December 10: Publication Essay 2: When was Romantic Nationalism? The onset, the long tail, the banal / Joep Leerssen November 26: Extraordinary meeting of the Executive Board of NISE non-profit association, Antwerp (Belgium) November 14: Participating in British Library seminar Language and the Making of Nations, London (United Kingdom) September 17-18: Second...

The program is now available for the conference NISE holds on 17 and 18 September 2014 in Vilnius, prepared together with the Lithuanian Institute for History and the Welsh Nationalism Foundation, on creating and interpreting heroes and heroism in a national context. It is the...

It is custom for part of the annual gathering of NISE, this year at the Lithuanian Institute of History in Vilnius, to be open to the public. On Tuesday 16 September 2014, that is the case for the introduction to two initiatives regarding the past,...

NISE participates in a one-day seminar held by the British Library in London on Language and the Making of Nations on 14 November 2014 at the BL Conference Centre, Dickens and Eliot rooms.   The creation of a unified language has been significant in the formation of the...

The Institute of Czech History at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Charles University in Prague and the Migration Competence Centre from Armenia, have joined the NISE Network.   Ústavčeských dějin, the Institute of Czech History at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Charles University in Prague...

On 27 March 2014 Peter Aronsson from Linnæus University in Sweden gave the second NISE Lecture. The subject was the role played by national museums in identity formation in Europe. You can now hear his lecture on the NISE website. Go to the podcast....

The second NISELecture will be delivered by prof. dr. Peter Aronsson on 27 March 2014 in Antwerp. The subject is the role played by national museums in identity formation in Europe. Identity is made out of culture. National museums are a highly institutionalised presentations of knowledge,...

NISE organises, together with UNPO, a workshop on archival awareness on Monday 31 March 2014 at the ADVN archives and research centre in Antwerp (Belgium). UNPO (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation) is an international organisation established in 1991 at the Peace Palace in The Hague (The...