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Forwarded from: [log in to unmask] ---------- 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 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". -- 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/