SPREMI, Thursday 20 March 2025: Tuomo Hiippala

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Welcome to SPREMI on Thursday 20 March 2025 at 15.15 – 17.00 in aud. Camera Obscura (E201, Arken) & Zoom.

The speaker of the day is Tuomo Hiippala form University of Helsinki. In this presentation, Professor Hiippala discusses his current project, A Foundation for Empirical Multimodality Research, funded by the European Research Council (2024–2029).

Please see the abstract for more information.

The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059).

Everyone is warmly welcomed!

PREMIS, Wednesday 12 March 2025: Zeynep Ceren Correia, Jason Finch, and Nirali Joshi

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Welcome to PREMIS in Helikon (A202), Arken, at 16:00-18:00 on 12th of March, 2025.
 
The upcoming PREMIS seminar brings the snapshots of ongoing work under project ‘Twentieth-Century Railway Imaginations: Building the Mobility and Infrastructural Humanities’ (acronym: RAILIMAGE) currently underway at the department of English Language and Literature, Åbo Akademi University.
 
RAILIMAGE develops an urgently needed humanization of transport studies. It does so by writing the global qualitative and imaginative history of the long-distance railway journey and its spaces in the twentieth century, reaffirming the role of the railway in twenty-first-century imaginations of more sustainable mobility. 
 
Please see the abstract for more information.
 
Everyone is warmly welcome!

SPREMI, Thursday 20 February 2025: Bobbi Reiman

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Welcome to SPREMI on Thursday 20 February 2025 at 15.15 – 17.00 in aud. Helikon (A201, Arken, Fabriksgatan 2).

The speaker of the day is Bobbi Reiman form KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt  The title of her talk is “The Rise of Christian Nationalism in the U.S.: Causes, Complications, and Consequences.”.

Please see the abstract for more information.

The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)

Everyone is warmly welcome!

SPREMI, Thursday 6 February 2025: Izabela Czerniak

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Welcome to SPREMI on Thursday 6 February 2025 at 15.15 – 17.00 in aud. Helikon (A201, Arken, Fabriksgatan 2).

The speaker of the day is Izabela Cerniak, project researcher in English Language at Åbo Akademi University. The title of her talk is “There was once a Country-man, which came to London, (…)”: Some considerations on relativisation strategies in (Early) Modern English.

Please see the abstract for more information.

The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)

Everyone is warmly welcome!

SPREMI, 23 January 2025: Interdisciplinary seminar on nationalism

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Interdisciplinary seminar on nationalism
23 January 2025
Arken, Helikon
Online participation via Zoom: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059).

Many of us at Åbo Akademi are working on topics that have some connection to nationalism, even if nationalism would not be the main topic of the research. This interdisciplinary seminar, organised by Johanna Ilmakunnas (Nordic History) and Urpo Nikanne (Finnish Language) seeks to open a wider picture of nationalism in language, society, and culture and the research on it from all kinds of point of view. The seminar programme demonstrates how a number of issues in our research are linked to nationalism, today or in past, as well as within methodologies or theoretical perspectives.

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SPREMI, 14 November 2024: Liz Marsden

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Welcome to SPREMI on Thursday 14 November 2024 at 15.15 – 17.00 in Kramer (M220, Arken, Fabriksgatan 2).

Dr. Liz Marsden, postdoctoral researcher the English Department, will give a talk on reflections and findings from her 3-year postdoc at the university. Liz will be leaving our university at the end of this month, so this is the final opportunity to hear her talk about the newest in digital pragmatics. Her talk is titled “Digital Discourse and Online Community Building: Reflections and Findings from my 3-year Postdoc”.

Please see the abstract for more information.

The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)

The SPREMI seminars are open to all!

Doctoral Defence, Tuesday 12 November 2024: Aleksandra Ianchenko

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M.A. Aleksandra Ianchenko (COTUTELLE) will publicly defend her doctoral thesis in English Language and Literature with a thesis entitled Estranging Trams: Atmospheres of Trams In Art.

Professor Peter Adey, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom, and Professor Annette Arlander, The University of the Arts Helsinki (Uniarts Helsinki), Finland, will serve as opponents and Professor Jason Finch, Åbo Akademi University, as custos.

The defence will start at 10:00 and lasts approximately fours hours, taking place on campus at Tallinn University in Tallinn, Estonia, room M648. You can also attend the defence in Helikon (A202), Arken (Fabriksgatan 2, 20500 Åbo) where the defence is streamed via Zoom, or by connecting directly to the Zoom through the link provided below.

The link to Zoom can be found here.

PREMIS, Wednesday 6 November 2024: Andreas Lehtinen

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Welcome to another PREMIS seminar on Wednesday 6 November 2024 in aud. Källan (C201), Arken, at 16.15-18.00.

The English Department’s own doctoral researcher Andreas Lehtinen gives a talk titled “’PS I never got to München’: Teutophilia, Script, Militaria and the Composition of Keith Douglas’s ‘Vergissmeinnicht’”.

Please see the abstract abstract for further information.

The PREMIS seminars are open to all!

Book Publication, Thursday 10 October 2024: Gill, Malmivirta, Wårvik

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Everyone is welcome to attend the special event that takes place in Smedjan (M227), Arken, on Thursday 10 October 2024 at 15.00-17.00.

The English Department at Åbo Akademi has a long tradition of research in text and discourse linguistics and pragmatics, and many of our members of staff have published in this field. To mark one item in this tradition we are organizing a book publication event to present the volume Structures in Discourse: Interaction, Adaptability, and Pragmatic Functions, edited by Martin Gill, Aino Malmivirta, and Brita Wårvik (John Benjamins, 2024).

Our guest of honour at this event will be Tuija Virtanen-Ulfhielm, Professor Emerita of English Linguistics, whose work has been a major influence on the field, and to whom this collection of papers is dedicated.

Come and hear about the volume, the process that resulted in the publication, and its background in the linguistic research at the Department.

Refreshments will be served.

All staff and students are warmly welcome!

PREMIS, Wednesday 9 October 2024: Casie Hermansson

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Welcome to another PREMIS seminar on Wednesday 9 October 2024 in aud. Källan (C201), Arken, at 16.15-18.00, or via Zoom (https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/64929391104, Meeting ID: 649 2939 1104).

Visiting Professor Casie Hermansson (English literature, Pittsburg State University, USA) gives a talk titled “Writing Supplemental Literature for the Secret Codes Literacy Program, Kansas Center(s) for READing”.

Please see the abstract for further information.

The PREMIS seminars are open to all!