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!
Welcome to another PREMIS seminar on Wednesday 9 October 2024 in aud. Källan (C201), Arken, at 16.15-18.00, or via Zoom (https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/64929391104, Meeting ID: 649 2939 1104).
Visiting Professor Casie Hermansson (English literature, Pittsburg State University, USA) gives a talk titled “Writing Supplemental Literature for the Secret Codes Literacy Program, Kansas Center(s) for READing”.
Please see the abstract for further information.
The PREMIS seminars are open to all!
Welcome to the year’s first PREMIS on 19 September in Panorama (B301, Arken) at 15.15-17.00. Dr. Maxwell Woods from the Adolfo Ibáñez University, Chile, will present the latest in his research on global literary urban studies and comparative literature. The talk is titled “(Post)Colonial Interactions: Ireland and Indigenous Latin America”.
The PREMIS exceptionally takes place on a Thursday due to Dr. Wood’s tight schedule, but also because of the linguistic elements of the talk.
More information can be found in the abstract.
The PREMIS can also be attended online via Zoom: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059).
The PREMIS seminars are open to all – welcome!
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!
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)
Welcome to PREMIS on Wednesday 26 April, 2023, at 4 pm in Helikon (A202, Arken, Tehtaankatu 2).
The speaker of the day is the author, editor, and journalist Karen Cheung. Her topic is “Towards Obliterature: Writing a Female Text of Hong Kong.”
Karen Cheung is a writer from Hong Kong. She is the author of The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir (Random House), which was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, and named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post and The Economist. Her essays, reported features, and cultural criticism have been published in the New York Times, Foreign Policy, This American Life, New Statesman, The Rumpus, Evergreen Review, The Offing, and elsewhere. She was formerly a senior reporter at Hong Kong Free Press, and Associate Editor at Asia Art Archive.
All are welcome!
Further information can be found in the abstract.
The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/6066966700 (Meeting ID: 606 696 6700)
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!
Welcome to the first PREMIS seminar of the new academic year!
On 28 September 2022 (16:00-18:00), Dr Christoph Schimkowsky will present his work on ‘The Visual Communication of ‘Correct’ Passenger Conduct: Design Challenges of Transit Etiquette Poster Campaigns by Urban Railway Providers in Tokyo‘
Details are in the attachment. The seminar will take place in Helikon (A202) (Arken, Tehtaankatu 2)
PREMIS is the literary and cultural research seminar of English Language and Literature at Åbo Akademi University.
All are welcome!
In the PREMIS seminar on Wednesday 6 October, 16.00-19.00 (Helikon, A202) Dr Svante Lindberg will present his work in progress about “Michel del Castillo and Spain: On Origin/Memory, Language and “Born Translated” Literature”.
Abstract and text extracts
Everyone is warmly welcome!
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!
