Association for the Study of Nationalities, 2011 conference

ASN 2011 Preliminary Program Now Available: more than 140 Panels on the Balkans, Central Europe, Russia, Ukraine, the Caucasus, Eurasia, Turkey, China, and Nationalism Studies.

The Convention, sponsored by the Harriman Institute, will be held at Columbia University, New York, on April 14-16, 2011.

These panels will enrich an exceptionally strong lineup of panels in all regions of the former Communist world and Eurasia: Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia/Turkey/China, the Balkans, Ukraine and Central Europe (including the Baltics and Moldova). Every year, the Program Committee has to be more selective in devising the lineup, due to the increasing number of proposals. Central Europe leads the way with 25 panels each, followed by the Balkans, with 20,  Central Asia/China/Turkey--with a combined 18 panels, Russia--14, Ukraine and Belarus--10, and the Caucasus--9. Thirteen panels appear in the "Thematic" section. Recurrent themes on the program, other than the sidebars, include War Tribunals, Post-Conflict, EU Enlargement, Language, Ethnic Minorities, Foreign Policy and Diasporas.

In its most visible section, the Convention will be hosting twelve special panels featuring new important books by Alfred Stepan, Juan Linz and Yogenda Yadrav (Crafting State-Nations: India and Other Multinational Democracies, Johns Hopkins 2011), Timothy Snyder (Bloodlands, Basic 2010), Charles King (Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams, Norton 2011), Christian Gerlach (Extremely Violent Societies, Cambridge 2010), Fuat Dundar (Crime of Numbers: The Role of Statistics in the Armenian Question, 1878-1918, Transaction 2010), Larry Wolff (The Idea of Galicia, Stanford 2010), Scott Radnitz (Weapons of the Wealthy: Predatory Regimes and Elite-Led Protests in Central Asia, Cornell 2010), Elise Giuliano (Constructing Grievance: Ethnic Nationalism in Russia's Republics, Cornell 2010), Nadav Shelef (Evolving Nationalism: Homeland, Identity, and Religion in Israel, 1925-2005, Cornell 2010), Monika Baár (Historians and Nationalism: East Central Europe in the Nineteenth Century, Oxford 2010), Lara Nettelfield (Courting Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Columbia 2010), and Milica Uvalic (Serbia's Transition: Towards a Better Future, Palgrave 2010).

For practical information regarding the convention, please contact Gordon N. Bardos (gnb12(at)columbia.edu). For registration information, please contact Erin R. Carll (erinrcarll(at)gmail.com). For information on panels, please contact Dominique Arel (darel(at)uottawa.ca).


Dominique Arel, ASN President
Gordon N. Bardos, Convention Executive Director

Erin R. Carll, Convention Director (Registration)
on behalf of the ASN Convention Organizing Committee

The preliminary program of the ASN 2011 World Convention can be www.nationalities.org. Updated versions will be posted
regularly on the ASN website.

10. April 2011 in Politik und Gesellschaft

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