I should add to the links that there’s a conference website for: The Construction of “Us” and “Them”: Discourses of Populism and Nationalism, 7-8 September 2007, University of Helsinki
http://blogit.helsinki.fi/discourse
The programme with abstracts is coming soon.
The informal discourse theory seminar in Helsinki starts at 6pm on 20 March 2007. The general topic is Finnish general elections 2007, where the main voting day is 18 March.
The themes visited are related to consensus, party identification, ideological and discursive changes, coalitions and political frontiers - but do not hesitate to suggest [...]
cfp_laclau_helsinki.pdf
Here’s a call of papers for a conference I’m organising in September 2007.
(The pdf is also available here on the Department of Political Sciences, University of Helsinki.)
Discourses on populism and nationalism
Call for papers
The Construction of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’:
Discourses on populism and nationalism
University of Helsinki, 7-8 September 2007
A key
theme in politics, which translates to many fields [...]
