Turku X methodological conference
Cultural History Department
School of History
Sirkkala Building
FIN-20014 UNIVERSITY OF TURKU
FINLAND, EUROPE
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Human Faces of Power
X Conference in Methodologies and Theories in History
University of Turku, 10th-12th of September 2009
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Confirmed Keynote Speakers
The three-day conference will consist of lectures by keynote speakers and thematic sessions. Three keynote speakers have been confirmed:
- Professor Mary S. Hartman , Rutgers University, expert in women's history (author of "The Household and the Making of History: A Subversive View of the Western Past")
- Professor Peter Dahlgren , Media and Communication Studies, Lund University (author of "Television and the Public Sphere: Citizenship, Democracy and the Media")
- Associate Professor Henrik Jensen, University of Roskilde (expert in cultural history of warfare)
Power is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon that goes beyond overt and institutionalized frameworks and encompasses the individual conduct of negotiations and disputes. Informal and invisible power structures are of the utmost importance in maintaining, transforming and challenging formally recognized power relations.
The Conference Human Faces of Power, to be held at the University of Turku, Finland, will focus on the ubiquitous power relations that are not merely institutionalized forms of communication, but which inform and are manifested in everyday contacts between individuals, groups and organizations. In analyzing these contacts it is essential to recognize a diverse range of micro-strategies for empowerment and disempowerment
The organizers of the conference Human Faces of Power welcome scholars to explore theoretical and methodological aspects of power relations within a historical perspective. The Conference will be tenth in the series of methodological conferences, organized by the Department of History and the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Turku, Finland.
The three-day conference will consist of lectures by keynote speakers (to be announced) and thematic sessions in which individual papers will be presented and discussed. Sessions are organized in time slots of max. 105 minutes; in each time slot up to four papers may be presented. The conference will be conducted in English.