[H-verkko] Muistutus: Call for papers - Human Faces of Power

[Anu Lahtinen]

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Anu Lahtinen
Historian laitos, TY

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CALL FOR PAPERS - deadline 13th of February 2009

Human Faces of Power
X Conference in Methodologies and Theories in History
University of Turku, 10th-12th of September 2009
http://histconf.utu.fi/


Power is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon that goes beyond
overt and institutionalized frameworks and encompasses the individual
conduct of negotiations and disputes. Informal and invisible power
structures are of the utmost importance in maintaining, transforming and
challenging formally recognized power relations.

The Conference Human Faces of Power, to be held at the University of
Turku, Finland, will focus on the ubiquitous power relations that are
not merely institutionalized forms of communication, but which inform
and are manifested in everyday contacts between individuals, groups and
organizations. In analyzing these contacts it is essential to recognize
a diverse range of micro-strategies for empowerment and disempowerment

The organizers of the conference Human Faces of Power welcome scholars
to explore theoretical and methodological aspects of power relations
within a historical perspective. The Conference will be tenth in the
series of methodological conferences, organized by the Department of
History and the Department of Contemporary History at the University of
Turku, Finland.

The three-day conference will consist of lectures by keynote speakers
(to be announced) and thematic sessions in which individual papers will
be presented and discussed. Sessions are organized in time slots of max.
105 minutes; in each time slot up to four papers may be presented. The
conference will be conducted in English.

Call for Papers

Scholars wishing to propose a paper are asked to send an abstract in
English, not exceeding 300 words. The abstract should include the name
and contact information of the speaker, the title of the paper, a
description of the topic and a summary of its relevance to one of the
sessions or to the main theme of the conference. In addition, please
include a short cv. Proposals should be sent by 13 February 2009 to the
e-mail address or postal address given below. In March 2009, the
organizing committee will announce which papers have been accepted.

Papers focusing on the themes of the sessions may be preferred. However,
even proposals for other themes for papers and suggestions for complete
additional sessions are welcome.

Titles of Sessions

       * Caring Power
       * Cinematic Practices of Power
       * Defining, Selecting and Representing - Power Embedded in the
Production of Knowledge
       * From Uniform to Unity
       * From the Man in the Street to the President - How is Foreign
Policy Shaped?
       * Institutional Change in Globalization
       * Power of the Media
       * Subordination, Cooperation, Resistance: Power Relations in
Medieval and Early Modern Households

In addition to the above-mentioned session themes, papers can focus on
the following themes:

       * Gendered exercise of power
       * Consumer culture
       * Power in media culture
       * Micro-economy
       * Lobbying and activism
       * Citizens and power from democracy to totalitarianism
       * Lived environment and planning
       * Subversive use of rhetoric and symbols of power
       * Power of science
       * Ethnic relations
       * Historical knowledge and power


Confirmed Keynote Speakers

The three-day conference will consist of lectures by keynote speakers
and thematic sessions. At the moment, two keynote speakers have been
confirmed:

       * Professor Mary S. Hartman , Rutgers University, expert in women's
history (author of "The Household and the Making of History: A
Subversive View of the Western Past")
       * Professor Peter Dahlgren , Media and Communication Studies, Lund
University (author of "Television and the Public Sphere: Citizenship,
Democracy and the Media")


Contact information

e-mail:

       histconf [at] utu.fi

postal address:

       Turku X methodological conference / Cultural History
       School of History
       Sirkkala Building
       FIN-20014 UNIVERSITY OF TURKU
       FINLAND
       EUROPE

More information about the conference is available at
http://histconf.utu.fi/
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Anu Lahtinen
Filosofian tohtori (PhD), EuDoc
Dosentti (Adjunct Professor)
Department of History
Sirkkala
FIN-20014 UNIVERSITY OF TURKU
FINLAND
mobile +358 (0)400 906 353
http://www.iki.fi/anulah
anulah (at) utu.fi
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