The thirty-fourth annual ASEN conference takes place on the banks of the Danube at Central European University’s Budapest campus from 23rd to 25th April, 2025 on nationalism and borders.

The call for papers has now closed. We will email everyone who submitted an abstract on 13th December to let you know if your abstract has been accepted.

There can be few venues more fitting than the former heart of the Habsburg Empire for a conference on nationalism and borders. 2025 also marks the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of the great theorist of nationalism and founder of the department of nationalism studies at CEU, Ernest Gellner. We are proud to be holding the biennial Gellner Lecture with the department he founded; we will be announcing the Gellner Lecturer and plenary speakers over the next few weeks. At the time of writing, we are still confirming prices, but we expect a conference pass to be around €100. We will have a limited number of fee waivers available. We very much hope that you will join us.

Please submit your abstract of up to 250 words by 23rd November at 2359UTC.