The 12th annual conference on the History of Concepts: New Directions in the history of concepts
The 12th annual conference on the History of Concepts: New Directions in the history of concepts
New Directions in the History of Concepts
The 12th Annual Conference of the History of Political and Social Concepts Group
London and Oxford, September 17th-19th, 2009
download the provisional programme here.
Provisional programme
Thursday, September 17th
Venue: School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, 16 Taviston Street
8.00-9:15 Registration
9:15-9:30 Conference opening
Jan Ifversen, Executive Director, the History of Political and Social Concepts Group, Aarhus University
Henrik Stenius, Director, Centre for Nordic Studies, Helsinki University
9:30-11:45 Plenary Session
Melvin Richter, Professor Emeritus, the City University of New York
Contested Concepts: Three Perspectives
Hans Erich Bödeker, Senior Research Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin Begriffsgeschichte and the History of Metaphors
Chair: Martin J. Burke, the City University of New York
11:45-13:00 Lunch
13:00-17:00 Parallel Panel Sessions
Session A
13:00-14:45 The Concept of Europe (Part One)
Chair: Pim den Boer, Amsterdam University
Meike Schmidt-Gleim, University of Alessandria
Philosophical Perspectives on Europe throughout the Centuries
Tapani Turkka, University of Jyväskyla
On a Political Europe(an Union)
Claudia Wiesner, University of Marburg
The Concept of Europe and the EU
Session B
13:00-14:45 The Present and Future of Conceptual Historical Studies in South Korea
Chair: TBA
Seung-Cheol Song, Hallym University and Hallym Academy of Sciences
TBA
Chiyoung Kim, Hallym Academy of Sciences
TBA
Haeng-hoon Lee, Hallym Academy of Sciences
TBA
14:45-15:00 Tea and Coffee
Session A
15:00-17:00 The Concept of Europe (Part Two)
Nere Basabe, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
On the Concept of Europe
Georgios Varouxakis, Queen Mary Seminar, London
TBA
Uffe Jakobsen, Copenhagen University
Concepts of Europe, European Politics and the Eastern Enlargement of the European Union
Delmo de Oliveira Arguelhes, Centro Universitário de Brasília
Beneath the Valkyries’ Sky: Conceptions of Heroism, Honor and Chivalry of Fighter Pilots in the Great War (1914-18)
Session B
15:00-17:00 Rethinking the Conceptual History of Parliament(arism).
Chair: Henrik Stenius
Kari Palonen, University of Jyväskylä
Parliamentary Rhetoric and Conceptual Change at Westminster
Jonas Harvard, Mid-Sweden University
Parliamentary Opinion and the Public
Jeppe Nevers, University of Southern Denmark
Conceptual Change in the Danish Language of Politics in the Age of Revolutions
David Mazella, University of Houston
Cynicism and the Fate of Persuasion in Contemporary Political Argument
17:15-18:30 Plenary Session
Rolf Reichardt, Professor, University of Gießen
Visualisierung politisch-sozialer Schlagworte in der Bildpublizistik der Französischen Revolution
Chair, Willibald Steinmetz, University of Bielefled
19:00 Reception, Finnish Institute, London 35-36 Eagle Street
Welcome, Raija Koli, Director
Friday, September 18th
Venue: School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, UCL
9:15-10:30 Plenary Session
Javier Fernández Sebastián, Professor, Universidad del Pais Vasco
First Liberalisms in the Ibero-American World: Political Concepts, Metaphors and Identities.
Chair, Michael Freeden, Director, Centre for Political Ideologies, Oxford University
10:30-10:45 Tea and Coffee
10:45-12:30 Parallel Panel Sessions
Session A
10:45-12:30 The Use of Concepts in Nation-State Formation and International Politics
Chair: Jörn Leonhard, University of Freiburg
Christopher Hobson, Aberystwyth University
Conceptual Change and International Relations: The Dual Rise of “Democracy” and the United States
Anthoula Malkopoulou, University of Jyväskylä
The Concept of Representativeness in French-Belgian Voting Debates
Hunmi Lee, Seoul National University
The Concept of ‘Patriotism’ in Korea during the Japanese Protectorate, 1905-1910
Gabriel Entin, EHESS, Paris/ University of Buenos Aires
The Concept of Liberty in Rio de
Session B
10:45-12:30 Towards an Historical Semantics of Emotions (Part One)
Chair: Sinai Rusinek, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Margrit Pernau, Max Planck Institute for the History of Emotions, Berlin
An Entangled Conceptual History of Emotions; Britain and the Colonies since the 18th Century
Amnon Yuval, Tel Aviv University and Hakibbutzim College of Education, Technology and Arts
The Politicization of Sensibility in England during the Last Decades of the 18th century
Nicholas Lombardo, Cambridge University
Thomas Aquinas’ Conceptualisation of Emotions: Passions, Affection and his Theological Project in Historical Context
Muhammad Sajjad, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
Concepts of the Soul: the Indian Sufi Scholars in North India
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-18:30 Parallel Panel Sessions
Session A
13:30-15:00 New Theoretical and Methodological Challenges
Chair: Jan Ifversen, Aarhus University
Jacques Guilhaumou, University of Provence, France
The dialogue between French ADH and the History of Concepts: What Concepts, What Future?
Gonzalo Bustamante Kuschel, Adolfo Ibáñez University, Chile
The Contribution of Luhmann`s Theory to Begriffsgeschichte in the Understanding of Changing Processes and Political Conflicts
Timo Pankakoski, University of Helsinki
Conflictual Concepts in Concrete Contexts: the Methodologized Schmittianism of Koselleck’s Begriffsgeschichte
Gustavo Santos Elpes, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
The Concepts of constitution and political centralization in Brazil: A critical revision of Begriffsgeschichte.
Session B
13:30-15:00 Towards an Historical Semantics of Emotions (Part Two)
Chair: Margrit Pernau
Benno Gammerl, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
From Politeness to Intimacy? A History of the Emotional Lexicon between Closeness and Distance
Uriel Heyd, University of Haifa and Royal Holloway University of London
Fear in the Eighteenth-Century Newspaper
Marcus Otto, Bielefeld University and Georg-Eckert-Institute in Braunschweig:
‘Ressentiment’ – The Genealogy of an Emotional Concept in French and German Discourse
15:00-15:15 break
Session A
15:15-16:45 Transfer and Translation of Concepts from One Region to Another and Within Regions
Chair: João Feres, Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro
Raymonde Monnier, CNRS-ENS/LSH Lyon
Translation, Transmission and the History of Concepts: the Theoretical and Empirical Significance of the Translation of Key Texts of the Republican Tradition in France at the End of the 18th century
Ramon Guillermo, University of the Philippines
A Study of the 19th Century Translation of ‘Naturrecht’ (natural law) and ‘Revolutionsrecht’ (right to revolution) in Jose Rizal's Tagalog translation of Friedrich Schiller's “Wilhelm Tell” (1887)
Leonidas Karakatsanis, University of Essex
From Namings to Concepts to Signifiers: Mapping a Topography of “Friendship” in the Politics of Rapprochement.
Session B
15:15-16:45 Semantics of Culture and Politics
Chair: Patricia Springborg, Free University of Bolzano
Mostafa Younesie, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran
The Historical Concept of ‘Wisdom’ in Persian Culture
Erdem Damar, University of Essex
Is there such a thing called ‘Kemalism’?
José Javier Blanco, University of Venezuela
Semantical Oscillations and Semantical Stabilizations: Some Reflections on the Theory of Historical Times
16:45-17:00 Tea and Coffee
17:00-18:30 Parallel Panel Sessions
Session A
17:00-18:30 Conceptual Histories, Public Opinion and Identity Politics
Chair, Nere Basabe
Gonzalo Capellán de Miguel, University of Cantabria
Concepts and their “Historical Moments”: the Case of ‘Public Opinion’
Jean Terrier, University of Munster
Spirit, Character and Culture: Metaphors of the Social in a Conceptual Historical Perspective
Jin Nye Na, University of Essex
Nationalist-Oriented Women Activists go Global? The Politics and Identities of Women’s Movements in Post-colonial Contexts
Vibeke Erichsen, University of Bergen, Norway
The Pariah Concept: South Indian Origins and Western Reception
Session B
17:00-18:30 The Use of Concepts in Nation-State and Imperial Formation
Chair: Javier Fernández Sebastián
Erik Tängerstad, Gotland University
Fichte’s Ambiguous Concept ‘Nation’
Jani Marjanen, Renvall Institute, Helsinki University
From Economic to Linguistic Improvement: On the Language of Patriotism in Finland, ca. 1790–1840
Timo Särkkä, University of Jyväskylä
Imperial Power in Retrospect: British Perceptions of Empire, Imperial Power and Imperialism
Scheherezade Pinilla Cañadas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
The Enthusiasm of Gabriel Araceli: the Spectator and the Nation in Benito Pérez Galdós’ Episodios Nacionales
19:30: Conference Dinner
TBA
Saturday, September 19th
Venue: Mansfield College, Department of Politics and International Relations, Manor Road, Oxford
8:30 Departure for Oxford
11:00-12:30 Plenary Session
Michael Freeden, Oxford University
Conceptual History, Ideology and Language
Chair, Hans Erich Bödeker
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Plenary Session
Jörn Leonhard, Professor, University of Freiburg
Concepts of War and Nation in Comparison
Chair, Melvin Richter
15:15-17:45 Parallel Panel Sessions
Session A
15:15-16:30 Concepts in International Relations
Chair: Uffe Jakobsen
Patricia Springborg, Free University of Bolzano
Exporting Terror/Exporting Democracy: a False Homology
Roberto Farneti, Free University of Bolzano
Cleavage Lines in Global Politics
Hanafi Rais, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
The Changing Discourse of Security in Turbulent Times: a Reflection of the War
on Terror and Global Economic Recession
Session B
15:15-16:30 The Concept of Civilization (Part One)
Chair: Pim den Boer
Yuliy Assoyan, State University for the Humanities, Moscow
The Concept ‘Civilization’ in Russian Philosophical and Historical Discourse from the 1830s through the1860s
Irene Zwiep, University of Amsterdam
From Pre-modern ‘Yisrael’ to Modern ‘Judentum’: the Science of Judaism and the Invention of Jewish Culture
Sergei Serebriany, State University for the Humanities, Moscow
The Adaptation of the European Words ‘Culture’ and ‘Civilization’ in non-European Languages in the 19th and 20th centuries
16:30-16:45 tea and coffee
Session A
16:45-17:45 The Study of Conceptual History in Korea
Chair: TBA
Young-sun Ha, Seoul National University
On the Concept of ‘Peace’ in Korea
Myungkyu Park, Seoul National University
On the Concept of ‘Society’ in Korea
Chaesung Chun, Seoul National University
On the Concept of ‘Nation’ in Korea
Session B
16:45-17:45 The Concept of Civilization (Part Two)
Chair, Pim den Boer
Galina Zvereva, State University for the Humanities, Moscow
The Concept ‘Civilization’ in post-Soviet Political and Public discourse: Russian Ways of “Nationalizing”
Andriy V. Portnov, Kiev, Ukraine
‘Civilization’ in post-Soviet Ukrainian Scholarly and Public Discourse
Pablo Sánchez León, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Specifying a National Sattelzeit: Decadence and Regeneration as Organizing Concepts for a Dictionary of Modernity in Spain
18:00: Departure for London
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Other information
London and Oxford, 17-19 September 2009
The 12th annual conference will be held in London and Oxford from the 17th to the 19th September 2009 and organised by HPSCG in cooperation with University College London, Centre for Political Ideologies at Oxford University, the Finnish Institute in London, the German Historical Institute in London, CENS in Helsinki, CoePolCon in Jyväskylä.
At the 12th annual conference of the HPSCG we intend to look back at the themes covered over the last ten years and focus on the new directions that has emerged in the study of the history of concepts. Some important themes have emerged over the years. We wish to investigate these themes closer and to discuss the empirical and methodological implications involved. The 12th annual conference will be organised around the following themes:
• The transfer and translation of concepts from one region to the other and within regions.
Several conferences of the HPSCG have been dedicated to the investigation of which concepts travel and how they travel. The focus has been on transnational concepts suited for transfer (e.g. democracy, modernisation, civilisation, international law). The travel routes of the concepts through translations and the effects of concepts being inserted in different linguistic and cultural contexts have been discussed. The underlying relations of hegemony and asymmetry in these processes have been highlighted. We wish to continue the study of transnational concept, travel routes, translations and hegemonic relations and particularly to discuss the methodological and empirical problems involved.
• Concepts in political and rhetoric.
The role of key political concepts in the process of political modernisation has been a prominent theme for the HPSCG since the beginning. At the 12th annual conference we would like to focus on how political communication, broadly speaking, produces conceptual changes. This involves investigating the formative role of ideologies and political rhetoric in forming concepts. The focus on ideology will include the explicit engineering of political concepts in totalitarian and authoritarian regimes.
• Concepts in identity politics
Participants at the HPSCG conferences have shown a growing interest in studying the conceptual architecture of past and present identity politics. This has involved the study of a variety of auto-designators (e.g. people, nation, patriots), of asymmetrical counter-concepts (e.g. barbarian, despot, primitive) and of names (e.g. geographical names). The rising importance of infra- and supra-national identity politics calls for more studies along these lines.
• Concepts in international relations
In later years scholars of international relations have taken an interest in examining the role of key concepts and their history in the forming of global systems of international relations. This entails focusing on the development of an international language, including concepts, through which states and other political entities communicate with each other. Studies of the emergence and history of concepts such as friendship, war, international law, commerce, international community, human rights in different linguistic and cultural contexts have already been undertaken within the HPSCG.
• Concepts, metaphors, images and monuments
From its start the history of concepts has included an interest in metaphors. The link between concepts and metaphors has been the object of constant theoretical and methodological debates. Concepts often connect with a pictoral semiotics through metaphors. The Amsterdam conference in 2002 was partly devoted to the presentation of studies linking concepts, images and monuments. We intend to continue along these lines at the 12th annual conference
• Concepts of religion
Recent years have witnessed an overall growing interest in religious concept and in comparing the key concepts of world religions. Religion is an excellent field for highlighting similarities and differences in conceptual frameworks, e.g. between the various Christian religions or between Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Confucianism, Buddhism and Hinduism. Such meta-concepts as religion and secularism must themselves be open to critical scrutiny, not last by following their role in different cultural and historical contexts
• Comparative,European, transnational and global conceptual history.
From being embedded in national cultures the history of concepts has in later years tried to
transgress these limits. Efforts have been conducted to undertake comparative studies at a
regional level (e.g. the Ibero-American and the Central European project). Larger supranational projects are being discussed (e.g. the Europaum project of a European conceptual history), and even global projects of comparing regions across the world are being launched. Projects of this range raise a multitude of methodological and empirical challenges that needs to be discussed.
• New theoretical and methodological challenges
History of concepts as endorsed by the HPSCG developed in a fruitful dialogue between Begriffsgeschichte and the Cambridge school. Other sources of inspiration have been lingering in the periphery. It is time, however, to engage more directly in dialogues with neighbouring approaches and new fields. This could include engaging with Foucauldian genealogy, with a variety of linguistic approaches (text linguistics, text pragmatics, critical discourse analysis, argumentation analysis) and with new approaches within contextualism (e.g. new historicism).
Invited speakers:
Professor Emeritus Melvin Richter, New York
Professor Michael Freeden, Oxford
Senior Research Scholar Hans Erich Bödeker, Berlin
Professor Rolf Reichardt, Gießen
Professor Javier Fernández Sebastián, Bilbao
Professor Pim den Boer, Amsterdam
Professor Willibald Steinmetz, Bielefeld
Professor Jörn Leonhard, Freiburg
Professor Kari Palonen, Jyväskylä
The organising committee invites proposals for sessions and papers.
CALL TO ORGANIZE SESSIONS
Submissions for applications to organize a session for the conference are invited. Interested individuals/groups should submit expressions of interest which include a synopsis of no more than 200 words outlining the duration, title, aims, and content of the proposed session.
All proposals will be reviewed by the Organizing Committee.
Presentations will be selected to provide a program that offers
comprehensive and diverse treatment of issues relating to the
conference theme.
Proposals must be sent to:
Director Henrik Stenius, henrik.stenius@helsinki.fi or
Head of Department Jan Ifversen, kultji@hum.au.dk
CALL FOR PAPERS
All participants interested in presenting a contribution relating to the themes proposed are kindly asked to submit a one-page abstract (max. 400 words.)
Abstracts must be sent to Director Henrik Stenius, henrik.stenius@helsinki.fi
IMPORTANT DATES
Closing date for receipt of abstracts: Monday, the 20th of July, 2009
Notification of acceptance of abstracts: Monday, the 3rd of August 2009
CONFERENCE VENUES
LONDON: UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, 16 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW.
OXFORD: Department of Politics and International Relations, Manor Road Building, Oxford OX1 3UQ
Conference transportation London-Oxford-London will be arranged.
REGISTRATION FEE
100 Euros / 85 British Pounds. Payment: cash.
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Ambassador Hotel Bloomsbury
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Grange Holborn Hotel
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Cheaper option:
Passfield Hall
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London
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e: passfield@lse.ac.uk
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