NISE exposition on the portrayal of nationalist conflicts
Last year a small-scale exhibition on the visualization of national stereotypes was opened at the ADVN in Antwerp. This NISE initiative can be visited on the website.
On 17 and 18 November 2011, NISE hosted two events at the ADVN in Antwerp. On the one hand it welcomed representatives from the institutes, projects and networks linked to the NISE platform, for a seminar in which the database and its possibilities were presented. On the other hand one of the sessions of The Low Countries Conference Translation and National Images took place in the ADVN. For this double occasion a small-scale exposition with visualizations of nationalist conflicts was prepared, the result of which can from now on also be discovered on this site.
From the international collections of the ADVN, sixteen cartoons, caricatures and other graphic depictions concerning nationalist struggles were chosen from the collections of the ADVN. In most of these images, originally published in newspapers and magazines, activists for a European national minority depicted the suppressing state and/or ethnic group. Topics as violence, economic and ecological exploitation and cultural contempt were part of a mechanism both spreading the idea of inequality and the necessity of autonomy.