[aaus-list] ASN 2009 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

[Alexandra Hrycak]

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 at columbia.edu). For general convention 
information, contact ASN Executive Director Gordon Bardos 
(gnb12 at 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 at columbia.edu, 212 854 8487). For registration 
information, please contact Lydia Hamilton (lch2111 at columbia.edu). For 
information on panels, please contact Dominique Arel (darel at 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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Alexandra Hrycak
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Portland, Oregon 97202-8199


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