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...
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...
A.-M. Thiesse, The transnational creation of national arts and crafts in 19th century Europe (Antwerp: NISE, 2013). NISE has published the 2012 SPIN lecture by Anne-Marie Thiesse on the use made of so-called traditional folk art for the modern formation of nations. This building block in the cultural...
J.Th. Leerssen, When was Romantic Nationalism? The onset, the long tail, the banal (Antwerp: NISE, 2014). Joep Leerssen publishes in the NISE Monographs and Essays Series the first conclusions from the research on Romantic Nationalism performed within the Study Platform on Interlocking Nationalisms (SPIN) project. SPIN, an affiliate of NISE, aims...