CFP – ‘National forgetting and memory: the destruction of “national” monuments from a comparative perspective’

The conference aims at shedding some light on the relationship between the formation of a nation and the elements that might constitute its destruction by focusing on one specific case study: the destruction of ‘national’ monuments. Programm CONFERENCE PROPOSAL Starting with the work of Ernest Renan, the study of nationalism has always ascribed an important role to the process of forgetting in the construction or imagination of nations. Read more
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