You are most welcome to attend the second last PREMIS seminar of the year on Wednesday 10 April (16-18 in Panorama, Arken) when  Sven-Johan Spånberg, Professor Emeritus of English at Umeå University, will come and give a lecture on Walt Whitman (1819-1892), in particular his personal background as well as issues related to the political context of his works and the many editions of his Leaves of Grass. Promises to be an excellent introduction to the author for anyone interested! Please see the poster for the event here.

You’re very welcome to join the next PREMIS seminar on Wednesday 3 April, 16-18 in Panorama, Arken! Pia Ahlbäck from the Comparative Literature department will come and give a talk with the title “Competing Temporalities. Chrononormativity in 21st Century
Finland-Swedish Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture”. She will share about a project funded by the Swedish Literature Society in Finland, “Competing Temporalities”. The project emphasizes the need to re-think time and temporality in the present historical
context of climate change, and in her talk, Pia will introduce some of its key concepts and materials. You can view the poster for the event here.

You are all very welcome to attend the PREMIS seminar on 20 March 16-18 in Panorama, Arken, when Lydia Kokkola will share about a project on the culture of Arctic youth and its relation to their regional identity. Read the abstract and bio here!

The second PREMIS seminar of the year  will take place Wednesday 6 March 15-17 in Panorama, Arken. Then we will hear a lecture titled ‘Hermeneutic and Fictional Spaces’ from Professor Benoit Doyon-Gosselin (l’Université de Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada), followed by discussion. The talk will be about his work on Canadian literature and particularly the approach he has created for examining fictional spaces such as the house. You are very welcome to join us!

Please note that the seminar is held at an exceptional time, starting already at three. It is done in collaboration with French Language and Literature at ÅAU and The Embassy of Canada to Finland, Helsinki. Here is a poster for the event.

Welcome to the first PREMIS session of the year! On 27 February, we have Kevin Doyle speaking. He is a playwright who is currently Invited Artist at the KONE foundation Saari Residence. He will come and share some of his thoughts on US politics, on his travels  in the US and abroad, and on his work in dramaturgy. We are meeting 16-18 in Helikon, Arken. Please see the poster for the event here.

You are warmly welcome to attend our literary research seminar! This term we are meeting in Panorama, Arken. Check the dates and speakers here!

NB! We are having a seminar meeting already in February, on the 27th, when playwright Kevin Doyle is coming to give a talk on his work! This first seminar will take place in Helikon, Arken.

Welcome to the last PREMIS seminar of 2018! Please note that the seminar is on Thursday instead of Wednesday, 15-17. We are very glad to welcome back as guest lecturer Stuart McWilliams, now working at the University of Oslo. His title for the day is “Commune of Saints: The Remains of Socialist Medievalism”. Here is the poster for the event.

Welcome to the November PREMIS seminar where author Guy Gunaratne will be speaking with the title “The Englishness of Street Verse”! See the poster here.

Guy will also host a seminar on Contemporary London Literature with Jason Finch on Tuesday 20 November 16-18, to which all students, staff, and researchers are welcome. Please sign up by Monday 12 November by sending an e-mail to aihaataj@abo.fi. On 13 November a text for discussion in the seminar will be circulated to those who have signed up.

You are warmly welcome to the second PREMIS seminar of the autumn! On Wednesday UK-based poet Robert Powell will share about his work where rivers, including the river Aura, have a strong presence. See poster.