Publications and presentations

(ok, this needs still some updating…)

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS:

Monographs:

Political Polarisation in Contemporary Hungary, L’Harmattan, Budapest 2007 (forthcoming in 2007)

Articles:

‘Constructing Communities: Politics of the postcommunist city-text of Budapest’,
at Tr@nsit Online, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna 2006
http://www.iwm.at/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=67&Itemid=270

Emilia Palonen “Constructing communities: From National to Transnational and Activist Politics of Memory in Europe”, XING, Heft 04, 2006, also available online: http://www.xing.at/04/04-xing-40-45.pdf

Book chapters:

‘Fidesz diskurzus és Budapest: Határteremtés és térfoglalás’ (transl. into Hungarian) in Márton Szabó, ed., Fideszvalóság, L’Harmattan, Budapest 2006.

‘Canonisation and Recanonisation in Hungarian Street Names’, in Dobos István & Szegedy-Maszák Mihály (eds.) Kánon és kanonizáció : tanulmányok az V. Nemzetközi Hungarológiai Kongresszus (Studies of the 5^th International Congress of Hungarian Studies, Jyväskylä, Finland, 2001), Csokonai, Debrecen 2003. (183 p. ; 24 cm. - ISBN 963-260-172-6)

Published conference papers:

‘Constructing communities: From National to Transnational and Activist Politics of Memory in Europe’, Dagmar Kusá and Shai Moses (eds.), Aspects of European Political Culture; Junior Fellow’s Conference Series, Vol. XX, IWM, Vienna 2005, http://www.iwm.at/publ-jvc/jc-20-06.pdf

‘City-images in contemporary Budapest: The mayor’s nostalgia for the 19^th century capital and metropolis’, Eoin O`Carroll, ed., Reflections; Junior Fellow’s Conference Series, IX, IWM, Vienna 2006, http://www.iwm.at/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=146&Itemid=276

‘Politics of Memory in the City-Text of Budapest’, workshop on Politics and Memory, ECPR Joined Sessions, 28.3.– 2.4.2003, Edinburgh. ECPR paper archive, Colchester 2003
http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/events/jointsessions/paperarchive/edinburgh/ws16/Palonen.pdf

‘Postcommunist Histories in Budapest: The Cult of Great Men in Spring 2002’ Contours of Legitimacy in Central Europe: New Approaches in Graduate Studies, 24-25 May 2002, European Studies Centre St. Anthony’s College, Oxford
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~oaces/conference/papers/Emilia_Palonen.pdf

Reviews:

Stuart Elden, Mapping the Present: Heidegger, Foucault and the project of a spatial history (Continuum: London, 2001) The on-line Newsletter of the Post-Structuralism and Radical Politics Specialist Group, Spring 2003 http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/psrpsg/reviews/elden.html.

Columns and Analysis:

’Unkarin vaalikampanja kertoo puoluekentän kahtiajakautumisesta’ [Hungarian electoral campaign demostrates polarisation], Helsingin Sanomat, Vieraskynä [expert article], 20 April 2006.

‘Tasavero sopii jälkikommunismiin’ [Flat tax suits postcommuinism], Helsingin Sanomat, Vieraskynä [expert article], 30 July 2005.

‘The People’s President? Activism And Party Politics In A Polarised Hungary’, Red Pepper, July 2005, http://www.redpepper.org.uk/europe/x-jul05-palonen.htm

‘Unkarilaiset hylkäsivät kansapolitiikan’ [Hungarians rejected nation politics], Turun Sanomat, 10.12.2004

‘Politicising the Immaterial Labour Camp’, mute, Summer/Autumn 2004, with Steffen Böhm. Reproduced online: http://www.metamute.com/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=1&NrIssue=28&NrSection=10&NrArticle=1381

’Konsensus näkyy kadunnimissä’ [Consensus shows in the street names], Vieraskynä, Helsingin Sanomat, 30.7.2002. http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/arkisto/juttu.asp?id=20020730PA1

Media interviews:

YLE, TV2, Ajankohtainen kakkonen (Finnish state television, current affairs program), 25 October 2005. Interviewed on flat tax, as a social scientist and an expert on Eastern Europe.

YLE, Radio 1, Keskipäivän peili, (Finnish state radio) 22 February 2005. Interviewed on contemporary Hungarian politics.

Presentations in academic conferences and workshops (a selection):

• ”Kaupunki-imagot konfliktissa: diskursseja Budapestista” [City-images in conflict: discourses about Budapest]. Kaupunkitutkimuksen päivät [Urban Studies Days] 8–9 May 2008.

• “Building the Nation in Europe: Us and Them on Place d’Europe, Luxembourg”. Invited presentation. Meeting the Other, European Encounters with the Wider World from the Classical Period to the Present. University of Helsinki, Finland, May 15–16, 2008.

• “Kaupunki-interventio EU-lippu-muistomerkki tutkimuksen lähteenä” [Urban intervention EU Flag Memorial as the source for research]. III Kulttuurintutkimuksen päivät – aineisto [Cultural Studies Days], University of Joensuu, 14–15 December 2007

• ‘Space and people: politics of street naming’. Invited presentation. Naming Places / Placing Names. Workshop. University of East Carolina, Greenville, North Carolina, US. October 13-16, 2007.

• ‘Discourses, Communities and Dissent: Politics of Street Names and Statues’, Rhetoric, Concepts and Discourse – beyond Hungarian politics (working title), Collegium Budapest, 31 August – 2 September 2006.

• ‘Paradiastole and Catachresis: The Political Theory of Skinner and Laclau’, Workshops in Political Theory, 6-8 September 2006, Manchester.

• ‘Agonism and polarised politics: discussing Mouffe in Hungary’, Seventh Graduate Conference in Political Theory: Politics and Rhetoric, 12-13.5.2006, University of Essex

• ‘Constructing communities: politics of “European”, national, local and activist memories in contemporary Europe’,
  Junior Visiting Fellow’s Conference, Institute for Human Sciences, IWM, 14.12.2005.

• ‘Constructing communities: politics of “European”, national, local and activist memories in contemporary Europe’, Panel (also the panel convenor): ‘Politics of Memory: construction of communities in transnational context’, BISA 30th Annual British International Studies Association Conference, St Andrews, 19-21 December 2005

• ‘A Fidesz Budapesten. Határteremtések és térfoglalások’ [Fidesz in Budapest: Frontier building and occupation of space],
  A FIDESZVALÓSÁG, Conference on discursive approach to Politics, Institute for Political Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 14 October 2005.

• ‘Politics of Architecture in Contemporary Budapest’,
  3^rd ECRP Conference, Budapest, 8-10 September 2005.

• ‘City-images in contemporary Budapest:The mayor’s nostalgia for the 19^th century capital and metropolis’,
  Junior Visiting Fellow’s Conference, Institute for Human Sciences, IWM, 8.6.2005.

• ‘Politics of Polarisation: logics and problematics’,
  Sixth Graduate Conference in Political Theory: Politics and Rhetoric, 13.-14.5.2005, University of Essex

• ‘Rhetoric and Politics. A Study of Skinnerian and Laclauian Politics’
  VAKAVA, Finnish Doctoral School in Political Science and International Relations: Republic, Rhetoric, And Politics; Roman and Italian Political Cultures and Contemporary Debates, Villa Lante, Finnish Cultural Institute in Rome, 25-28 October 2004

• ‘Kaupunkikuvan muutoksen politiikkaa Budapestissa’ [Politics of the changing cityscape in Budapest],
  Kaupunkitutkimuksen päivät : valta ja politiikka [Conference for Urban Studies: power and politics, The Finnish Society of Housing and Planning], House of Sciences, Helsinki 27.–28.5.2004

• ‘Catachresis and paradiastole: comparing and combing rhetoric of Laclau and Skinner’ and ‘Visiting the glass box of parliamentary democracy: an experience of the new Reichstag’,
  Fifth Essex Graduate Conference in Political Theory: Difference, Gender, Class, University of Essex, Department of Government, 7-8 May, 2004

• ‘Kadunnimien ja patsaiden politiikkaa jäljittämässä’ [Tracing the politics of the city-text]
  Metodi: I Kulttuurintutkimuksen päivät [Method, First Bi-Annual Finnish Cultural Studies Conference] 12-13.12.2003

• ‘Rhetoric of Change on Trafalgar Square, or Taking Quentin Skinner to the Trafalgar Square of Ken Livingstone’,
  Fourth Graduate Conference in Political Theory: Politics and Rhetoric, 9.-11.5.2003, University of Essex

• ‘Politics and Memory in the City-Text of Budapest’,
  workshop on Politics and Memory, ECPR Joined Sessions, 28.3.– 2.4.2003, Edinburgh

• ‘Collective and Individual Memories in the Postcommunist City-Text of Budapest’
  Crossroads in Cultural Studes, 4th International Conference, 29.6.-2.7.2002, Tampere

• ‘Postcommunist Histories in Budapest: The Cult of Great Men in Spring 2002’
  Contours of Legitimacy in Central Europe: New Approaches in Graduate Studies, 24.-25.5.2002, European Studies Centre St. Anthony’s College, Oxford

• ‘Politics of the Nation and History in Hungarian Elections 2002’
  Third Graduate Conference in Political Theory, 17.-18.5.2002, University of Essex

• ’Politics of the Collective Memory in Budapest In 2002’
  UACES Student Forum: Third Annual Southern Regional Conference, 11.5.2002, Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex

• ’From Polis to Metropolitics? Studying the City-Text in Budapest and London’
  Ancient Heritage of Politics and Democracy, 11.-14.3.2002, Doctoral Course of VAKAVA, Finnish Archeological Institute, Athens

• ‘Politics of the Changing City-Text in Post-Communist Budapest’
  Politiikan tutkimuspäivät, [Finnish PSA annual conference] 10.-11.1.2001, Jyväskylä

• ‘Canonisation and Recanonisation in Hungarian Street Names’,
  5^th International Congress of Hungarian Studies, 6.-10.8.2001, Jyväskylä

Visiting Lectures:

2006

ISES, Szombathely, Hungary, A visiting lecture in MA in European Studies Kőszeg.
Political frontiers, consensus, and democracy: problematising political polarisation, 25 March 2006.

“Flying University” (informal course on the model of the dissident “universities”, organised by local students of politics, taught by academics), Budapest: Radical Democracy of Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau, 6 March 2006.

Centre for the Study of Political Discourses, Institute for Political Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, two lecture series: Introduction to Laclau’s Discourse Theory (in Hungarian), 6 weeks Autumn, 2005; Chantal Mouffe: From the Political to Radical Democracy, (in English), 3 weeks February – March 2006.

Corvinus University, Budapest: Politics of Street Names and Statues: a Case of Budapest,
a visiting lecture at an advanced level (MA) course on Political Geography, 22 February 2006

2005

Centre for the Study of Political Discourses, Institute for Political Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (in Hungarian): Introduction to Discourse Theory . Lecture series, 5 weeks, November – December 2005

University of Jyväskylä: in lecture series on Contemporary Political Thought, by Kia Lindroos and Suvi Soininen, 2005-6 (in Finnish):
‘Ernesto Laclau’, 21 October 2005; ‘Chantal Mouffe’, 28 October 2005

2004

University of Jyväskylä: in lecture series Politiikka ja sen tutkimus [Politics and the study of it] (2.4.-28.4.2004): ‘Kaupunkitekstin politiikka tutkimuksen kohteena’ [Politics of the city-text as an object of study] 17.3.2004