Please scroll down to see the day-by-day schedule. Clicking on the name of a panel will take you to the abstracts for that panel, or head straight to the abstracts page.
All events listed here take place at CEU, Nádor u. 15, 1051 Budapest. Registration will be clearly signposted on arrival. Plenaries and lunchtime events will be in the main theatre. For panels, the number in each session indicates the room that the panel takes place in. For instance, A2 would be in room 2, and C5 would be in C5, and so on.
For the first time, we’re organising special events – a short film showing, a ‘meet the editors’ event with the editors of Nations and Nationalism, and a book launch sponsored by Genealogy.
Wednesday 23rd April
0830 – Registration opens
0930 – Conference welcome
0940 – Plenary 1: Erin Jenne
1100 – Coffee break
1130 – Panel session A
A1 – The Borders of Britain
A2 – Reconfigurations of the Central and North American Borderlands
A3 – The Ambiguity of (Non-)Interference: Cross-Border Relations between Carinthia and Slovenia during the Cold War
A4 – Borders in Spain
A5 – Beyond Albania’s Borders
A6 – Borders and Gender (1)
A7 – World War II and its Aftermath
A8 – Online Borders
1300 – Lunch
1430 – Panel session B
B1 – Theoretical Perspectives (1)
B2 – Gellnerian Perspectives
B3 – Militarized Borders
B4 – The Borders of China
B5 – Borders in the Nineteenth Century
B6 – Languages and Borders
B7 – Refugees and Borders
B8 – The Borders of India
1600 – Coffee break
1630 – Panel session C
C1 – Online Border Tensions
C2 – Borders as Symbols
C3 – Nations Across Borders
C4 – Local Identities
C5 – Border Securitization
C6 – Theoretical Perpectives (2)
C7 – Borderland Towns and Cities: Nationalism, Identity, and Division
C8 – Usages and Meanings of the Past across the Post-Yugoslav Space
1800 – Gellner Lecture: Michael Mann
Followed by a reception on the rooftop terrace (assuming clement weather)
Thursday 24th April
0930 – Panel session D
D1 – Marrying Across Borders
D2 – Kin-states
D3 – The Far Right’s Use of Borders
D4 – Hadrian’s Wall: The Anglo-Scottish Border
D5 – Global Perspectives
D6 – World War II Europe
D7 – Borderlands
D8 – The Online Borders of Ukraine
1100 – Coffee break
1130 – Plenary 2: Gordana Uzelac
1300 – Lunch/Meet the editors
Looking for tips on getting your article published? Interested in becoming an editor? Want to know how a journal comes together? Come and meet the editors of Nations and Nationalism for a Q&A at 1330 in the main theatre.
1430 – Panel session E
E1 – Borders and Gender (2)
E2 – Kurdistan’s Borders
E3 – Mapping Borders
E4 – Immigration and Borders
E5 – Commemorations
E6 – The Impact of Covid on Borders
E7 – Colonial and Postcolonial Borders
E8 – Writing the Nation
1600 – Coffee break
1630 – Panel session F
F1 – Israel and Palestine
F2 – Borders and Arts
F3 – Bessarabia
F4 – Borderlands
F5 – Natural Resources and Borders
F6 – Borders in Interwar Europe
F7 – Ethnicity and Borders
F8 – Nationalism and Identity in Transition
1800 – Film showing
At 1800, we will be showing The Bell Rings by Katalin Halász, followed by a Q&A with Katalin. Awarded ‘Best International Documentary’ by the Young Jury of the ASTI Film Festival 2024 (Italy) and ‘Honorary Mention by the Activists Without Borders Film Festival 2024’ (UK) and ‘CineFest São Jorge 2024’ (Brazil), The Bell Rings is a sweeping, untold story of bodies and emotions surfacing and submerging in a crowd gathered at the 2023 Tusványos Festival in Romania, a week-long politics and music event organized by the Hungarian government. Un/Consciously, the festival goers absorb the ethnonationalist politics and gender war of Viktor Orbán, the Prime Minister of Hungary, who (since he came to power in 2010) uses Tusványos Festival to canvass his ideas of nation. For more information, head to katalinhalasz.com/
Friday 25th April
0930 – Panel session G
G1 – Pragmatic Expectations: Nationalizing Multi-ethnic Cities, 1918–1939
G2 – The Borders of Greece
G3 – Heritage and Borders
G4 – Migration in the EU
G5 – The Legacy of Soviet Borders
G6 – Border controls
G7 – The Mexican-American Border
G8 – The Memory of Borders
1100 – Coffee break
1130 – Panel session H
H1 – The Discourse of Borders
H2 – Borders in Early Twentieth Century Europe
H3 – Cyprus
H4 – Printing Borders
H5 – Postcolonial Borders
H6 – Digital Borders
H7 – Majorities and Minorities in Hungary
H8 – Activism Across the Spectrum: Social Media, Influencers, and Balkan Reconciliation
1300 – Lunch/Book launch sponsored by Genealogy
Our final day’s lunchtime event is the launch of Sanja Vico’s new book, ‘Doing Nation’ in a Digital Age: Banal Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Polymedia Environments, from 1330 in the main theatre.
This book introduces a new theory of national identity, arguing that the nation does not only represent an abstract “imagined community” but also represents embodied cultural and discursive practices. Drawing upon a detailed case study of Serbian Londoners, this truly interdisciplinary study positions media as constitutive of national identities. The author contends that nations come into being and are sustained through everyday interpersonal communication practices that have increasingly become mediated, especially for migrants. She develops the concept of “doing nation” to argue that we should think of the nation as a dynamic process. Situated first within a particular migration context, the concept is then applied more broadly as everyday communication practices are becoming increasingly mediated worldwide. Covering a breadth of key theories and concepts in this field, including diaspora, ethnicity, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, social media affordances and polymedia, this book will appeal to scholars and students researching digital media, migration, identities, nationalism and cosmopolitanism in the social science disciplines.
This event is generously supported by Genealogy.
1430 – Plenary 3: Pieter Judson
1550 – Conference close