“The purpose of the this seminar is to generate a debate about nation and nationalism, starting from a selection of essential texts from the bibliography devoted to theories on nationalism. Without a claim of exhaustiveness, the selection proposes a discussion of the dominant paradigms of interpretation within the domain: modernist and ethnic-symbolic. Starting from these texts, we will seek to understand why the nation and nationalisms belong to the modern age and to find out the historical conditions that allowed them to emerge. At the same time, the discussions will focus on the importance of symbols, myths, collective memory, values and common traditions in the case of the emergence of nationalism and nations. “(Marius-Alexandru Dan, Alexandru Țîrdea)
Seminar Coordinators: Alexandru Țîrdea, Marius-Alexandru Dan
The Library of the Romanian Academy, Mihail Kogălniceanu Street no. 12-14, TBC
15 participants
Registration is based on an email of up to 10 rows containing a personal presentation along with the motivation to attend the seminar.
Registration address: office@cccluj.ro
The seminar is conducted in Romanian.
Deadline for registration: October 31, 2017
Seminar in partnership with 1 + 1 Association
Alexandru Țîrdea (born 1991) is a PhD student at the Faculty of History of the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, writing a thesis on the formation of the working class in communist Romania. His fields of interest are contemporary and recent history of Romania, theories of nationalism and historical sociology.
Marius-Alexandru Dan (born 1990) is a PhD student at the Faculty of History of “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi. His fields of interest are modern and contemporary history, theories of nationalism, interdisciplinary perspectives on the issue of power concepts and approaches to the evolution of concepts, ideas and political trends.
Peasants, Religion and Nationalism
On the second day, continuing the workshop, Valer Simion Cosma proposes, in an interactive way, an exploration of the process of building national identities, focusing in particular on the role assigned to peasants and religion in identity narratives. We will focus mainly on the Romanian case, without missing the comparisons with other cases and a brief overview of the history of nationalism and its fundamental concepts and coordinates. Access is based on an Identity Card.
Valer Simion Cosma is a PhD in History at the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj, founder of Telciu Summer Conferences and Telciu Summer School. Over the past two years he has been a researcher within the project “East-West”. Vernacular religion on the borders of Eastern and Western Christianity: continuity, changes and interactions, hosted by the Ethnographic Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, Hungary. His concerns are peasant religiousness, vernacular religion, and relations between modernity / colonialism and religion in Eastern Europe.
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A cultural program cofinanced by The Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The program does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The Administration of the National Cultural Fund is not responsible for the content of the program or the manner in which the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding recipient.
Project supported by Cluj-Napoca City Hall and Local Council.
