Syllabus
Datum 20. 2.
Introduction
SH 27. 2.
Interimperiality: empires and nations
S 05. 3.
Regional imagination: Central Europe
S 12. 3.
Regional imagination III: Balkanism
H 19. 3.
National "revival": the birth of modern nations in Central Europe between pangermanism and panslavism
S 26. 3.
Empires, nations and nation states in Southern Europe
H 02. 4.
From national movement to nation-state
S 09. 4.
Nations and Federations
H 16. 4.
World War II and National Communism in Central Europe
S 23. 4.
World War II and National Communism in Southern Europe
H 30. 4.
From democratic revolutions to European integration
S 07. 5.
The wars in Yugoslavia
H 14. 5
The return of the nation and culture wars
SH
Annotation
The course will focus on long-term sources and contemporary expressions of nationalism in selected countries of the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE region). Nationalism here is understood as a result of interaction between the politics of various empires shaping the region (Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, as well as France, Great Britain, and the US as global players and often role models), national movements, states, and minorities.
The course will present concepts that shaped regional imagination and symbolical geography of two regions: mainly Central Europe and the Balkans. The aim is to introduce into main processes that shaped nations in CEE: Empires and their legacies; post-imperial dynamics; regional imaginations between emancipation and hegemony; national "revival"; the construction of nation states and federations; the legacies of World Wars and Communism; violent dissolution and
After , the course will present nationalist tradition and its impact on contemporary political cleavages in selected countries: Poland and Ukraine, Hungary and Romania, former Yugoslavia, and Czechia and Slovakia.
All lectures will be accompanied by literature that will be discussed in class.
Students are required to attend, participate in class and submit a final essay at the end of the course.