CHCI welcome and keynote lecture Joep Leerssen

Recorded June 20, 2019. Joep Leerssen is Professor of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He has worked on the history of national identity articulations, in Ireland as well as other European countries, national stereotyping and on the transnational history of national movements. Among his English-languages monographs are Mere Irish & Fíor-Ghael, Remembrance and Imagination, and National Thought in Europe. He used the funds of the Spinoza Prize, awarded to him in 2008, to set up the Study Platform on Interlocking Nationalism (www.spinnet.eu); its flagship publication is the Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe (2018, online as ernie.uva.nl). He is an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College Dublin. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/