[H-verkko] CFP: Parliaments and Methodology: Anthropological, Discourse-Oriented and Digital Approaches to Parliamentary History

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Agricolan artikkelipyyntöihin on lähetetty uusi ilmoitus:
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Parliaments and Methodology: Anthropological, Discourse-Oriented and Digital
Approaches to Parliamentary History
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Call for Papers

 

The 3rd International Conference of the European Information and Research
Network on Parliamentary History

The 9th Annual Jyväskylä Symposium on Political Thought and Conceptual History

 

Parliaments and Methodology: Anthropological, Discourse-Oriented and Digital
Approaches to Parliamentary History

 

12-14 June 2014, Helsinki & Department of History and Ethnology, University of
Jyväskylä, Finland

 Organised by the Department of History and Ethnology of the University of
Jyväskylä, the European Information and Research Network on Parliamentary
History (EuParl.net) and the Finnish Historical Society

 Scientific Committee: Prof. Carla van Baalen (Radboud University Nijmegen,
Centrum voor Parlementaire Geschiedenis), Prof. Jean Garrigues (Université
d’Orleans, Centre d’Histoire Parlementaire et Politique, Paris), Dr. Adéla
Gjuričová (Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences,
Prague, Czech Republic), Prof. Pasi Ihalainen (University of Jyväskylä), Dr.
Paul Seaward (History of Parliament Trust, London), Dr. Andreas Schulz
(Kommission für Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien,
Berlin)

 The European Information and Research Network on Parliamentary History
(EuParl.net) has previously organized international conferences on ‘The Europe
of Parliaments’ in Paris in 2012 and on ‘The Ideal Parliament’ in The
Hague in 2013 (see https://euparl.net). In its third international conference,
EuParl.net invites experts on European parliamentary studies from various
academic fields to present, discuss and rethink their latest methodological
approaches. Special attention will be paid to anthropological, discourse
analytical and oral approaches to parliamentary institutions as well as to the
implications of the digitization of parliamentary records for research on
parliaments. While individual papers may focus on one national parliament and on
a limited historical period, comparative and transnational approaches are
encouraged, and most papers are likely to address the common European tradition
of parliamentary government, or government by discussion, in a way or another.
This evolving tradition will play a key role also when European societies face
future challenges as democratic, participatory, deliberating and innovative
societies.

While providing an update on current approaches to anthropological,
discourse-oriented, oral and digital parliamentary research, the conference aims
at developing these methods further so that they could to better serve academic
research in parliamentary history and related fields. It is expected to give
rise to a collected volume on current methodologies in parliamentary studies.
Furthermore, the conference and EuParl.net at large aim at increasing
understanding of the significance of parliamentary traditions among the European
publics at national and international levels.

The invited and confirmed speakers include several leading anthropologists,
linguists, historians and political theorists: Marc Abeles (Paris), Emma Crewe
(London), Shirin Rai (Warwick), Henk te Velde (Leiden), Ton van Haaften
(Leiden), Marnix Beyen (Antwerp) and Kari Palonen (Jyväskylä).

Proposals on methodological papers of no more than 20 minutes addressing the
following questions are invited:

-          How do anthropologists analyse social relations, rituals and
ceremonies in parliaments and what can historians learn from these methods?

-          How should oral history of parliaments be recorded and
written?

-          How do alternative linguistically and rhetorically oriented
strategies to analyse parliamentary history relate to each other?

-          How can political theorists make use of historical analyses
of parliamentary discourse?

-          What are the methodological implications and future
possibilities for parliamentary history opened by the digitization of
parliamentary records?

Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words to pasi.t.ihalainen at jyu.fi by
15 September 2013. The speakers will be informed about the acceptance of their
papers by 15 October. The conference fee is expected to be 200 euros and will
include charter coach transport from Helsinki to Jyväskylä and back, all meals
and refreshments during the conference as well as an excursion.

 

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Ilmoituksen lähetti: Pasi Ihalainen <pasi.t.ihalainen at jyu.fi>
Ilmoitus vanhentuu: 16.9.2013
Lisätietoja WWW-osoitteesta: https://euparl.net