Welcome to another springtime PREMIS seminar! It takes place on Wednesday 6 May, in Kramer (M220), Arken or on Zoom, at 16:15-17:45. The speaker is postdoc researcher Zeynep Henriques Correia, from our Department.

Zeynep is working on the RAILIMAGE project, and the topic of this talk is a part of that. The title of her talk is: “Seeking the Tailwind: Agency and Lost Rail Futures in Two Twentieth-Century Women Cyclists’ Memoirs”. For more information, see abstract.

The PREMIS is available via Zoom: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/6950507660

Everyone is warmly welcomed!

Welcome to another PREMIS seminar this spring! Taking place on Wednesday 15 April at 16:15-17:45 in Arken, Jöns Budde (M218) or on Zoom. The speaker is doctoral researcher Kevin Wolke, from our English Department at Åbo Akademi University.

The draft title of Kevin’s thesis is “Late Modernist Existentialism: Philosophical Approaches to the Novels of Henry Miller and Hubert Selby Jr.”, and he expects to defend his thesis in late 2026. During the PREMIS he will speak about late modernist mysticism in Henry Miller’s Tropic of Capricorn and Hubert Selby Jr.’s The Demon – see abstract.

The PREMIS is available via Zoom: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/6950507660

Everyone is welcome to attend!

Welcome to a PREMIS seminar on the 8th of April at 16:15 –17:45 in Jöns Budde (M218), Arken and on Zoom. The speaker is Roger D. Sell, Emeritus Professor of English Language and Literature, Åbo Akademi University.

Roger will present his research in a talk titled “Communicational Critics and Literary Époques” – see the abstract for more information.

Also available via Zoom: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/6950507660

Everyone is welcome to attend the seminar!

You are warmly invited to the Interdisciplinary Research Symposium
Drama and Early Modern Education in Britain
on Friday 17 October, 2025 in Helikon (Arken, Tehtaankatu 2).

Individual topics will be addressed from Social, Historical, Linguistic, Literary, and Digital perspectives.

The programme is available here.

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!