Inaugural Lecture Series: How Stateless Nations Claim Their Homelands: A case study in attachment, memory, and resilienc

Tamar Mayer, Robert R. Churchill Professor of Geosciences, will deliver an inaugural lecture entitled, “How Stateless Nations Claim Their Homelands: A case study in attachment, memory, and resilience.”

All ethnic nations mark attachment to their homelands by erecting markers in the landscape that denote important events in the life of the nation. These markers serve not only as material proof of the nation’s past in the homeland but also as sites for the ongoing ritual affirmation of national identity. But when the ethnic nation is stateless and has become a marginalized minority in its own homeland, members of the nation must devise new ways to maintain their identity. This is especially difficult if the homeland is governed by an authoritarian regime that wishes to erase the nation along with its attachment to its homeland. In those cases, resilience is not enough and maintaining national identity becomes the work of the diaspora.

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