Doctoral Defence, Saturday 15 November 2025: Andreas Lehtinen

22 October, 2025NewsBrita

M.A. Andreas Lehtinen will publicly defend his doctoral thesis in English Language and Literature on Saturday 15 November 2025 in Auditorium Armfelt (Arken, Tehtaankatu).

The thesis is entitled Voids of the Absolute: Michael Symmons Roberts’s Poetry as Hegelian (Picture-)Thought.

Professor Kristina Mendicino, Brown University, USA, will serve as opponent and Professor Emeritus Anthony Johnson, Åbo Akademi University, as custos.

The doctoral thesis can be read at Doria, the link will be published here one week before the defence.

17 October, 2025: Drama and Early Modern Education in Britain: A One-Day Symposium

9 October, 2025News, PREMISBrita

You are warmly invited to the Interdisciplinary Research Symposium
Drama and Early Modern Education in Britain
on Friday 17 October, 2025 in Helikon (Arken, Tehtaankatu 2).

Individual topics will be addressed from Social, Historical, Linguistic, Literary, and Digital perspectives.

The programme is available here.

22 September, 2025: Symposium in Memory of Nils Erik Enkvist on His 100th Birthday

2 September, 2025NewsBrita

Åbo Akademi University and The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters are organizing a symposium in memory of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Professor Nils Erik Enkvist..

Nils Erik Enkvist was Professor of English as well as Rector and Chancellor of Åbo Akademi University. He was an honorary member of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters.

The full-day symposium will take place in Turku on Monday, September 22, 2025.

The event will highlight Enkvist’s significant contributions to language and literary studies through lectures addressing key research areas from his extensive scholarly work, including Old English and applied linguistics.

Introductory meetings, 1 September 2025

14 August, 2025NewsBrita

The new academic year at the department starts with three introductory meetings on Monday 1 September

New students, 9.00-9.45, Panorama

Other BA students, 15.15-16.00, Helikon

MA students 16.15-17.00, Kramer

The introduction is an important occasion where you will get a lot of essential information concerning your studies. So do come along!

SPREMI, Thursday 15 May 2025: Izabela Czerniak and Debopam Das

13 May, 2025News, SPREMI

Welcome to SPREMI on Thursday 15 May 2025 at 15.15 – 17.00 in aud. Panorama (B301, Arken) & Zoom. The speakers of the day are Izabela Czerniak and Debopam Das from English Language and Literature, Åbo Akademi University.

In this presentation, the speakers discuss their ongoing corpus project, The Use of Relative Clauses and Related Phenomena in Learner 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 welcomed!

Thesis Festival, Monday 28 April 2025

25 April, 2025News

Welcome to the Thesis Festival on Monday, 28th of April, at 14.30 in Källan (C201), Arken.

The programme includes presentations on thesis work by Carl-Ivar Back, Noémie Hueber, and Aino Haataja. The winner of the H. W. Donner Essay Prize 2025 will also be announced.

You can find more details in the attachment.

Everyone is warmly welcomed!

SPREMI, Thursday 20 March 2025: Tuomo Hiippala

13 March, 2025News, SPREMI

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

11 March, 2025News, PREMIS

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

17 February, 2025News, SPREMIBrita

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

30 January, 2025News, SPREMIBrita

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!