Contemporary Trends in Conceptual History Seminar
Seminar in connection with the Helsinki Summer School Introduction to Conceptual History Course.
Date: 16-17 August 2007
Place: Porthania, Auditorium PIII (Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki)
Organisers:
Programme
Thursday 16 August
10.15am Welcome
Kari Palonen, Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä
Henrik Stenius, Research Director, Docent, Centre for Nordic Studies (CENS), University of Helsinki
10.30am-12.00noon First Session
Chair: Henrik Stenius, Research Director, Docent, Centre for Nordic Studies (CENS), University of Helsinki
PD Dr. Hans Erich Bödeker, Research Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History Science, Berlin
Petri Koikkalainen, Lecturer, Faculty of Social Science, University of Lapland: Political Theory and the End of Ideology.
12.00noon-1.15pm Lunch
1.15pm-2.45pm Second Session
Chair: Martin J. Burke, Associate Professor of History and American Studies, Ph.D. Program in History, The Graduate Centre, The City University of New York.
Tero Erkkilä, Researcher, Department of Political Science, University of Helsinki:
From Openness to Transparency. Rethinking Administrative Virtues.
Terhi Lehtinen, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Helsinki: Framing the field of ’politics’ in the post-colonial world – The case of Uganda.
2.45pm-3.15pm Coffee and Tea
3.15pm-5.30pm Key Note Lectures
Chair: Henrik Stenius, Research Director, Docent, Centre for Nordic Studies (CENS), University of Helsinki
Keith Tribe, Dr., Translator, University of Sussex; The King’s School, Worcester:
How Begriffsgeschichte relates to translating Weber – Imagining how Reinhart Koselleck would respond to Weber.
Kari Palonen, Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä: ‘Objectivity’ as Fair Play. Max Weber’s parliamentary and rhetorical paradigm for dealing with academic disputes.
5.30pm-6pm Presentation of the CONCEPTA – International Research School in Conceptual History and Political Thought Organization
Friday 17 August
10.30am-12.00noon First Session
Chair: Jani Marjanen, Researcher, Centre for Nordic Studies (CENS), University of Helsinki
Evgeny Roshchin, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science and Sociology, European University at St. Petersburg:
Normative re-description of international friendship.
Anthoula Malkopoulou, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä:
From parliaments to voters and back.
12.00noon-1.15pm Lunch
1.15pm-2.45pm Second Session
Chair: Sami Syrjämäki, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Philosophy, University Tampere
Jeppe Nevers, Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of History and Civilization, University of Southern Denmark:
Danish Conceptions of Democracy: From the Reception of Montesquieu to the 1950s.
Tuula Vaarakallio, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä:
Antiparliamentarism in France.
2.45pm-3.15pm Coffee and Tea
3.15pm-4.45pm Third Session
Chair: Martin J. Burke, Associate Professor of History and American Studies, Ph.D. Program in History, The Graduate Centre, The City University of New York.
Gabriel Entin, Ph.D. Candidate, L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales, Paris; University of Buenos Aires:
The Uses of ‘Republic’ in Rio de la Plata. From Empire Disintegration to Revolution.
Suvi Soininen, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Social Science and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä:
Michael Oakeshott and Conceptual History.
4.45pm-5pm Concluding Remarks
Kari Palonen, Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä
Martin J. Burke, Associate Professor of History and American Studies, Ph.D. Program in History, The Graduate Centre, The City University of New York.
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