Organizing committee

The conference is organized by the English Philology unit at the Department of Modern Languages, University of Helsinki.

• Minna Palander-Collin
• Irma Taavitsainen
• Maura Ratia
• Samuli Kaislaniemi (conference secretary)
• Francesca Mackay

Scientific Committee

Submitted abstracts will be evaluated anonymously by members of the scientific committee.

• Nicholas Brownlees
• Beatrix Busse
• Claudia Claridge
• Andreas Jucker
• Dan McIntyre
• Teresa Sánchez Roura
• Erik Smitterberg

“Tidningar Utgifne af et Sällskap i Åbo”, ‘News Published by a Society in Turku’, was the first Finnish newspaper, published 1771-1785