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,...
NISE organises, together with UNPO, a workshop on archival awareness on Monday 31 March 2014 at the ADVN archives and research centre in Antwerp (Belgium). UNPO (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation) is an international organisation established in 1991 at the Peace Palace in The Hague (The...
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 construction of the nation as imagined community, part of its personification as a physical body,...
International Symposium on Legal Identities in Evolving Nations, 18 February 2014, European Institute of Identities / College of Law, Swansea University, Swansea (Wales). See here for more information....
Nationalists and the Problem of Overcoming Invisibility: Catalonia and Wales, 12 November 2013 & 2 April 2014, GRENS / European Institute of Identities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain) / Swansea University, Wales (UK). See here for the programme. The proceedings of these seminars were published in SNM....
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....