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CFP: Spaces, Languages, Time: the 15th International Conference on the History of Concepts

Sami — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:56:59 +0200

CFP: Spaces, Languages, Time: the 15th International Conference on the History of Concepts

Helsinki, 23–25 August 2012
The conference is organised by the History of Political and Social Concepts Group and the Centre for Nordic Studies at the University of Helsinki

Call for Papers published. See: http://www.hpscg.org/node/2089

Theories and methodologies of Conceptual History -seminar

Sami — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:15:18 +0300

Theories and methodologies of Conceptual History
August-October 2011 (weekly seminar)

Facultad de Filosofía y Letras-Universidad de Buenos Aires

Ph. D. candidats seminar

36 hours

Professors: Gabriel Entin (EHESS)-Claudio Sergio Nun-Ingerflom (CNRS-Universidad Nacional de San Martín)

This seminar tends to introduce the main theoretical and methodological perspectives in Conceptual history. First, it introduces the differences between history of ideas and conceptual history. Second, it analyses the grounds and trends in Cambridge School, Begriffsgeschichte, and French intellectual history of the political. In third place, the seminar focus on the development of conceptual history in the Spanish world; in particular, the lexicographic transformations during the age of revolutions (1750-1850) studied by the Iberconceptos project.

Invited professors:

Noemí Goldman (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Elías Palti (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Nere Basabe (Sciences Po-Paris)
Luis Fernández Torres (Universidad del País Vasco)

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A new publication in conceptual history: The United Nations and Peace. The Evolution of an Organizational Concept.

Sami — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 14:25:30 +0300

A new publication in conceptual history: The United Nations and Peace: The Evolution of an Organizational Concept.

Aiming to trace the development of the concept of peace from the foundation of the UN until today, the book investigates on what conceptual understanding the UN was instituted in 1945 and what notion of peace has become apparent in subsequent UN policy as it is performed by the primary UN organs. Along the lines of this research program, the book seeks to reveal the changing underlying assumptions about how a peaceful world order looks and how it should be brought about. Beyond these aspects of semantic change, the book also explores the institutional dimension of this organizational concept by carving out how it is anchored in functional-normative structures of the world organization, its policy, and rhetoric. It builds on an interdisciplinary

approach of institutional analysis and conceptual explanation that combines interpretive methods from international law scholarship, conceptual history and policy analysis.

Peter Lang

Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011. XIV, 355 pp., num. graphs

Print: ISBN 978-3-631-61926-1 hb.

SFR 80.00 / €* 54.80 / €** 56.30 / € 51.20 / £ 46.10 / US$ 79.95

www.peterlang.com

http://www.peterlang.com/download/datasheet/61489/datasheet_261926.pdf

Conceptual History and the Welfare State

Sami — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:56:14 +0300

Conceptual History and the Welfare State

Conference, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, September 15-16 2011

The rise of the welfare state is one of the most important novelties in the 20th century. With this conference we intend to explore the possibility of studying the emergence of the welfare state from the perspective of comparative conceptual history. We will adress questions such as: How can we study the relationship between political change and conceptual change from a comparative perspective? What is the history of the concept of ’the welfare state’? And perhaps most important: Does the welfare state have a language of its own?

Papers:

Jörn Leonhard (University of Freiburg): Approaching a Comparative History of Concepts and Experiences: Theory and Methods

Jeppe Nevers (University of Southern Denmark): Conceptual History and Political History: Theoretical Considerations

Henrik Stenius (University of Helsinki): A Nordic Conceptual Universe

Jørn Henrik Petersen and Klaus Petersen (University of Southern Denmark): The ’Welfare State’: Towards a Comparative Conceptual History

Nils Edling (University of Stockholm): The Struggle over the Welfare State in Sweden, 1940-1970

Michael Kuur Sørensen (University of Southern Denmark): Critics of the Welfare State – Some Danish Examples

Carl Marklund (University of Helsinki): ’Happiness’ in the Political Discourse of the Welfare State

Sissel Bjerrum Fossat (University of Southern Denmark): Concepts of Gender Equality: Towards a Comparative Perspective

Lasse Horne Kjældgaard (University of Copenhagen): TBA – on the literary experience of the welfare state

Anita Nell Albrechtsen (University of Southern Denmark): ’Social Cohesion’ in Politics and Literature of the Welfare State

Conceptualizing the World - International conference in Oslo September 13-16 2011.

Sami — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:25:18 +0200

Conceptualizing the World

International conference in Oslo September 13-16 2011.

As a starting point for this conference we want to suggest an alternative approach to the concept and the discourse of “globalization”. Irrespective of both normative issues and conflicting temporal scales we take globalization to mean the emergence, appearance and/or production of the world as an object of human experience and practice. The aim of the conference is to study how different sets of concepts, representations and methodologies, within different languages, disciplines, discourses or cultures, react and contribute to this emergence.

More information available at:

http://www.uio.no/forskning/tverrfak/kultrans/aktuelt/konferanser/concep...