Personal data

Name: Emilia Palonen
Date of birth: 4 April 1977
Place of birth: Kuopio, Finnland
Citizenship: Finnish
E-mail: epalonen@yahoo.com

Education

• 2001-2005 PhD in Ideology and Discourse Analysis, University of Essex, Department of Government, supervisors: Dr. Aletta J. Norval and Dr. Sarah Birch
• 2000-2001: MA in Ideology and Discourse Analysis, University of Essex, Department of Government, supervisors: Dr. Aletta J. Norval and Dr. Jason Glynos
• 1997-2000: BA-fokozat a Contemporary East European Studies tárgyban - University of London, University College London (UCL), School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), téma: " Budapesti utcanevek és szobrok politikája" (Politics of the Street Names and Statues of Budapest), témavezető: Schöpflin György professzor
• 1993-1997: Ressun Lukio, Helsinki

Language skills

• English: fluent
• Finnish: native 
• French: fluent
• Hungarian: fluent
• German: fluent
• Swedish: fluent
• Spanish: fluent

Teaching experience

• 2002-2004: University of Essex, subject: "Introduction to European politics

Research specialization

• discourse theory
• city space as political discourse

Research support & cooperation

• 2004: Körber Junior Fellowship 'History and Memory in Europe', for the IWM, Vienna
• 2004: Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Reserach Scholarship
• 2002: Oskar Öflund Foundation scholarship
• 2002: Socrates Erasmus Exchange: Budapest University of Economics and Public Administration, Spring, Supervisor: professor Attila Ágh
• 2001: Economic and Social Research Council, UK, Fees-Only Research Studentship 2001-2004

Professional membership & activity

• 2005- member of Discourse Theory Department of Hungarian Association of Political Science
• 2005- member of Hungarian Association of Political Science
• 2002- member of British Political Science Association (PSA UK)
• 2001- member of Finnish Political Science Association (Finnish PSA)
• 2002- member of Association for Cultural Studies

Publications in English or Finnish (studies, articles, reviews, conference papers)

• Canonisation and Recanonisation in Hungarian Street Names. In István Dobos - Mihály Szegedy-Maszák (eds.): Kánon és kanonizáció: Tanulmányok az V. Nemzetközi Hungarológiai Kongresszuson (Studies of the 5th International Congress of Hungarian Studies, Jyväskylä, Finland, 2001). Debrecen, Csokonai Kiadó, 2003.
• Hungarian Elections April 2002: contesting the concept of nation. ISM, 24. 6. 2002, http://www.ismproject.net/article.asp?section=8&SubSection=0&article=54
• 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
• Unkarilaiset hylkäsivät kansapolitiikan [Hungarians rejected nation politics], Turun Sanomat, 10.12.2004
• Politicising the Immaterial Labour Camp, mute, Summer/Autumn 2004, with Steffen Böhm
• Konsensus näkyy kadunnimissä [Consensus shows in the street names], Vieraskynä, Helsingin Sanomat, 30.7.2002. http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/arkisto/juttu.asp?id=20020730PA1
• Hallittu mielenosoittaminen kannattaa [Demonstrating can make sense], Mielipide, Helsingin Sanomat, 28.12.2002.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 2003: Politics and Memory in the City-Text of Budapest. Workshop on Politics and Memory, ECPR Joined Sessions, 28. 3. - 2. 4. 2003, Edinburgh
• 2002: Collective and Individual Memories in the Postcommunist City-Text of Budapest. Crossroads in Cultural Studes, 4th International Conference, 29. 6. - 2. 7. 2002, Tampere
• 2002: 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
• 2001: Politics of the Changing City-Text in Post-Communist Budapest. Politiikan tutkimuspäivät , [Finnish PSA annual conference] 10-11. 1. 2001, Jyväskylä

Latest publications in Hungarian

• 2006: Fidesz -diskurzus és Budapest. Határteremtés és térfoglalás. Márton Szabó (ed.): Fidesz-valóság: Diszkurzív politikatudományi elemzések a Fideszről [Fidesz-reality: Discourse approaches to Fidesz]. Budapest: L'Harmattan. 13-40