MINELRES: Fwd: Conference: Statehood Beyond Ethnicity: Comparative and
Trans-National Perspectives in Europe, Flemingsberg (Sweden),
13-14.6.2003
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Mon May 26 07:54:21 2003
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Statehood Beyond Ethnicity: Comparative and Trans-National Perspectives
in Europe
A Conference for Young Scholars in the Humanities
13-14 June, Moas B�ge, Flemigsberg, near Stockholm
The conference will tackle the issue of statehood and nationhood in the
case of the smaller European countries. According to the prevailing
political theory, a modern state came into being through the merging of
two principles - the idea of state and the concept of nation. In order
to challenge this view this conference will attempt to analyse
non-ethnic statehood in two renditions in two different periods of
history: as a historical phenomenon at the time of the emergence of the
early modern state and as a historical tradition upon which the
nation-builders from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries called. The
conference thus suggests to take into consideration both the historical
facts and historiographical constructs about statehood. While examining
the arguments put forward for the existence of a state in the early
modern age, the conference will seek to describe those essential
elements which found their later appropriation in explicitly ethnic
cultural and historical thinking about the older new nations. Yet, in
parallel, it will also look at the arguments of the modern nationalists
which echoed the non-ethnic past
Conference Themes: Concepts of Statehood, Legitimacy of the Military
State, Traditions of Statehood, Legacy of Empires, Statehood versus
Nationalism
Keynote Speakers: Dr Almut Bues (German Historical Institute Warsaw), Dr
Eric Kaufmann (University of Southampton/University of London)
Participants: around 30 young scholars from 15 countries will deliver
papers on their research
A detailed conference programme (including the paper summaries) is
available upon the request from either Dr Leos M�ller at
[email protected] or Dr Linas Eriksonas at [email protected]
S�dert�rns University College - Baltic and East European Graduate
School - Copyright, 2003
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