New members for the NISE Network of Institutes, Projects and Networks
The network has over the last few months been enlarged with four more institutes: the Herder-Institut (Marburg), the European Center for Minority Issues (ECMI) (Flensburg), An Foras Feasa (Maynooth) and the Dansk Centralbibliotek (Flensburg). This brings the total to 24 institutes, projects or networks from 13 countries.
The research and archival Herder-Institut in Marburg (Germany) was founded in 1950 and is specialized in eastern Central Europe (the Baltics and the Königsberg enclave, Poland and -western-Ukraine). Located in beautiful as well as functional buildings, it holds unique archives and documentation and boasts a huge scientifically valuable output of publications, also on nationalism (for more information, cf. its website).
The independent and inter-disciplinary European Center for Minority Issues (ECMI) in Flensburg (Germany) was co-founded in 1996 and is co-funded by the governments of Denmark, Germany and Schleswig-Holstein with an Executive Board consisting of representatives also from the OSCE, the Council of Europe and the European Union. Housed in a historic building, it conducts practice and policy-oriented research, provides information and documentation, and offers advisory services concerning minority-majority relations in Europe. It organizes workshops, seminars and conferences and its specialized library provides the hub for the ECMI’s research projects and Internet information program (for more information, see www.ecmi.de).
An Foras Feasa, the Institute for Research in Irish Historical & Cultural Traditions, at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth (near Dublin), supports individual and collaborative research projects in the areas of Humanities and Technology. Among its research priorities figure ICT innovation and the humanities, multiculturalism and multilingualism, the history and cultural politics of migration between Ireland and Europe, and the global context of cultural heritage and social capital (see more at www.forasfeasa.ie).
Finally, the Dansk Centralbibliotek for Sydslesvig in Flensburg (Germany) is the central heritage and research centre for the Danish minority in Germany in particular and the Slesvig/Schleswig area in general (more on its structure and activities in the first issue of a new series in 2012 presenting extensively the NISE network members; in the meantime see www.dcbib.dk).