National University Library, Strasbourg
31 March - 1 April 2022
Key questions
- What are the possible definitions of the North (and of the South) in the construction of collective identities in modern and recent history?
- Are there any recurring mechanisms in the discursive construction of North (and South)?
- How have these mechanisms been integrated in the construction in Northern European (Dutch-speaking and Scandinavian areas) and, more generally, in the rest of Europe?
- How have these political and identity constructions influenced the shaping of North European countries as colonial powers (vs. their Global South)?
Extensive presentation of the topic: click here.
Key questions
- What are the possible definitions of the North (and of the South) in the construction of collective identities in modern and recent history?
- Are there any recurring mechanisms in the discursive construction of North (and South)?
- How have these mechanisms been integrated in the construction in Northern European (Dutch-speaking and Scandinavian areas) and, more generally, in the rest of Europe?
- How have these political and identity constructions influenced the shaping of North European countries as colonial powers (vs. their Global South)?
Extensive presentation of the topic: click here.
Possible approaches
This seminar is part of the annual program of the Journées sur le Nord, a collaboration between the National University Library (BNU) and the University of Strasbourg (Departments of Scandinavian and Dutch Studies, Research Unit 1341 - Germanic and North European Worlds). For this reason, the study days will focus primarily on the uses and self-definition of the North (possibly as an Anti-South) in political communication in the Scandinavian and Dutch-speaking area as well as in the broader Germanic area. However, it should be clear that it is virtually impossible to understand the political discourse on the North in this geographical area without assuming its insertion and interaction within a broader European and global context.
We will, therefore, particularly welcome proposals for papers exploring the (self-)definition of the North and the use of the North-South opposition in political and ideological communication in the countries and regions around the North Sea, the Baltic Sea and the North Atlantic as well as in Europe at large, focussing more specifically (but not exclusively) on the following aspects:
- The North within the North: the self-building/self-definition of the North in the Nordic, Dutch and Germanic area; the North-South dynamics in these same areas (e.g. Netherlands vs. Flanders/Belgium; the Arctic space as the North of Nordic countries; Denmark as the "South" of Scandinavia; the construction of the natural imaginary related to the North Sea or the Baltic Sea: see, among many others, Leerssen 2008, Jensen 2018)
- The North and the South in European perspective; the use of references to Northern Europe, in order to stress similarities or to distance oneself, in the political communication of other European countries (processes of building an internal North in other European countries; the discursive construction of the oppositions between Northern and Southern Europe, e.g.
- Protestantism vs. Catholicism, frugal vs. spendthrift countries; the role of North-South oppositions in regionalisms/separatisms: see, among others, Saly et al. 1996).
- The global North: the construction of Europe and especially of Northern Europe in a global perspective in relation to the South of the world and especially the (former) colonies (memory of slavery, self-image and image of the colonizers in the South itself); colonial and postcolonial uses of the myth of the North.
Ideally, the colloquium programme will reflect a multiplicity of approaches (psychological, semiotic, linguistic, descriptive, see Mancini 1981, Greimas & Cortès 1977) aiming at the verbal and non-verbal analysis of informative, persuasive, commemorative or electoral political discourses. Most welcome will, therefore, be papers presenting case studies on sources such as:
- Support(s) that can show the communicative interaction between politics, media, intellectuals and artists;
- Visual political communication (posters, electoral posters, use of colours and symbols, image-text-slogan relation, etc.);
- Textual political communication (press, pamphlets, written propaganda, literature, egodocuments, etc.);
- Digital, multimedia and transmedia communication (integration of political communication in digital media and in more than one medium at once).
Practicalities
The colloquium will take place on March 31st and April 1st, 2022 at the National University Library (BNU) in Strasbourg. All interested specialists, included early-career researchers, are encouraged to send in paper proposals in English or French (a 250-words abstract and a short biography) before November 21st, 2021. Proposals should be e-mailed to the colloquium organisers, Mr. Roberto Dagnino (dagnino@unistra.fr) and Ms. Elisa Nistri (elisa_nistri@outlook.it).
A publication of the proceedings is foreseen. Colloquium papers will have the opportunity to be included in the 2023 issue of the journal Deshima. Arts, lettres et cultures des pays du nord (Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg), after passing a peer-reviewing procedure.
This seminar is part of the annual program of the Journées sur le Nord, a collaboration between the National University Library (BNU) and the University of Strasbourg (Departments of Scandinavian and Dutch Studies, Research Unit 1341 - Germanic and North European Worlds). For this reason, the study days will focus primarily on the uses and self-definition of the North (possibly as an Anti-South) in political communication in the Scandinavian and Dutch-speaking area as well as in the broader Germanic area. However, it should be clear that it is virtually impossible to understand the political discourse on the North in this geographical area without assuming its insertion and interaction within a broader European and global context.
We will, therefore, particularly welcome proposals for papers exploring the (self-)definition of the North and the use of the North-South opposition in political and ideological communication in the countries and regions around the North Sea, the Baltic Sea and the North Atlantic as well as in Europe at large, focussing more specifically (but not exclusively) on the following aspects:
- The North within the North: the self-building/self-definition of the North in the Nordic, Dutch and Germanic area; the North-South dynamics in these same areas (e.g. Netherlands vs. Flanders/Belgium; the Arctic space as the North of Nordic countries; Denmark as the "South" of Scandinavia; the construction of the natural imaginary related to the North Sea or the Baltic Sea: see, among many others, Leerssen 2008, Jensen 2018)
- The North and the South in European perspective; the use of references to Northern Europe, in order to stress similarities or to distance oneself, in the political communication of other European countries (processes of building an internal North in other European countries; the discursive construction of the oppositions between Northern and Southern Europe, e.g.
- Protestantism vs. Catholicism, frugal vs. spendthrift countries; the role of North-South oppositions in regionalisms/separatisms: see, among others, Saly et al. 1996).
- The global North: the construction of Europe and especially of Northern Europe in a global perspective in relation to the South of the world and especially the (former) colonies (memory of slavery, self-image and image of the colonizers in the South itself); colonial and postcolonial uses of the myth of the North.
Ideally, the colloquium programme will reflect a multiplicity of approaches (psychological, semiotic, linguistic, descriptive, see Mancini 1981, Greimas & Cortès 1977) aiming at the verbal and non-verbal analysis of informative, persuasive, commemorative or electoral political discourses. Most welcome will, therefore, be papers presenting case studies on sources such as:
- Support(s) that can show the communicative interaction between politics, media, intellectuals and artists;
- Visual political communication (posters, electoral posters, use of colours and symbols, image-text-slogan relation, etc.);
- Textual political communication (press, pamphlets, written propaganda, literature, egodocuments, etc.);
- Digital, multimedia and transmedia communication (integration of political communication in digital media and in more than one medium at once).
Practicalities
The colloquium will take place on March 31st and April 1st, 2022 at the National University Library (BNU) in Strasbourg. All interested specialists, included early-career researchers, are encouraged to send in paper proposals in English or French (a 250-words abstract and a short biography) before November 21st, 2021. Proposals should be e-mailed to the colloquium organisers, Mr. Roberto Dagnino (dagnino@unistra.fr) and Ms. Elisa Nistri (elisa_nistri@outlook.it).
A publication of the proceedings is foreseen. Colloquium papers will have the opportunity to be included in the 2023 issue of the journal Deshima. Arts, lettres et cultures des pays du nord (Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg), after passing a peer-reviewing procedure.
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