The Army, the Nation, Nuclear Annihilation

PAN9.05, Pankhurst House, LSE 1 Clement's Inn, London, United Kingdom

The Anthony D. Smith Fellowship Seminar is given by the 2023 Fellow, Jack Matlack, on 'The Army, the Nation, Nuclear Annihilation: Constructing 'Western' identity in German-American NATO training exercises of the Cold War'. Join us in person in room PAN9.05 at the London School of Economics, or join us on Facebook or YouTube. Members will […]

The new nationalism in America and beyond

The 2024 Nations and Nationalism debate, supported by LSE IDEAS, is on 'The new nationalism in America and beyond: the deep roots of ethnic nationalism in the digital age' by Robert Schertzer and Eric T. Woods. We will be live on Facebook and YouTube, with members receiving an invite to join on Zoom. Our speakers, […]

Michael Hechter: Status Reversal and its Discontents

Violet Laidlaw Room 6th Floor, Chrystal MacMillan Building, 15a George Square, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

The University of Edinburgh Department of Sociology, the University of Edinburgh MSc Nationalism in Global Perspective programme, and ASEN present a lecture by Michael Hechter, Arizona State University, on Status Reversal and its Discontents. The lecture will take place in the Violet Laidlaw Room, 6th Floor, Chrystal MacMillan Building, 15a George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LD […]

Conference 2024: Nationalism and Memory

The ASEN Conference will take place at the University of Edinburgh on the subject of 'nationalism and memory' from 9th to 11th April 2024. Full information, including the call for papers, is on the conference pages.

Lars-Erik Cederman: The Anthony D. Smith Lecture 2024

Teviot Lecture Theatre, University of Edinburgh

The 2024 Anthony D. Smith Lecture will be given by Lars-Erik Cederman on 'Nationalism and the Transformation of the State: Border Change, Historical Legacies and Conflict' The Lecture is public and open to all, and will be streamed on Facebook and YouTube. Abstract While it is often assumed that the core debates about nationalism were […]

How can ASEN hold an online conference?

Online

ASEN would like to hold an online conference, in no small part to give scholars who cannot easily travel to our in-person conference venues the opportunity to present their research. During covid, our annual conference was held entirely online on 'nationalism and crisis', and it did allow people from all around the world to take […]

Summer School 2024

The ASEN Summer School returns for its third year at the University of Zadar. Applications will open in November 2023.

Nation-states and reactions to Covid in Europe

Online

How did and how do nation-states in Europe react to Covid - the virus itself, the vaccine, and the aftermath? Find out with Siniša Malešević (UCD), Lea David (UCD), Sarah Carol (UCD), & Gordana Uzelac (London Met), who have co-authored four papers on nationalism and Covid on Monday 30th September at 1630 UK time (check […]

Nationalism: A World History

Online

ASEN president Jonathan Hearn sits down with Eric Storm to discuss his new book, Nationalism: A World History for our first event of 2025. We'll be live on 15th January from 1630UTC (check this time in your city) on Facebook and YouTube, and members will receive an invitation to join the Zoom call. About the book […]

Mechanisms of National Solidarity

Join us for a panel discussion on the recent themed section in Nations and Nationalism on 'mechanisms of national solidarity' with Danny Kaplan, Siniša Malešević, Lea David, Daniel Lainer-Vos, Jon Fox, and Hizky Shoham on 6th February from 1730UTC (check this time in your city) live on Facebook and YouTube - members will receive an invitation […]

From Empire to Nation-State: Minority Rights in Estonia in the First Half of the 20th Century

PAN 9.04, LSE

This year's Anthony D. Smith Visiting Fellow, Timo Aava, speaks on his research on non-territorial autonomy. We'll be live on Facebook and YouTube or you can join us in person in room PAN.9.04 at the LSE. The talk will discuss new findings on the theoretical discussions and the implementation of non-territorial minority self-government in Estonia […]

Nationalism and cosmopolitanism in China

Violet Laidlaw Room 6th Floor, Chrystal MacMillan Building, 15a George Square, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

We join the University of Edinburgh School of Social and Political Science on March 12th from 1600UTC (check this time in your city) for a presentation by Dr Canglong Wang on nationalism and cosmopolitanism in China. We'll be live on Facebook and YouTube, or you can join in person at the Chrystal Macmillan Building in […]