Conference Announcement. Apologies for cross-postings. Terrell
Conference on the History of Concepts
Amsterdam June 19-21, 2002
Information about the Call for Papers for the panels
<LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK>Concept and Interdisciplinarity<RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK>
The word interdisciplinarity can be used to emphasize the separate
identity of disciplines, but also to indicate that disciplines have diffuse
borders and overlapping areas. It is important to analyze how the use of
this concept has had both scientific and political consequences. Where
did the concept turn out to be productive and where was it barrier to
progress
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<LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK>Concept and Image<RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK>
What is the relation between images and concepts? How do images and
concepts behave, compared to each other? The keynote of Dario
Gamboni will focus on the concept of <LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK>representation<RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK> , particularly
during two key moments of European political theory and practice, the
English Revolution and the Risorgimento.
For further information please contact Bram Kempers or Ellinoor
Bergvelt by email: [log in to unmask]
<LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK>Concept and Power<RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK>/ <LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK>Concept and Gender<RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK>
The morning session will focus on the question of <LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK>Concept(s) &
Power,<RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK> whereas the afternoon panel will address the interconnected
issue of <LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK>Concept(s) of Power & Gender.<RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK> Paper proposals should
concentrate on the ways in which different forms of power <EM DASH> whether in
the political, social, or cultural realm <EM DASH> are expressed in a particular
conceptual or idiomatic apparatus that is designed to legitimize,
implement, and perpetuate the exercise of command and subordination.
During the afternoon session, participants<RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK> papers are expected to
elaborate further on the manner in which gendered concepts are often
invoked to illustrate discrepancies of power. In many instances,
metaphors of masculinity and femininity are forged as graphic symbols,
easily recognizable, that are summoned to underscore relations of
authority and subservience or (physical, political, social, and cultural)
strengths and its opposites. These two sessions of the Conference on the
History of Concepts should ideally contribute to our collective
understanding of the way in which concepts and coherent linguistic
constructions are not only deployed to articulate and reinforce a
particular taxonomy of values but can be used, at the same time, to
destabilize and undermine political and social hierarchies.
For further information please contact Frances Gouda by email:
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<LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK>The concept of Modernity<RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK>
The starting point will be the years around 1800, when classicism gave
way to romanticism. During the 19th century the development of the
notion of the modern may be highlighted in various disciplinary fields
(e.g. aesthetics, philosophy, theology). Theological modernism in
particular opens up interesting possibilities for a comparative treatment.
Manifestations of the anti-modern in the second half of the 19th century
deserve particular attention. In the 20th century association between
modernity and fascism/nazism can serve to illustrate the darker sides of
modernity. Most recently, the impact may be measured of the ubiquitous
notion of postmodernism on the concept of modernity itself.
For further information please contact Niek van Sas or Karin Tilmans by
email: [log in to unmask]
<LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK>The concept of Citizenship/Republic<RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK>
There is a massive literature on the political theory and languages of
republicanism and the subcategory of citizenship but in fact there is very
little on the Begriffsgeschichte of both republic and citizenship. We
expect conceptual papers on these themes, preferable in a comparative
perspective.
For further information please contact Wyger Velema or Karin Tilmans
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It should be noted that the Conference on the History of Concepts on
June 19-21, 2002, aims to bring to Amsterdam approximately 100
scholars whose work focuses specifically on these intellectual questions.
Because no simultaneous sessions will be organized, the number of paper
proposals that can be accommodated is limited.
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Mastercourse
On Tuesday june 18th 2002 preceding the conference <LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK>HISTORY OF
CONCEPTS<RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK>
The Huizinga Institute, Graduate School of Cultural History organises a
mastercourse on <LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK>CONCEPTUAL HISTORY-COMPARATIVE
PERSPECTIVES<RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK>.
Teachers are prof.dr. Terence Ball (Arizonan State University), dr. Hans
Erich Boedeker (Max Planck Institute Goettingen), prof.dr. Janet
Coleman (London School of Economics), prof.dr. Iain Hampsher-Monk
University of Exeter), prof. Dr. Lucian Hoelscher (Bochum University),
prof.dr. Melvin Richter (New York City University)
Foreign PhD students can apply to participate. Please send your research-
proposal before 15th of January 2002 to [log in to unmask]
If there are any questions about the mastercourse please contact her.
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Conference History of Concepts
Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2002
Huizinga Institute, Institute for Culture and History, Belle van Zuylen
Institute
Provisional program:
Wednesday 19 June 2002
09.00-13.00 uur General Introduction
by Pim den Boer (University of Amsterdam)
Concept & Interdisciplinarity
Keynote: Irmline Veit-Brause (Deakin University)
Comment: Karel van Dam (University of Amsterdam)
Panel: call for papers (3 or 4)
14.00-18.00 uur Concept & Image
Keynote: Dario Gamboni (University of Amsterdam)
Comment: Jochen Becker (University of Utrecht)
Panel: call for papers ( 3 or 4 )
Thursday 20 June 2002
09.00-13.00 uur Concept & Power
Keynote: Karin Hagemann (Princeton/Berlin)
Comment: Frances Gouda (University of Amsterdam)
Panel: call for papers (3 or 4)14.00-18.00 uur Concept & Gender
Keynote: Mrinalini Sinha (Pennsylvania State University)
Comment: Stefan Dudink (University of Nijmegen)
Panel: call for papers (3 or 4)
Friday 21 June 2002
09.00-13.00 uur The Concept of Modernity
Keynote: Lucian Hoelscher (Bochum Universiy)
Comment: Peter Wagner (Florence EUI)
Panel: call for papers (3)
14.00-18.00 uur The Concept of Citizenship/Republic
Keynote: Iain Hampsher- Monk (Exeter University)
Comment: Terence Ball (Arizona State University)
Panel: call for papers (3)
18.00-19.00 uur Closing Session
Reinhart Koselleck (Bielefeld University)
Hans Boedeker (Max Planck Institut Goettingen)
Melvin Richter ( New York City University)
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