From our members | The amateur historian in the 19th Century (CfP)
Call for Papers International workshop on ‘The Amateur Historian and Knowledge Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Europe’, 24 October 2015, Aberystwyth (United Kingdom)...
Events
Heroes & Protagonists conference program
The program is now available for the conference NISE holds on 17 and 18 September 2014 in Vilnius, prepared together with the Lithuanian Institute for History and the Welsh Nationalism Foundation, on creating and interpreting heroes and heroism in a national context. It is the...
Public sessions during NISE annual gathering in Vilnius
It is custom for part of the annual gathering of NISE, this year at the Lithuanian Institute of History in Vilnius, to be open to the public. On Tuesday 16 September 2014, that is the case for the introduction to two initiatives regarding the past,...
Second NISELecture on national museums
The second NISELecture will be delivered by prof. dr. Peter Aronsson on 27 March 2014 in Antwerp. The subject is the role played by national museums in identity formation in Europe. Identity is made out of culture. National museums are a highly institutionalised presentations of knowledge,...
NISELecture 1
On 26 September 2013 John Breuilly opened the new NISELectures series. His subject was the search for a global history of nationalism. You can now hear his lecture on the NISE website. Go to the podcast....
Launch of the NISE database
On 29 November 2013, in the Flemish Parliament in Brussels, the NISE database will be launched, as part of the ODIS2 database. The new infrastructure stands central to NISE. It will allow for entering, checking and collating data on national and regional movements, as a result...
Debate session
The Herder-Institut in Marburg (Germany) played host to the annual gathering of NISE from 14 to 16 May 2013. The research and archives institute, member of the NISE Network, was founded in 1950 and is specialised in eastern Central Europe (the Baltics and the Königsberg enclave,...
Annual gathering of the NISE Scientific Council
The fourth meeting of the Scientific Council (SC) took place in Barcelona on May 23, 2012. The location was the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, with as co-organisers the Humanities departement, chaired by professor Antoni Luna, and the attached working group GRENS (Grup de Recerca en Estats, Nacions...
Workshop ‘Building cultural nations’
On 15 and 16 February 2012 NISE organized the workshop Building cultural nations. The matica and equivalent intermediary structures in Europe, in collaboration with the Central European University (CEU) and the SPIN project (University of Amsterdam). This scientific meeting was held in Budapest. Scholars from all...
Seminar for the NISE Network of Institutes
On 17 November 2011, a seminar took place at the ADVN in Antwerp for all institutes, projects and networks linked to the NISE platform. Central to the meeting stood the NISE database. After a presentation of the data model and its applications, the participants got the opportunity...