Plenary Sessions (Venue: Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut)
08:30–09:00
FMI Foyer
Registration
09:00–09:30
Auditorium B
Opening Remarks
Martin Burke, Sebastian Conrad, Margrit Pernau
09:30–10:30
Auditorium B
Plenary Session I
Dilip Menon, Keynote: Clanging Theory: Transhemispheric conversations
10:30–11:00
FMI Foyer
Coffee
11:00–12:00
Auditorium B
Plenary Session II
Lisa Mitchell, Keynote: Engineering Hope: Social Experimentation and Future-Oriented Lexicons of the Scientific Political in the Non-Aligned Global South
12:00–13:30
Lunch | HCG Board Meeting
13:30–15:00
Parallel Sessions I (Venue: Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut)
Crisis (Room A127)
Laura Alvarez Garro,
The Conceptual Indetermination of Present Times: An Approach to the Concept of Populism
Jan Ifversen,
Conceptualising the Incomprehensible: Sketching Out a New Lexicon
Kirill Postoutenko,
Towards Conceptual History of Incomparability (2): Modern and Post-modern Twists
Jonathon Catlin,
On Conceptual Devastation: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and the Idea of History as ‘Permanent Catastrophe’
Chair: Florian Zemmin
Constitutions and Parliaments in Eurasian Empires, 1890s–1910s: Vernacular Concepts and Practices in a Global Context (Room A163)
Ivan Sablin,
The State Duma, Parliamentarism, and Anti-parliamentarism in the Russian Empire, 1905–1917
Egas Moniz Bandeira,
"The Motherland of Constitutionalism": Interpreting Parliaments and Constitutions in Light of Chinese Antiquity, ca. 1890–1910
Alisa Shablovskaia,
Redefining Freedom in the Language of Islam: Early Iranian Nationalism in the Constitutional Debate
Ayşegül Argit,
"The Crowd of Constantinople is a Cowardly One": Discussions on Constitutionalism, Political Culture and Pathos in the Ottoman Empire after 1908
Chair: Daniel Kolland
Times of Playing – Playing with Times: Perspectives on the History of a Contingent Concept (Room A336)
Kari Palonen,
The Spiel Language of Politics in the Debates of German Bundestag
Rieke Trimçev,
The Presence of the Possible: "Play"/"Game" Metaphors and the Temporality of Politics
Discussant: Helge Jordheim
Temporalization and its Consequences in Modern China (Room A124)
Thomas Fröhlich,
Temporalizations of "the West" in Modern China
Kai Vogelsang,
Sixiang: The Concept of "Thought" in Chinese History
Stefan Christ,
A Case Study in Temporalization: New Concepts of Theatre in a Chinese Threshold Period
Discussant: Harald Bluhm
Digital Humanities and Large Corpora (Room A121)
Joris van Eijnatten, Edo Storm,
The Use of Emotional Concepts in Dutch Parliamentary Debate Between 1814 and 2018: a ‘Digital History’ Approach
Jani Marjanen,
The Case for Quantitative Conceptual History: Revisiting Koselleck from the Perspective of Large-scale Textual Datasets
Ruben Ros,
Foreign Worlds. A Computational Analysis of the Semantics of Global Space in Dutch Newspapers (1815–1914)
Chair: Silke Schwandt
15:00–15:30
FMI Foyer
Coffee
15:30–17:00
Parallel Sessions II (Venue: Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut)
Socialism and Anarchism I
(Room A163)
Pascale Siegrist,
«La civilisation comme œuvre commune de l’humanité entière»?: Lev Mechnikov and the Problem of Anarchist Universalism, c. 1860–1888
Matias X. Gonzalez,
From Sozialismus to socialisme, Back and Forth: Towards an Inter-connected Conceptual History of Socialism
Orsolya A. Sudár,
The Socialist and the National. A Show Trial of Modernism
Chair: Martin Burke
Nomadic Concepts of Time (Room A127)
Sina Steglich,
The Time of the Nomad
Tobias Becker,
The Time of Nostalgia
Fernando Esposito,
From the Time of Non-contemporaneity to the Time of Contemporaneity
Discussant: Camilo Corredor Collazos
Round table
Beyond Concepts: Identifying Comparison Performing Sentences in Big Corpora (Room A121)
Silke Schwandt/
Michael Götzelmann/
Olga Sabelfeld
Economic Concepts (Room A124)
Isabella Consolati,
Conceptual History and the
Concept of Capitalism
Samuel Hayat,
Revolutionising Work: How Labour became a Revolutionary Concept
in France
Leonie Wolters,
The Consultant as Intellectual
Discussant: Jan Ifversen
17:15–18:45
Parallel Sessions III (Venue: Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut)
Concepts in Eastern Europe
(Room A163)
Veera Laine,
"Use that Word!": Contemporary Uses of "Nationalist" in Russia and in the U.S.
Juhan Saharov,
From “Future Scenarios” to “Sovereignity Declarations”: Conceptual Revolution and the Breakup of the Soviet Union
Galina Dourinova,
"Russian Mission" towards the Indigenous People: Conceptualizing Emotions, Creating Linguistic Norms
Vilius Mačkinis,
State-endorsed Advancement: Lithuanian Progress Strategy and the Concept of Progress
Chair: Wiktor Marzec
Synchronization and Desynchronization (Room A127)
Helge Jordheim,
Epidemic Transmission, Conceptual Transfer: Communicability, and Synchronization in Times of Epidemics
Henning Trüper,
Moral Synchronization: On Humanitarianism as Temporalization
Zoltán Boldizsár Simon,
The Desynchronization of Political and Technological Time
Discussant: Rieke Trimçev
Emotion Concepts I (Room A121)
Eugenia Roldan Vera,
History Education and the Emotionalization of Patriotism: Mexico in the Last Third of the Nineteenth Century
Nil Tekgül,
“Rıza and Şükran” as a Concept Defining Intracommunal Relations in the Early Modern Ottoman Society
Christiane Czygan,
The Perfect Ruler, the Perfect Man? Analysing the Concept of the Perfect Man in Sultan Süleyman’s Hamburg Manuscript (1554)
Discussant: Margrit Pernau
Citizens and Disruption (Room A124)
Ainur Elmgren,
Who can be a Public Intellectual? Intellectual as an Analytical Concept and Visibility Management by Minority Intellectuals in Finland, 1860–1923
Clara del Pilar Franco Castro,
The Concept of Revolution as Part of the Latin American Political Thought: The Cases of Mexican Revolution and Cuban Revolution
Christian Jacobs,
The Intercultural society. How French postmigrant authors used the concept of culture to develop a new political utopia in the 1980s
Discussant: Martin Hamre
Concepts in the Islamic World
(Room A125)
Ezgi Vissing,
Writing a Story of One’s Own: Literary Historiography and Modernity in the Ottoman Empire
Navid Hassanzadeh,
Laroui, Modernity, and Conceptual History
Elife Biçer-Deveci,
The “Alcohol Problem” in the Late Ottoman Empire and Turkey
Discussant: Florian Zemmin
19:00–20:00
Room A121
Contributions Board Meeting (Venue: Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut)
09:00–10:30
Parallel Sessions IV (Venue: Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut)
Near Eastern Conceptual History: Modernization, Synchronization, and Secularization (Room A163)
Markus Dreßler,
From "Religious Community" to "Nation": The Transformation of the Term Millet in the Late Ottoman Context
Daniel Kolland,
Ottoman Concepts of Historical Time
Alireza Shams Lahijani,
Iran’s Idea of Europe: Conceptual Constellations and Entry into International Society
Discussant: Alp Eren Topal, Florian Zemmin
Visual Culture and Conceptual History Beyond Text I (Room A125)
Sébastien Tremblay,
The Power of Images: The Pink Triangle and the Political Self-Consciousness of Homosexual Liberation
Michael Facius,
Icons of Early Modern Japan? The Samurai as a Visual Concept
Julia Zimmer,
The Phenomenon "Bilbao Effect": Creation of Visual Culture through Iconic Architecture
Discussant: Bettina Brandt
The Politics of Politicians: Historical Perspectives on the Self-understandings of Politicians in European Parliamentary Debates
(Room A127)
Kari Palonen,
The politician – a controversial figure
Pasi Ihalainen,
Emerging politicians and statesmen in parliaments and public discourse at the time of the emergence of modern politics, 1770-1815
Henk te Velde, Anne Heyer,
The professionalisation of politicians, 1860–1920)
Rosario López,
Politicians of principle
Discussant: Willibald Steinmetz
Emotion Concepts II (Room A124)
Farha Noor,
Otium, Emotions, and the Self: Literary Concepts in Rabindranath Tagore’s Reflective Prose
Anthony Ellis,
Cross-cultural Visions of Jealousy
Discussant: Jani Marjanen
10:30–11:00
FMI Foyer
Coffee
11:00–12:30
Parallel Sessions V (Venue: Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut)
Subversive Concepts in
Revolutionary Times I: Revolution
and Conceptual Change (Room A163)
Chair: Piotr Kuligowski
Jakub Kowalewski,
Killing the Leviathan; Anarchist
Illegality as a Spatiotemporal
Concept
Bartłomiej Błesznowski,
The Hypothesis of Minor Ideology:
The Case of Cooperativism at the
Turn of the 20th Century in Poland
Discussant: Rosario López
Subversive Concepts in Revolutionary Times II (Room A127)
Risto Turunen,
Network Approach to the History of Concepts: The Case of Finnish Socialism, 1895–1917
Dennis Dierks,
Making Revolution in a Transimperial Setting: Russian Muslim Conceptions of inkılâb (revolution) during the Russian February Revolution
Wiktor Marzec,
Who Can be a National Minority?:
Polish Controversies on National
Minorities from the Birth of Mass
Politics to the Post-Versailles
Parliamentary Debate
Chair: Jan Ifversen
Concepts of Geography and Environment (Room A121)
Erik Isberg,
Environmental Times: Conceptualizations of Temporality in Paleoclimatology, 1950–1990
Jaakko Heiskanen,
Between Concept and Metaphor: The Case of the Nomad
Patricia Aranha,
Amazonia and Patagonia, sertão and desierto: Key-concepts to the Entanglement between European and South American Historiographies
Meena Krishnendra,
Indo-Pacific: The Construct and Its Geographic Validity
Chair: Helge Jordheim
Studying Citizen Categories and Renewing Conceptual History
(Room A124)
Niklas Olsen,
How to study Citizen Categories of the Welfare State
Heidi Vad Jønsson,
The Migrant
Jesper Vestermark Køber,
The Democratic Citizen
Discussant: Johan Strang
Visual Culture and Conceptual History Beyond Text II (Room A125)
Luc Wodzicki,
A Medal for a Handkerchief: The Political Aesthetics of "Virtue" in Trans-Mediterranean Communication
Roxanne Mallet,
Museal Display: Rethinking Expography as a Source
Helen Gibson,
"Her Chief Delight": Pleasure and the Aesthetic Temporalities of Driving
Discussant: Hannah Baader
12:30–14:00
Lunch
14:00–15:30
Parallel Sessions VI (Venue: Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut)
Book Presentation (Room A163)
Victor Neumann, The Temptation of Homo Europaeus
Victor Neumann,
Presentation
Discussants: Hans Erich Bödecker, Neil Titman
Global Concepts I (Room A121)
Rodrigo Bonaldo,
Commemoration and Ephemerides: Conceptual Translations and Synchronization Practices in the Global South
Maja Hagerman,
Racial Concepts and Visual Typology: Race Biology, Photography, and Collaboration over National Borders within the Scientific Network for Racial Hygiene from 1910 to 1935
Maria Elisa Noronha de Sá,
The Concept of Race, Racial Discourses and Diagnoses about American Nations in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
Discussant: Hagen Schulz-Forberg
Socialism and Anarchism II
(Room A124)
Piotr Kuligowski,
Ism Concepts within French and Polish Early Socialist Discourse
Martina Garategaray,
Social Democracy in Latin America (1976-1991)
Gaard Kets,
The Commune and the councils: the communalist repertoire in the German Revolution of 1918–1919
Discussant: Pascale Siegrist
Global Concepts II (Room A125)
Benjamin Martin,
International Ideas at UNESCO: Digital Approaches for Global Conceptual History
Shrikanth B.R.,
Debating Modernity in the '90s
Hizky Shoham,
Why Hebrew “Shoah”? A Conceptual History and Two Zionist Narratives
Discussant: Irit Kornblit
Conceptual History, Theory I
(Room A127)
Goran Gaber,
From the History of Critique to the History of Critics: On the Benefits of Sociology of Knowledge for the Practice of Conceptual History
Kristin Platt,
Keep Going: Territorialized and Deterritorialized Temporality in the 1920s
Marcelo Durão Rodrigues da Cunha,
A South-oriented Approach to Metahistorical Concepts of Historiography: Some Possibilities Emerging from the Latin-American Case
Discussant: Willibald Steinmetz
16:00–16:30
FMI Foyer
Coffee Break & Go to Harnack House
Plenary Sessions (Venue: Harnack House)
16:30–17:30
Harnack House
Plenary Session III
Einar Wigen, Keynote: Concepts and the Emotion of Belatedness
Chair: Florian Zemmin
19:00–20:30
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Reception sponsored by the Finnish Institute and the Global Intellectual History unit at FU Berlin
09:00–10:30
Parallel Sessions VII (Venue: Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut)
Basic Concepts of the Twentieth Century II (Room A163)
Falko Schmieder,
Programmatic Considerations for a Lexicon on Semantics in 20th-century Germany
Benjamin Thomas,
Ideological Affinity and Conceptual Change: Neuordnung in the Post-war CDU
Christian Hoekema,
Entropy & Modernity: on the Multiple Layers of a Grundbegriff
Discussant: Martin Burke
Changing Narrations/Narrating Changes: Memory, Time, History and the Nation (Room A127)
Julian Gonzalez De Leon Heiblum,
From Loss to Oblivion: Remembering the Empire of Arthur
Topi Houni,
Imagining a (Re-)unified Nation
Mehmet Dosemeci,
The Coming Rupture
Idan Liav,
Memory Lost, Memory Found: Tracing 1948 in the Memoirs of Holocaust Survivors
Discussant: Helge Jordheim
Emotion Concepts III (Room A124)
Claudia Roesch,
Happiness, Temporality, and Concepts of Global Industrial Future in Robert Owen’s New Vision of Society (1812–1816)
Peter Gottschalk,
Stuck in the Past: Disgust, Disdain, and Islamophobia in the Globalizing News Media
Elżbieta Kwiecińska,
Between a Pity and a Fear: The Concept of the ‘Civilizing Mission’ as Cultural Transfer in East-Central Europe, 1815–1919
Discussant: Margrit Pernau
10:30–11:00
FMI Foyer
Coffee
11:00–12:00
Auditorium B
HCG Business Meeting
12:00–13:30
Lunch
13:30–15:00
Parallel Sessions VIII (Venue: Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut)
Global Concepts III (Room A124)
Craig Schamel,
Toward a Post-Political Social
Norbert Götz,
The Age of Expressive Humanitarianism: Conceptual Foundations
Corentin Sire,
(De-)politicising, Temporalising, and Globalising Otherness: A Conceptual History of Terrorism
Daniel Barragán,
Third-Worldism and Modernity: Semantics of a Global Concept in Latin America, 1974–1986
Chair: Irit Kornblit
The Grand Duchy of Finland as Political Space: A Conceptual History (Room A320)
Ilkka Liikanen,
The Grand Duchy of Finland as Political Space: A Conceptual History
Jussi Kurunmäki,
Uncovering the Hidden Conceptual History of Political Representation in Nineteenth-century Finland
Discussant: Martin Burke
Emotion Concepts IV (Room A125)
Hugo Ricardo Merlo,
Saudade, Nostalgia, and Melancholia: Affections of Absence in the Brazilian Essayistic Tradition of the Early 20th Century
Juozapas Paškauskas,
Sight & Sound: Workers’ Experiences of Modernity in the Late Tsarist Empire
Ariadna Islas,
Laughing Purifies Concepts: Democracy and Republic Concepts in Political Cartoons in Uruguay in the Middle XIX Century
Chair: Jani Marjanen
Conceptual History, Theory II
(Room A163)
Blake Ewing,
Politics in Planetary Times
Helmuth Steil,
History of Concepts and Modern
Linguistics
Taynna Marino,
On the Possibilities of Historical Empathy for Historiography
Discussant: Helge Jordheim
Conceptual Peripheries: Adaptation Strategies (Room A121)
Adam Kożuchowski,
Bourgeoisie: A Stranger in the Social Hierarchy
Marcin Jarząbek,
Nothing More Global than National Heritage: The Politicization of the Past
Kamil Śmiechowski,
Self-government or self-management: Some Troubles of Conceptualizing the Municipality in the Early 20th-century Polish Political Discourse
Discussant: Tomáš Pavlíček