Cultural nationalism in the Balkans during the nineteenth century:

Scholarly and intellectual institutions and networks in a multi-ethnic region

This project has received from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and will be running fom 2001 to 2006. Four doctoral researchers and one postdoc-coördinator will be involved, as well as senior staff from the University of Amsterdam's Faculty of Humanities and an international steering committee.The main coordinator is J.Th. Leerssen.

For a full description of the project, click here

For progress reports, click here

For working papers from the Athens workshop, click any of the links below:

►              Joep Leerssen's introduction

►              Miroslav Hroch's comparative survey of factors affecting national movements in the Habsburg and Ottoman empires

►              Raymond Detrez on the Bulgarian national movement in the light of Hroch's analysis

►              Katja Sturm-Schnabl on Franz Miklosich (*)

►              Marjolijne Janssen on "Logios Hermis" -- PDF file (200 kB), requires Acrobat Reader)

►              André Kom on the 19th-century Romanian myth of Michael the Brave

►              Ingrid Merchiers on Kopitar

►              Janette Sampimon on the role of history-writing in Bulgarian national consciousness (*)

►              Roel Schuyt on Albanians and Vlachs (*)

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