DescriptionProfessor G. M. Tamás will deliver a lecture on ethnicism in post-1989 Eastern Europe. He will argue that it is a mistake to identify contemporary phenomena of ethnic hatred, racism and xenophobia with nationalism. Nationalism is essentially a nineteenth-century affair, an offshoot of political ideas concerning liberty and equality. However contemporary ethnicism is fundamentally apolitical and opposed to any idea of 'liberation'. It never results in the creation of new polities, but in their break-up. Register here.Date02/02/2016