METHODOLOGY IN QUESTION International PhD conference in the History of Science and Ideas Stockholm University, 22–23 November 2014 ________________________________________________ PARTICIPANTS AND PAPERS NAME TITLE OF PAPER Nathan Alexander Rethinking histories of atheism Mehmet Akif Berber The use of a conceptual approach to the Ottoman credit market Crowds at the gates: a subject-of-language approach to practices of reactionary cohesion 1848 An Experiment in ‘Neurohistory’: The Neuroscience of Emotion and Religious Experience in a Medieval Guide to Prayer Mapping Edinburgh’s Social History: Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh Overcoming the theory/practice divide and how to deal with events Actions, Reason, History John Björkman Julia Bourke Phil Dodds Annelie Drakman Timothy Goering Natacha Goubet Chris Haffenden Martin HansenChernetskiy Petter Hellström Which prevention in predictive medicine? From an archaelogy of knowledge to a genealogy of preventive practices Robert Blakey and the burden of discipline history Identitety discourses and cultural heritage in Russia Deadwood. Failed genealogies of the family tree DEPARTMENT E-MAIL ADDRESS School of History, University of St Andrews Department of History, İstanbul 29 Mayıs University Institutionen för litteraturvetenskap och idéhistoria, Stockholm University Department of Medieval History, Queen Mary University of London [email protected] School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria, Uppsala University Historisches Institut, RuhrUniversität Bochum Experience Research Lab, Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis [email protected] Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria, Uppsala University Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper, Lund University Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria, Uppsala University [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] NAME Anton Jansson Eva Krause Jørgensen Shiru Lim Synne Myreböe Sophia Mösch Adam Netzén Daniel Nyström Katariina Parhi Eleá de la Porte Lucian Robinson Daniel Rosenberg TITLE OF PAPER Temporal Structures and Historical Knowledge DEPARTMENT Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion, University of Gothenburg To deliberate the most beneficial economic Institut for Kultur og Samfund, arrangement. Approaching political debate Aarhus University and culture in 18th Century Denmark How to read the monarchs’ words: Speech History Department, University act theory and Frederick II, Catherine II, College London and Stanislaw August Poniatowski’s correspondence with men of letters Investigating the politics of cultivation as a Institutionen för idé- och cultivation of the senses samhällsstudier, Umeå University Augustinian Thought in Alcuin’s Writings: Department of History, King’s A Philological-Historical Approach College London Epistemic virtues for the Division of history of science, Geisteswissenschaftler, especially the technology and environment, Royal historian of science Institute of Technology, Stockholm Historiography and Disciplinary Debates Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, Umeå University Psychopathy Diagnosis and the Role of Department of History of Science Agency and Ideas, University of Oulu To choose or not to choose? How to deal Department of Early Modern with internal contradictions in our sources History, University of Amsterdam Jean Starobinski’s critical writings on Faculty of History, University of Madame de Staël and their methodological Cambridge significance for the history of ideas The Problem of Speech Acts in the History Department of Political Science, of Political Thought Hebrew University of Jerusalem E-MAIL ADDRESS [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] NAME Andreas Rydberg Annukka Sailo Johanna Sjöstedt Ben Slingo Andrei Sorescu Philippe Stamenkovic TITLE OF PAPER DEPARTMENT Skinner’s critique of the history of ideas – some unforeseen consequences Concept or Just a Word? The Problem of Defining Aggression in Aggression Research, 1960s–1970s The problem of influence, or the case of Simone de Beauvoir and Friedrich Nietzsche The paradox of innovation through tradition in the history of political thought: The case of the Thomists Who Sees Whom as Capable of Doing What: Towards Theorising Perceived Agency On the consistency of Ernst Cassirer’s transcendental method Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria, Uppsala University Department of History of Science and Ideas, University of Oulu [email protected] Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion, University of Gothenburg Faculty of History, University of Cambridge [email protected] School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, University College London Départment d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences, Université Paris Diderot Institutionen för litteraturvetenskap och idéhistoria, Stockholm University Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Universita degli Studi della Tuscia [email protected] Center for the Historiography of Linguistics, University of Leuven [email protected] Daniel Strand No Safe Grounds. The Epistemological Agony of a Critical Theorist Valerio Torreggiani Historical Language and the Language of History: The Terminological Problem in the Trans-national Study of Corporatist Thoughts Methodological and theoretical problems in writing a conceptual history. The Early Modern notion of ‘dialect’ Raf van Rooy E-MAIL ADDRESS [email protected] [email protected] philippe.stamenkovic@polytech nique.org [email protected] [email protected]