News

April 2026

• The project team met to discuss the relationship(s) between nation-statehood and federalism, seeking to establish a typology of the latter that assists the subsequent work of the project. Numerous texts were read and discussed, with the ultimate aim of creating a set of questions for the project’s upcoming first workshop in autumn (TBC).

March 2026

• The project team met to discuss the introduction to Timo Aava’s book manuscript, Mark Mazower’s works on human rights, and C. A. Macartney’s National States and National Minorities.

February 2026

• The project team met to discuss Hannah Arendt’s conceptualisation of the nation-state, mainly via The Origins of Totalitarianism.

January 2026

• The project team had their first official meeting, centred mainly on a discussion of Oliver Rowe’s doctoral dissertation and, by extension, Russian ideas of the nation-state and related concepts.

December 2025

• News of the project’s successful application was shared, and the project team met virtually for a preliminary discussion about the goals of and practicalities surrounding the project’s work.