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		<title>In Jyväskylä: professional news again</title>
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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 living expenses or work. In Finland, it&#8217;s a relative to a decent win in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polemics.wordpress.com&blog=193285&post=70&subd=polemics&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>on hungarian riots 22 october 2007</title>
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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 the national day commemorating the revolution of 1956.

See elsewhere in this blog for my analysis [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polemics.wordpress.com&blog=193285&post=62&subd=polemics&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>professional news: new post as the editor of ydin</title>
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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, I&#8217;ve also ended up on the practical field of ideology and discourse analysis as the Editor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polemics.wordpress.com&blog=193285&post=60&subd=polemics&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>how to organise low-budget, low-maintenance conference</title>
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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 in a) institutional support and finance: if you have a budget to share, they might chip in. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polemics.wordpress.com&blog=193285&post=59&subd=polemics&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;us&#8217; and &#8216;them&#8217; conference is successfully over</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
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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 intellectual stimulation that it brought. Sometimes interdisciplinary events produce a situation where people speak nominally about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polemics.wordpress.com&blog=193285&post=57&subd=polemics&ref=&feed=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&#8217;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 nice blog, with stuff on Central Eastern Europe and beyond &#8211; mainly Czech and Slovak [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polemics.wordpress.com&blog=193285&post=56&subd=polemics&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>translating discourse</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just discovered a new possible translation of the concept of &#8216;discourse&#8217; into Finnish, namely &#8216;arvorypäs&#8216;. This implies the concentration of different discursive elements and values into one. It also implies limits, just like the concept of discourse itself entails them.
Perhaps this way the whole study of discourses becomes more easy to grasp for a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polemics.wordpress.com&blog=193285&post=54&subd=polemics&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>in helsinki, at the collegium</title>
		<link>http://polemics.wordpress.com/2007/08/06/in-helsinki-at-the-collegium/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i spent my youth in helsinki. my helsinki was that of 1990s. now, after ten years of living mainly abroad, i&#8217;m back.  and of course there are a lot of culture shocks and all that kind of stuff involved. more of them in the personal blog http://palemics.wordpress.com which is designed for those who know [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polemics.wordpress.com&blog=193285&post=53&subd=polemics&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>posters &#8211; demonumentalising</title>
		<link>http://polemics.wordpress.com/2007/07/23/posters-demonumentalising/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s interesting how the exact topic under investigation develops when one does research. I had pretty good idea of how to do work on the politics of architecture, but in the end I ended up focusing on memorials and public art for my Bauhaus Kolleg final presentation. Although I&#8217;ve been interested for years on public [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polemics.wordpress.com&blog=193285&post=51&subd=polemics&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>us and them conference website</title>
		<link>http://polemics.wordpress.com/2007/07/11/us-and-them-conference-website/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I should add to the links that there&#8217;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.
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