Conceptual history methods for text-mining parliamentary discourse
Webinar 24 April 2024, 13.00-17.00 CEST, 14.00-18.00 EEST
13.00-13.10 Opening by Pasi Ihalainen
Session 1: Chaired by Pasi Ihalainen
- 3:10-13:25 Kristoffer Klammer (Freiburg), Different waves of extra-parliamentary and parliamentary discourse: The example of 'authority' in political debates in 20th-century Germany
- 13:25-13:40 Simon Specht (Humboldt/Potsdam), Frequency and collocation analyses of parliamentary discourses: The concept of ‘progress’ in German parliamentary debates
- 13:40-13:55 Mark Dang-Anh (Mannheim), Links, rechts, Mitte (Left, right, centre): Mixed Methods Analysis of Positioning Indices in German Parliamentary Discourse
- 13:55-14:15 Comment by Pim Huijnen (Utrecht) and discussion
Break (5 min)
Session 2: Chaired by Risto Turunen
- 14:20-14:35 Jani Marjanen et al. (Helsinki & Jyväskylä), Analysing changing domains of ‘the democratic’ in parliamentary discourse in late Cold War Western Europe: A quantitative conceptual history approach
- 14:35- 14:50 Stefan Scholl (Mannheim), The role and place of parliamentary debates in writing a conceptual history article on 'democracy' in 20th-century Germany
- 14:50-15:05 Olga Sabelfeld (Bielefeld), Cross-national comparisons of parliamentary debates: West German and British parliamentarians on welfare
- 15:05-15:25 Comment by Pim Huijnen (Utrecht) and discussion
Break (5 min)
Session 3: Chaired by Jani Marjanen
- 15:30-15:45 Pasi Ihalainen (Jyväskylä), Complementing ngrams with word models for long-term comparative conceptual history of representative democracy: Parliamentarians on representation and participation
- 15:45-16:00 Ruben Ros (Leiden), Abstraction and depoliticization in Dutch Lower House debates, 1917-1994
- 16:00-16:15 Risto Turunen (Jyväskylä), Transnational trends: A comparative time-series analysis across 20th-century parliaments in Northwestern Europe
- 16:15-16:35 Comment by Pim Huijnen (Utrecht) and discussion
Break (5 min)
16:40-17:00 General discussion
