SwissBritNet

In spring 2026, Basel University Library will host an exhibition curated by the Basel SwissBritNet team. Records, books, letters and material artefacts from the rich collections of Basel University Library will document the experience of travellers, scholars, chaplains and other Swiss anglophiles in the 17^th and 18^th century. The Basel scholar Johann Jacob Frey will feature prominently since his correspondence with English churchmen, aristocrats, antiquaries and scholars presents a singular testimony to the close confessional, political and scholarly entanglement of early modern Anglo-Swiss exchange.

The eighth biennial conference of the Swiss Association for Medieval and Early Modern English Studies (SAMEMES) will be hosted at the English Seminar of the University of Basel on Sept 4-6, f2024.

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.

Philippe Bernhard Schmid (Basel), Yuval Givon (Jerusalem) and Anja-Silvia Goeing (Harvard) are organizing an online peer seminar which meets once a month, co-hosted by the University of Basel, Harvard University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, LMU Munich and the University of Zurich.

This spring semester, Ina Habermann is teaching a seminar "Current Research in Early Modern Travel Writing" at the English Seminar in Basel.

Philippe Bernhard Schmid will teach a seminar on "Information in Early Modern Europe" at the English Seminar and the Department of History in Basel.

In spring 2026, Basel University Library will host an exhibition curated by the Basel SwissBritNet team. Records, books, letters and material artefacts from the rich collections of Basel University Library will document the experience of travellers, scholars, chaplains and other Swiss anglophiles in the 17^th and 18^th century. The Basel scholar Johann Jacob Frey will feature prominently since his correspondence with English churchmen, aristocrats, antiquaries and scholars presents a singular testimony to the close confessional, political and scholarly entanglement of early modern Anglo-Swiss exchange.

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).