Merja Polvinen · @MerjaPolvinen
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Faculty of Arts at #UniversityOfHelsinki has been put on a boat to envision some futures.
#UniversityOfHelsinki #strategyplanning #academicchatter
Merja Polvinen · @MerjaPolvinen
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PhD toot!
#SF #ScienceFiction #SpeculativeFiction @litstudies #cognition #affordance
Esko Suoranta will defend his dissertation "The Sky Above the Port Was the Color of Capitalism: Literary Affordance and Technonaturalist Speculative Fiction" in a public examination at the #UniversityOfHelsinki on Saturday, August 26, 14:00 (Helsinki time).
Professor emeritus #BrianMcHale acts as opponent and Dr #MerjaPolvinen as custos (chair).
Everyone can attend the event on Zoom at https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/62861691846,
or, should you find yourself in Helsinki at the time, you can join us at Porthania, room PIII, Yliopistonkatu 3, 00100 Helsinki.
The dissertation is available by request from esko.suoranta@helsinki.fi or open access from August 16 at the following address: https://helda.helsinki.fi/items/d5576644-26e8-4f10-b622-0fc3a7acd4ff
Dissertation cover image copyright by Faris Alsuhail.
#sf #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #cognition #Affordance #UniversityOfHelsinki #brianmchale #merjapolvinen
Merja Polvinen · @MerjaPolvinen
205 followers · 358 posts · Server hcommons.socialJust concluded the two weeks of busy, heady, inspiring conversations during the visit to #UniversityOfHelsinki of Ewan Jones (Cambridge).
We talked #literature #poetry #cognition #emotion #CloseReading #Computational approaches #attention #distraction #aesthetics #embodiment #phenomenology #pedagogy
Thank you Visiting Professor programme of the #HSSH Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities for the opportunity!
#UniversityOfHelsinki #literature #poetry #cognition #emotion #closereading #computational #attention #distraction #aesthetics #embodiment #phenomenology #pedagogy #hssh
· @NaturalNews
5982 followers · 28037 posts · Server brighteon.social#Pastor #GretaThunberg would like to teach you about her #green #religion
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-03-23-university-of-helsinki-awards-doctorate-greta-thunberg.html
#theology #doctorate #UniversityOfHelsinki #religion #green #gretathunberg #pastor
Merja Polvinen · @MerjaPolvinen
41 followers · 21 posts · Server hcommons.socialIntroduction post: I'm a senior university lecturer of #EnglishLiterature at the #UniversityOfHelsinki in #Finland.
I work in #CognitiveLiteraryStudies and #narratology, particularly #4ECognition, #metafiction and #SpeculativeFiction.
#speculativefiction #metafiction #4ECognition #narratology #CognitiveLiteraryStudies #finland #UniversityOfHelsinki #englishliterature