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.

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!

All are welcome to partake in the teaching demonstration given by Dr. Maxwell Woods titled “Taking English Literatures Global”. The demonstration takes place in Källan (C201, Arken) on Tuesday 17 September at 14.30-15.15.

Dr. Woods is assistant professor in the Department of Literature at the Adolfo Ibáñez University in Viña del Mar, Chile, and he is applying for the title of Docent from Åbo Akademi University. His work is situated in the fields of global literary urban studies and comparative literature.

Please see the poster for more information.

Welcome!