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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/
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History of Concepts Group Annual Conference
RHETORIC AND CONCEPTUAL CHANGE
28-30 June, 2001, Tampere,
Varala Sports Institute
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
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"
12.00 Discussion
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 - 17.00 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 (
- 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)."
17.00 - 17.30 Coffee break
17.30 - 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".
- Alexander Semyonov (The Central Europe University): "Political rhetoric
and conceptual change in the context of political reform in early 20th
century Russia".
- Kari Palonen (Jyväskylä): "Conceptual Changes through rhetorical
redescription in some 20th century rehabilitations of 'Politicians'"
17.30 - 19.30 Panel II: Thesaurus panel: Russian Studies of Political
Concepts. Chair: Mikhail Ilyin, (Moscow)
20.00 - 22.30 Get-together party at the Varala Sauna.
Friday 29 June
9.30 - 12.30 Panel I: "Rhetoric in conceptualising politics in 18th century
Britain". Chair: Martin Burke (SUNY).
- "The rhetoric and logic of parliamentary debate in Britain, 18th-19
centuries"; Willibald Steinmetz, (Bochum)
- Pasi Ihalainen, Jyväskylä
- The meanings of revolution, Theresa H. Crowley (Essex)
9.30 - 12.30 Panel II: "The Geographical Names as Political Concepts".
Chair: Jan Ifversen.
- Yury Basajev (St Petersburg): "Eurasia".
- Pekka Korhonen, (Jyväskylä): "Asia".
- Sherif Madrin (Princeton): 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".
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 - 17.00 Panel: "The Concept of woman", Chairs: Tuija Pulkkinen
(Helsinki), Christine Fauré.
- Karen Hagemann (Berlin/NY): "Nation - State - Family: Gendering of the
Enlightened Concept of a 'Society of Citizens".
- Tuija Pulkkinen:
- Christine Faure
17.00-17.30 Coffee break
17.30-19.30 Panel I: "Conceptual change in Russia". Chair: Nikolai Koposov,
St. Petersburg.
- Dina Khapaeva (St Petersburg): "Consciousness: intellectual and
ideological underpinnings of the concept od mind in the beginning of the
XXth century".
- Alexander Etkin (Helsinki/ St.Petersburg): "Faith and Religion in the
XIXth-century Russia".
- Dmitri Panchenko: "History and the Past: the genesis of a concept".
- Nikolay Koposov (Saint-Petersburg State University): "The concept of
culture and the consciousness of intelligentsia: a comparative study".
17.30-19.30 Panel II: "Nordic Political Concepts". Chair: Jussi Kurunmäki
(Stockholm)
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 -17.00 Panel: "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".
17.00 - 17.30 Coffee break
17.30 -19.00 Panel: Conceptual History and Civilisational Analysis. Chair:
Björn Wittrock
- Johann, Arnason,
- Patricia Springborg: "Hobbes and Humanist Rhetoric"
- Bo Stråth,
- Victor Sergeyev
19.00 Closing the conference
20.00 -23.00 Farewell Party
Panel open at the moment:
- Tony Burns (Sheffield University): "'Sophocles'Antigone, Aritotle's
Rhetoric and the History of the Concept of Natural Law";
- Kari Saastamoinen (Helsinki): "Equality in the 17th century".
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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/
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