J. A. Sjögren (1794 - 1855) toiminnan ympärille rakentui Iitissä 1994 pidetty kansainvälinen seminaari, joka on tuottanut ajankohtaisen ja haastavan tutkimusantologian kansallisen identiteetin synnystä ja dokumentoitumisesta, merkityksestä ja vaikutuksesta sekä ongelmista. Contents Introduction Michael Branch 1. Lauri Honko, Tradition in the construction of cultural identity 2. Ray Abrahams, Nation and identity: a view from social anthropology 3. George Schöppflin, The politics of national identities 4. Raymond Pearson, History and historians in the service of nation-building 5. H. B. Nisbet, Herder: the nation in history 6. Miroslav Hroch, Historical belles-lettres as a vehicle of the image of national history The region 7. Risto Alapuro, Social classes and nationalism: the North-East Baltic 8. Michael Branch, The Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg as a centre for the study of nationalities in the North-East Baltic 9. Pertti Karkama, The individual and national identity in J. V. Snellman's Young-Hegelian theory 10. Anthony F. Upton, History and national identity: some Finnish examples 11. Max Engman, The Finland-Swedes: a case of a failed national history? 12. Hannes Sihvo, Karelia: a source of Finnish national history 13. Jüri Kivimäe, Re-writing Estonian history? 14. Andrus Park, Lessons of national history in Estonian security thinking, 1991 - April 1994 15. Aija Priedïte, National identity and cultural identity: the history of ideas in Latvia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries 16. Leo Dribins, The historiography of Latvian nationalism in the twentieth century 17. Antanas Kulakauskas, Rediscovery of the history of Lithuania in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries 18. Adomas Butrimas, A note on the writing of textbooks on Lithuanian histor