Monthly Archives: November 2024

SPREMI, 14 November 2024: Liz Marsden

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

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

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!