Changed composition of the Scientific Council
Three new members have joined the Scientific Council: Philipp Ther from the University Vienna, Hanno Brand from the Fryske Akademy and Maria Kovacs from the Central European University.
Historian and cultural scientist Philipp Ther is professor at the Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte der Universität Wien. He is a specialist in comparative social and cultural history in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Central Europe, with an emphasis on the historical study of nationalism, migration, music theatre and urban life. Previously he was a.o. professor of European History at the European University Institute in Florence.
Hanno Brand is head of the history and literature department at the Fryske Akademy in Leeuwarden. His research concerns the relations between the Northern Netherlands and the Hanseatic League, royal courts, urban elites and social-economic aspects of urban history. He focusses on subjects as the builders of Frisian regional identity (e.g. the Frisian Nassaus), on Frisian maritime history and on Frisian elites in town and rural areas. He was one of the leading partners in the international archive project Baltic Connections.
Maria Kovacs is director of the History Department of the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest. She followed Anton Pelinka as head of the Nationalism Studies Program, thus replacing him also, at his request, in the SC.
At the same time, two other SC members, Marnix Beyen (University Antwerp) and Philippe Raxhon (University Liège), have withdrawn from the council, as they did not could spend sufficient time on NISE matters.
The total number of members of the council remains therefore at twenty-two.