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!

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!

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. 

PREMIS, Wednesday 27 November,

16-18 in Aud. Helikon (A202), Arken, to be followed by a book launch for The Materiality of Literary Narratives in Urban History (18-19, Donner)

Richard Dennis, University College London

No Home-Like Place: Delusions of Home in Some Victorian and Edwardian Novels

All are welcome!

You are most welcome to attend the next PREMIS seminar on Wednesday, 9 October (16-18 in Helikon, Arken) when Professor Casie Hermansson (Pittsburg State University, USA) will be speaking with the title “Filming the Children’s Book”.

Abstract

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