[ecrea] Summer school: Post-Foundational Discourse Theory, August 2017 in Helsinki, Finland

No plans for August? Want to engage and escape the heat by joining our 
summer school in Helsinki? Last week to apply for:

HELSINKI SUMMER SCHOOL 2017

*Post-Foundational Discourse Theory in Humanities and Social Science 
Research*

8 August–24 August, University of Helsinki, Finland

Application deadline: 31 July, 2017

In these turbulent times, it is important to focus on the founding 
processes and foundations of our social and political existence. Many 
structures, identities and ideas we have taken for granted, from 
democracy and equality to the very idea of truth itself, have become 
contested. Through theoretical discussions and empirical examples, this 
course explores the ways in which post-foundational thought can be of 
use in the social sciences and humanities to tackle such phenomena.

A focus on discourse and meaning-making is a contemporary megatrend 
within the social sciences and humanities. Within this larger trend, 
post-foundational discourse theory forms a critical framework through 
which to understand the political and contested nature of various 
phenomena. By shifting the focus from taking political, economic and 
social concepts at their face value to the ways in which meaning-making 
always takes place through contingent concepts, discourses and 
structures we inhabit, post-foundational discourse theory will provide 
the students a distinct and a productive perspective from which to 
approach their topics of interest. The course discusses different 
approaches to post-foundationalism and allows students to develop their 
own perspective within this emerging field.

The course is intended for students of diverse backgrounds from last 
year BA students to postdocs.

Guest speakers and teachers for the course include:

  * Mark Devenney, University of Brighton
  * Charlotte Fridolfsson, Linköping University
  * Jenny Gunnarson Payne, Södertörn University
  * Oliver Marchart, University of Vienna
  * Thomas Marttila, LMU Munich
  * Kari Palonen, University of Jyväskylä

  Lectures include:

·Post-Foundationalism, Oliver Marchart

·Post-Foundational Discourse Analysis, Tomas Marttila

·Discourse theory and deconstruction in political analysis, Charlotte 
Fridolfsson

·Affect, discourse and political mobilisation from an ethnographic 
approach, Jenny Gunnarson Payne

·Post-Marxism and Economy, Mark Devenney

·Max Weber and Contingency, Kari Palonen

·Post-foundationalism in Laclau and Oakeshott, Halil Gürhanli

·Foundations of post-foundationalism: rhetoric, deconstruction and 
psychoanalysis, Emilia Palonen

·Populism and post-foundationalism, Halil Gürhanli

·Radical democracy and what next? Emilia Palonen

·Debate: 1) Brexit, Trump, and left-wing populism

·2) The whys and whats of post-foundationalism?

For more information and to apply, go to: 
https://apply.helsinkisummerschool.fi/courses/course/113-postfoundational-discourse-theory-humanities-and-social-science-research?search=24880

*Coordinators*

Emilia Palonen (responsible teacher), (emilia.palonen /at/ helsinki.fi)
Taavi Sundell (coordinator), (taavi.sundell /at/ helsinki.fi)


You may contact the course coordinators with questions concerning the 
course content.

With any other questions concerning Helsinki Summer Schoool or the 
application process, please contact (summer-school /at/ helsinki.fi).

Follow the course insights on twitter #HSSpofo17

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