Category Archives: SPREMI

SPREMI, Thursday 20 February 2025: Bobbi Reiman

Welcome to SPREMI on Thursday 20 February 2025 at 15.15 – 17.00 in aud. Helikon (A201, Arken, Fabriksgatan 2).

The speaker of the day is Bobbi Reiman form KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt  The title of her talk is The Rise of Christian Nationalism in the U.S.: Causes, Complications, and Consequences.”.

Please see the abstract for more information.

The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)

Everyone is warmly welcome!

SPREMI, Thursday 6 February 2025: Izabela Czerniak

Welcome to SPREMI on Thursday 6 February 2025 at 15.15 – 17.00 in aud. Helikon (A201, Arken, Fabriksgatan 2).

The speaker of the day is Izabela Cerniak, project researcher in English Language at Åbo Akademi University. The title of her talk is “There was once a Country-man, which came to London, (…)”: Some considerations on relativisation strategies in (Early) Modern English.

Please see the abstract for more information.

The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)

Everyone is warmly welcome!

SPREMI, 23 January 2025: Interdisciplinary seminar on nationalism

Interdisciplinary seminar on nationalism
23 January 2025
Arken, Helikon
Online participation via Zoom: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059).

Many of us at Åbo Akademi are working on topics that have some connection to nationalism, even if nationalism would not be the main topic of the research. This interdisciplinary seminar, organised by Johanna Ilmakunnas (Nordic History) and Urpo Nikanne (Finnish Language) seeks to open a wider picture of nationalism in language, society, and culture and the research on it from all kinds of point of view. The seminar programme demonstrates how a number of issues in our research are linked to nationalism, today or in past, as well as within methodologies or theoretical perspectives.

Programme

SPREMI, 14 November 2024: Liz Marsden

Welcome to SPREMI on Thursday 14 November 2024 at 15.15 – 17.00 in Kramer (M220, Arken, Fabriksgatan 2).

Dr. Liz Marsden, postdoctoral researcher the English Department, will give a talk on reflections and findings from her 3-year postdoc at the university. Liz will be leaving our university at the end of this month, so this is the final opportunity to hear her talk about the newest in digital pragmatics. Her talk is titled “Digital Discourse and Online Community Building: Reflections and Findings from my 3-year Postdoc”.

Please see the abstract for more information.

The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)

The SPREMI seminars are open to all!

SPREMI, Thursday 3 October 2024: Olli Silvennoinen

Welcome to SPREMI on Thursday 3 October 2024 at 15.15 – 17.00 in Panorama (B301, Arken, Fabriksgatan 2).

Olli Silvennoinen, University Lecturer in English Language at Åbo Akademi University, will give a talk on the exploratory study of the adverb construction going forward.

Please see the abstract for more information.

The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)

Everyone is warmly welcome!

SPREMI, Thursday 12 September 2024: Lieselotte Anderwald

Welcome to SPREMI on Thursday 12 September 2024 at 15.15 – 17.00 in Panorama (B301, Arken, Fabriksgatan 2).

Lieselotte Anderwald, professor of English linguistics at the University of Kiel, Germany, will give a talk on the process of “non-standardization” and stigmatization of ain’t from a historical perspective. The title of the talk is “Non-standardization: On the historical enregisterment of ain’t in 19th century American newspapers.”

Please see the abstract for more information.

The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)

Everyone is warmly welcome!

SPREMI, Thursday 2 May 2024: Aino Malmivirta

Welcome to SPREMI in Thursday 2 May, 2024, at 15:15-17 in Helikon (A201, Arken, Fabriksgatan 2).

The speaker of the day is doctoral researcher Aino Malmivirta (English Language and Literature, ÅAU.), who will be presenting her topic “I’ve got something very strange to tell you: On the development of possessives have got and got“.

Further information can be found in the abtract.

The seminar can also be attended online at: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66312703059 (Meeting ID: 663 1270 3059)

Everyone is warmly welcome!

SPREMI, Thursday 7 March 2024: Elizabeth Marsden

Welcome to SPREMI on Thursday 7 March, 2024, at 15:15-17 in Källan (C201, Arken, Fabriksgatan 2).

The speaker of the day is postdoctoral researcher Elizabeth Marsden (English Language and Literature, ÅAU.), who will present her topic “A multi-layered relationship: How GIF embedded text contributes to meaning in replies“.

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)

Everyone is warmly welcome!

SPREMI, Monday 13 November 2023: Marta Dynel

Welcome to SPREMI on Monday 13 November, 2023, at 16:15-18 in Helikon (A202, Arken, Tehtaankatu 2).

Professor Marta Dynel from Łódź University (Poland) will present her topic “Building political hashtag affinity spaces: #HaStatoPutin vs. #FuckPutin”.

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)

Everyone is warmly welcome!

SPREMI 19 October 2023: Kukka-Maaria Wessman

Welcome to SPREMI on Wednesday 19 October, 2023, at 15:15-17 in Helikon (A202, Arken, Tehtaankatu 2).

The speaker of the day is PhD candidate Kukka-Maaria Wessman from the University of Turku. Her topic is “Visual aphorisms as stance-driven multimodal Internet memes”.

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!