The department is looking for a trainee for the period mid-August to mid-November 2024. For more information see the trainee ad on the Department’s Moodle Notice Board and sent to enge-info.
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SPREMI, Thursday 2 May 2024: Aino Malmivirta
Welcome to SPREMI in Thursday 2 May, 2024, at 15:15-17 in Helikon (A201, Arken, Fabriksgatan 2).
The speaker of the day is doctoral researcher Aino Malmivirta (English Language and Literature, ÅAU.), who will be presenting her topic “I’ve got something very strange to tell you: On the development of possessives have got and got“.
Further information can be found in the abtract.
The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)
Everyone is warmly welcome!
PREMIS, Wednesday, 17 April 2024: Rafia Zafar
Welcome to PREMIS on Wednesday 17 April, 2024, at 16:00-18:00 in Helikon (A202, Arken, Fabriksgatan 2, Åbo).
The speaker of the day is H.W. Donner guest professor Rafia Zafar, who will be presenting her topic “Kitchenette (Un)Building“. She describes her talk as ‘a riff on Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem “Kitchenette Building”’. For further information, contact Jason Finch (jason.finch@abo.fi).
Further information can be found in the abstract.
The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/6950507660
The PREMIS- seminars are open to all – welcome!
SPREMI, Thursday 7 March 2024: Elizabeth Marsden
Welcome to SPREMI on Thursday 7 March, 2024, at 15:15-17 in Källan (C201, Arken, Fabriksgatan 2).
The speaker of the day is postdoctoral researcher Elizabeth Marsden (English Language and Literature, ÅAU.), who will present her topic “A multi-layered relationship: How GIF embedded text contributes to meaning in replies“.
Further information can be found in the abstract.
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 25 January 2024: Loukia Lindholm
Welcome to SPREMI on Thursday 20 April, 2023, at 3 pm in Helikon (A202, Arken, Tehtaankatu 2).
The speaker of the day is university lecturer Debopam Das (English Language and Literature, ÅAU).). His topic is “Structuring discourse through discourse relations and relational signals.” The talk combines grammar, text, and discourse as well as semantics.
Further information can be found in the abstract.
The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)
Everybody is welcome!
Department Trainee position, spring 2024
The department is looking for a trainee for the period mid-February to mid-May 2024. For more information see the trainee ad on the Department’s Moodle Notice Board and sent to enge-info.
PREMIS, Wednesday 15 November 2023: Dr. Pablo Gómez-Muñoz
Welcome to PREMIS on Wednesday 15 November, 2023, at 16:00-18:00 in Helikon (A202, Arken, Tehtaankatu 2).
Dr. Pablo Gómez-Muñoz (University of Zaragoza, Spain) will deliver a lecture entitled “Neoliberal Utopias and Spatial Transformation in 2010s Science Fiction Cinema”. He will specifically use the film Downsizing (2017) to provide examples of “the transformation of geographies (and bodies) in contemporary sf narratives”.
Further information can be found in the abstract.
The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)
SPREMI, Monday 13 November 2023: Marta Dynel
Welcome to SPREMI on Monday 13 November, 2023, at 16:15-18 in Helikon (A202, Arken, Tehtaankatu 2).
Professor Marta Dynel from Łódź University (Poland) will present her topic “Building political hashtag affinity spaces: #HaStatoPutin vs. #FuckPutin”.
Further information can be found in the abstract.
The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)
Everyone is warmly welcome!
SPREMI 19 October 2023: Kukka-Maaria Wessman
Welcome to SPREMI on Wednesday 19 October, 2023, at 15:15-17 in Helikon (A202, Arken, Tehtaankatu 2).
The speaker of the day is PhD candidate Kukka-Maaria Wessman from the University of Turku. Her topic is “Visual aphorisms as stance-driven multimodal Internet memes”.
Further information can be found in the abstract
The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)
Everybody is welcome!
SPREMI 2 October 2023: Jan-Ola Östman
Welcome to SPREMI on Monday 2 October, 2023, at 4 pm in Källan (C201, Arken, Tehtaankatu 2).
The speaker of the day is professor emeritus Jan-Ola Östman (Scandinavian Languages, University of Helsinki). His topic is “Construction Grammar Forty Years After – Constructions all the way up!”.
Further information can be found in the abstract.
The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)
Everybody is welcome!