SPIN Lecture 2012

On Tuesday 26 June Anne-Marie Thiesse will present the SPIN Lecture 2012: The Transnational Creation of National Arts and Crafts in 19th Century Europe. The annual SPIN lectures deal with comparative topics in the history of cultural nationalism in Europe.

Anne-Marie Thiesse is the director of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. She has published extensively on national identities in Europe, regionalisms and European identity. Thiesse is a member of SPIN's advisory board. Previous SPIN lectures have been delivered by John Breuilly, Miroslav Hroch and Peter Burke. This years lecture serves as the closing paper of the international conference/summer school 'Cultural transfer as national identity', organized by SPIN and the Huizinga Instituut, the Dutch research institute and research school of cultural history.

Details:

Date: Tuesday 26 June 2012

Time: 16.00 hrs.

Venue: University of Amsterdam, Agnietenkapel, Oudezijds Voorburgswal 231

Registration: info@spinnet.eu