Timothy Snyder calls into question not only ethnic definitions of the nation, but also sociological accounts that focus on the state.  In this presentation, he outlines a new theory of nationalism, one that incorporates the personal into the impersonal, and helps to explain not only the rise of the nation but also (perhaps just as important) why we have the particular nations we do, and not others.
Hosted by: Program in Jewish Culture and Society

In conjunction with: Cultures of Law in a Global Context Intersect Group, Department of Anthropology, Department of Geography, Department of History, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Sociology, European Union Center, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, Spurlock Museum