National identification from below. Europe from the late 18th century to the end of the First World War

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National identification from below. Europe from the late 18th century to the end of the First World War

Veranstalter
Ghent University: Department of Modern and Contemporary history Antwerp University: Department of history Archival and documentation center of Flemish nationalism, Antwerp Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Veranstaltungsort
Het Pand, Onderbergen 1, B-9000 Ghent
Ort
Ghent
Land
Belgium
Vom - Bis
07.03.2008 - 08.03.2008
Website
http://www.frombelow.ugent.be
Von
Maarten Van Ginderachter

The last three decades, the discourse, myths, symbols and rites of the most diverse nations and national(ist) movements, have been amply studied. Much of this research, however, is informed by a limited conception of the constructivist paradigm, interpreting national identity as a middle and upper class concern brought to the masses through a whole range of nationalising media (schools, army, press, monarchy, church, etc.) overemphasizing the idea of elite construction ex nihilo (as if dominant groups can randomly choose which myth they want to 'feed' to the masses). This conference wants to study not only the production of national discourse, but also its appropriation by 'ordinary people' and the masses' creativity in forging new national symbols from below. The intended audience includes historians, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, ethnographers, ...

Programme committee
Anthony D. Smith (London School of Economics), honorary member
Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (European University Institute)
Martyn Lyons (University of New South Wales)
Gerard Noiriel (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en sciences sociales)
Niek Van Sas (University of Amsterdam)
Jakob Vogel (Centre Marc Bloch. Deutsch-franzoesisches Zentrum fuer Sozialwissenschaften)

Registration
Register at www.frombelow.ugent.be/registration.php
Before 31 December 2007: two-day attendance: 100 euro, one-day attendance: 60 euro.
After 31 December 2007: two-day attendance: 130 euro, one-day attendance: 70 euro.

Programm

Full programme: www.frombelow.ugent.be

Key-note speakers
- John Breuilly (London School of Economics), What does it mean to say that nationalism is “popular”?
- Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (European University Institute)
- Martyn Lyons (University of New South Wales), Recovering the ‘lost provinces’: how the - Poilus discovered Alsace, 1914-1918
- Ilaria Porciani (University of Bologna), Nationalism and women from the middle and lower middle classes in Italy

Plenary speakers
- James Brophy (University of Delaware), Which Political Nation? The Popular Public Sphere in the Rhenish Borderlands, 1800-1848
- Jean-Francois Chanet (Universite Lille III), ‘From the wound a flower grows’ – A re-examination of French patriotism in the face of the Franco-Prussian war
- Laurence Cole (University of Norwich)
- Margot Finn (Warwick University)
- Andrew Thompson (University of Leeds), Empire and National Identity: the case of the British
- Miguel Cabo Villaverde (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela), An inconvenient nation. Nation-building and national identity in Spain
- Oliver Zimmer (University of Oxford), Nationalism and the reshaping of German towns, 1860-1900

Speakers in parallel sessions
- Silvia Cresti (Freie Universität Berlin), Fatherland in the Province: Jewish Communities in Silesia during the 19th Century and German Identification
- Francesco Dall’Aglio (University of Rome), The mountain, the bandit and the monk: popular forms of nationalism in Bulgaria, 1762 to 1914
- Theodora Dragostinova (Ohio State University), Speaking National in the 1906 Anti-Greek Movement in Bulgaria
- Dora M. Dumont (State University of New York College at Oneonta), Romans Encounter the Nation: City and Province in 1870
- Eberhard Fritz (Altshausen), „Als Mann ins Feld, zurueck als Held“ Postcards as a patriotic mass medium during the First World War
- Stephanie M. Hilger (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Regula Engel: A (Swiss?) Amazon in Napoleonic Times
- Anna Kuismin (Literary Archives of the Finnish Literature Society & University of Helsinki), Discourses of ‘Enlightenment’ and Nationalism in the Autobiography of a 19th century Finnish Peasant
- Lone Kølle Martinsen (European University Institute), A Danish case study. The reception of B. S. Ingemann’s historical novels
- Victor Rizescu (University of Bucharest), Debating National Betrayal: Romanian Collaborators during World War I
- Miika Tervonen (European University Institute), ‘Peasants’, ‘Gypsies’ and ‘travellers’: nationalism and ethnic boundary-drawing in Finland and Sweden, c.1850-1920
- Tom Verschaffel (University of Leuven, campus Kortrijk), Between nations. Multiple identifications among Belgian migrants in Northern France, 1830-1914
- Antoon Vrints (Ghent University), ‘As there are potatoes in the country, they belong to us, Belgians’. Well-being and lower class national identification in Belgium during the First World War

Kontakt

Maarten Van Ginderachter

Ghent University
Department of Modern and Contemporary history
+/32/(0)9/264 40 02
+/32/(0)9/264 41 83
frombelow@ugent.be

http://www.frombelow.ugent.be