36.2460, FYI: Symposium-Enkvist-100

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Date: 20-Aug-2025
From: Tuija Virtanen [tuija.virtanen at abo.fi]
Subject: Symposium-Enkvist-100


Symposium in Memory of Nils Erik Enkvist on His 100th Birthday
The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, in collaboration with Åbo
Akademi University, is organizing a symposium in memory of the 100th
anniversary of the birth of the Society’s honorary member, Professor
Nils-Erik Enkvist.
The full-day symposium will take place in Turku on Monday, September
22, 2025.
The event will highlight Enkvist’s significant contributions to
language and literary studies through lectures addressing key research
areas from his extensive scholarly work, including Old English and
applied linguistics.
The symposium will take place at Åbo Akademi University, Arken
building (auditorium Helikon, Tehtaankatu 2, Turku, Finland). The
event will be conducted in Swedish and English.
Programme:
10.00–10.05
Professor Urpo Nikanne, Åbo Akademi University: Welcome
10.20–10.30
Professor Mats Gyllenberg, Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters:
Welcome
10.30–11.15
Professor Fred Karlsson: Den unge Nils Erik Enkvist — med hans egna
ord och några av mina
11.15–11.40 Coffee
11.40–12.10
Professors Jan-Ola Östman & Tuija Virtanen-Ulfhielm: Nils Erik Enkvist
– text linguist and so much more
12.10–12.40
Professor Roger Sell: Nils Erik Enkvist as a Literary Scholar
12.40–13.40 Lunch break
13.40–14.10
Professor Ulla Connor: Nils Erik Enkvist – his bilateral relationship
with America
14.10–14.40
Professor Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest: Nils Erik Enkvist, an inspirational
mentor from Stylistics to Impromptu Speech
14.40–15.10
Professor Martina Björklund:
What’s in a book? Authors’ dedications and reader’s notes in Nils Erik
Enkvist’s Russian books
15.10–15.40 Coffee
15.40–16.10
Professor Helena Lehečková: Prague Linguistic Circle: Inspiring and
Inspired
16.10–16.40
Professor Jef Verschueren: Texts matter
16.40–17.10
Professor Brita Wårvik: From Style to Discourse – Nils Erik Enkvist
and Historical Text Linguistics
17.10–17.30
FD Izabela Czerniak, Åbo Akademi University: Word order parameters –
Influence by proxy
17.30–17.45
Tuija Virtanen-Ulfhielm & Jan-Ola Östman: Closing Words
See also:
https://scientiarum.fi/en/events/symposium-in-memory-of-nils-erik-enkvist/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Ling & Literature
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)




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