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. A PDF version is also available.
All events listed here take place at the Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG. 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 room 5, and so on. Room 0 is the lecture theatre where plenaries take place
Please note that this schedule is subject to change.
Tuesday 21st April
0830 – Registration opens
0930 – Conference welcome
0940 – Plenary 1: From Global Comparison to Global Phenomenon: John Breuilly’s Contribution to Nationalism Studies
Eric Storm, Umut Özkırımlı, and Mariana Kriel
1100 – Coffee break
1130 – Panel session A
A1 – Proposed Panel: Nation-Making in Contemporary Azerbaijan: Political Hegemonies, Diasporic Mobilizations, and Cultural Reimaginations
A2 – Aspects of Education 1
A3 – Czechs, Serbs, and Feminism
A4 – Taiwan, Japan and Democracy
A5 – National Communication
A6 – Diverse Democratic Discourses
1300 – Lunch
1415 – Panel session B
B1 – Book Panel: The Politics of Domination: Taking, Keeping, and Losing Control over Other Peoples (John McGarry)
B2 – Aspects of Education 2
B3 – Scotland: Then and Now
B4 – Azerbaijan and Citizenship
B5 – Diverse Digital Dimensions
B6 – Greece and Macedonia
1545 – Coffee break
1615 – Panel session C
C1 – Book Panel: Nationalism: A World History (Eric Storm)
C2 – Authoritarianism
C3 – Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Africa
C4 – Law and Constitutions
C5 – Indian Developments
C6 – Kin-States
1800 – Smith Lecture: Jonathan Hearn
Followed by a reception
Wednesday 22nd April
0930 – Panel session D
D1 – Proposed Panel: Constructing the Nation in Diverse Democracies: Majority Power, Minority Voice, and Democratic Inclusion
D2 – Permutations of Religion 1
D3 – Theory and Philosophy
D4 – Imagining European Nationalisms
D5 – Israeli and Palestinian Identities
D6 – Ethnic Minorities and Ethnic Conflict
1100 – Coffee break
1130 – Plenary 2: Can nationalism be democratic?
David Miller
1300 – Lunch
A launch for Siniša Malešević’s new book, Nationalism as a Way of Life: The Rise and Transformation of Modern Subjectivities, will take place in the main lecture theatre from 1310 to 1330.
1415 – Panel session E
E1 – Book Panel: Nationalism as a Way of Life: The Rise and Transformation of Modern Subjectivities (Siniša Malešević)
E2 – Permutations of Religion 2
E3 – The Basque Country
E4 – China and Its Relations
E5 – Foucault and National Discourses
E6 – Russian Influences
1545 – Coffee break
1615 – Panel session F
F0 – Proposed panel: AI and nationalism studies
F1 – Post-Soviet Perspectives
F2 – Aftermath of WWI
F3 – Language and Literary Figures
F4 – Angles on Kosovo
F5 – Challenging Patriotism
F6 – Perspectives on Youth
1900 – Conference dinner
Thursday 23rd April
0930 – Panel session G
G1 – Proposed Panel: Contested Freedoms: National Honour, Digital Nationalism, and Cross-Strait Identity Politics in Xi-era China
G2 – Ukraine and Russia
G3 – Variations on National Identity
G4 – Polish Nationalisms
G5 – Romania and Moldova
G6 – Everyday Aspects of Nationalism
1100 – Coffee break
1130 – Panel session H
H1 – Book Panel: The Concept of Identity in Iran: Religion, National Disintegration, and Radicalism in Post-Revolutionary Iran (Reza Talebi)
H2 – Nationalism and Emotion
H3 – Ukraine at War
H4 – Nationalisms in Canada
H5 – Minorities and Territories
H6 – Dimensions of the USA
1300 – Lunch
1415 – Plenary 3: Eric Woods and Robert Schertzer: Nationalism, Polarization, and the Unravelling of Liberal Democracy
Eric Woods and Robert Schertzer
Followed by the conference close
