University of Helsinki, Metsätalo building (Unioninkatu 40), lecture room 28, 14–15 June, 2016
Organized by the project The Political Rhetoric of Isms at the University of Helsinki and Concepta: International Research School in Conceptual History and Political Thought
Tuesday 14 June
Session I, 10.15–11.45, Chair: Pauli Kettunen
Jussi Kurunmäki (Helsinki) and Jani Marjanen (Helsinki)
The Political Rhetoric of Isms
Ivo Spira (Oslo)
Chinese Isms and Ismatic Discourse
Ronald Stade (Malmö)
From ΚΟΣΜΟΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ to cosmopolitanism
Yury Kagarlitskiy (Moscow)
The concept of fanaticism and its rhetorical role in a comparative outlook: The European Enlightenment and the 18th century Russia
Lunch, 12.15–13.30
Session II, 13.30–15.30, Chair: Ainur Elmgren
Samuel Hayat (Lille)
The making of a political ideology: socialism in 19th century France
Risto Turunen (Tampere)
Socialism in the Grand System of Finnish Isms, 1820–1910
Piotr Kuligowski (Poznań)
Concepts of Democratism and Socialism in the Circles of the Polish Left in Exile: Origin, Meanings, Relations (1830s–1850s)
Anton Jansson (Gothenburg)
The rhetoric of isms as secularized religion
Coffee and tea, 15.30–16.00
Session III, 16.00–17.30, Chair: Henrik Stenius
Ruth Hemstad (Oslo)
Scandinavianism: The Rise and Fall of a Contested and Celebrated Concept
Christian Roques (Reims)
Bridging the political gaps: The interdiscursive qualities of “political romanticism” in the Weimar Republic (Germany 1918-1933)
Erik Tängerstad (Stockholm)
Patriotism/Nationalism – Convergences and Divergences
Wednesday 15 June
Session IV, 10.00–11.30, Chair: Martin Burke
Natalia Semenova (St. Petersburg)
Socialist Realism in Historical Perspective: Concept on the Stage
Wiktor Marzec (Budapest)
Languages of the Left: Core Leftist Isms and Their Enemies in Modern Poland – A Cross-Temporal Comparison of 1905, 1945, and 1989 Conjunctures
Constantin Iordachi (Budapest)
Is “Totalitarianism” an Ism? On the Genealogies of a Contested Concept
Coffee and tea, 11.30–12.00
Session V, 12.00–13.00, Chair: Jussi Kurunmäki
Tania Mancheno (Hamburg)
Towards a Conceptual History of Multiculturalism
Ainur Elmgren (Helsinki)
Political Appropriation of the Concept of Populism in Contemporary Finnish Politics
Lunch, 13.00–14.30
Session VI, 14.30–15.30, Chair Martin Burke
Neil Foxlee (University of Central Lancashire)
Dissociation and Qualification as Strategies for Rhetorical Reconceptualization: The Case of ‘Capitalism’ in British Politics, 1970s to the Present
Pauli Kettunen (Helsinki)
The Concept of Nationalism in Debates of European Society
Session VI, Concluding discussion, 15.30–16.00, Chairs: Jussi Kurunmäki and Jani Marjanen