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Goodbye Spain, hello Europe?

Carlos Marin Suarez and David Gonzalez Alvarez (Complutense) and Pablo Alonso Gonzalez (Cambridge): Building Nations in the XXI Century: Celticism, Nationalism and Archaeology in Northern Spain: The Case of Asturias and Leon; and Celts, Collective Identity and Archaeological Responsibility: Asturias (Northern Spain) as Case Study. Carrie Benjamin (GWU): Visca el Barca! Ideology, Nationalism, and the FIFA World Cup. Goodbye Spain, hello Europe? Catalonia must tread carefully as it seeks independence from Spain without crashing out of the EU. Nearly 10 years after the Spanish high court outlawed its previous political organisations, Basque left nationalism has finally given birth to a new legal party — Sortu (“to create” or “to be born” in Basque). Genetic analysis hints that many Europeans are descended from a Spanish population that spread throughout the continent from about 6000 years ago.