Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas

Xosé M. Núñez Seixas (2008)

Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas (born March 15, 1966 in Ourense ) is a Galician historian .

Life

He studied history and contemporary history at the Universities of Santiago de Compostela and Dijon . After completing his doctorate at the European University Institute in December 1992, he was a permanent lecturer (Professor Titular) for Modern History of Europe at the University of Santiago de Compostela (1994–2007). From 2007 he held a chair (catedrático) for Modern History of Europe at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Between October 2012 and September 2017 he was Professor of European History of the 19th and 20th Centuries at LMU .

His research interests are Iberian history of the 20th century, nationalism research from a comparative perspective, Spanish nationalism and European national movements, national symbols and myths, cultural history, history of migration, with a focus on Iberian emigration to Latin America in the 19th and 20th centuries, and new military history and the cultural history of war , with special reference to the Spanish Civil War and the Eastern Front in World War II .

He was visiting professor at various European and North and South American universities (Bielefeld, ZZF Potsdam, Verona, Paris X, Paris VII, Mar del Plata, Valparaíso, Stanford, City Univ. Of New York). Since July 2018 he has been Vice-President of the Council of Galician Culture (Consello da Cultura Galega). October 2019 was awarded to him for his book Suspiros de España. El nacionalismo español, 1808–2019 (Barcelona, ​​2018; German updated version: The Moving Nation. The Spanish National Thought, 1808–2019. Hamburg 2019) awarded the Spanish National Prize for Essays .

Fonts (selection)

• Historiographical approaches to nationalism in Spain . Saarbrücken 1993, ISBN 3-88156-590-6 .
• Entre Ginebra y Berlin. La cuestión de las minorías nacionales y la política internacional en Europa, 1914–1939. Madrid 2001, ISBN 84-460-0963-3 .
• ¡Fuera el invasor! Nacionalismos y movilización bélica durante la guerra civil española (1936–1939). Madrid 2006, ISBN 84-96467-37-6 .
• Icônes littéraires et stéréotypes sociaux. L'image des immigrantes galiciens en Argentine (1800–1960). Besançon 2013, ISBN 978-2-84867-448-3 .
• The Spanish Blue Division on the Eastern Front, 1941–1945. Between war experience and memory. Münster 2016, ISBN 978-3-402-14868-6 .
• with J. Muñoz Soro and L. Gálvez: España en democracia, 1975–2011. Madrid / Barcelona 2017, ISBN 978-84-17067-29-8 .
• El frente del Este. Historia y memoria de la guerra germano-soviética, 1941–1945. Madrid 2018, ISBN 978-84-9181-290-6 .
• with J. Moreno-Luzón (Ed.): Metaphors of Spain. Representations of Spanish National Identity in the Twentieth Century. New York / London 2017, ISBN 978-1-78533-466-5 .
• with Eric Storm (Ed.): Regionalism and Modern Europe. Identity Construction and Movements from 1890 to the Present. London 2019, ISBN 978-1-4742-7520-0 .
• Patriotas transnacionales. Ensayos sobre nacionalismos y transferencias culturales en la Europa del siglo XX . Madrid 2019, ISBN 978-84-376-3930-7 .
• The moving nation. The Spanish national thought 1808–2019. Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-86854-336-0 .
• with Andreas Stynen a. Maarten Van Ginderachter (Ed.): Emotions and Everyday Nationalism in Modern European History . London / New York 2020. ISBN 978-1-138-35429-6 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas