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		<title>The Finnish presidential elections: first round analysis</title>
		<link>http://polemics.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/the-finnish-presidential-elections-first-round-analysis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The results of the Finnish presidential elections indicate a vote in favour of Europe – in so far as the president has much say on national EU policy (i.e. very little). Sauli Niinistö of National Coalition was the uncontestable winner &#8230; <a href="http://polemics.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/the-finnish-presidential-elections-first-round-analysis/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polemics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=193285&amp;post=134&amp;subd=polemics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finnish presidential elections 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s not that much analysis on today&#8217;s Finnish presidential elections in English, and even I have practically discontinued writing anything in this blog about Finland or Hungary. I&#8217;ll try my best in the near future to update it more. After &#8230; <a href="http://polemics.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/finnish-presidential-elections-2012/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polemics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=193285&amp;post=95&amp;subd=polemics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Success in a design competition: A New European Symbol?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My design from the Bauhaus Kolleg Programme on an EU flag has been selected out of 1400 entries as one of the twelve &#8220;new symbols&#8221; for Europe, by an international jury in a competition organised by a Dutch think thank &#8230; <a href="http://polemics.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/success-in-a-design-competition-a-new-european-symbol/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polemics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=193285&amp;post=98&amp;subd=polemics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>professional news 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 13:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s indeed so that blogging has been replaced by facebook, where much of the colleagues and friends are. It&#8217;s especially popular in Finland, where I&#8217;ve now been based for two years. Currently, I&#8217;m at the newly established Department of Political &#8230; <a href="http://polemics.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/professional-news-2010/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polemics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=193285&amp;post=90&amp;subd=polemics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Jyväskylä: professional news again</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started working as the Senior Lecturer in Cultural Politics/Policy at the University of Jyväskylä in December 2008. It&#8217;s a job for 13 months &#8211; the longest my wondering academic&#8217;s (suitcase-academic&#8217;s) life has ever wittnessed in terms of funding for &#8230; <a href="http://polemics.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/in-jyvaskyla-professional-news-again/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polemics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=193285&amp;post=70&amp;subd=polemics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>on hungarian riots 22 october 2007</title>
		<link>http://polemics.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/on-hungarian-riots-22-october-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This video &#8211; despite the problems that it might have for privacy &#8211; is a very good one for seeing what was going on in the riots on the one-year anniversary of the riots of 2006 on the eve of &#8230; <a href="http://polemics.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/on-hungarian-riots-22-october-2007/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polemics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=193285&amp;post=62&amp;subd=polemics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>professional news: new post as the editor of ydin</title>
		<link>http://polemics.wordpress.com/2007/10/09/professional-news-new-post-as-the-editor-of-ydin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There might be some traffic here on my relatively rarely updated professional webpage. Besides working in the Academy of Finland funded project, at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and teaching ideology and discourse analysis in two Universities in Finland, &#8230; <a href="http://polemics.wordpress.com/2007/10/09/professional-news-new-post-as-the-editor-of-ydin/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polemics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=193285&amp;post=60&amp;subd=polemics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>how to organise low-budget, low-maintenance conference</title>
		<link>http://polemics.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/how-to-organise-low-budget-low-maintenance-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to organise an international academic conference with a low budget? 1) make sure you&#8217;ve got even a low budget, or a clear plan of how to get one. 2) get partners. there are two things you should be interested &#8230; <a href="http://polemics.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/how-to-organise-low-budget-low-maintenance-conference/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polemics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=193285&amp;post=59&amp;subd=polemics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;us&#8217; and &#8216;them&#8217; conference is successfully over</title>
		<link>http://polemics.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/conference-is-successfully-over/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The conference (The constructions of &#8216;Us&#8217; and &#8216;Them&#8217;: Discourses on Nationalism and Populism) with the visit from my old professor Ernesto Laclau went well. Thanks to all the speakers and participants. What was praised was the interdisciplinary environment and the &#8230; <a href="http://polemics.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/conference-is-successfully-over/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polemics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=193285&amp;post=57&amp;subd=polemics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PhD thesis reviewed online</title>
		<link>http://polemics.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/phd-thesis-reviewed-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 20:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just came accross Seán Hanley&#8216;s blog, where there was a nice review of my PhD thesis (the manuscript is rewritten as we speak into a book) and my comments on Finnish politics here last spring. It&#8217;s actually a very &#8230; <a href="http://polemics.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/phd-thesis-reviewed-online/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polemics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=193285&amp;post=56&amp;subd=polemics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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