CONCEPT WORKSHOP 5/25

Concepts in Texts – A Weekend of Analysis

Time: 26.9.-28.9.2025 (Friday-Sunday)
Location: Lammi biological station
Participants: Tuija Pulkkinen, Julian Honkasalo, Katja Kahlina, Aino Pietiläinen.
PROGRAM

This is the first whole weekend-long Concept Workshop, and it takes place at the university Biological station at Lammi. The weekend-long workshop provides a possibility of engaging in intensive concept analysis on texts, together, as planned originally when project was drafted. As in all concept workshops, we will focus in the analysis on the use of the concepts ‘people’, ‘majority’ and ‘minority’ in particular texts. For analysis we have selected texts from all categories 1) anti-gender agents 2) academic research on anti-gender 3) anti-gender critical activists 4) EU politics against anti-gender. In this first long workshop, we will experiment and engage in analysis of texts with aim to find productive ways of working on them, in practice. In addition we will further discuss our conceptual history inspired method. We will also discuss on the progress of the PhD project, in particular the article manuscript in process.

 

Friday

15.00-17.00 Reviewing the materials to analyze and discussing the program

17.00–18.00 Dinner

18.00–18.30 Reviewing the plans for website, starting the discussion

 

Saturday

9.00–10.30 Concept analysis together: Text: Restoring the natural Order: An Agenda for Europe. Other small texts.

10.30–12.00 Concept analysis together: Text: The Next Wave: How Religious Extremism Is Reclaiming Power (Datta, 2025)

12.00-13.00 Lunch

13.00–14.30. Julian Honkasalo: Ideas on the method. Discussion

14.30–16.00 Tuija Pulkkinen: Introducing Fassin material and analysis -overview.(short) Concept analysis together: Text: the two journals: International Feminist Journal of Politics. VOL 27, Issue 3 (2025) & Journal of Gender studies. Special Issue Vol 35, 5/25

17.00–18.00 Dinner

18.00–19.00 Discussion on the website. Review of the materials Aino has prepared

 

Sunday

9.00–10.30 Text analysis together: Text: the two journals: International Feminist Journal of Politics. VOL 27, Issue 3 (2025) & Journal of Gender studies. Special issue vol 35 5/25

12.00-13.00 Lunch

13.00–14.30 Aino Pietiläinen: The journal article plan (comments by all); and the progress of the PhD project Discussion.

14.30–15.30 End discussion. Experience and next plan.