The 30th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) will take place on 22-23 April 2020, in Edinburgh. This year’s theme will be Nationalism and Multiculturalism. For further information about the conference and all details of the call for papers,...
Researchers of various Universities have gathered in the premises of NISE, in Antwerp, to discuss about "Imagology and the distribution of culture through translation". Professor Luc van Doorslaer (University of Tartu) and Prof. Hanno Brand (NISE) have organised this workshop in order to steer the debate...
The Basque Contention: Ethnicity, Politics, Violence. Routledge, 19 jul. 2019 - 288 p. In his new book, Mees dismantles the widespread simplistic vision of the “Basque conflict”, that irremediably binds the existence of a conflict between the Basque people and Spain over their sovereignty with terrorism as a result of...
The seventh NISELecture will be presented by Xosé Núñez Seixas in Antwerp on 5 November 2019. The title for his lecture is "Catalonia: from Piedmont to Ireland? A historical outlook on the recent evolution of the Catalan movement". On October 27th 2017, the Catalan Parliament voted...
In the framework of its 48th Joint sessions, the ECPR is launching a call for papers on the theme of "The Lefts and Nationalisms", for a workshop to be held from 14 to 17 April 2020 in Toulouse (France). Please find HERE all details about this...
The CRBC (Centre de recherche Bretonne et Celtique) will hold a special Méridienne (debate and exchange time) on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. Click HERE for further information about the event. ...
Hosted by the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade and the Historical Archives of Belgrade, this 24th ICARUS Convention will tackle the large spectrum of possible approaches towards and uses of digital archival material – from innovative cooperation projects, leading software and technologies...
NISE's 2019 Annual Conference was held on 27-29 May 2019, in Warsaw, under the title "The Politics of Difference in 1919 Europe: Minorities and Border Populations". 12 papers on the matter were presented in front of an audience of over 100 people. The Annual Gathering of the...
Bruno de Wever, Frans-Jos Verdoodt and Antoon Vrints* are the authors of this essay, that applies the influential theory of Czech historian Miroslav Hroch related to the development of ‘small’ nations on the territory of dominant nation-states, to the case of Flanders. How did the ‘small’...
The volume is centred around a NISE conference that was held in Prague in 2016, titled 'Protagonists of national movements’. That conference took its cue from Miroslav Hroch's remark that the notion of Vorkämpferor, 'protagonists', so saliently foregrounded in his comparative work on national movements, had...