{"id":816,"date":"2026-04-09T14:33:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/english-language-and-literature\/?p=816"},"modified":"2026-04-09T14:33:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:33:45","slug":"premis-wednesday-15-april-2026-kevin-wolke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/english-language-and-literature\/2026\/04\/09\/premis-wednesday-15-april-2026-kevin-wolke\/","title":{"rendered":"PREMIS, Wednesday 15 April 2026: Kevin Wolke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to another PREMIS seminar this spring! Taking place on Wednesday 15 April at 16:15-17:45 in Arken, J\u00f6ns Budde (M218) or on Zoom. The speaker is doctoral researcher Kevin Wolke, from our English Department at \u00c5bo Akademi University.<\/p>\n<p>The draft title of Kevin&#8217;s thesis is &#8220;Late Modernist Existentialism: Philosophical Approaches to the Novels of Henry Miller and Hubert Selby Jr.&#8221;, and he expects to defend his thesis in late 2026. During the PREMIS he will speak about late modernist mysticism in Henry Miller\u2019s <em>Tropic of Capricorn<\/em> and Hubert Selby Jr.\u2019s <em>The Demon <\/em>&#8211; see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/english-language-and-literature\/files\/2026\/04\/PREMIS-Wolke.pdf\">abstract<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The PREMIS is available via Zoom: <a href=\"https:\/\/aboakademi.zoom.us\/j\/6950507660\">https:\/\/aboakademi.zoom.us\/j\/6950507660<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everyone is welcome to attend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to another PREMIS seminar this spring! Taking place on Wednesday 15 April at 16:15-17:45 in Arken, J\u00f6ns Budde (M218) or on Zoom. The speaker is doctoral researcher Kevin Wolke, from our English Department at \u00c5bo Akademi University. The draft title of Kevin&#8217;s thesis is &#8220;Late Modernist Existentialism: Philosophical Approaches to the Novels of Henry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":803,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-premis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/english-language-and-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/english-language-and-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/english-language-and-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/english-language-and-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/english-language-and-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/english-language-and-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":818,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/english-language-and-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/english-language-and-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/english-language-and-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/english-language-and-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}