[Commlist] CFP: 8th international Power Conference Helsinki

  CALL FOR PAPERS

8th international Power Conference
Helsinki, November 24-26, 2022

It has become increasingly clear that we live in a complex turmoil of 
global challenges and intertwined crises. Global geopolitical divisions 
have sharpened from proxy conflicts to an all out war in Europe. Past 
years of pandemic lockdowns have underscored the vulnerability of 
interdependent societies. Economic futures are blurred and 
unpredictable. The world is consciously gambling on environmental 
sustainability, with odds against us. Meanwhile, rapidly advancing 
datafication and algorithmically driven information flows reshape the 
logics of social interaction, practices of legacy institutions, and 
opinion formation. Intersecting inequalities polarize political debates 
and create clashing camps both locally and globally. This conjuncture 
demands us to rethink questions of power, governance, authority and 
agency. In what ways do governments, corporations, political parties, 
social movements, and citizens shape the future? What do we know about 
the dynamics of these trends? How can scholarship make sense of them? 
What does the future look like?

These questions will be discussed in the 8th /Power Conference/, which 
will take place at the /University of Helsinki, November 24-26, 2022/.

The three intensive days will include keynote talks by:

  * Gianpaolo Baiocchi (New York University)
  * Mark Haugaard  (National University of Ireland)
  * Suvi Salmenniemi (University of Turku)
Several streams of paper sessions will provide participants a chance to 
present their work and engage in intensive discussions with colleagues. 
We invite scholars from all fields of inquiry to propose presentations 
of themes such as (but not restricted to)

  * violence and war
  * political movements and new of forms of engagement
  * international organizations and global consultancy
  * comparative studies on policy processes
  * inequalities, social classes (inside and across nations)
  * politics of affect
  * dataficaton and new infrastructures of power
  * the role of science, knowledge and expertise
  * new media and communication environments and platforms
  * new conceptualizations of power and elites
We invite *abstracts for presentations* and *special thematic 
sessions* (max 300 words) beginning from July 10, 2022. The organizing 
committee will assess the submissions on a running basis. We will send 
*notifications for acceptance within three weeks of reception*.

The final deadline for submissions is *September 30, 2022* (with final 
notifications by October 15).

*Submit your abstract here: 
*_https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/118691/lomake.html_ 
<https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/118691/lomake.html>

Registration fees: Standard* €200; *graduate students* €100.*

Power Conference 2022 is organized by /University of Helsinki/ and the 
/Society for the Study of Power Relations/.

For more information and all questions please email: Risto Kunelius, 
University of Helsinki _risto.kunelius@helsinki.fi_ 
<mailto:(risto.kunelius /at/ helsinki.fi)>) *and cc: 
*_anna.jarske-fransas@helsinki.fi_ <mailto:(anna.jarske-fransas /at/ helsinki.fi)>

Welcome!


*Organizers*

  * Risto Kunelius, University of Helsinki (_risto.kunelius@helsinki.fi_
    <mailto:(risto.kunelius /at/ helsinki.fi)>)
  * Eeva Luhtakallio, University of Helsinki
    (_eeva.luhtakallio@helsinki.fi_ <mailto:(eeva.luhtakallio /at/ helsinki.fi)>)
  * Pertti Alasuutari, Tampere University (_pertti.alasuutari@tuni.fi_
    <mailto:(pertti.alasuutari /at/ tuni.fi)>)
  * Risto Heiskala, Tampere University (_risto.heiskala@tuni.fi_
    <mailto:(risto.heiskala /at/ tuni.fi)>)
  * Anu Kantola, University of Helsinki (_anu.kantola@helsinki.fi_
    <mailto:(anu.kantola /at/ helsinki.fi)>)
  * Tuomas Ylä-Anttila, University of Helsinki
    (_tuomas.yla-anttila@helsinki.fi_
    <mailto:(tuomas.yla-anttila /at/ helsinki.fi)>)
  * Tuomas Forsberg, University of Helsinki
    (_tuomas.forsberg@helsinki.fi_ <mailto:(tuomas.forsberg /at/ helsinki.fi)>)



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