National movements and Intermediary Structures in Europe(NISE)
NISE is an international platform for research and heritage on national movements in Europe. It brings together researchers and research and cultural heritage institutions that are working on the study of nationalism in Europe from the eighteenth century to today. Our mission is to facilitate and stimulate exchange and collaborations across countries, disciplines and the scientific and cultural heritage sector. Learn more about NISE here
Conference 2023: Nationalism and World Fairs
The interaction between national self-proclamation, the commercialization of culture and an emerging entrepreneurial world order: that will be the topic for a conference to be held on 31 May – 1 June 2023, under the auspice of NISE, in Vienna.
Registration
Registration is now open! To register, please click here!
Call for Papers
Starting with the London Great Exhibition of 1851, World Fairs have been an important platform to showcase countries and their economic assets in an increasingly commerce- driven international world order. As recent studies have demonstrated, the spectacular display culture of world fairs has served as a platform for national self-proclamations for empires, including their peripheral provinces and overseas colonies, existing nation-states, and emerging new, post-colonial countries. Its pavilions mirror changing tastes, moving between historicist grandeur, fairground arcade, vernacular traditionalism, technological futurism.
The interaction between national self-proclamation, the commercialization of culture and an emerging entrepreneurial world order: this will be the main focus of the NISE Conference. We invite proposals from the historical and social sciences that delve into the complexity of world fairs. Topics may include (but are not limited to):
World Fairs and the construction of national or imperial identity
World fairs and the commercialization of (national) culture
Capitalism, World Fairs and Nation-states
Empire and World Fairs
Competing (sub)national identities at world fairs
Cultural and social practices at world fairs
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Keynote Speakers
The Keynote speakers are now confirmed: Eric Storm (Leiden University) and Marta Filipová (Masaryk University Brno) will honor us with their motivating and engaging presentations, challenging and inspiring the audience’s thinking and knowledge on the topic of “Nationalism and World Fairs”.
The hosting institution is the Vienna University of Economics and Business, whose landmark modern campus is located adjacent to the famed Prater fairground, site of the 1873 Vienna World Fair.
Official dinner
All NISE members that participate in the conference will be invited to an official dinner on the evening of 31st May.
Click HERE to read the last Letter #31. This new edition contains information about the most important upcoming events, various Calls for Papers and the publication of Prof. D. Conversi’s article on “Nationalism and Climate Change” in The State of Nationalism (SoN) journal. Don’t miss out on NISE and its members’ activity and register now …
We have launched a Special edition of the NISELetter which focuses its attention in the upcoming NISE Conference on “Nationalism and World Fairs” to be held in Vienna, on 31st May – 1st June 2023. Click HERE to read it!
We are happy to announce that volume 10 of Studies on National Movements (SNM), NISE’s peer reviewed online scientific journal, is now published. The articles included in this issue have all been attributed a Digital Object Identifyer (DOI), and so have articles of all previous SNM issues. This important element will help SNM get better …
NISE strives to publish a number of different series which are focused on the study of national movements from a comparative and transnational perspective. To know more about the different series and projects, click the different links below.
SPIN’s flagship project is the Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe (ERNiE) It is available in book form and online as a freely available open-access web resource. The web resource can be freely consulted at http://ernie.uva.nl and at http://ernie.nise.eu. The ERNiE database is managed by Stefan Poland, who also designed many of its online network visualizations. The 2-volume, 1500-page book, published by Amsterdam University Press, is available from regular booksellers.
ERNiE contains analytical articles on themes and persons, as well as historical documentation (Letters, Writings, Images, Music etc.), tracing and visualizing the transnational rise of national culture-building in 19th-century Europe.These articles and materials cover manifestations of Romantic Nationalism in Europe during the long 19th century.
While European in focus, ERNiE’s coverage is as comprehensive as possible and firmly transnational: what ERNiE hopes to make visible is not only the great mass, social penetration and mobilizing agency of individual cultural actions, gestures and developments within different countries, but also their cross-national (as well as intermedial) connections and interrelations. ERNiE wishes to draw attention to culture not only as the intellectual and artistic ambitience which made nationalism, as an ideology, thinkable and attractive, but above all as the communicative medium which rendered a transnational diffusion of nationalism possible.
A brochure (from 2015) can be viewed/downloaded here.
