International Conference ‘Parliaments and Methodology: Anthropological, Discourse-Oriented and Digital Approaches to Parliamentary History’

In its third international conference, EuParl.net gathered experts on European parliamentary studies from various academic fields to present, discuss and rethink their latest methodological approaches. Special attention was paid to anthropological, discourse analytical and oral approaches to parliamentary institutions as well as to the implications of the digitalization of parliamentary records for research on parliaments. The papers addressed the common European tradition of parliamentary government.

The conference was organised by the Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, the European Information and Research Network on Parliamentary History (EuParl.net) and the Finnish Historical Society. Financed by the Department of History and Ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä, the Finnish Federation for Learned Societies, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and the Finnish Historical Society. Sponsored by the Finnish Parliament, the Norwegian Parliament and the United States Senate and the British, Dutch and German institutes of parliamentary history.

Dates and location: 12-14 June 2014, Helsinki & Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland