SPIN - Study Platform on Interlocking Nationalisms
SPIN aims to chart the cultural and historical root system of European nationalisms and to bring into focus those intellectual networks which carried and disseminated the emerging ideals of cultural nationalism in the Romantic period and in the long nineteenth century (1770-1914).
The dynamics on which SPIN will focus in particular are twofold:
- – transnational (thematizing exchanges between cultural nationalisms in different areas and societies within Europe); and
- – intermedial (thematizing transfers between different cultural fields, genres and media, from language revivalism to national opera and from folklore festivals to nineteenth-century medievalism in literature and the arts).
In order to pursue this agenda, SPIN will itself work on an international and interdisciplinary basis. Its main purpose is to gather into a network scholars in different European countries and in different disciplines, and to facilitate and focus cooperation between them.
Use the navigation bar to read more about SPIN’s aims and proposed activities, or click this link for a PDF brochure (4 pages, 300 kB).
SPIN Lecture 2012
Call for Papers
In september 2012 the Study Platform on Interlocking Nationalisms organizes a workshop on cultural heritage in the Rhine region as a political programme. The event will take place in Bingen (Germany). Prospective participants are herewith invited to send in a proposal.
This is the third and final workshop on the SPIN theme The Rhine as a cultural space in romantic nationalism.
Building cultural nations. The matica and equivalent intermediary structures in Europe
A workshop will be organized jointly by CEU, SPIN and NISE at the Central European University in Budapest on 15 and 16 February 2012. The subject is the matica, a particular kind of society established by Slavic national movements in nineteenth century Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, focused on (re)constructing and improving their cultures. Read more.
NEW: The Literary Imagination
Nineteenth century literature articulated a specific romantic of the nation. Almost all European literatures contain foundational texts in the literary foundation of the country’s identity. Many of these texts are online. Click here.
Announcing a new project: National Music
Banknote database complete
The interactive database of national icon-figures on European banknotes is now complete. It can be accessed through the interactive resources portal or by clicking "Resources" > Banknotes in the main navigation bar.