English - research

Autumn 2025

• 28 October at 15:15-17:00, room C250 and Zoom
  Maria Olaussen: Ambivalence and Re-enchantment: Moments of Learning in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Fiction
• 16 September at 15:15-17:00, room J442
  Nadia Sanger, Stellenbosch University: Feminist-mother Writing as Creative Methodology: A South African Story
• 18 September at 15:15-17:00, room J432
  Professor Marc Maufort (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgien): "Hawai‘ian and Māori Literatures in Conversation: The Potential of Comparative Poetics as a Relational Tool" This seminar is a co-organization between the English Research Seminar and the research area Literary and Cultural Studies.
• 25 November at 15:15-17:00, room C256
  Anees Al-Najjar: When the Centre Cannot Hold: Transformations of Yemeni Identity During Conflict: A Poly-systemic Approach
• 16 December at 15:15-17:00, room C442 (staff-only meeting)
  Joakim Jahlmar: “That Which Is Complete Is Also Dead” in Salman Rushdie’s Grimus
• 17 December at 13:15-15:00, room C442
  Ebba Nyberg, PhD student: Dancing at Lughnasa: Referee Design in the Performance of Irish English

Spring 2025

• 25 February at 15:15-17:00, room C250
  Zlatan Filipovic, WIP-seminar: The Flesh of a Drowned World: Climate Trauma and Porous Living in J.G. Ballard’s The Drowned World
• 25 March at 15:15-17:00, room C250
  Professor Wumi Raji, guest lecturer: The Secret Love for Baba Segi: A Feminist Novelist’s Suggestion on a New African Masculinity
• 29 April at 15:15-17:00, room C250
  Amy Wanyu Ou: Conceptualising and Teaching Critical GAI Literacy for Academic Writing
• 27 May at 15:15-17:00, room C250
  Per Sivefors:  “A being from happier realms”: Inga Tidblad’s Guest Appearance in Svenska Teatern’s Merchant of Venice in Helsinki (1944)
• 13 June at 13:00-18:00, room C350
  Public defence of doctoral thesis in English: Johan Hellberg
  "A Transcultural Study of the Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Shashi Deshpande in Light of the Rasadhvani"