Last call for papers & preliminary program:

History of Social and Political Concepts Group Annual Conference

          RHETORIC AND CONCEPTUAL CHANGE, Tampere, Finland,
          June 28-30,2001

and the Nordic doctoral course on Conceptual history and political
thought, June 27-30, 2001.

The list of speakers include: Terrence Ball (Arizona), Pim den Boer
(Amsterdam),
Karen Hagemann (Berlin), Lucien Hölscher (Bochum), Raymonde Monnier (Lyon),
Kari Palonen (Jyväskylä), Willibald Steinmetz (Bochum), Ulrike Spree(Hamburg),

Please, visit our web-site for further information:

http://www.uta.fi/conference/rhetoric/








History of Concepts Group Annual Conference
RHETORIC AND CONCEPTUAL CHANGE
28-30 June, 2001, Tampere,
Varala Sports Institute

P R E L I M I N A R Y   P R O G R A M

Wednesday, 27 June

12-19 Nordic Doctoral Course on Political Thought and Conceptual History

Discussants/ Teachers:
Terrence Ball (Arizona), Kari Palonen (Jyväskylä), Pim den Boer
(Amsterdam). Tuija Pulkkinen (Helsinki), Raymonde Monnier (Lyon)

Thursday, 28 June

9-10.30
Registration and coffee

10.30
Opening of the Conference:
- Matti Hyvärinen (Program Chair)

10.45
Plenary session: Terrence Ball (Arizona): "Confessions of a
conceptual historian"

12.30 - 14.00
Lunch break

14.00 - 16.30
Panel: "Rhetoric, Political Thought, and Conceptual Change".
Chair: Kari Palonen (Jyväskylä)
- Raymonde Monnier (Lyon): "Republicanism before the Republic".
- Jussi Kurunmäki (Stockholm): "The political rhetoric of the 1866
parliamentary reform in Sweden"
- Angus Gowland (Cambridge): "Renaissance rhetoric and the history of
concepts it the work of Quentin Skinner"
- Alexander Semyonov (The Central Europe University): "Political
rhetoric and conceptual change in the context of political reform in
early 20th century Russia"

16.30 - 17.00
Coffee break

17.00  - 19.30
Panel I: "20th century political concepts"
Chair: Klaus Sondermann (Tampere)
- Uffe Jakobsen (Copenhagen): "The concept of democracy in the
context(s) of change in post-soviet societies".
- Ulrike Spree (Hamburg): "The concept of information in the 19th and
20th century".
- Kari Palonen (Jyväskylä): "Conceptual changes through rhetorical
redescription in some 20th century rehabilitations of 'Politicians'"
- Claire Sutherland (Edinburgh): "Nationalist ideology from a
rhetorical perspective"

17.00-19.30 Panel II: "The Geographical Names as Political Concepts"
Chair: Jan Ifversen (Copenhagen)
- Yury Basajev (St Petersburg): "Eurasia"
- Pekka Korhonen, (Jyväskylä): "Asia"
- Sherif Mardin (Istanbul): The Concept of Turkishness vs. Ottomanness.
- Jan Ifversen (Copenhagen): "Is Europe a concept? Reflections on the
difference between idea, discourse, theme and concept"
- João Feres Jr : "The semantics of asymmetric counterconcepts: the
case of "Latin America" in the American social sciences"

20.00 - 22.30 Get-together party at the Varala Sauna.

Friday 29 June

9.30 - 12.30
Panel: "Conceptual History and Civilisational Analysis".
Chair: Björn Wittrock
- Johann, Arnason (Melbourne)
- Patricia Springborg (Berlin and Sydney): "Hobbes and Humanist
Rhetoric"
- Bo Stråth (Florence):
- Victor Sergeyev (Moscow):
- Björn Wittrock (Uppsala):

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch break

14.00 - 16.30 Panel: "The Concept of woman"
Chair: Tuija Pulkkinen (Helsinki)
- Karen Hagemann (Berlin/NY): "Nation - State - Family: Gendering of
the Enlightened Concept of a 'Society of Citizens"
- Tuija Pulkkinen
- Christine Faure (CNRS)
- Anna Clark (Minnesota)

16.30-17.00 Coffee break

17.00-19.30
Panel II: "Thesaurus panel: Russian Studies of Political Concepts"
Chair: Mikhail Ilyin (Moscow)
- Mikhail Ilyin (Moscow): "The problems of putting together a
hypertext thesaurus"
- Victor Sergeev (Moscow): "Cognitive schemata of concept description"
- Leonid Bliakher (Khabarovsk): "Counter-concept of degradation"
- Konstantin Zavershinski (Veliki Novgorod): "Emergence and
development of legitimation concept"
- Kirill Sergeev (Moscow): "Metaphors of leadership"
- Andrei Kazantsev (Puschino): "Hierarchy - historical and analytical
descriptions"
- Valerii Lediaev (Ivanovo): "Alternative concepts of power"
- Mikhail Chernikov (Voronezh): "The concept of Truth in Russian
Mentality"
- Natalia Pecherskaia (St.Petersburg): "Phenomenology of Justice: the
Everyday Meaning of Justice in Soviet Russia"


20.00 The Conference Dinner

Saturday, June 30

9.30 - 11.15
Plenary session: Lucian Hölscher (Bochum): "The History of the
Future. The Emergence and fall of a temporal concept in European
History"

11.30-12.30 The History of Political Concepts Group business meeting
- the election of new functionaries
- next conferences (after Amsterdam 2002)

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch break

14.00 -16.30
Panel I: "Rhetoric in conceptualising politics in 18th century
Britain"
Chair: Martin Burke (CUNY)
- Willibald Steinmetz, (Bochum): "The rhetoric and logic of
parliamentary debate in Britain, 18th-19 centuries"
- Pasi Ihalainen, Jyväskylä: "The changing concepts of protestant
national identity in official commemoration day sermons in England,
ca. 1685-1763"
- Theresa H. Crowley (Essex): "The meanings of revolution"

14.00 - 16.30
Panel II: "Conceptual history in a comparative perspective"
Chairs: Henrik Stenius (Helsinki), Pim den Boer (Amsterdam)
- Uffe Östergard (Copenhagen):
- Henrik Stenius (Helsinki):
- Pim den Boer (Amsterdam): "The creation and penetration in European
languages of the transnational concept of civilization\civilisation"

16.30 - 17.00 Coffee break

17.00 -19.00
Panel: "Classics of political thought"
Chair: Karin Tilmans (Amsterdam)
- Tony Burns (Nottingham Trent University): "'Sophocles' Antigone,
Aritotle's Rhetoric and the History of the Concept of Natural Law"
- Kari Saastamoinen (Helsinki): "Hobbes and Pufendorf on Natural
Equality"
- Keith Tribe (Keele University): "Transformation and Translation:
Max Weber in English"

19.00 Closing the conference

20.00 -23.00 Farewell Party

Panel open at the moment:

- Serge Heiden & Jacques Guilhaumou (Lyon): "Approche lexicométrique
de la rhétorique de la langue dans l'Encyclopédie (France,18ème
siècle). Lexicometric approch of the language's rhetoric in the
Encyclopedie (France, 18th)."

- Helena Rytövuori-Apunen (Tampere): "The Murder of 'the Iron Lady of
Russian Democracy': A Window on Gender and Politics in Contemporary
Russia"
--
Dr. Matti Hyvärinen
Research Institute for Social Sciences (YTY)
FIN-33014 University of Tampere, Finland
Tel: +358-3-2156 999 (0ffice) +358-3-260 9663 (Home): +358-3-2156 502 (fax)
http://www.uta.fi/~ytmahy/
See also http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/yty/concepts/