"Conceptual Change in History” conference at University of Helsinki, September 22-24, 2016
Registration for the conference
The conference is open to the public and there is no registration fee. The organizers are unfortunately unable to aid in the travel arrangements or accommodation of participants. If you wish to attend, please send an e-mail to foundlaw@gmail.com by September 14th, 2016.
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Programme of the “Conceptual Change in History” conference at University of Helsinki, September 22-24, 2016
Thursday 22.9. 13:00-19:00
University main building, Small hall (4050). Fabianinkatu 33, 00170 Helsinki.
13.00 Opening of the conference
13.10-14.10 Keynote lecture
Theodore Arabatzis (University of Athens): Conceptual Change and Philosophical History of Science
Chair: Yafeng Shan
14.10-15.40 Session 1
Chair: Magdalena Kmak
Gennaro Imbriano: Crisis as a concept of movement
Timo Pankakoski: Hans Freyer and Conceptual History
Friedrich von Petersdorff: Conceptual Change in History and in Historiography
16.05-17.35 Session 2
Chair: Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen
Kevin Matthew Jones: Conceptualisations of mental health
Katariina Parhi: The Necessary Illusion: Criminal responsibility and conceptual change
Antu Sorainen: The relationship between inheritance and queer kinship related concepts, and normative orders such as law and legal culture
18.00-19.00 Keynote lecture
Paul Thagard (University of Waterloo): Conceptual Change in the Brain Revolution
Chair: Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen
Friday 23.9. 9:00-17:45
House of Science and Letters, room 505. Kirkkokatu 6, 00170 Helsinki.
9.00-10.00 Keynote lecture
Benjamin Straumann (New York University): A Novel Concept: Normative Constitutionalism in the History of Political Thought
Chair: Kaius Tuori
10.15-11.45 Session 3
Chair: Magdalena Kmak
Alina Bothe: Survivor – the Emergence and Shifts of a Transnational Concept after 1945
Martin Clark: Conceptual change and international law
Rotem Giladi: Moments of Resilience: Race in International Law
12.45-14.15 Session 4
Chair: Ville Erkkilä
Kaius Tuori: Imperial Concepts: Legal heritage and imposition in the European settler states
David M. Kretz: Translational Action at the End of a World
Carlos Amunátegui Perelló: Race and Nation. On ius sanguinis and the origins of a racist national perspective
14.45-16.15 Session 5
Chair: Jouni-Matti Kuukkainen
Thibault Racovski & Philippe Huneman: A phylomemetic approach to conceptual change: the case of scientific research on evolutionary novelty between 1965 and 2015
Corinne Bloch-Mullins: Concepts as Forward-looking: Rethinking the Question of Referential Stability
Yafeng Shan: Conceptual Change and the Nature of Scientific Concept
16.45-17.45 Keynote lecture
Jaakko Husa: Rule of Law – an Empty Conceptual Vessel?
Chair: Ville Erkkilä
Saturday 24.9. 9:00-15:45
House of Science and Letters, room 505. Kirkkokatu 6, 00170 Helsinki.
9.00-10.00 Keynote lecture
Sinai Rusinek (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute): Concepts, co-texts, contexts and the Digital Humanities
Chair: Irene Goudarouli
10.15-11.45 Session 6
Chair: Kaius Tuori
Petri Koikkalainen: On the historically changing significance of ‘polity’ to ‘political science’
Kari Väyrynen: ‘Living experience’ (Erlebnis) – from a philosophical to commercial concept
Ville Erkkilä: Rechtsgewissen – The conceptual change of conscience
12.45-14.15 Session 7
Chair: Ville Erkkilä
Jari Kaukua and Vili Lähteenmäki: Standards of Conceptual Change
Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen: Continuity in Discontinuity: The Concept of Element in History
Irene Goudarouli: Historicizing Scientific Concepts: Conceptual History meets History & Philosophy of Science
14.45-15.45 Session 8
Chair: Kaius Tuori
Charles W. Romney: A Computational Cambridge School: Identifying Conceptual Change and Legal Languages with Vector Space Models
Mikko Kainulainen and Natan Elgabsi: Concepts of history and historians’ responsibilities
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Some practical information about the “Conceptual Change in History” conference at University of Helsinki, September 22-24, 2016
Event location
The sessions of the conference are held at the University main building (Small hall (4050), Fabianinkatu 33, 00170 Helsinki) and the House of Science and Letters (room 505, Kirkkokatu 6, 00170 Helsinki).