S·P·I·N - Study Platform on Interlocking Nationalisms

SPIN workshops

Over the period 2009-2015, SPIN will host 2-3 workshops annually at Amsterdam with the expressed aim of bringing scholars from different European countries together. These workshops will offer hospitality within Holland, and will also refund travel costs for researchers without adequate home-funded research budgets. The workshops are intended to explore topics of a cross-European, international or intermedial nature relevant to SPIN’s research focus.

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.