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New research!
The CHIR is happy to announce a new research project, entitled The 'Neplanta' generation: Identity discourse in the essays of the second generation of Spanish exiles in Mexico. From 1 January 2010 onwards, prof. dr. Dagmar Vandebosch and our new researcher Emmy Poppe will concentrate on this topic.
This project explores the identity discourse in the essayistic texts of the generations of children of the Republican exiles in Mexico. This generation, called 'Neplanta' afer the Nahuatl word for 'between two worlds', is characterised by its complex and multiple identity. By making a discourse analytical study of essays written by a selection of representative authors from this generation, research will be made as to how these 'Spanish Mexican' writers construct an identity from the tension between European and American culture. Special attention will go to forms of interaction between the Spanish and Mexican intellectual traditions.
Scientific presentations
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Walter KUSTERS, Conceptions of Citizenship during hte French Third Republic, the Rise of Popular Education, and its Identificational Consequences for Belgian Immigrants, ESSH Conference, 13-16 April 2010, Ghent (Belgium).
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Saartje VANDEN BORRE, Belgian Migration in Nineteenth-century France: Cafes and Associations in the Life of an Immigrant Community, ESSH Conference, 13-16 April 2010, Ghent (Belgium).
- Walter KUSTERS, La politique éducative de la Troisième République et les enfants d'immigrants belges dans le département du Nord, workshop Accueil, insertion, formation des enfants étrangers en France, de la fin du XIXe siècle au début de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, SIHFLES, 7 June 2010, Paris (France).
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Tom VERSCHAFFEL, La France comme contre-image de la Belgique à la recherche d'une identité nationale (1830-1914), International Conference Gallomanie et gallophobie: le mythe français en Europe au XIXe siècle, MRHS de Caen, 17-18 June 2010, Caen (France).
Lectures
No lectures scheduled.
