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Please find below the clip that wraps up the conclusions of the 7th #NISELecture, by Prof. Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas, held on Tuesday 5 November 2019 at the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library in Antwerp. [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="http://www.nise.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Niselecture-191105.mp4"][/video]   If you want to listen to the whole intervention...

L. Boeva, Rien de plus international. Towards a comparative and transnational historiography of national movements (Antwerp: ADVN, 2009). This publication offers a full account of the context, aims and framework of NISE. It contains the following parts: – a review of the theories on nationalism, with selective...

M. Hroch, Intellectual autobiography (Antwerp: Peristyle, 2018). NISE presents the intellectual autobiography of Miroslav Hroch Studying nationalism under changing conditions and regimes. Miroslav Hroch has influenced nationalism scholars over the past 50 years, attracting a wide audience. So it is no surprise there have been already some publications dedicated to him,...

The seventh NISELecture will be presented by Xosé Núñez Seixas in Antwerp on 5 November 2019. The title for his lecture is "Catalonia: from Piedmont to Ireland? A historical outlook on the recent evolution of the Catalan movement". On October 27th 2017, the Catalan Parliament voted...

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’...

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...