The workshop is organised as a peer seminar by Yuval Givon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Anja-Silvia Goeing (Harvard University) and Philippe Bernhard Schmid (University of Basel). We discuss readings and short work-in-progress papers. We also organise guest lectures. The group meets on Zoom. You can find the current programme here. For more information or if you like to join, please visit our website

The eighth biennial conference of the Swiss Association for Medieval and Early Modern English Studies (SAMEMES) was hosted at the English Seminar of the University of Basel on Sept 4-6, f2024. You can find a short recap of the conference — including photos and abstracts of the talks — here.

On October 6-7, 2023, the SwissBritNet team, project partners and critical friends met in Basel to launch the project officially. Researchers, teachers and students discussed texts, databases and technical issues.

On February 12, the exhibition “London Calling: Schweizerisch-britischer Kulturaustausch in der frühen Neuzeit” opened with a reception at Basel University Library (6 pm).

The exhibition is curated by the Basel SwissBritNet team and features notable as well as hitherto little-regarded travellers between Switzerland and Britain. The experiences of students, diplomats, tourists, scholars and chaplains in the 17th and 18th centuries are brought alive with materials from the rich collections of the UB Basel and other libraries. Albums, diaries, maps, portraits, books and letters illustrate the practical challenges of travel and sightseeing and the ways in which these travellers built international networks of friendship, recommendation and scholarly exchange.

Additional information about the exhibition can be found on the Basel University Library's blog. You can find the programme for the exhibition here.

Philippe Bernhard Schmid will teach a seminar titled 'A Transimperial Empire: Brokers of the British East India Company' at the English Seminar and the Department of History in Basel during the spring semester.

Philippe Bernhard Schmid taught a seminar titled 'Information in the Early Modern World' at the English Seminar and the Department of History in Basel during the spring semester.

Ina Habermann and Stefanie Heeg taught a seminar "Current Research in Early Modern Travel Writing" at the English Seminar in Basel.

Projekt Nachhallende Netzwerke, Workshop “Methodische Zugänge zu diskursiven Netzwerken”, organized by Prof. Lena Rohrbach, University of Basel, June 2024.

At the University Library Basel on the occasion of the handover of the archive of Hanns Visher, 26 September 2025. See ‘Sir Hanns came back to Basel’,

Eucor/EARS 30 Conference, hosted by the University of Strasbourg, 10-11 April 2025.

Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies (SAMEMES), Eighth Biennial Conference: ‘Medieval and Early Modern Swiss-British Relations’, University of Basel, 4-6 September 2024.

Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies (SAMEMES), Eighth Biennial Conference: ‘Medieval and Early Modern Swiss-British Relations’, University of Basel, 4-6 September 2024.

Digital Humanities Conference 2024. Washington DC (US), August 6-10, 2024.

Symposium: ‘Agents and Messengers in the Early Modern History of Information’, Global Information History Workshop. Co-hosted by the University of Basel, Harvard University, the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the University of Zurich, July 2024.

The 9th International Historical Network Research Conference (HNR2024). Lausanne, July 8-10 2024.

The 9th International Historical Network Research Conference (HNR2024). Lausanne, July 8-10 2024.

Kolloquium Ältere Schweizer Geschichte: "Neue Forschungen zur Älteren Schweizer Geschichte und Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit". Institute of History, University of Bern, 16-17 May 2024.

In November 2022, Ina Habermann and Lukas Rosenthaler introduced SwissBritNet at the SKILLNET Conference in Utrecht in a paper on "Research-driven data modeling and the development of intelligent queries". Project partner Sepideh Alassi presented the Bernoulli-Euler Online Project (BEOL).