Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in Political Thought and Conceptual Change
The guiding principle of the Centre of Excellence in Political Thought and Conceptual Change (CoE PolCon) is thinking, reading and analyzing phenomena politically. The concept of contingent activity and the contested, controversial and historical character of concepts serve as the heuristic core of the studies conducted within the Centre, which provides an organizational framework, a locus of intellectual encounters and discussions as well as an administrative basis for its members and the research teams. The research proper is conducted by the individual scholars and through their mutual co-operation within the research teams, administratively located at the Universities of Jyväskylä and Helsinki.
Director: Academy professor Kari Palonen, University of Jyväskylä
Vice-director: Professor Tuija Pulkkinen, University of Helsinki
Research teams and their leaders
Political Thought and Conceptual History, Kari Palonen
Politics of Philosophy and Gender, Tuija Pulkkinen
Politics and the Arts, Matti Hyvärinen
Co-ordinators
Anitta Kananen (PolTCH, Polarts), University of Jyväskylä
Tuija Modinos (PPhiG, Redescriptions), University of Helsinki
Advisory Board Members
Professor Denise Riley, University of East Anglia, UK
Professor Michael Shapiro, University of Hawai’i at Mãnoa, USA
Professor Quentin Skinner, University of London, UK