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!

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!

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!

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!

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.

Programme

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!