectives. Biannual Conference of the Swiss Association for North American Studies. University of Basel

2014  - Other Activities

Literature, Ethics, Morality: American Studies Perspectives, SANAS (Swiss Association for North American Studies)

2014  - Invited Presentations (imported)

Of Cultural, Poetic, and Medial Alterity: The Scholarship, Poetry, Photographs, and Films of Edward Sapir, Ruth Fulton Benedict, and Margaret Mead, Looking Forward, 2014: Current Projects in American Studies, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, FU Berlin

2014  - Events for the Public (e.g. Uni-Nacht)

Outreach: Local Talks & Public Events

2014  - Events for the Public (e.g. Uni-Nacht)

Outreach: Local Talks & Public Events

2014  - Other Activities

Panel on "Crisis, Culture, Disciplinarity: Philosophical and Americanist Perspectives." Critique and Crisis.

2014  - Invited Presentations (imported)

Response to Timothy Morton and Claire Colebrook, Literary Theories. Doctoral Workshop in the framework of the CUSO Doctoral Programme in English Language and Literature, Schloss Münchenwiler

2014  - Invited Presentations (imported)

Literary Acoustics, Listening to Literature, 1900-1950. MDRN Symposium, KU Leuven

2013  - Events for the Public (e.g. Uni-Nacht)

Outreach: Local Talks & Public Events

2013  - Invited Presentations (imported)

Evangelikalismus & Sendungsbewusstsein in den USA: Einige historische Hintergründe, Was ist Religion?: Ein Überblick zur Religionsgeschichte und religiösen Zeitgeschichte. Vorlesung von Jürgen Mohn

2013  - Invited Presentations (imported)

Frictions between Aesthetic and Political Approaches to Literature: An American Studies Perspective, Université de Strasbourg

2013  - Events for the Public (e.g. Uni-Nacht)

Outreach: Local Talks & Public Events

2013  - Invited Presentations (imported)

Vom Close Reading zum Social Reading: Lesetechniken im Zeitalter des digitalen Texts, Digital Media Studies in der Praxis. Lecture Cycle by Roberto Simanowski

2013  - Other Activities

Representations of the African Other in Selected Works of Joseph Conrad, University of Ghana, Legon

2012  - Other Activities

Panel on "Women, History, Poetics." 8th Annual EUCOR English Trinational MA Conference.

2012  - Other Activities

Panel on "Theopneustia to Paranoia."5th Annual EUCOR English Trinational Colloquium for PhD Students.

2012  - Membership in the Organization Committee of Congresses, listed by Name

Aesthetics in the 21st Century. International conference. University of Basel.

2012  - Other Activities

Panel on "Conflicting Countercultures." Cultures in Conflict / Conflicting Cultures. Joint Conference of the Swiss Association for North American Studies and the Austrian Association for American Studies

2012  - Membership (FDB import)

Swiss Association for North American Studies, Secretary

2012  - Events for the Public (e.g. Uni-Nacht)

Outreach: Local Talks & Public Events

2012  - Invited Presentations (imported)

Discussion with Lotta Suter and Antonius Liedhegener, Religion und USA, Literaturhaus Basel

2012  - Other Activities

Aesthetics in the 21st Century, University of Basel