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DIGITALISED PARLIAMENTARY RECORDS
Ongoing Research and Methodological Challenges
Workshop at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, 23 April 2010
Extensive parliamentary records are becoming increasingly available due to digitalisation projects in various countries. Digitalisation enables entirely new types of analysis and comparisons between various political cultures on the basis of parliamentary debates. In this one-day workshop, historians, linguists, political theorists and other scholars working on parliamentary debates are invited to present their practical solutions for research work as well as to discuss methodological problems involved in the analysis of digitalised parliamentary records. Any approach, historical period or representative institution can be considered, but special attention will be paid to British, Finnish and Swedish parliamentary debates from the eighteenth century to the present.
The workshop takes place in Thunbergssalen, Linneanum, a restored Gustavian monumental building at the heart of the Botanical Gardens of the University of Uppsala. It is organised by Kari Palonen’s Academy of Finland Professor project “The Politics of Dissensus: Parliamentarism, Rhetoric and Conceptual History” (University of Jyväskylä) and by Pasi Ihalainen’s Academy of Finland project “Parliamentary Means of Conflict Resolution in Twentieth-Century Britain” (University of Jyväskylä) in cooperation with the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study.
In addition to invited speakers, other interested scholars working at SCAS or the University of Uppsala are welcome to attend. Contact pasi.t.ihalainen _at_ jyu.fi (from 11 January 2010 pasi.ihalainen _at_ swedishcollegium.se) for details of the academic programme. For practical arrangements at SCAS, you can also contact Maria.Odengrund _at_ swedishcollegium.se.
The papers presented at the workshop are oral ones (max 20 minutes and 10 minutes for discussion). If you want to present a written paper in addition to this, please deliver it yourself to all the other speakers as an e-mail attachment at least one week before the workshop, i.e. on 16 April 2010 at the latest.
Preliminary programme
23 April 2010
Thunbergssalen, Linneanum, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Thunbergsvägen 2, Uppsala
9.15 Pasi Ihalainen and Kari Palonen, Opening of the workshop
9.30 – 11.30 Session 1: Combining the study of political discourse and linguistic analysis (Chair Pasi Ihalainen)
Cornelia Ilie (Malmö), Using parliamentary corpora to investigate interpersonal communication and miscommunication
Coco Norén (Uppsala), Parliamentary debates in Strasbourg: Doing politics or doing media?
Anders Sundin (Uppsala), From innovation to commonplace: The concept of public opinion in Swedish constitutional debates in 1809
Taru Haapala (Jyväskylä), Academic debating societies and the changing parliamentary rhetoric in nineteenth-century Britain
11.30 – 13.00 Lunch (served by SCAS)
13.00 – 15.00 Session 2: Long-term and comparative historical analyses of parliamentary debates (Chair Kari Palonen)
Pasi Ihalainen (SCAS & Jyväskylä), After Agents of the People: Visions for further comparative research on parliamentary debates
Jonas Harvard (Mittuniversitetet & Södertörn University), The machine as method: Some perspectives on database-driven historical writing
Matti Roitto (Jyväskylä), Parliamentary sources and the role of Parliament in British atomic energy and foreign policy 1945-1946
Teemu Häkkinen (Jyväskylä), The British Parliament and comparative analysis from the viewpoint of contemporary history
15.00 Coffee/tea (served by SCAS)
15.30 – 17.30 Session 3: Parliamentary debates and political theory (Chair Cornelia Ilie)
Kari Palonen (Jyväskylä), Moves in argument: On the uses of concepts in parliamentary debates
Tapani Turkka (Jyväskylä), On some transformations in the political theory of parliamentary debates
Hanna-Mari Kivistö (Jyväskylä), Parliamentary debates and the drafting of the 1949 West German Basic Law
17.00 – 17.30 Final discussion
18.00 – 20.00 Dinner (Restaurant to be announced)