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🙧 April 5
1500 – Gellner Lecture
The Ernest Gellner Lecture, established in 1996, traditionally takes place on the eve of the ASEN Conference. This year, it will be given by Prasenjit Duara on ‘Nationalism and the Crisis of Modernity’. For more information, please see the Gellner Lecture page.
🙧 April 6
1445 – Conference Welcome
Jonathan Hearn, President of ASEN
Isadora Dullaert & Andi Haxhiu, Conference Co-chairs
1500 – Plenary with Jasbir K. Puar
“Rethinking Homonationalism (Redux) as Homocapitalism”
1630 – Panel Session A
A1: Populism of the left and populism of the right
A2: Operationalising and measuring nationalism
A3: Diaspora nationalism and imagined communities
A4: How states manage the response to Covid
A5: Nationalism and crisis in central and southern Europe
1800 – Panel Session B
B1: Conflict, crisis, and the nation
B2: The discourse of responses to crisis
B3: Making the case for liberal democracy
B4: Meet the Editors with Nations and Nationalism and Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism
🙧 April 7
1330 – Panel Session C
C1: Responses to crisis in contested territories
C2: Theoretical perspectives on nationalism
C3: Radical responses to crisis
C4: Nationalism, inclusion, and exclusion
C5: Crisis and the system of nations
1500 – Panel Session D
D1: Nationalisms in the United Kingdom
D2: Construction and representation of identities in China
D4: Memory, culture, and the performance of identity
1630 – Plenary with Cynthia Miller-Idriss
“The Global Far Right”
🙧 April 8
1330 – Panel Session E
E2: Popular reactions to Covid
E3: Nationalism and identity in Hong Kong
E4: The discourse of leadership
E5: Citizenship, borders, and crisis
1500 – Plenary with Bart Bonikowski
“Foregrounding Nationalism in Theories of Radical-Right Success”
1630 – Panel Session F
F1: Independence movements in North America and Europe
F2: The discourse of responses to Covid
F3: Illiberal responses to crisis in the USA
F4: Historical antecedents of national identity
F5: The politics of citizenship