The organisers will welcome proposals for 20-minute papers in English responding to the above. Suggested (merely indicative) topics include:

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• literature, the arts, and the ideology/ies of nation

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• culture and the nation-state

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• nation, nostalgia, trauma, exaltation, utopia

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• institutions of national memory: academies, museums, libraries, archives

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• genres and practices of nation-building: historical fiction, historical painting, historiography

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• rival discourses of patriotism and identity

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• nation(alism), aggressiveness, prejudice and intolerance

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• identity, peace and conflict

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• nation and class, nation and gender

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• the nation, the state and the education of the citizen

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• remediating the political imagination: from literature to audiovisual to digital media