Course: Cultures and Identities in Europe

Gerard Delanty, from the University of Sussex, answers to the question of whether we can speak of transnational heritage. He distinguishes the notion of transnational heritage from the notion of …

Constructing a European heritage does not necessarily rely on an alternative ‘grand narrative’. The following steps introduce ways of thinking heritage without referring to such a grand narrative: transnational heritage, …

Jasper Chalcraft, from the University of Sussex, explains why cultural heritage can be contested: When different views of heritage are opposed and conflictual When the very notion of cultural heritage …

Dominique Poulot, from the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne discusses the distinction between memory and history. He explains that critical history emerged in the 18th century, which led to the …

The way Europeans remember the past has evolved over the last two centuries. In the 19th century: cultural institutions representing national communities, proposing a grand narrative of the nation. After …

Irena Guidikova presents her institution, the Council of Europe, which gathers a wide variety of countries and operates to promote cultural diversity in two ways: First, it strives to eliminate …

This video explains how culture was put on the European agenda. The need to build a European unity appeared as essential after the World Wars, but was put into action …

When talking about nationalism in Europe, we tend to think of a historical process that took place in the 19th century. But today, we observe a return of nationalism, which …

In this video, we start by defining national identity, as a combination of different elements such as language, political culture, customs. We then move on to question European identity, stressing …

In this video, Ulrike Meinhof, from the University of Southampton, explains that she conceives European culture as the mixing of elements and artefacts from all around the world. She challenges …

In this video, we explain how European identity has often been defined against an “other”: the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire, and the United States of America. Then we move …

This video discusses a second key concept of the course: culture. It introduces four dimensions: identity, economic, institutional and power. It then moves on to discuss what is European culture. …

In their book What is Europe?, Anna Triandafyllidou and Ruby Gropas seek to unpack “the cultural luggage that lies behind the notion of a European cultural or also political identity”: …

This video defines one of the key concepts of the course: identity, and more specifically collective identities. It introduces the ideas of national identities and of European citizenship. This video …