Recorded June 20, 2019.

Joep Leerssen is Professor of European

Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He

has worked on the history of national identity

articulations, in Ireland as well as other

European countries, national stereotyping

and on the transnational history of national

movements.

Among his English-languages monographs

are Mere Irish & Fíor-Ghael, Remembrance

and Imagination, and National Thought in

Europe. He used the funds of the Spinoza

Prize, awarded to him in 2008, to set up the

Study Platform on Interlocking Nationalism

(www.spinnet.eu); its flagship publication is

the Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in

Europe (2018, online as ernie.uva.nl). He is an

Honorary Fellow of Trinity College Dublin.

Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/