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SPREMI 25 March: Gustaf Olsson

22 March, 2021News, SPREMI

Our next SPREMI session takes place on Thursday 25 March, 15:15-17 on Zoom.

Zoom link: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059).

The speaker is Gustaf Olsson (University of Turku, Russian Studies). The title of his talk is “Grammatical variation in loandwords” (see ABSTRACT).

Department Trainee Position, spring 2021

18 February, 2021NewsBrita

The department is looking for a trainee for the period March to May 2021. For more information see the trainee ad on the Department’s Moodle Notice Board and sent to enge-info.

SPREMI 25 February: Ylva Biri

18 February, 2021News, SPREMI

Our next SPREMI session takes place on Thursday 25 February, 15:15-17 on Zoom.

Zoom link: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059).

The speaker is Ylva Biri (University of Helsinki, English Philology). The title of her talk is “Participant positioning in interest-based online communities” (see ABSTRACT).

PREMIS 17.2: Jason Finch and Lieven Ameel, Developments in Literary Urban Studies: Two Drafts

15 February, 2021News, PREMISAino Haataja, doctoral candidate, English

During this week’s Zoom Premis Jason Finch and Lieven Ameel will each be giving a presentation on their book projects. Details and Zoom link in the poster: Premis 17th February 2021_Ameel-Finch.

This is happening the coming Wednesday 17th February 16-18.

All are warmly welcome!

Doctoral defence: Charlotte Stormbom

5 February, 2021NewsBrita

FM Charlotte Stormbom will defend her doctoral thesis Friday, 12 February, 2021 at 1 pm.

The thesis is entitled Gendered language in flux: The use of epicene pronouns in EFL and ELF writing. Apart from the candidate’s lectio praecursoria in Swedish, the discussion will be in English.

The opponent is Professor Anna Mauranen, University of Helsinki, and the chair is Professor Tuija Virtanen-Ulfhielm.

You are welcome to follow the event online using this link:
https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/61209180922
Meeting ID: 6120 918 0922

A link to the online version of the thesis can be found here:
https://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/180221

PREMIS 27.1.2021: Professor Casie Hermansson on Adapting Books for Film: Joyce’s “Eveline”

25 January, 2021News, PREMISAino Haataja, doctoral candidate, English

Please find attached details of our PREMIS Seminar this coming Wednesday 27th of January by Casie Hermansson on Adapting Books for Film: Joyce’s “Eveline”. Poster and details here: Premis 27th January 2021_Casie Hermansson.

Everyone is welcome to this first PREMIS of the year! This is a great event to write about for the critical reports for those doing the “new MA”!

N.B. Casie is asking us to read Joyce’s short story “Eveline” before the meeting in preparation for discussion. Details in the poster.

The event will take place 4:00-6:00pm on Wednesday 27th January in Zoom. Link in the poster. Please join using your first and last name.

SPREMI programme spring 2021

14 January, 2021News, SPREMI

SPREMI PROGRAMME SPRING 2021

We meet on Thursdays, every second week, 15-17, in Zoom (for link to Zoom, see the programme above). Three presentation slots are still available this spring!

SPREMI 14 January: Izabela Czerniak

5 November, 2020News, SPREMI

ABSTRACT 14 JANUARY

The first SPREMI session of the year takes place on 14 January, 15:15-17 on Zoom (link in the abstract above). The speaker is Izabela Czerniak and her talk has the title “Relativisation strategies in English – Output from Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English”.