Political Representation: Workshop with Marnix Beyen
20-21 March 2025
Thursday 20 March JYU Main Library Lähde, B116 Tietoniekka
Register in advance at pasi.t.ihalainen@jyu.fi in case you wish to receive circulated papers.
14.15 Zachris Haaparinne (JYU), Hark, the People Speak! John Wilkes, People’s Petitions, and the Rise of Scale-Based Argumentation, 1770—1795, chapter draft
15.00 (14.00 CET) Anne Engelst-Norgaard (Trondheim), Jussi Kurunmäki (JYU) and Jani Marjanen (Helsinki), The Concept of Democracy in Scandinavia 1780-1870: Preliminary Remarks, chapter draft (hybrid)
15.45 Coffee
16.15-17.45 Guest lecture by Marnix Beyen (Antwerp): "The Republic in the Neighborhood: A Local History of National Politics, Paris 1890-1920”, chair Pasi Ihalainen, comment by Hugo Bonin
Fri 21 March, Historica, H501
9.00 Pasi Ihalainen (JYU), ‘Democratic government’ as a divisive parliamentary concept from the late 1860s to the First World War, chapter draft
9.45 Coffee
9.55 Milla Virolainen (JYU), Democracy and political institutions in France in the 1930s
10.35 Risto Turunen (Tampere), Using Large Language Models to Understand Political Temporalities in the Finnish Parliament, 1980–2024
11.15 Lunch
12.00-12.45 (11.00 CET) Raphaël Demias-Morisset (Bordeaux), From minimalist democracy to authoritarianism: the failed export of democracy and liberalism under the Washington Consensus, 1990-2010 (hybrid)
12.45-13.30 Hugo Bonin (JYU), Bittersweet Victory? Liberal democracy in British and French debates, 1989-2001
13.30 General discussion
