Introduction to Conceptual History, Helsinki Summer School, 8 – 19 August 2016
Programme
Monday 8 August
10:00-10:15: Opening Remarks by Professor Martin Burke, City University of New York
10:15-12:00: Postdoc researcher Jani Marjanen, University of Helsinki
Introduction to Conceptual History: Concepts in Use and Concepts in Contexts
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
13:00-15:00: Professor Martin Burke
The History of Concepts and the Cambridge School
15:00–15:30: Coffee
15:30–17:00: Professor Martin Burke
The History of Concepts Today
Tuesday 9 August
10:00-12:00: Associate Professor Niklas Olsen
Reinhart Koselleck and German Postwar Historiography
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
13:00-15:00: Professor Kari Palonen
Rhetoric and Conceptual Change
15:00-15:30: Break
15:30-17:00: Student presentations of work in progress I (comments by Marjanen and Olsen)
Wednesday 10 August
10:00-12:00: Postdoc researcher Ainur Elmgren
Studying the Concept of Populism from a Conceptual History Perspective
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
13:00-15:00: Student presentations of work in progress II (commented by Burke and Strang), 4 papers
15:00-15:30: Break
15:30-17:00: Associate Professor Niklas Olsen, University of Copenhagen
The Consumer Sovereign in Twentieth Century Liberal Thought
Thursday 11 August
10:00-12:00: Postdoc researcher Anna Björk
The Concept of Citizenship: Contemporary Perspectives
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
13:00-15:00: Student presentations of work in progress III (comments by Wiesner and Burke), 4 papers
15:00-15:30: Break
15:30-17:00: Professor Claudia Wiesner, Universität Darmstadt / Univeristy of Jyväskylä
Key Political Concepts and Their Contestedness
Friday 12 August
10:00-12:00: Professor Kari Palonen, University of Jyväskylä
Concepts of Parliament
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
13:00-14:30: Professor Claudia Wiesner, Universität Darmstadt / Univeristy of Jyväskylä
EU Politics and Conceptual Change
14:30-15:00: Break
15:00-16:30: Professor Margrit Pernau, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Civilizing Emotions: Taking Conceptual History beyond National and Linguistic Borders
Monday 15 August
10:00-12:00: Vice Dean Jan Ifversen
New Challenges to Conceptual History
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
13:00-14:00: Student presentations of work in progress IV (commented by Ifversen) 3 presentations
14:00-14:30: Break
14:30-16:30: Professor Margrit Pernau, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Emotional Translations: Taking Conceptual History beyond Language
Tuesday 16 August
10:00-12:00: Vice Dean Jan Ifversen
Conceptual History and Discourse Analysis
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
13:00-15:00: Professor Martin Burke Histories of Concepts and Histories of Print Culture
15:00-15:30: Break
15:30-17:00: Postdoc Sinai Rusinek, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem
Conceptual History and Digital Humanities
Wednesday 17 August
10:00-12:00: Johan Strang, University of Helsinki
The Rhetoric of Nordicness (Adjective History and Conceptual History)
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
13:00-15:00: Student presentations of work in progressIV (commented by Strang and Burke) 4 presentations
15:00-15:30: Break
15:30-17:00: Student presentations of work in progress VI (commented by Rusinek and Marjanen) 3 presentations
Thursday 18 August
10:00-12:00: Associate Professor Johan Strang, University of Helsinki
The Concept of Human Rights in Postwar Nordic Politics
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
13:00-15:00: Student presentations of work in progress VII (commented by Evgeny Roshchin) 4 presentations
15:00-15:30: Break
15:30-17:00: Postdoc researcher Jani Marjanen, University of Helsinki
The Political Rhetoric of Isms (Conceptual History and Suffix History)
Friday 19 August
10:00-12:00: Postdoc researcher Anthoula Malkopoulou, Uppsala University
Conceptual History and Democratic Theory
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
13:00-15:00: Postdoc Evgeny Roshchin, Ranepa University, St. Petersburg
World Politics and the History of Concepts
15:00-15:30: Break
15:30-17:00: Professor Martin Burke
Concluding comments and discussion
