Conference Rome 2013 - "Empire and Nations"

Conference venue: Rome, Italy
Period: June 20-22, 2013

Sapienza University of Rome organizes an international multidisciplinary conference to be held in Rome, on 20-21-22 June 2013.
The topics of the meeting are related to Empires and Nations from the 18th to the 20th century. Papers presented to the conference will cover a wide range of matters such as, among others, the creation of Nation States in Modern Europe, the great Multinational empires (Hapsburg, Russian and Ottoman Empires), the rise and decline of colonial empires (Spain, France, Great Britain), the movements for national independence and self-determination in the Nineteenth century (the Italian Risorgimento and the struggle for independence of Eastern European States), the collapse of multinational empires after World War I, the interwar and WWII period and the rise of Fascist and Nazi “Empires”, the post war emergence of ideological “Empires” and the division of Europe during the Cold War, post-ideological and theoretical concepts of Empire in the late twentieth century.

Detailed information on the conference program can be found clicking on the following links:
Program for June 20, 2013
Program for June 21, 2013

Conference Rome 2013 - "Empire and Nations"
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