By now it has become an established fact that nationalism is a very international phenomenon. Starting from the insights of Anne-Marie Thiesse, the role of, specifically, intellectuals and their international interests has become a topic of investigation. Thus, the spread of nationalism can be addressed in terms of “cultural transfer”.
This implies that cultural transfer not only takes place between national entities, but that these entities themselves take shape, are articulated as self- images, as a result of transfer processes between societies and intellectual “hubs”. The modality in which such exchanges occur have been studied in the specialism of imagology: Self- images can obtain a specific profile as a result of antagonistic and contrastive self- positioning, or else of adaptation and internalization, or by way of parallel influences from a common external source-discourse. In any case, the crucial insight is that the formulation and instrumentalization of a national self- image is not an internalistically driven process, emerging wholly from within the bosom of a given cultural community or society, but part of a transnational traffic of communicated ideas.
The challenging task for the future is to study the intellectual exchanges between regions and realm that gave rise to Europe perceived to consist of modular nationalities.
Keynote speaker
- Michel Espagne (Centre National de Recherche Scientific, CNRS)
With lectures by:
- Anne-Marie Thiesse, EHESS, Paris
- Vladimir Biti, University of Vienna
- Xosé Manoel Núñez, University of Santigao de Compostela
- Balázs Trencsényi, Central European University
- Diana Mishkova, University of Sofia
- Derek Fewster, University of Helsinki
- Joep Leerssen, University of Amsterdam
- Annie Jourdan, University of Amsterdam
- Krisztina Lajosi, University of Amsterdam
This Summer School is organized in cooperation with SPIN (Study Platform on Interlocking Nationalisms).
Registration
Programme
I Preperational classes
Friday 1 June, Introduction on the theme
10.00-15.00 Preliminary readings:
• Stefan Berger, 'Comparative history', in: Stefen Berger, Heiko Feldner and Kevin Passmore ed.,
Writing history: theory and practice (London 2003) 161‐179.
• Deborah Cohen & Maura O'Connor (ed.), Comparison and history. Europe in Cross-national perspective, Introduction, (Routledge, 2004).
• Jürgen Kocka, ‘Comparison and beyond’, History and Theory 42 (2003) 39-44.
• Matthias Middell, ‘European history and cultural transfer’, Diogène. Revue internationale des sciences humaines 48 (2000) 23-30.
• Joep Leerssen, National thought in Europe: a cultural history(Amsterdam, 2006).
Friday 15 June, Preparing an intervention
10.00-15.00 Preliminary readings:
• Joep Leerssen, 'Viral nationalism: romantic intellectuals on the move in nineteenth century Europe', Nations and Nationalism 17 (2011) 257–271.
• Anne Marie Thiesse, 'National identities. A transnational paradigm', in Alain Dieckhoff and Christophe Jaffrelot ed., Revisiting nationalism: theories and processes (London 2005) 122-141.
II Summerschool
Monday 25 June: Morning:
- Keynote speaker, Michel Espagne, ENS, Paris : « The Notion of Cultural Transfer »
- Diana Mishkova, University of Sofia : “On the Methodology and History of Ideational Transfer in the European Periphery”
Afternoon
- Derek Fewster, University of Helsinki, « Separating and Realigning National Identities. The Case of the Swede, the Finn and the Finn-Swede after 1809”
- Joep Leerssen, University of Amsterdam: “How Ethnic Identities imposed themselves in Estonia and Wallonia”
- Xosé Manoel Núñez, University of Santigao de Compostela : « From the Irish Mirror to the Anticolonialist Fascination: Transnational Models of National Liberation in Western Europe, 1900-1970”
Tuesday 26 June: Morning:
- Vladimir Biti, University of Vienna : “The Birth of National Literary History out of Multiple Cultural Transfers”
- Balázs Trencsényi, University of Budapest : “Writing a Transnational History of East Central European National Discourses in the Interwar period. Comparisons, Transfers and local Knowledge”
- Krisztina Lajosi, University of Amsterdam, “The Plasticity of Music. National Style as Cultural Transfer”
Afternoon:
- Annie Jourdan, University of Amsterdam : “The Allegory of Liberty in the Revolutionary Era: cosmopolitan transfers and national identities”
- SPIN lecture, Anne-Marie Thiesse, EHESS, Paris : « The Transnational Creation of National Arts in 19th Century Europe”
Wednesday 27 June: Workshops
Thursday 28 June: Workshops
III Assignment:
Tuesday 31 July, deadline essay
IV Discusssion papers:
Friday 24 August
10.00-15.00
• Stefan Berger, 'Comparative history', in: Stefen Berger, Heiko Feldner and Kevin Passmore ed.,
Writing history: theory and practice (London 2003) 161‐179.
• Deborah Cohen & Maura O'Connor (ed.), Comparison and history. Europe in Cross-national perspective, Introduction, (Routledge, 2004).
• Jürgen Kocka, ‘Comparison and beyond’, History and Theory 42 (2003) 39-44.
• Matthias Middell, ‘European history and cultural transfer’, Diogène. Revue internationale des sciences humaines 48 (2000) 23-30.
• Joep Leerssen, National thought in Europe: a cultural history(Amsterdam, 2006).
10.00-15.00
• Joep Leerssen, 'Viral nationalism: romantic intellectuals on the move in nineteenth century Europe', Nations and Nationalism 17 (2011) 257–271.
• Anne Marie Thiesse, 'National identities. A transnational paradigm', in Alain Dieckhoff and Christophe Jaffrelot ed., Revisiting nationalism: theories and processes (London 2005) 122-141.
- Keynote speaker, Michel Espagne, ENS, Paris : « The Notion of Cultural Transfer »
- Diana Mishkova, University of Sofia : “On the Methodology and History of Ideational Transfer in the European Periphery”
Afternoon
- Derek Fewster, University of Helsinki, « Separating and Realigning National Identities. The Case of the Swede, the Finn and the Finn-Swede after 1809”
- Joep Leerssen, University of Amsterdam: “How Ethnic Identities imposed themselves in Estonia and Wallonia”
- Xosé Manoel Núñez, University of Santigao de Compostela : « From the Irish Mirror to the Anticolonialist Fascination: Transnational Models of National Liberation in Western Europe, 1900-1970”
- Vladimir Biti, University of Vienna : “The Birth of National Literary History out of Multiple Cultural Transfers”
- Balázs Trencsényi, University of Budapest : “Writing a Transnational History of East Central European National Discourses in the Interwar period. Comparisons, Transfers and local Knowledge”
- Krisztina Lajosi, University of Amsterdam, “The Plasticity of Music. National Style as Cultural Transfer”
Afternoon:
- Annie Jourdan, University of Amsterdam : “The Allegory of Liberty in the Revolutionary Era: cosmopolitan transfers and national identities”
- SPIN lecture, Anne-Marie Thiesse, EHESS, Paris : « The Transnational Creation of National Arts in 19th Century Europe”
Tuesday 31 July, deadline essay
Friday 24 August
NB: PhD’s are not obliged to hand in a paper.
