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Political Thought and Conceptual Change
Centre of Excellence (CoE PolCon)

PolTCH events

Forthcoming Events

2013 PolTCH event
CONTINGENCY, RHETORIC AND LIBERTY.
QUENTIN SKINNER AS A EUROPEAN THINKER
Eighth Jyväskylä Symposium on Political Thought and Conceptual History
14–15 June 2013, Building Agora, Auditorium Alfa.
Program in English
Program in Finnish

Previous Events

2012 PolTCH event
Politics of Experience: Theorizing the politics of the past
The Fifth Doctoral Symposium on the Politics of the Past
Finnland-institut in Deutschland, Berlin, 11th & 12th October 2012
Call for papers

Workshop
Parliaments and Parliamentarism:
A Comparative History of Disputes on a European Concept
Workshop at the Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
27-29 August 2012
More info

2012 PolTCH event
FORMS OF RHETORIC IN CIVIC AND PARLIAMENTARY POLITICS
PhD Student Course, 6-7 June 2012,
University of Jyväskylä, Building Agora, Lecture room Delta
More info, Program

2012 PolTCH event
PARLIAMENTARY AND CIVIC FORMS OF POLITICS
Seventh Annual Jyväskylä Symposium on Political Thought and Conceptual History
University of Jyväskylä, 8-9 June 2012, Building Agora, Lecture room Delta
More info

16 December 2011 Dissertation, Building Juomatehdas, 12-15 h, Room JT 120
Anna Björk defends her doctoral dissertation titled The politics of citizenship tests: Time, integration and the contingent polity. Opponent Research Director Helge Jordheim (University of Oslo) and custos Academy Professor Kari Palonen (University of Jyväskylä).

2011 PolTCH event
The Political Theory Seminar, Tuesday 25 October 2011 15-19 h, Y33 105
More info

9 September 2011 Dissertation, Building Villa Rana, 12-15 h, Room Paulaharju
Anthoula Malkopoulou defends her doctoral dissertation titled Democracy’s Duty: The History of Political Debates on Compulsory Voting. Opponent docent Marnix Beyen (University of Antwerpen) and custos Academy Professor Kari Palonen (Jyväskylä University).
Summary

2011 PolTCH event
SIXTH JYVÄSKYLÄ ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON POLITICAL THOUGHT AND CONCEPTUAL HISTORY,
EUROPEAN CONCEPTUAL HISTORY AND ITS PARLIAMENTARY DIMENSION
10-11 June 2011, Building Villa Rana, Room Paulaharju
More info

Re-thinking Parliaments.
The Fifth Concepta Research Training Seminar, 13-14 June 2011, Building Villa Rana, Room Paulaharju Jyväskylä
More info

CoE PolCon Scientific Advisory Board Meeting
London UK, May 19, 2011.
Program

29 October 2010, Paris
Rupture(s) in Revolution workshop, Perceiving and managing ruptures in revolutionary times
Call for papers

2010 POLITU DOCTORAL COURSE, 21-24 September
CROSSING THE DIVIDE BETWEEN INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL POLITICS
Rhetoric of deliberation and negotiation
Part I Ferry Turku-Mariehamn
Part II A Course Centre in the Åland Islands
More info

Lecture of José María Rosales + Staff and PhD students meeting
Friday 27 August 10-17 h, Mattilanniemi MaB 102
More info 2010 Rosales.pdf

2010 Keskustelutilaisuus, Jyväskylän yliopisto 18.8.
Uusi yliopisto – yritys, puolue vai oppineiden tasavalta?
Kohti muuttuvien toimintatilanteiden poliittista luentaa
Ohjelma

CoE PolCon Politics of Contingency Conference
University of Helsinki, August 12 -13, 2010
Program
Abstracts and workshop program
Campus map (Venue: U40 = building 23)

2010 PolTCH and Polarts event: A joint doctoral seminar
University of Jyväskylä, Thursday 10 June: Building “Juomatehdas” JT, room 120
Program

2010 PolTCH Event: The 5th Annual Jyväskylä Symposium on Political Thought and Conceptual History
“Perspectives on migration and human rights: interdisciplinary interventions” University of Jyväskylä, Finland, June 11th – 12th, 2010,
Building Villa Rana, Room Blomstedt
Program
Abstracts

2010 CoE PolCon Scientific Advisory Board Meeting
London UK, June 1, 2010
Program

PolTCH event, 8th–9th January 2010, Villa Lante, Rome
THE THIRD DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE POLITICS OF THE PAST
More information

*2009, December 18th and 19st, PolTCH event
International Colloquium at the University of Alessandria*
European (Ex)changes
Programme

27 November 2009 Dissertation, 12:00 Agora, Auditorium 2
Evgeny Roshchin defends his doctoral dissertation titled Friendship in International Relations: A History of the Concept. Opponent Professor Jens Bartelson (Lund University) and custos Academy Professor Kari Palonen (Jyväskylä University).
Summary

Tuesday 27 October 10-12 h, University of Jyväskylä, MaA 211
The Annual Jukka Kanerva Memorial Lecture on Political Rhetoric 2009
Professor Cornelia Ilie (Södertörn and Örebro Universities, Sweden) on: Questioning rhetoric in election campaign interviews: The case of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton
Discussant: Professor Tuija Pulkkinen (University of Helsinki

2009 August 25th – 27th, PolCon event
Rhetoric of governments, parliaments and movements
POLITU DOCTORAL COURSE 2009
University of Jyväskylä & Konnevesi Research Station
More information
Videos of the lectures: http://moniviestin.jyu.fi/ohjelmat/ytk/en/rhetoric/

2009 May 27th and 28st, PolCon event
Crossing the Divide between Anglophone and Continental Political Thought
A Joint Symposium of the Queen Mary Centre for the History of Political Thought and the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Political Thought and Conceptual Change.
The Finnish Institute in London, 35-36 Eagle Street, London WC1R 4AQ, UK
More information
Programme

2009 June 10th and 11th, PolCon event
PhD Student Course: Presentation techniques and academic writing
Time and place: Agora Building (Ag C233.1), University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Programme

2009 June 12th and 13th, PolCon event
PARLIAMENTS, CITIZENS, EUROPE
Fourth Jyväskylä Symposium in Political Thought and Conceptual History
12-13 June 2009, Building Villa Rana, Room Paulaharju
More information

2009 February 19th and 20th, PolTCH event
STYLES OF POLITICAL THEORIZING: EXPLORING CONCEPTS AND RHETORICAL PRACTICES IN HISTORY
Symposium at the Finnish Institute in Athens
Programme

2009 January 30th and 31st, PolTCH event
Parliament, Discourses, Citizenship
International Working Conference at the University of Marburg
Programme

10-14 November 2008 PolTCH event
Decision, Deliberation, Negotiation and Contestation
POLITU INTERNATIONAL DOCTORAL COURSE
Finnland-Institut in Berlin
Programme

17 October 2008 Dissertation, 12:00–15:00
M.Soc.Sc. Jyrki Ruohomäki defends his doctoral dissertation in political science titled Could Do Better. Academic Interventions in Northern Ireland Unionism.
Opponent PhD., Reader in Politics, Alan Finlayson (University of Wales, Swansea) and custos D.Soc.Sc. Klaus Sondermann.
Location: Seminaarinmäki Main building, C5
Summary

28.9. PolTCH event
Jukka Kanerva Memorial Lecture 2008
Friday 26.9. Agora, Auditorio 3
13.15 – 14.45 Prof. Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawaii: City Time: Politics, Philosophy and Genre
Comment: Lecturer Kimmo Lehtonen (University of Jyväskylä): Digital Culture
More information

25.-28.8. August PolTCH Seminar
Parliamentary and Constitutional Rhetoric, International Doctoral Course
Eduskunta in Helsinki
Centre for Nordic Studies, Helsinki
Lammi Research Station of the University of Helsinki
More intormation

13.-14. June 2008 PolTCH Seminar
Rhetoric and Liberty
University of Jyväskylä 13-14 June 2008
Building Villa Rana, Room Blomstedt
Programme

15.-16. May 2008 PolTCH Seminar
Comparative Political Theory and Conceptual History
University of Jyväskylä, Building Puutarhurin talo
Programme

21 May 2008 PolTCH Seminar
International Workshop Debating Compulsory Voting. Historical and Political Perspectives organised by MoSa KU Leuven and the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Political Thought and Conceptual History.

Venue: MSI 02.08 (Museum-room)
Mgr. Sencie Instituut (2nd floor)
Erasmusplein 2, 3000 Leuven
Programme

07 December 2007
Malaise dans la démocratie.
Un colloque franco-finlandais,
Institut finlandais, Paris, 60 rue des écoles
Programme

11-13 October 2007
Citizens, Parliaments and States: Towards a European History of Concepts
Workshop with European University Institute in Villa Schifanoia, Florence.
Workshop Programme

21-24 August 2007
THE POLITICS OF PARLIAMENTARY LITERACY PART II
Intensive Doctoral Course of Lectures and Textual Analysis
Konnevesi Research Station near Jyväskylä
Program
Doctoral course briefly

7-23 August 2007
INTRODUCTION TO CONCEPTUAL HISTORY
Helsinki Summer School 2007
The course is suitable for Finnish and international students from various academic backgrounds, although an interest in the humanities and political thought is an advantage. The course is designed for Ph.D. and advanced M.A. students.

8-9 June 2007
THE POLITICS OF THE PAST
University of Jyväskylä, Building Villa Rana, Hall Blomstedt
Programme

Spring 2007
THE POLITICS OF PARLIAMENTARY LITERACY PART I
How to read, analyse and judge politically parliamentary and quasi-parliamentary documents?
Part I, lecture course, University of Jyväskylä. Mattilanniemi, Building B, MaB 102
Programme

11 May 2007
THE RHETORIC OF MINORITIES
University of Jyväskylä, The Main Building, Lecture Room C5
Programme

Jubilee seminar 9.3.2007
Professor Kari Palonen celebrated his 60th birthday on 5.2.2007.
Friday 9.3.2007 at the University of Jyväskylä (Villa Rana, Paulaharju Hall, 10:00).
10:30 Lecture
Professor Hubertus Buchstein (Greifswald):Bringing Contingency Back into Politics – The Lot as Part of a Democratic Reform Agenda

Saturday 11. November
Dissertation: Paul-Erik Korvela: The Machiavellian Reformation 12:15am, Building Villa Rana, Lecture Room Paulaharju Opponent: Professor Marco Geuna (Università degli Studi di Milano) and Custos: Professor Kari Palonen.

Jyväskylä Studies in Education, Psychology and Social Research, 290. Jyväskylän yliopisto, Jyväskylä 2006, 171 pp., ISSN 0075-4625; 290, ISBN 951-39-2617-6.
On sale: myynti@library.jyu.fi

20-23 November 2006
Representation, elections and parliaments
VAKAVA DOCTORAL COURSE
Finnish Institute in Madrid
Schedule
Abstracts

Dienstag, 28. November 2006, 19.30 Uhr
Vortrag im Aby-Warburg-Haus, Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Kari Palonen, Jyväskylä
Warburg-Stiftungsprofessor „Max Webers politischer Begriff der‚ Objektivität’“
http://www.warburg-haus.hamburg.de/

8-24 August 2006
Introduction to Conceptual History
Helsinki Summer School

8-10th June 2006
Parliaments, Suffrages and Political Representation
First Jyväskylä Symposium on Political Thought and Conceptual History
University of Jyväskylä, Building Villa Rana

 
University of Jyväskylä

University of Jyväskylä
Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy
P.O.Box 35, FI-40014 University of Jyväskylä
FINLAND

University of Helsinki

University of Helsinki
Gender Studies, Department of Philosophy,
History, Culture and Art Studies

P.O. Box 59, FI-00014 University of Helsinki
FINLAND