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Symposium Series, Winter Semester 2010 with Dr. Rolf Strøm-Olsen, Professor of Humanities

Sala Capitular, Segovia Campus, IE University. Wednesday March 17, 18:30-20:30 

Symposium III: The Nations Within 

Having examined the emergence of nationalism as a relatively recent creation of historical and economic forces, our next symposium will deal with the important and often controversial question of what rights accrue to and within the nation in a modern political, constitutional and cultural context. 

 If our understanding of national identity is circumscribed by a specific type of historical development, what does that mean for the persistence of the nation state today and tomorrow? In the context of cultural pluralities in countries like Belgium and Canada, Romania and China, Spain and the Ukraine, how can we accommodate nations with nations? The idea that modern nations must move beyond traditional forms of nationalism has been referred to as “cosmopolitan nationalism,” a form of identity that is broad enough to contain multiple distinct cultural, religious, ethnic and/or linguistic identities within the mantle of a single national culture.  But as the serious and often fractious movements of independence or autonomy in many of these regions demonstrate, the principles of cosmopolitan nationalism are fraught with tensions: between majority and minority, between competing language groups and within political superstructures. 

Our third symposium will confront these idea head on. Where does the national boundary stop? And how sacrosanct is the idea of the nation and national identity? What rights should distinct cultural groups enjoy under a national political heading, and should these rights be restricted to “historical” communities or enjoyed by everyone who can stake a claim to a distinct heritage? Should questions like immigration, education, language and taxation reflect a national or cosmopolitan agenda? Finally, looking forward, how might our definition of national identity change under the pressures and stresses of competing agendas under the nationalist umbrella? 

To confirm your participation and to receive the readings, please send an email to ArtsHumanities@ie.edu, with the subject ‘Symposium.’

Prof. Rolf Strøm-Olsen received his doctorate in History from Northwestern University and is a professor of Humanities at IE University

Cesáreo Pérez, Emilio Illarregui y Pablo Arribas, de la Unidad de Arqueología de IE University, impartirán el próximo miércoles 17 de marzo una conferencia titulada “Moneda y foro de Tiermes” en el IV Encuentro Peninsular de Numismática Antigua (EPNA), que se celebrará en el Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales del CISC, en Madrid, del 15 al 17 de marzo de 2010.

Bajo el título “La invención de la moneda: trueque, dinero y moneda en el mediterráneo antiguo ss. X-I a C.”, este encuentro reúne a los más importantes especialistas europeos en numismática. En esta ocasión, se va a estudiar el impacto que la invención de la moneda tuvo en las economías premonetales de fenicios, griegos, romanos, cartagineses, celtas, galos e iberos. El equipo de IE University dará a conocer  la metodología y los resultados de investigación desarrollados en este campo dentro del proyecto que se desarrolla en el yacimiento de Tiermes (Soria), considerado uno de los más relevantes de la península ibérica y de gran interés internacional. El IV Encuentro Peninsular de Numismática Antigua (EPNA) será clausurado por S.M. La Reina Doña Sofía y por la ministra de Cultura, Ángeles González-Sinde.

The IE School of Arts and Humanities in collaboration with IE’s Alumni Association has the honor to invite you to attend a lecture entitled “Art Collections as Self-Portrait ” on Tuesday, March 9th at 19.30h, given by Ms. Dolores Jiménez-Blanco. 

Ms. Dolores Jiménez-Blanco is a professor of Art History at the Universidad de Complutense de Madrid and author of several books and articles about 20th Century art and art collections.  These publications include “Seekers of Beauty,” written in collaboration with Cindy Mack (2008).  She has been the Editor of the Prado Guide, 2009, and Exhibition Commissioner at the Museo Reina Sofia and the Fundacion Mapfre in Madrid.   She is currently a professor at the IE School of Arts and Humanities.  

“An art collection is something much more than a mere accumulation of superb pieces, chosen for their quality, for their price or for their unique character.  An art collection is the best mirror of the personality that has shaped it.  For this reason, no two collections are the same.  By analyzing a few select collections, we can better understand, how the collector presents themselves to the world; as a daring personality, or a conservative one, as cosmopolitan or traditional, as fatuous or generous.”  

The lecture will be given in room E-107 on the IE Business School Campus located at c/ Pinar, 9. 

If you are interested in attending, please RSVP to  ArtsHumanities@ie.edu 

IE School of Arts and Humanities en colaboración con la Asociación de Antiguos Alumnos del IE tiene el honor de invitarle a la conferencia titulada “Las Colecciones de Arte como Autorretratos” el martes 9 de marzo a las 19.30h, impartida por Dña. Dolores Jiménez-Blanco. 

Dña. Dolores Jiménez-Blanco es Profesora de Historia del Arte de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y autora de varios libros y artículos sobre arte del siglo XX y coleccionismo. Entre ellos destaca Buscadores de Belleza, escrito en colaboración con Cindy Mack (2008). Ha sido editora de The Prado Guide, 2009, y Comisaria de exposiciones para el Museo Reina Sofía y la Fundación Mapfre in Madrid. Asimismo, es profesora asociada de IE School of Arts and Humanities.

“Una colección de arte es algo más que una simple acumulación de piezas sobresalientes por su calidad, su precio o su carácter único. Una colección de arte es el mejor espejo de la personalidad que le ha dado forma. Por eso cada una de ellas es diferente. Analizar algunas colecciones nos ayudará a entender que, a través de su propia colección, el coleccionista se presenta al mundo como un personaje audaz o conservador, como cosmopolita o castizo, como fatuo o generoso”. 

La conferencia se impartirá  en el aula E-107 del Instituto de Empresa situada en c/ Pinar, 9. 

En caso de ser de su interés, ruego confirme su asistencia a  ArtsHumanities@ie.edu

Symposium Series, Winter Semester 2010 with Dr. Rolf Strøm-Olsen, Professor of Humanities Sala Capitular, Segovia Campus, IE University

Sala Capitular, Segovia Campus, IE University 

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010-02-17 18.30-20.00

Reconsidering Nations and Nationalism

Writing in the 17th century, Thomas Hobbes, the subject of our first Symposium, simply assumed that there was such a thing as nations, that “English” or “French” were self-explanatory categories of political and social identity. But what makes someone “English” or “French?” This question plagued thinkers starting in the late eighteenth century and remains an actively debated question today. Our second Symposium tackles the big questions of nationalism from both a historical and theoretical perspective. Using the influential and controversial work by Ernst Gellner, Nations and Nationalism, as a starting point, we’ll ask whether the concept of the nation is, in fact, a modern construction, a result of economic forces (as Gellner argued) that serve to coalesce identities into national categories. We will consider several crucial questions around the topic.

1. Does nationalism manufacture difference between ethnic and linguistic groups and did Western colonialism accelerate the development of nationalist identities?

2. What are the contradictions between nationalism and liberalism, between closing borders to reinforce identities versus opening borders to expand prosperity?

3. What role has the media played in reinforcing nationalist identities?

4. In an age of economic and political globalisation, do we have to redefine our concept of what the nation means?

To confirm your participation and to receive the readings, please send an email to ArtsHumanities@ie.edu , with the subject ‘Symposium.’ Prof. Rolf Strøm-Olsen received his doctorate in History from Northwestern University and is a professor of Humanities at IE University.

IE School of Arts & Humanities Symposium Series, Winter Semester 2010

with Dr. Rolf Strøm-Olsen, Professor of Humanities 

Campus Details 

Symposium I:

Reading the Leviathan in the 21st Century: Hobbes and the dilemmas of Liberty, Freedom and the State

This Symposium centres around the founding work of social contract theory, Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan. Written in the climate of chaos and uncertainty that engulfed England during its Civil War, Hobbes’ Leviathan proposed a radical, if to modern eyes, rigid and overly authoritarian definition of the state. But the questions that animated Hobbes – the balance between individual freedom and state responsibility, between our physical and moral security – are again in focus. The expansion of state responsibilities and civil monitoring, the export of democracy to areas like Afghanistan and Iraq, and the Western response to the threat of Terror all implicate the kinds of questions that animated Hobbes 460 years ago.

This Symposium asks participants to engage these ideas from a Hobbesian perspective, based both on a selected reading from Leviathan, as well as the perspectives of scholars like Quentin Skinner and Jean Hampton.

To confirm your participation and to receive the readings, please send an email to ArtsHumanities@ie.edu, with the subject ‘Symposium.’ Read more…