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Most lectures will be based on a selection of articles from scientific journals (can be downloaded from the University library webpage, ), and/or electronic book chapters. See each lecture under “Modules” in Canvas for detailed reading instructions. Please make sure to download pdf versions of the articles (rather than reading the online/html version) to get the accurate page numbers for your in-text references. If you are logged in as a student to the university webpage, this should not be of any problem. If you have any problems, please contact the library for support.

Module 1 

Blake, Janet (2000) ‘On Defining the Cultural Heritage’, International and Comparative Law Quarterly 49.1: 61-85.

Fisher Onar N and Nicolaïdis K (2013) ‘The Decentring Agenda: Europe as a post-colonial power.’ Cooperation and Conflict 48(2): 283–303.

Franck, A. K. and P Lorenzoni (2016) ‘We are the Good Guys’. Postcolonial reflections on the European Union as a Postcolonial Power’, in Anja K. Franck and Fredrik Söderbaum (eds.) The EU as a Global Actor. A Force for Good in the World?, Centrum för Europaforskning (CERGU), University 91̽��.

Harrison, Rodney (2009) ‘Chapter 5 - The politics of heritage’, in Harrison, R. (Ed.) Understanding the politics of heritage. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Ighe, Ann (2020) "Never Mind Patriarchy, But Do Mention the War! Reflections on the Absence of Gender History from the House of European History" European Review Vol. 8, issue 3.

Meskell, Lynn (2013) ‘UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention at 40. Challenging the Economic and Political Order of International Heritage Conservation’, Current Anthropology 54.4: 483-94.

Orbie, Jan et al. (2023). Editorial: Decolonizing rather than decentring ‘Europe’, European Affairs Review 28(1): 1-8.

Orangias, Joseph, Simms, Jeannie & French, Sloane (2018) The Cultural Functions and Social Potential of Queer Monuments: A Preliminary Inventory and Analysis, Journal of Homosexuality, 65:6, 705-726, D����: 

Zebracki, Martin & Leitner, Ryan (2022) Queer Monuments: Visibility, (Counter)actions, Legacy, Journal of Homosexuality, 69:8, 1342-1371, D����: 

Zebracki, Martin, Janssens, Freek, & Vanderbeck, Robert M. (2023) Gay monuments in queer times: Amsterdam’s Homomonument and the politics of inclusive social practice. Sexualities, 26(3), 298–330. 

Plus: literature that each group will select and use for their own project.

Module 2 

Andrén, Mats (2023) Thinking Europe: The European Idea Since 1800. New York & Oxford: Berghahn books. Available as open access via:

Boterman, Frits (2014) ‘German Intellectuals and the Crisis of Culture (1918-1940)’, in European Studies, no 32, pp. 49-61.

Cattani, Paola (2017) ’Europe as a nation? Intellectuals and Debate on Europe in the Inter-war Years’, in History of European Ideas, 43:6, 674-682.

Nordblad, Julia (2014) ‘The Un-European Idea: Vichy and Eurafrica in the Historiography of Europeanism’, in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, 19:6, 711-729.

Mann, Peter Gordon (2019) 'Saving Europe in Spain: José Ortega y Gasset’s Meditations on Quixote and the politics of self, nation and Europe', Journal of European Studies 49:2, 108-147.

Odijie, Michael (2018) ‘The Fear of “Yellow Peril” and the Emergence of European federalist Movement’, The International History Review, 40:2, pp. 358-375.

Reijnen, Carlos & Rensen, Marleen (2014) ‘Introduction: European Encounters and Intellectual Exchange and rethinking of Europe 1914-1945’, in European Studies, 32, pp. 13-30.

Somsen, Geert (2014): ‘Universalism in Action: Ideals and Practices of International Scientific Cooperation’, European Studies, 32, pp. 123-137.

van Heerikhuizen, Annemarie (2014) ‘A “Société des esprits chaired” by Paul Valéry’, European Studies, 32, pp. 139-154.

Vermeiren, Jen (2017) ‘Notions of solidarity and integration in times of war: the idea of Europe, 1914-18’, Europen Review of History: Revue européenne d’histoire, 24:6, pp. 874-888.

Woolf, Stuart (1992) ‘The Construction of a European World-View in the Revolutionary-Napoleonic Years’, Past & Present Society, 137, pp. 72-101.

Module 3 

Borz, Gabriela, Brandenburg, Heinz & Mendez, Carlos (2022) “The impact of EU Cohesion Policy on European identity: A comparative analysis of EU regions”. European Union Politics, Vol. 23(2) 259–281.

Bosse, Giselle (2022) “Values, rights, and changing interests: The EU’s response to the war against Ukraine and the responsibility to protect Europeans”, Contemporary Security Policy, 43:3, 531-546,

Bottici, Chiara, and Benoît Challand (2013) “European Identity and the Politics of Remembrance.” In Imagining Europe: Myth, Memory, and Identity, 41–64. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Clark, Nicholas & Rohrschneider, Robert (2021) “Tracing the development of nationalist attitudes in the EU”. European Union Politics.

Hadler, Markus, Chin, Lynn & Tsutsui, Kiyoteru (2020): Conflicting and reinforcing identities in expanding Europe from 1995 to 2019. Findings revisited in an even larger Europe, Innovation: The European Journal of Social 91̽�� Research,

Hansen, Peo & Stefan Jonsson (2014) ”Introduction: The past that Europe forgot”. In Eurafrica: The Untold History of European Integration and Colonialism, London: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 1–16.

Kuhn, Theresa (2019) “Grand theories of European integration revisited: does identity politics shape the course of European integration?”. Journal of European Public Policy, 26(8), 1213-1230,

Miró, Joan (2022) “Debating fiscal solidarity in the EU: interests, values and identities in the legitimation of the Next Generation EU plan”, Journal of European Integration, 44:3, 307-325, DOI:

Pryke, Sam (2020) “National and European identity”, National Identities, 22(1), 91-105,

Schou Therkildsen, Louise (2022) ”An Archive of Glory. Disconnection and Restoration". In A European State of Mind: Rhetorical Formations of European Identity within the EU 1973–2014, Doctoral thesis, Department of Literature, Uppsala University, p. 164–210.

Original sources for module 3 

During Module 1, you will read a short selection of original sources from mainly political figures, presenting their visions of European integration, e.g. manifestos, speeches and declarations (see Canvas for full list of references and access). These original sources will used for paper 1 (in addition to research articles).