Jan-Nelis
 
E-mail : jnelis@ulb.ac.be

Doctorat en langues et lettres (UGent; thèse de doctorat sur le fascisme italien et l’idée de la ‘troisième Rome’)

Habilitation en histoire contemporaine (MIUR, Italie, II° fascia)

Chercheur à la Fondation de la Mémoire contemporaine

Collaborateur scientifique à l’ULB (CIERL)

Ouvrages :

Monographies
  • Nelis Jan, Catholicisme et altérité: La CiviltàCattolica de la montée du fascisme à l’après-guerre, E.M.E. (collection Religion et Altérité), Bruxelles, 2014 (215 pp.)
  • Nelis Jan, From ancient to modern: the myth of romanità during the ventenniofascista.The written imprint of Mussolini’s cult of the ‘Third Rome’, Brepols (collection Études de l’InstitutHistoriqueBelge de Rome), Turnhout, 2011 (243 pp.)
  Livres (éditeur)
  • BrackeWouter/Nelis Jan/De Maeyer Jan (eds.), Renovatio, inventio, absentia imperii. From the Roman Empire to contemporary imperialism, Brepols (collection Études de l’InstitutHistoriqueBelge de Rome), Turnhout, 2018 (340 pp.)
  • Praet Danny/Nelis Jan (eds.), Christendom en Islam, VUB Press, Bruxelles, 2018 (323 pp.)
  • Nelis Jan/Sägesser Caroline/Schreiber Jean-Philippe (eds.), Religion and Secularism in the European Union. State of Affairs and Current Debates, Peter Lang (collection Citizenship Dynamics in Europe), Bern-Berlin-Bruxelles-Frankfurt-New York-Vienne, 2017 (226 pp.)
  • Nelis Jan/Morelli Anne/Praet Danny (eds.), Catholicism and Fascism in Europe 1918-1945, Olms (collection HistorischeTexte und Studien), Hildesheim-Zürich-New York, 2015 (418 pp.)
  • Nelis Jan (ed.), Receptions of antiquity, Academia Press, Gand, 2011 (373 pp.)
  • Nelis Jan (ed.), Twentieth-century dictatorships and religion, in: Historia Actual Online, 2008, vol. 17, p. 61-158 (http://www.historia-actual.org/Publicaciones/index.php/haol/is-sue/view/18) (numérothématique de revue)
  Articles de revue 
  • Mac Sweeney Naoíse/Agbamu Samuel et al., Claiming the Classical: The Greco-Roman World in Contemporary Political Discourse, in: Council of University Classical Departments Bulletin, 2019, vol. 48, 19 pp. (https://cucd.blogs.sas.ac.uk/files/2019/02/MAC-SWEENEY-ET-AL-Claiming-the-Classical.pdf)
  • Nelis Jan, Back to the Future: Italian Fascist Representations of the Roman Past, in: Journal of Comparative FascistStudies, 2014, vol. 3, n° 1, p. 1-19
  • Nelis Jan, Spielerei entre amis ou théorisation scientifique? L’Istituto di Studi Romani et l’idée de Rome, du bimillenarioaugusteo au romanesco, in: Latomus, Revue d’Études Latines, 2014, vol. 73, n° 1, p. 202-204
  • Nelis Jan, The Myth of Romanità, Antichistica and Aesthetics in Light of the Fascist Sacralization of Politics, and Modernism, in: Mediterraneo Antico. Economie, Società, Culture, 2013, vol. 16, n° 1, p. 259-274
  • Nelis Jan/Ghilardi Massimiliano, L’Istituto di Studi Romani et la figure d’Auguste. Sources d’archives et perspectives de recherche 1937/1938 - 2014, in: Studi Romani, 2012, vol. 60, n° 1-4, p. 333-339
  • Nelis Jan, Date a Cesare: Caesarism and the Italian Fascist Myth of Romanità as Part of Mussolini’s Sacralisation of Politics, in: Romanian Cultural HistoryReview, 2012, vol. 2, p. 127-138
  • Nelis Jan, Quand paganisme et catholicisme se rencontrent: quelques observations concernant la nature du mythe de la romanité dans l’Istituto di Studi Romani, in: Latomus, Revue d’Études Latines, 2012, vol. 71, n° 1, p. 176-192
  • Nelis Jan, Imperialismo e mitodellaromanitànella Terza Roma Mussoliniana, in: Forum RomanumBelgicum, 2012, 11 pp. (http://kadoc.kuleuven.be/bhir-ihbr/fr/3_pub_foru.php)
  • Nelis Jan, The Clerical Response to a Totalitarian Political Religion: La Civiltà Cattolica and Italian Fascism, in: Journal of Contemporary History, 2011, vol. 46, n° 2, p. 245-270
  • Nelis Jan, La ‘fede di Roma’ nellamodernitàtotalitariafascista. Il mitodellaromanità e l’Istituto di Studi Romani tra Carlo GalassiPaluzzi e Giuseppe Bottai, in: Studi Romani, 2010, vol. 58, n° 1-4, p. 359-381
  • Nelis Jan, Ettore Ciccotti’sProfilo di Augusto and the Giuramento of 1931, in: Mediterraneo Antico. Economie, Società, Culture, 2009, vol. 12, n° 1-2, p. 283-295
  • Nelis Jan, Modernist Neo-classicism and Antiquity in the Political Religion of Nazism: Adolf Hitler as Poietes of the Third Reich, in: Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, 2008, vol. 9, n° 4, p. 475-490
  • Nelis Jan, Negotiating the Italian Self: Catholicism and the Demise of Fascism, Racism and Colonialism, in: Italian Studies in Southern Africa, 2008, vol. 21, n° 1-2, p. 75-101
  • Nelis Jan, Catholicism and the Italian Fascist Myth of Romanità: Between Consciousness and Consent, in: Historia Actual Online, 2008, vol. 17, p. 139-146 (http://www.historia-actual.org/Publicaciones/index.php/haol/article/view/274/262)
  • Nelis Jan, Presentation: Twentieth-century dictatorships and religion, in: Historia Actual Online, 2008, vol. 17, p. 61-63 (http://www.historia-actual.org/Publicaciones/index.php/ha-ol/article/view/267/255)
  • Nelis Jan, Constructing fascist identity: Benito Mussolini and the myth ofromanità, in: Classical World, 2007, vol. 100, n° 4, p. 391-415
  • Nelis Jan, Un mythe contemporain entre religion et idéologie: la romanité fasciste, in: Euphrosyne, Revista de FilologiaClássica, 2007, vol. 35, p. 437-450
  • Nelis Jan, De historiografie van het Italiaanse fascisme. Tendenzen en perspectieven, in: Cahiers d’Histoire du Temps Présent, 2007, vol. 18, p. 199-214
  • Nelis Jan, La romanité (romanità) fasciste. Bilan des recherches et propositions pour le futur, in: Latomus, Revue d’Études Latines, 2007, vol. 66, n° 4, p. 987-1006
  • Nelis Jan, Tra Pais e fascismo: Carolina Lanzani, la rivistaHistoria e il mitodellaromanità. Con fontiinedite, in: RivistaStoricadell’Antichità, 2006, vol. 36, p. 277-295
  • Nelis Jan, Italian Fascism and Culture: Some Notes on Investigation, in: Historia Actual Online, 2006, vol. 9, p. 141-151 (http://www.historia-actual.org/Publicaciones/index.php/ha-ol/article/view/142/130)
  • Nelis Jan, Cesare in scena. Achter de schermen van theater ten tijde van het Italiaanse fascisme, in: Tijdschrift voor theater, 2006, vol. 24, n° 1, p. 3-22
  • Nelis Jan, Het Italiaanse fascisme en de cultus van de romanità: röntgenfoto van het tijdschrift Capitolium, in: Bulletin de l’Institut Historique Belge de Rome, 2005, vol. 75, p. 117-154
  • Nelis Jan, Entrevista aRomano Mussolini: ‘Without my father there would never have been such a thing as fascism’, in: Historia Actual Online, 2005, vol. 7, p. 159-166 (http://www.his-toria-actual.org/Publicaciones/index.php/haol/article/view/110/100)
  • Nelis Jan, Het Derde Rijk en de antieken. Mythevorming en architecturale zelfrepresentatie in nazi-Duitsland, in: Handelingen der Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis, 2003, vol. 57, p. 293-308
  • Nelis Jan, Note e discussioni:Classicismo nell’arte del nazismo, in: Rivista Storica dell’Antichità, 2002, vol. 32, p. 271-286
  • Nelis Jan, Classicisme in de kunst van het nazisme, in: Tetradio, 2001, vol. 10, p. 159-184
  Chapitres d’ouvrages collectifs 
  • Nelis Jan, Fascist Modernity, Religion, and the Myth of Rome, in: Brill’s Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Brill’s Companions to Classical Reception vol. 12, Roche Helen/Demetriou Kyriakos (eds.), Brill, Leiden-Boston, 2018, p. 133-156
  • BrackeWouter/Nelis Jan/De Maeyer Jan, Empire and imperialism throughout the centuries. Reflections on a historical exemplum, in: Renovatio, inventio, absentia imperii. From the Roman Empire to contemporary imperialism, BrackeWouter/Nelis Jan/De Maeyer Jan (eds.), Brepols (collection Études de l’InstitutHistoriqueBelge de Rome), Turnhout, 2018, p. 1-12
  • Nelis Jan, Antiquité romaine, totalitarisme et religion politique: la culture italienne de l’entre-deux-guerres dans le tourbillon de la modernité, in: L’Italie et l’Antiquité du Siècle des lumières à la chute du fascisme, Foro Philippe (ed.), Presses Universitaires du Midi (collection Tempus), Toulouse, 2017, p. 79-88
  • Nelis Jan, Mussolini, l’Antiquité et le catholicisme avant 1915: Le discours mythico-religieux du futur Duce du fascisme, in: L’Italie et l’Antiquité du Siècle des lumières à la chute du fascisme, Foro Philippe (ed.), Presses Universitaires du Midi (collection Tempus), Toulouse, 2017, p. 43-53
  • Nelis Jan, Foreword, in: Religion and Secularism in the European Union. State of Affairs and Current Debates, Nelis Jan/Sägesser Caroline/Schreiber Jean-Philippe (eds.), Peter Lang (collection Citizenship Dynamics in Europe), Bern-Berlin-Bruxelles-Frankfurt-New York-Vienne, 2017, p. 11-13
  • Nelis Jan, Catholicism and the Italian Fascist Re-writing of History during the 1930s, in: Recycling Myths, Fernandes Ana Raquel/Serra José Pedro/Fonseca Rui Carlos (eds.), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2015, p. 226-238
  • Nelis Jan/Morelli Anne/Praet Danny, The Study of the Relationship Between Catholicism and Fascism, Beyond a Manichean Approach?, in: Catholicism and Fascism in Europe 1918-1945, Nelis Jan/Morelli Anne/Praet Danny (eds.), Olms (collection HistorischeTexte und Studien), Hildesheim-Zürich-New York, 2015, p. 9-14
  • Nelis Jan, Italian Catholic Opinion and the Advent of Fascism: ‘L’Avvenired’Italia’, in: Catholicism and Fascism in Europe 1918-1945, Nelis Jan/Morelli Anne/Praet Danny (eds.), Olms (collection HistorischeTexte und Studien), Hildesheim-Zürich-New York, 2015, p. 293-302
  • Decreus Freddy/Nelis Jan, Bibliography Freddy Decreus 1974-2011, in: Receptions of antiquity, Nelis Jan (ed.), Academia Press, Gand, 2011, p. 11-32
  • Nelis Jan, Professor Freddy Decreus: From Classical Antiquity to Postmodernism, and Beyond, in: Receptions of antiquity, Nelis Jan (ed.), Academia Press, Gand, 2011, p. 5-9
  • Nelis Jan, Le mythe de la romanité et la religion politique du fascisme italien: nouvelles approches méthodologiques, in: Receptions of antiquity, Nelis Jan (ed.), Academia Press, Gand, 2011, p. 349-359
  Chapitres dans des actes de conférence
  • Nelis Jan, When Antiquity Becomes Sacred: Italian Fascist Romanità as Biopolitics and Myth in the Making, in: History and Culture: Essays on the European Past, Pappas Nicholas C.J. (ed.), Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athènes, 2012, p. 247-260
  • Nelis Jan, Fascism, Myth and Religion: Romanità and the Baptism of Pagan Antiquity, in: Proceedings of the II° Encuentro JóvenesInvestigadoresen Historia Contemporanea, Fuentes Navarro María Candelaria/Contreras Becerra Javier/López Chaves Pablo (eds.), Universidad de Granada, Granada, 2009, 10 pp. (CD-ROM-proceedings, ISBN 978-84-338-5095-2)
  • Nelis Jan, Fascism and the Rhetoric of Action in the Romanità, in: Open access conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Rhetorics, Politics, Ethics, Université de Gand, Gand, 2005, 9 pp. (http://www.rpe.ugent.be/proceedings.html)
  • Nelis Jan, Classical Nazis, Modern Romans: Antiquity, Dictatorship and the Masses, in: Themes in European History:  Essays from the 2nd International Conference onEuropean History, Aradas Michael/Pappas Nicholas C.J. (eds.), Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athènes, 2005, p. 157-170
  • Nelis Jan, Hitler,Classicism and Antiquity, in: Celebration (XXII Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand), Leach Andrew/Matthewson Gill (eds.), Unitec, Auckland, 2005, p. 279-284
  Rapports 
  • Sägesser Caroline/Nelis Jan/Schreiber Jean-Philippe/Vanderpelen-Diagre Cécile, Religion and Secularism in the European Union, 2018, Observatoire des Religions et de la Laïcité (Université libre de Bruxelles,http://www.o-re-la.org/index.php/analyses/item/2359-religion-and-secularism-in-the-european-union) (123 pp.)