De @mareonline.nl besteedde uitgebreid aandacht aan het online panel over Food and Nationalism, van het Leiden University Nationalism Network. Het was een erg interessant panel over een fascinerend onderwerp. www.mareonline.nl/achtergrond/...

Eigen voedsel eerst: hoe nationalisme doorwerkt in de keuken

Achter nationale gerechten gaan mythes en machtsverhoudingen schuil. Historici debatteren maandag over de vraag wie bepaalt welk eten ‘van ons’ is. ‘Traditie wordt problematisch wanneer het als wapen ...

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The Basque Exception releases as an ebook tomorrow! Here goes a brief overview of what it is about. The word 'Basque' has had many meanings over the course of history, from rapacious barbarian to descendant of Noah and from speaker of a minority language to inhabitant of a land without serfdom. 1/

Stay tuned for the new online event on Food and Nationalism organized by the Leiden University Nationalism Network on Monday 21 September with @atsukoichijo.bsky.social, @fparasecoli.bsky.social and Prof. Peter Scholliers. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

I think that this is one of the best, and most interesting, reviews of the Odyssey that I've seen (and not just because I'm mentioned...): en.vijesti.me/news-b/cultu...

The Politics of Nolan's Odyssey: The Angel of History Looks at Troy

The craft is destructive: the barbarians did not come from outside, but were produced by civilization itself. The people whom the poets will turn into heroes simultaneously become the destroyers of their own ...

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Proud to be able to share some pages from my incoming book 'The Basque Exception. The History of an Identity in the Western Pyrenees' to be published by @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social later this month. Check them out! bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/viewer/6a985...

Lugdunum Batavorum!

Wonderful discovery! Especially for the fact that pretty much all about it (mythological figures, focus on the early medieval period, and so on) draws from a nineteenth-century repertoire of purposefully-invented symbols. Good to see that Romanticism is not dead after all! bsky.app/profile/bimb...

JuniperTheory@bimbo.city · 2mo ago

One of the really fascinating things about steam is that occasionally you'll see a full game release with no english translation in a very purposeful way today @yamadasr.bsky.social pointed me at a game that is Only translated to Basque. there's like less then a million people who can even play it

Currently reading about debates on what constituted 'Basque cuisine' in the 1970s and baffled with some mentions that emphasized "ingredients and spices from the country, without anything exotic" while enshrining the 'cod a la vizcaína' as the paramount Basque dish...

Beginning my research seminar, as always, with Lynn Hunt's essay How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around). Should be mandatory reading in light of the impact of AI. www.historians.org/perspectives...

Hi! As promised, I will use this account to talk about some aspects of my work on nationalism and Basque identity that perhaps other scholars outside these fields can find interesting or applicable to their own research. And what better way to start than by talking about the very word 'Basque'?

Unbelievable...

Reuters@reuters.com · 2mo ago

Spain removes remains of 11th century kings from monastery as wildfire rages reut.rs/4zAAN4r

Hi everyone! I'm Asier Hernández Aguirresarobe, a historian working on nationalism, identity, and the history of the Basque Country at @ehu.eus.