1. IAFS 1000 Memory and Forgetting

2. Announcement Paper draft now due Nov 26 Guidelines on course website:
3-5 pages long (?)
One-para progress statement re how draft answers proposal questions
Graded pass/fail

3. Tips for Writing Drafts
Refine your ideas
Include a working thesis if you want
Think about possible arguments
Be “confused on a higher level”

4. Today’s Outline Nationalism Ernest Renan Case-Study in Nationalism
Writing Discussion

5. Ernest Renan, “What is a Nation?” (1882)
Possible factors:
history
race
language

6. Ernest Renan, “What is a Nation?” (1882)
Possible factors:
religion
mutual interests
geography

7. Ernest Renan, “What is a Nation?” (1882)
“Forgetting, I would even go so far as to say historical error, is a crucial factor in the creation of a nation.”

8. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (1983)
Nation is an “imagined political community that is imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign”
Role of
“print capitalism”
world/war/images/kurdistan1.gif
Kurdistan

9. What is Nationalism? Collective state of mind Loyalty to nation
Basis in commonalities or differences?

10. What is Nationalism? Nation-state: the nationalist goal Colonial roots
language
education
categorization

11. How is Nationalism Defined?
Territory?
Common values—or in opposition to other values?
Common history?
Allegiance to one institution or group?

12. [images: New England map, Fenway park, Carl Yastremski, Schilling’s bloody sock, Clemens testifying]

13. http://boston. redsox. mlb. com;http://gonewengland. about