MINELRES: ASN 2009 World Convention Preliminary Program

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Original sender: Dominique Arel <darel@uottawa.ca>


ASN 2009 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM NOW AVAILABLE!
 
MORE THAN 120 PANELS ON THE BALKANS, CENTRAL EUROPE, RUSSIA, UKRAINE,
THE CAUCASUS, EURASIA, TURKEY, CHINA, AND NATIONALISM STUDIES
 
The final program of the ASN 2008 World Convention can now be downloaded
at the ASN web site, www.nationalities.org. Updated versions will be
posted regularly. The Convention, sponsored by the Harriman Institute,
will be held at Columbia University, New York, on April 23-25, 2009. 
 
**Registration fees are $60 for ASN members, $80 for nonmembers, $40 for
students (and a special rate of $20 for graduate students enrolled in
New York universities). Registration forms can be downloaded at
www.nationalities.org. For registration information, please contact
Lydia Hamilton (lch2111@columbia.edu). For general convention
information, contact ASN Executive Director Gordon Bardos
(gnb12@columbia.edu or 212 854 8487)**
 
As always, the Convention boasts the most international lineup of
panelists of North American-based conventions, with more than half of
the 350+ scholars, from more than 40 countries, who will be delivering
papers currently based outside of the United States. More than 700
panelists and participants are expected at the convention. The program
features more than 120 panels, including the screening of several new
documentaries that will be announced later.
 
In the wake of seminal events that have unfolded in 2008, the Convention
will feature four panels in a special section on �The War in Georgia and
its Implications� and four on �The Independence of Kosovo.� These 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. The Central Europe and the Balkans sections lead the way with
23 panels each, followed by Central Asia/China/Turkey�with a combined 16
panels, Ukraine and Belarus�10, the Caucasus�9, and Russia�8 (excluding
the Northern Caucasus). Twelve panels appear in the �Thematic� section.
Recurrent themes on the program include the Politics of Memory, Mass
Violence, War Tribunals, EU Enlargement, Ethnography, Ethnic Minorities
and Diasporas.
 
The Convention will be hosting seven special panels featuring new
important books by John Hall (Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography,
Verso 2009), Timothy Snyder (The Red Prince: The Secret Live of a
Habsburg Archduke, Yale 2008), Henry Hale (The Foundations of Ethnic
Politics: Separatism of States and Nations in Eurasia and the World,
Cambridge 2008), Stephen M. Saideman and R. William Ayres (For Kin or
Country: Xenophobia, Nationalism, and War, Columbia 2008), Zsuzsa Csergo
(Talk of the Nation: Language and Conflict in Romania and Slovakia,
Cornell 2007), Charles Ingrao and Thomas A. Emmert, eds. (Confronting
the Yugoslav Controversies, Purdue 2009) and Larissa Onyshkevych and
Maria G. Rewakowicz, eds.. (Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of
Europe, M. E. Sharpe, 2009).

Two of these book panels are part of the section �Theories of
Nationalism,� now in its sixth year at the ASN Convention, which offers
a platform for the latest trends in nationalism studies worldwide.
Fourteen more panels appear in the Nationalism section, such as
�Processes of Violence,��Things Fall Apart: The Politics of
Fragmentation in Armed Groups,� and �How (Not) to Study Ethnic
Conflict�. 
 
Since 2005, the ASN Convention has acknowledged excellence in graduate
studies research by offering Awards for Best Doctoral Student Papers in
five sections: Russia/Ukraine/Caucasus, Central Asia/Eurasia, Central
Europe, Balkans, and Nationalism Studies. The winners at the 2008
Convention were Jesse Driscoll (Stanford U, Political Science) for
Russia/Ukraine/Caucasus, Sarah Cameron (History, Yale U) and Kristin
Fabbe (Political Science, MIT, US) for Central Asia/Eurasia/Turkey,
Helena Toth (Harvard U, History) for Central Europe, Valentina Burrai
(UC London, UK, Political Science) for the Balkans, and Lee Seymour
(Northwestern U, Political Science) for Nationalism Studies. More than a
hundred doctoral students will be eligible for the awards at the 2009
Convention.

For practical information regarding the convention, please contact
Gordon Bardos (gnb12@columbia.edu, 212 854 8487). For registration
information, please contact Lydia Hamilton (lch2111@columbia.edu). For
information on panels, please contact Dominique Arel (darel@uottawa.ca).
 
We look forward to seeing you at the convention! 
 
Cordially,
Dominique Arel, ASN President
Gordon N Bardos, Convention Executive Director
Sherrill Stroschein, Program Chair
on behalf of the ASN Convention Organizing
Committee

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