Research Institute for Politics and Government cordially invites you to its upcoming research webinar:
A Genealogy of Nationalism: the Religion of the Fatherland and its Rites in the Light of Comparative History
Speaker: Valerio Severino, Sapienza University of Rome, our guest reseacher at the Institute
Date of the event: 3 February, 2021, 10:00 a.m. (CET)
You can find the summary of the lecture here, you can read Valerio Severino's essay here.
To join the webinar, click this link.
Everyone is welcome!
Illustration:
1) Festival of the Federation [Fête de la Fédération], July 14, 1790, at Champ-de-Mars [Paris], Autel de la patrie (Charles Thévenin, Musée Carnavalet, 1796);
2) Altar of the Fatherland [Altare patrio] in Piazza San Pietro [Rome] for the Festival of the Federation of March 20, 1798 (Felice Giani, Rome, Museo di Roma);
3) Altar of the Fatherland (Altare della Patria) of Rome. Burial ceremony of the Unknown Soldier (Rome 4 November 1921, Piazza Venezia)