Imaginary Europes, phantoms of the past, conceptions of the future?

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Notes

1. The discussion of these ideas provided the focus for a symposium in 2012 called “Imaginary Europes”, organized by the editors of this issue at the University of Portsmouth (UK), with support from the Goethe University of Frankfurt (Germany) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium). The keynote speaker, Jopi Nyman (University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu), joined the group to expand the work into a larger, international project exploring these manifold manifestations of imaginary Europes in literature and visual art from different parts of the globe. This issue contains contributions by some of the original speakers from the symposium as well as by scholars working within the contours of the project that has developed from the foundational symposium.