Concepta programme 2009
RESEARCH TRAINING SEMINARS:
Constitution and Constitutionalism. The third Concepta Research Training Seminar will be arranged 5.-7. November in Stockholm. Course convenors: Jussi Kurunmäki and Suvi Soininen. UPADATE 1.6.2009: Call For Papers published
INTRODUCTORY COURSES:
The Fifth Concepta Introduction to Conceptual History summer school will be organised together with the Helsinki Summer School and other partner institutions. The summer school will take place in Helsinki on 4.-20. August 2009. UPDATE 24.6.2009: Alumni lecture titles added. More information.
Conceptual history news
- Friday, June 12, 2009 - 13:19
Call for Applications
For a panel at the 12th annual conference on the History of Concepts, London and Oxford, 17-19 September 2009Towards a Historical Semantics of Emotions
Doctors and scientists tend to view emotions as primarily linked to bodily functions, and explain them in terms of nerves, hormones, and adaptive mechanisms. Philosophers, theologians and psychologists, who throughout the ages argued about the rationality and cognitive status of Emotions, treat them often as a basic human faculty.
- Friday, March 20, 2009 - 09:26
Redescriptions vol. 12, Yearbook of Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory has recently come out. New volume includes articles by Quentin Skinner, Kari Saastamoinen, Burkhard Conrad, Raymond Geuss, Kari Palonen and Jan Ifversen etc. Table of contents can be found here.
- Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 17:49
A workshop on the History of Concepts will be held at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute in September 13-17. The workshop will consist of sessions devoted to concepts from different realms: the Political, the Social, The Natural sciences and Medicine, and will be guided by lecturers from 'Concepta' as well as lecturers from the Zentrum fuer Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin.
- Saturday, March 14, 2009 - 09:07
New Directions in the history of concepts
The 12th annual conference on the History of Concepts
London and Oxford, 17-19 September 2009Monday, February 23, 2009 - 15:45A new interview with Quentin Skinner published at the Concepta e-texts. Skinner discusses concept of libert y and the development of his thought on the matter. The interview, "Mastery and Liberty", is available in pdf-format from the e-texts and links -section of the Concepta website.
