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.
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Heeft het verleden zijn tijd gehad?
Onder redactie van Lotte Jensen, Joep Leerssen en Marita Mathijsen verschijnt de bundel Free Access to the Past: Romanticism, Cultural Heritage and the Nation. De boekpresentatie vindt plaats in Spui 25, het academisch-cultureel centrum van de Universiteit van Amsterdam, aan de hand van een discussiebijeenkomst over het historisme.
Linguistic Revival Movements in Europe
In Summer 2010 a workshop will be held at the Study Platform on Interlocking Nationalisms in Amsterdam regarding language revivalism that emerged in Europe in the wake of Romantic Nationalism (1810-1880). Possibilities for establishing a research network will be explored as well as means for applying for European funding.
Rhomantic Rhine Travels
On 21 and 22 October a workshop will be held initiating a thematic research group on the Rhine as a cultural space in romantic nationalism. Paper proposals are herewith invited.
Annual Report 2009
European clerics and vernacular culture in the long nineteenth century
From Herder onwards, clerics were among the leading collectors of vernacular culture, and major contributors to ethnography in Europe and beyond. The aim of this three-day workshop is to establish what these collectors had in common intellectually and institutionally.
The due date for the call for papers has passed. The (provisional) programme will be announced soon.