CV

(short version) updated here: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/epalonen/

Emilia Palonen (BA London, MA and PhD Essex)

Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki

Current research grants:

·Finnish Cultural Foundation, 2008: postdoctoral grant for the project “Building the Nation in Europe: Budapest, Luxembourg and Helsinki”

· Emil Aaltonen Foundation, 2010: postdoctoral grant for the project “Political Frontiers in Finland: A Comparative Perspective”

Education:

· PhD in Ideology and Discourse Analysis, Department of Government, University of Essex, 2006, Thesis: Reading Budapest: Polarisation in Contemporary Hungarian Politics

· MA in Ideology And Discourse Analysis, Department of Government, University of Essex, 2002, Dissertation: Ken and Statues – Politics on Trafalgar Square

· BA(hons) in Contemporary East European Studies, University of London, UCL, School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), 2000; Dissertation: Post-Communist Politics of the Street Names and Statues in Budapest

Past appointments/fellowships:

Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki (until August 2011)

·Senior Lecturer in Cultural Policy/Politics, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä

· Academy of Finland: visiting fellowship autumn term 2008, Northwestern University, Rhetoric and Public Culture (in co-operation with professor Ernesto Laclau)

· Postdoctoral researcher in the Academy of Finland funded project “Nations and their others: Finns and Hungarians since 1900” led by prof. Heino Nyyssönen 2007-09:

o Visiting fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Study, Uni. of Helsinki (2007-08 )

o Visiting fellow, Collegium Budapest – Institute for Advanced Study (summer 2008, and summer 2009)

· Bauhaus Kolleg, Dessau; project participant, EU Urbanism 2006/07

·DAAD Junior Visiting Scholar, Institute for European Ethnology and Department of Urban and Regional Sociology, Summer 2006

·Junior Visiting Fellow, Collegium Budapest – Institute for Advanced Study, 2005/06

·Körber Junior Fellow “History and Memory in Europe”, Institute for Human Sciences, IWM, Vienna, 2005

Past research scholarships:

·Finnish Cultural Foundation, 2004, One-year research scholarship

·Oskar Öflund’s Foundation, 2002, Scholarship for PhD studies

·Socrates/Erasmus Council, UK, Scholarship, 29.1.-3.5.2002: Budapest Corvinus University

·ESRC, UK, 2001-2004, Research Studentship ‘Fees Only’

Teaching

On-going part-time teaching appointments for whole courses in 2006-2010:

· Unit of Political Science, University of Helsinki (Ideology and Discourse Analysis)

· MA programme in Cultural Policy, University of Jyväskylä (Urban Cultural Politics/Policy)

· MA programme in European Studies, University of Helsinki (Politics of European Identity, NEW in 2011)

· Unit of Development Studies, University of Helsinki (Discourse Analysis: Logics, Hegemony and Ideology, NEW in 2011)

· Helsinki Summer University (Ideologia- ja diskurssianalyysi NEW in August 2010)

Past courses, in addition to previous, ongoing:

· Unit of Political Science, University of Helsinki and POLITU Doctoral School (Tacking Derrida, 2009)

· Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä (Ideologia- ja diskrussianalyysi, 2008)

· IHME, Methods Centre for Human Sciences, University of Jyväskylä (Ideology and Discourse Analysis, 2007)

• Centre for Political Discourse Studies, Institute for Political Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (Introduction to Discourse Theory (in Hungarian), Mouffe and Radical Democracy (in English) 2005-06)

Furtheremore, I currently supervise 5–6 PhD students and two MA students at Helsinki and at Jyväskylä.

Language skills:

·Excellent: Finnish (native), English, Hungarian, French,

Good: German, Swedish, Spanish

Publications (selection):

• ‘Emilia Palonen, ‘Political Polarisation and Populism in Contemporary Hungary’, Parliamentary Affairs, 2:2009, online.
  
• Emilia Palonen, ‘Laclau ja Mouffe, diskurssiteoriaa ja radikaalia demokratiaa [Laclau and Mouffe, discourse theory and radical democracy]‘, Kia Lindroos and Suvi Soininen (eds.), Politiikan nykyteoreetikkoja [Contemporary theorists of politics], Gaudeamus, Helsinki, 2008.
• Emilia Palonen, ‘The city-text in post-communist Budapest: street names, memorials, and the politics of commemoration’, Geojournal, Volume 73, Number 3, November, 2008
• ‘Budapest city-image and discourses from the 19th century to the present’, Werte – Räume – Erinnerungskulturen, Sinnstiftungsprozesse des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts in europäischer Perspektive, Böhlau Verlag: Köln, Weimar, Wien 2008
• ‘Articulating the frontier in Hungarian politics: Budapest Mayor Demszky on 15 March‘, Central European Political Science Review, 2006. No. 20.
• ‘Constructing Communities: politics of the postcommunist city-text of Budapest’, Tr@nsit Online, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna 2006, http://www.iwm.at/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=67&Itemid=270
• ‘Constructing communities: From National to Transnational and Activist Politics of Memory in Europe’, XING, 04:2006, also: http://www.xing.at/04/04-xing-40-45.pdf
• ‘Fidesz diskurzus és Budapest: határteremtés és térfoglalás’ (‘Fidesz discourse and Budapest: making borders and occupying space’), Márton Szabó, ed., Fideszvalóság, L’Harmattan, Budapest 2006.

Longer version:

Dr Emilia Palonen, BA (London), MA and PhD (Essex)

CURRENT POSITIONS:

Senior Lecturer in an MA in Cultural Policy/Politics programme at the University of Jyväskylä.

EDUCATION:
After taking my matriculation examination in Helsinki, I have done my university studies in the UK, first specialising in East European Studies and then in discourse theory.
• PhD in Ideology and Discourse Analysis,
Department of Government, University of Essex, 2006
Thesis: Reading Budapest: Polarisation in Contemporary Hungarian Politics Supervisors: Dr. Aletta Norval & Dr. Sarah Birch

• MA in Ideology And Discourse Analysis,
Department of Government, University of Essex, 2002
Dissertation: Ken and Statues – Politics on Trafalgar Square
Supervisors: Dr. Aletta Norval & Dr. Jason Glynos

• BA(hons) in Contemporary East European Studies,
University of London, UCL, School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), 2000
Grade: Upper Second Class Honours (2:1),
Dissertation: Post-Communist Politics of the Street Names and Statues in Budapest Supervisor: Professor George Schöpflin

• Ylioppilastutkinto, Matriculation Examination,
Ressun lukio, Helsinki, Finland, June 1997

LANGUAGE SKILLS:
Besides my mother tongue Finnish, I speak and write excellent English, have a fluent understanding and delivery of Hungarian, German, and French. My skills of Swedish are currently passive but potentially fluent. Spanish I understand well and also speak some.

ACADEMIC RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS:
The backbone of my academic career are the fellowships I have held in major research institutes in Europe. Beyond mere recognition, professional networks and scholarships to do research, each has also contributed to my academic development by offering a chance to learn more about a specific field: history and memory in Europe, Hungarian politics, European ethnology, and, most recently, architecture and urban studies.

I received a postdoctoral scholarship from the Finnish Cultural Foundation in 2008, and since March 2008 I engage in a research on Helsinki, Budapest and Luxembourg. Until end of May 2008 was based as a Visiting Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Study, University of Helsinki.

In summer 2008 I was and will be in summer 2009 a Visiting Fellow at the Collegium Budapest, Hungary, as a researcher in the Academy of Finland funded research project Nations and their Others: Finns and Hungarians since 1900 led by professor Heino Nyyssönen.

• Bauhaus Kolleg, VIII, EU Urbanism 2006-07, Stiftung Bauhaus, Dessau,
15 October 2006 – 1 March 2007 and 16 April – 27 July 2007

• DAAD Junior Visiting Scholar, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 1 May – 30 June 2006: Institute for European Ethnology and Department of Urban and Regional Sociology

• Junior Visiting Fellow, Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advance Study, Budapest, Hungary, 1 September 2005 – 30 April 2006.

• Körber Junior Visiting Fellow ‘History and Memory in Europe’,
Institute for Human Sciences, IWM, Vienna, 1 March – 31 August 2005

RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS:
Of the scholarships I received to cover my PhD studies, especially noteworthy are the UK national research council’s funding, which only 70-80 students receive nationwide. For EU students it only covers the fees and research expenses. The Cultural Foundation’s year-long scholarship which enabled me to continue my research.
• Finnish Cultural Foundation, 2004, Research scholarship 2008

• Peace Research Association, Finland, 2004, Travel grant

• Finnish Cultural Foundation, 2004, Research scholarship 2004

• Oskar Öflund’s Foundation, 2002, Scholarship for PhD studies

• Socrates/Erasmus Council, UK, Scholarship, 29.1.-3.5.2002. Budapest Közgazdasági Egyetem, Budapest University of Economics and Public Administration, Department of Politics. Supervisor: Professor Attila Ágh

• ESRC – Economic & Social Research Council, UK, 2001-2004, Research Studentship ‘Fees Only’ 1.10.2001-30.9.2004, Tuition fees and research supplement

TEACHING POSITIONS:

I regularily teach a course on Ideology and Discourse Analysis at the Department of Political Science at the University of Helsinki, and a course on Urban Cultural Policy and Politics at the University of Jyväskylä in an MA programme on Cultural Policy. During my PhD studies, I was a teaching assistant in European Politics.

Urban Cultural Policy/Politics in MA course on Cultural Policy, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä in the at the University of Jyväskylä, March 2007 and February 2008.• Department of Political Science, University of Helsinki, (MA/PhD level course: Ideology and Discourse Analysis), September October 2006 and 2007. I taught similar courses on the post-graduate and graduate level in autumn 2007 and spring 2008 at the University of Jyväskylä.

• Centre for Political Discourse Studies, Institute for Political Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest Introduction to Discourse Theory (in Hungarian), Mouffe and Radical Democracy (in English); (2005-06)
• Department Of Government, University of Essex, Graduate teaching assistant (part time, 2002–2004) for undergraduate course: Introduction to European Politics, 1 October 2002 to 31 March 03; 1 October 2003 to 31 March 04.
• Visiting lectures in Finland, at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä; Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki; in Hungary at the Department of Geography at Corvinus University, Budapest and MA in European Studies, ISES, Szombathely/Kőszeg (2001-06)
• Supervising: University of Jyväskylä, PhD Thesis of Juha Ruuska (Department of Music); MA thesises in Cultural Policy; University of Essex, Department of History, Co-supervisor, 1 October 2004 – 1.5.2005. BA research project of Antti Varis: President Koivisto’s second term in office.

PRE-ACADEMIC CAREER

Before my move towards the academia I worked as a journalist over three summers and some shorter periods (1997-2001) progressing from the local to regional and national papers. At the national daily Helsingin Sanomat I was working in the section on Helsinki city and region, so I always had a city/region perspective. This background also has helped in writing and reacting fast, and perhaps brought an interest in contemporary issues.

• Warkauden Lehti, PL 161, FIN-78201 Varkaus, periods over 1997 – 2001

• Helsingin Sanomat, Kaupunkitoimitus, Helsinki City Section, PL 77, FIN-00089 Sanomat, July – August 1999

• Savon Sanomat/Varkaus, PL 197, FIN-78201 Varkaus, 15 June – 1 September 1998, 14-31 December 1998,

ACADEMIC ASSIGNMENTS and POSITIONS OF TRUST:

Taking initiative and responsibility are among my best qualities. Besides running the University Peace Campaign in Essex 2002-04, where I also organised a lot of public events and academic discussions, I was a PhD representative for my department, whereby I learned a lot from its administration and decision-making. I co-organised a radical politics working group in Essex 2004-05. Being abroad without a stable institutional base has made it difficult to take positions of responsibility. Nevertheless, I have organised panels even in major conferences and I will organise a conference in September 2007 for our Academy of Finland funded project. I have been asked to referee articles for journals and invited to participate in conferences.

• MA Representative, Program on Ideology and Discourse Analysis 2000-01; PhD Representative, 2002-03, Department of Government, University of Essex

• List owner of the mailing list for the international academic Memory and Politics network, memoryandpolitics@yahoogroups.com, 2003-

• Referee for: Redescriptions, Kulttuurintutkimus (Finnish Cultural Studies Journal), Ephemera (www.ephemeraweb.org, journal in critical management studies).

• Panels in recent major academic conferences: Finnish PSA conference 2008 and 2009, BISA conference, St. Andrews, December 2005, Politics and Memory; ECPR conference, Budapest, September 2005, Politics and Architecture

• Invitations to academic conferences (e.g. Werte – Räume – Erinnerungen, Sinnstiftungs prozesse des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts in europäischer Perspective, Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Friedrich Schiller-Universität Jena, Hohschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar)

• Organising a two-day seminar Discourse, Rhetoric and Concepts at the FInnagora and Collegium Budapest with the Centre for Political Discourse Studies, at Institute for Political Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences 1 – 2 September 2006

• Organising a round-table analysing Hungarian elections at the Collegium Budapest, 20 April.

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

Membership in academic associations:

• Finnish PSA, Valtiotieteellinen yhdistys, member (2000-)
• PSA Political Science Association, student member (2001-06), ISPSA, member (2009-)
• UACES University Association for Contemporary European Studies, (2002-04)
• Association for Cultural Studies, founding member (2002-)
• Kulttuurintutkimuksen verkosto [Cultural Studies Network Finland] (2002-)
• Peace Research Association, Finland (2004-)
• Magyar Politikatudományi Társaság, PSA, Hungary (2005-)
• IDA World, International Discourse Theory Network (2005-)
• BISA, British International Studies Association (2005-06)

Membership in academic institutes:
• Research Centre for Political Discourses, Institute for Political Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2005-08)
• Centre for Theoretical Studies, University of Essex (2000-06) and its at the Radical Politics Working Group (2004-05)
• Postgraduate student in Politics at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, (2001-06)