Heino needs more offers of papers for his workshop!  Terrell

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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 10:14:42 +0100
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Heino Nyyssönen" <[log in to unmask]>


ESPECIALLY WANTED PAPERS DEALING WITH CENTRAL 
AND EASTERN EUROPE !

Call for Papers: Workshop Politics and Memory

The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) will be hosted by the
University of Edinburgh, 28th March – 2nd April, 2003. Our Workshop in
Edinburgh deals with Politics and Memory (see below). 

We welcome theoretical and empirical approaches, case studies, historical
and comparative papers dealing with memory as a political phenomenon. 
Especially we are interested in papers focusing on Central and the former
Eastern Europe.

Send your abstract (max. 1 page) until December 1 either to Heino Nyyssönen
or Wolf-Dieter Narr. See further information on ECPR web pages 
http://www.ecprnet.org


Workshop Number 16: Politics and Memory

Directors:
Heino Nyyssönen, Department of  Social Sciences and Philosophy, University
of Jyväskylä,
P.O. Box 35, FIN-40351 JYVÄSKYLÄ, Finland
Tel/Fax: +(36) 1 395 2069
Email: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]

Wolf-Dieter Narr, Fachbereich Politische Wissenschaft, Freie Universität
Berlin, Potsdamer Strasse 41, D-12205 Berlin, Germany
Tel//fax +(49) 30 833 7162
Email: [log in to unmask]

The world is full of memorials, statues and national holidays, which remind
people of their past. At the same time there is also the idea that we
forget
the past. Who wishes to remember and who to forget?  Which political acts
serve as commemorations and what do they mean to various communities?  The
workshop will deal with memory as political process. How do we determine
what should be commemorated? How is this effected? We welcome theoretical
and empirical approaches, case studies, historical and comparative papers
dealing with memory as a political phenomenon and especially relating to
one
of the following topics.   1) History politics (Geschichtspolitik) and
history in the present., 2) Politics of names:. What  kinds of name are
politically significant objects? 3) Politics of memorials and statues. What
is to be commemorated, why and how?  4) Politics of dates: How far and in
which form are dates "commemorable" ?  5) Rhythms of politics of
commemorations. 6) Politics of memoirs and biographies.



Heino Nyyssönen
Political Scientist, Ph.D
Finnish Academy of Sciences
tel. & fax. +36-1-3952069 (Home)
mobile +36-20-5202306 (Hungary)
           +44-5160563 (Finland)                   


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From: TF Carver <[log in to unmask]>
To: Heino Nyyssönen <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: workshop proposal
Date: 12. helmikuuta 2002 17:36

Dear Heino,
This is a very promising area, but the proposal would benefit from two
things.  Firstly, a stronger analytical structure that separates out the
concepts relevant to politics and memory, and then gives examples and
references literature relevant to each concept (or problem-area), for
example 'memory', 'forgetting', 'memorials', 'subjects', 'histories'
etc.  Secondly, you need to make sure that as you do this you refer to
empirical work, preferably in political science, that is done (well or
badly) in the areas you are talking about.  Overall the proposal will
only appeal to the programme committee in toto if they are sure that it
will appeal to a large group within the political science community,
which they assume to be empirical in orientation.  Anything
'theoretical' or 'conceptual' needs to promise to add to or improve on
work done by empirical political scientists.  Your proposal is strong
because you have the German literature, so you could perhaps make a
feature of getting that literature together with Anglophone work and
work in other traditions/languages.  Again, it's good to be explicitly
inclusive.  You might also cite or suggest EU case studies as well as
national ones.  I hope that's helpful!  You will probably also hear from
Veronique.  Best wishes, Terrell



On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, [ISO-8859-1] Heino Nyyssönen wrote:

> Dear Heino Nyyssonen,
> This sounds a good idea, though you might consider just 
> 'Politics and Memory'.  It's essential to go to the ECPR website
> http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr and read the advice for potential 
> workshop directors that they give under 'Joint Sessions'.  While
> the ECPR denies this, it is generally considered to be helpful 
> to have a co-directorship with someone from outside your own 
> country, and region, preferably further towards the south!  
> Crucial things on a workshop application are:
> 
> Dear Terrell Carver,
> 
> Below is the first draft of the proposal "Politics and Memory". Could you
> comment on it? It is my first attempt and therefore the threshold has
been
> quite high.
> 
> Sincerely yours
> 
> Heino Nyyssönen
> 
> FIRST DRAFT!!
> 
> Political scientist Heino Nyyssönen, PhD, works currently at the Finnish
> Academy of Sciences on a project comparing political culture in Finland
and
> Hungary. His book "The Presence of the Past in Politics" deals with
> problems of memory and commemoration in Hungary. Nyyssönen has presented
> papers on commemoration, memory, political thought and transition in East
> Central Europe. He has taught political science in Finland and Germany.
> 
> 
> Heino Nyyssönen, Ph.D
> University of Jyväskylä Finland
> 
> A proposal for Workshop:
> 
> POLITICS AND MEMORY
> 
> The present world is full of commemorations, national holidays and
> innumerable means to keep the past in the present. Memory and
commemoration
> are, thus, an essential part of identity and social activities. At the
same
> time there is, however, the phenomenon to forget or to 'get rid of the
> past' like various examples of particular truth commissions show us. 
> 
> Hence, there is the potential tension between remembering and forgetting
> which revels its connections to politics as well. For political science
in
> general the question will be what should be done to the past, and could
> there be theoretical ways to deal with this problem. Who would like to
> remember and who to forget, and what does it mean for politics? In this
> sense we are studying political thinking, ideologies or even ideological
> politics.
> 
> Although conventional views like "we shall never forget" are pivotal, -
> Giandomenico Majone has noted, paraphrasing Ernest Renan, that a shared
> forgetfulness is at least as important as common memories of a shared
past.
> On the contrary, as argued by the mothers of Plaza de Mayo in Argentina,
> they should remember first or at least to know to forget. On the basis of
> experience of truth commissions there is also the argument, whether the
> negotiating parties just try to close the debate instead of ongoing
> discussion on the meaning of the past. 
> 
> There are political aspects in memory, and therefore, we may find
different
> levels to discuss in the workshop. At first there the distinction between
> individuals and groups, whether they emerge deliberately or coincidental,
> and whether communities like parties, nations or even international hosts
> use memory as a political tool. Essential is that memory and oblivion
plays
> a role even in these imagined communities as well. Politics of memory is
an
> essential of part identity, as Boyarin (1994) has described it.
> 
> Commemoration is also a way of marking out a space, physical or in time,
in
> the public sphere, writes George Schöpflin. We would like to deal with
the
> phenomenon as political process – everything is not allowed to
commemorate
> in public. Instead of psychological approaches politics of memory needs
> publicity, public sphere and interrelations between persons; it could be
an
> origin of an opposition, too – Foucault wrote about counter memory.
> Examples could be found from all over the world, in which commemorations
in
> fact have been just umbrellas for political get-togethers and assemblies.

> 
> In this sense the question is also about actual presenting and
> re-presenting history. According to Bo Stråth, finally, myth and memory
is
> history but in ceaseless transformation, in which history and memory as
> opposites can no longer be maintained.
> 
> The former view, which bounds memory and history together, opens
> surprisingly inspiring and enthusiastic possibilities of rethinking
> political ideologies, political culture, or even nationalism – memory and
> commemoration are quite typical rituals in constructing communities – or
> intellectual history in general. Moreover, it is worth noticing that
> politics of memory evidently politicises time. Memories and experiences
are
> not "false consciousness" but politically move people and influence on
> their views as well. What could be interesting to discuss is how long
> personal memories or memories, memorials and commemorations by the state
> affect on people. Or do they just become empty rituals supported by the
> rulers on anniversaries?
> 
> In German discussion there are already several concepts concerning the
idea
> like Erinnerungspolitik, Geschichtskultur, Geschichtspolitik and
> Vergangenheits-bewältigung, which vary from political commemoration and
to
> deal with the past in general to different ways for maintaining the past
in
> the present and the usage of history in politics (cf. also Etzemüller
> 2001). Moreover, Pierre Nora's memorial sites i.e. lieux de mémoire could
> be valued already as a 'classic' in this field of research as the
> periodical History & Memory published in Jerusalem.
> 
> Our task is to bring together a network of scholars who could discuss on
> this complicated topic. Although memory binds several fields of research,
> systematic politics of memory is not yet established. Therefore we would
> like to concentrate on political aspects of memory and commemoration, and
> offer a forum for different scholars. Because various case studies exist
> concerning memory in general, we strictly limit the content to political
> aspects of the question. Why to remember and why commemoration is so
> important ritual in political life?
> 
> The workshop APolitics and Memory@ welcome theoretical and empirical
> approaches, which deal memory as a political phenomenon. Particularly we
> expect papers from young participants to contribute. Although we wait
> theoretical oriented approaches, we do not exclude case studies and
papers,
> which study the connection between history and politics as well. 
> 
> Potential participants:
> Ankersmit, F.R.
> Azaryahu, Maoz
> Behrends, Jan
> Ben-Amos, Awner
> Benzinger, Karl
> Boros, Géza
> Boyarin, Jonathan
> 	Etzemüller, Thomas
> 	Frei, Norbert
> 	Gillis, John
> Hardtwig, Wolfgang
> Karlsson, Klas-Göran
> Keri, Laszlo
> Klimo, Arpad
> Koselleck, Reinhart
> Langewiesche, Dieter
> Le Goff, Jacques
> Lerchenmüller, Joachim 		
> Lowenthal, David
> Lüsebrink, Hans-Jürgen
> Müller, Jan-Werner
> Offe, Claus
> Petö Andrea
> Schöpflin, George
> Speitkamp, Winfried
> Stråth, Bo
> Welsh, Helga A
> Wolfrum, Edgar
> 
> Literature:
> Ankersmit, F.R.: Historical Representation. (forthcoming 2002).
> Ankersmit, F.R.: Political Representation. (forthcoming 2002).
> Azaryahu, Maoz: Zurück zur Vergangenheit? Die Straßennamen Ost-Berlins 		
> 1990-1994. In: Winfried Speitkamp (Hg.) Denkmalsturz. Göttingen: 		
> Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht (Kleine Vandendoek-Reihe) 1997.
> Ben-Amos, Awner: Monuments and Memory in French Nationalism. History 		
and
> Memory 2/1993.
> Benzinger, Karl: Imre Nagy Martyr of the Nation. East European Quarterly
> 35, 4 			(forthcoming).
> Boros, Géza: Emlékmávek =56-nak (Memorials for '56), Budapest: 1956-os
> Intézet, 		1997.
> Boyarin, Jonathan: Space, Time and the Politics of Memory. In: Remapping 
	
> Memory. The Politics of TimeSpace, Jonathan Boyarin (ed.). Minneapolis, 	
> London: University of Minnesota Press 1994.
> 	Etzemüller, Thomas: Sozialgeschichte als politische Geschichte. Werner
> Conze und 
> 			die Neuorientierung der westdeutschen Geschichtswissenschaft nach
1945. 
> 		München: Oldenbourg Verlag 2001.
> 	Frei, Norbert: Vergangenheitspolitik. Die Anfänge der Bundesrepublik und
> die 				NS-Vergangenheit. München: Verlag C.H.Beck 1996.
> Die Geschichtswissenschaft in den Planung des Sicherheitsdienstes der SS.
> Der
> 		SD-Historiker Hermann Löffler und seine Denkschrift ,Entwicklung und 		
> Aufgaben der Geschichtswissenschaft in Deutschland, Joachim Lerchenmüller
	
> (Hg.). Bonn: Dietz 2001.
> Hardtwig, Wolfgang: Geschichtskultur und Wissenschaft. München: DTV 1990.
> Hutton, Patrick H.: Jacques Le Goff, History and Memory and Pierre Vidal-
	
> 	Naquet, Assasins of Memory: Essays on the denial of the Holocaust.
History
> 		and Theory 1/1994.
> Koselleck, Reinhart: Vergangene Zukunft. Zur Semantik geschichtlicher
> Zeiten. 			Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 1989.
> Langewiesche, Dieter: Geschichte als politisches Argument:
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Reden
> der Deutschen 				Bundespräsidenten. Saeculum 43/1992.
> Le Goff, Jacques: Memory. In: History and Memory. Translated by Stephen 	
	
> Rendall and Elizabeth Claman. New York: Columbia University Press 1992.
> Lowenthal, David: The Past is a Foreign Country. Cambridge: CUP 1988.
> Lukacs, John: Budapest 1900. A város és kultúrája (Budapest 1900. A
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> Európa Könyvkiadó 		1991.
> Lüsebrink, Hans-Jürgen & Reichardt, Rolf: Die Bastille. Zur
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> 1990.
> Maffesoli, Michel: The time of the tribes: the Decline of Individualism
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> Majone, Giandomenico: Preservation of Cultural Diversity in a Federal
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1990.
> Middleton, David & Derek, Edwards: Introduction.. In: Collective
> Remembering,  			David Middleton & Derek Edwards (eds.). London-Newbury
> Park-New 			Delhi: Sage Publications.
> Müller, Jan-Werner: Memory and Power in Post-War Europe. Oxford 2001.
> Nyyssönen, Heino: The Presence of the Past In Politics. '1956' after 1956
> in Hungary, 	Jyväskylä: SoPhi, 1999.
> Nyyssönen, Heino: Remembrance and Oblivion: 1956 and the Politics of
Memory
> in 		Hungary during the Kádár Era. In: Jan Behrend & Rolf Malte & Gábor 	

> Rittersporn (hgs.), Öffentlichkeit in Systemen Sovjetischen Typs. Berlin.
	
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> Nyyssönen, Heino: Der Volksaufstand von 1956 in der ungarischen
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> 
> 
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> On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 11:07:43 +0200 Heino_Nyyssönen <[log in to unmask]> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Terrel Carver,
> > 
> > After discussed with my professor Kari Palonen I have couraged to
> > plan a workshop in Edinburgh 2003. The name of the workshop could be
> > something like "Politics, Memory and History". However, this is my
> > first attempt and therefore I will be delighted of all possible
> information
> > how to 
> > write the proposal.
> > 
> > Your Sincerely
> > 
> > Heino Nyyssönen, Ph.D.
> > University of Jyväskylä
> > Finland
> > 
> > >NB The deadline for workshop proposals for Edinburgh Joint Sessions 27
> > >March/2 April 2003 is 15 February 2002.  So there's time!  Do make use
> > >of our 'Advice Bureau' of ex-workshop directors who will be happy to
> > >help you with your proposal and any queries.  Contact
> > >[log in to unmask]
> > >
> > >Best wishes,
> > >Terrell
> > >
> > 
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