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SUMMARY:The Populism Interviews with Luca Manucci\, Aurelien Mondon\, and Daphne Halikiopoulou
DESCRIPTION:We sit down to discuss Luca Manucci’s new book\, The Populism Interviews: A Dialogue with Leading Experts. In this fascinating volume\, Luca talks about populism in all its varied forms with a range of experts \nWe’re delighted that Luca is joining us along with two of the contributors\, Aurelien Mondon and Daphne Halikiopoulou\, to talk about the book and about populism \nThe Populism Interviews is published by Routledge. \nWe will be live on Facebook and YouTube\, and members will receive an invite to join on Zoom. \nAbout the participants\nLuca Manucci is Postdoctoral Researcher at the at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon (ICS-UL)\, Portugal. His previous publications include Populism and Collective Memory: Comparing Fascist Legacies in Western Europe (Routledge\, 2020). \nDaphne Halikiopoulou is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Reading and has written extensively on nationalism and the cultural and economic determinants of far-right party support. From January 2023\, she will be Chair in Comparative Politics at the University of York. \nAurelien Mondon is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bath. He currently works on various project related to liberal and illiberal articulations of racism and right-wing populism\, and their impact on liberal democracies.
URL:https://asen.ac.uk/event/populisminterviews/
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED | Report launch + reception: Right-Wing Populism And What To Do About It
DESCRIPTION:Due to industrial action by UCU\, this event has been postponed. We hope to reschedule it for Spring 2023. Please click here for more information. \n			 \n				\n				\n				We are delighted to host an event with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung on their new report\, Understanding Right-Wing Populism And What To Do About It\, with the reports’ authors\, Daphne Halikiopoulou and Tim Vlandas\, with discussants Diane Bolet\, and Sofia Vasilopoulou\, with Elliott Green chairing. \nThe event will take place in the Old Theatre at the London School of Economics\, followed by a reception in the Senior Common Room. If you can’t make it in person\, we will also be live streaming on Facebook and YouTube. \nThere is no charge for the event\, although it is ticketed. \nAbout the report\nThe report presents a combination of empirical and qualitative analysis of right-wing populist parties (RWPPs) in 17 European countries. \nIn order to better understand the success of European right-wing populist parties (RWPPs) the report looks at the Three Ps: \n\nThe First P: People: Why do individual people vote for RWPPs? (Demand)\nThe Second P: Parties: What makes certain RWP parties more successful than others? (Supply)\nThe Third P: Policies: What is the role of social policies in facilitating and/or moderating RWPP success?\n\nThe report can be downloaded for free from the FES. \nAbout the speakers\nProfessor Daphne Halikiopoulou is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Reading. She has written extensively on nationalism and the cultural and economic determinants of far-right party support. Her research appears in the European Journal of Political Research\, Journal of Common Market Studies\, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies\, Government and Opposition\, European Political Science Review\, and Nations and Nationalism among others. From 2023\, she will be Chair of Comparative Politics at the University of York. \nShe is joint Editor-in-Chief of the journal Nations and Nationalism (with John Breuilly\, John Hutchinson and Eric Kaufmann) and co-editor (with Daniel Stockemer) of the Springer book series in Electoral Politics. \nFind out more about Daphne at the University of Reading or follow her on Twitter. \nDr Tim Vlandas is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Policy and Fellow in St Antony’s College\, both at the University of Oxford. He holds a PhD in Political Economy from the London School of Economics. His main area of expertise is comparative political economy\, with a particular interest in the relationship between electoral politics\, public policies and socio-economic outcomes. His research has been published in over 25 academic journals and has received awards from the American Political Science Association and the European Network for Social Policy Analysis. He has recently co-authored a book entitled “Foreign States in Domestic Markets: Sovereign Wealth Funds and the West”\, published by Oxford University Press. His research has been cited by the UK House of Commons\, World Bank\, International Labour Organisation\, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development\, European Commission\, and the United Nations. \nFind out more about Tim on his website or follow him on Twitter. \nDr Diane Bolet is a political scientist and comparativist\, specialised in voting behaviour\, public opinion and far-right politics in Europe and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zürich. \nShe holds a PhD in Political Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) looking at how local context shapes voting preferences for the radical right in European countries. Her thesis won an honourable mention for the Ernst B. Haas Dissertation Prize for the best dissertation on European Politics from the European Politics and Society section of APSA. She previously earned a distinction Dual MSc degree in European Politics from Sciences Po\, Paris and LSE and a Higher Distinction BA in International Politics from King’s College\, London. \nFind out more about Diane on her website or follow her on Twitter. \n \nProfessor Sofia Vasilopoulou is Professor of European Politics at King’s College\, London. Her work examines the causes and consequences of political dissatisfaction among the public and the ways in which this is channelled through party strategies and party competition. Specific themes include Euroscepticism and far right politics. Her research and teaching interests lie in Comparative Politics\, Political Behaviour\, Party Politics and European Union Politics. \nShe is Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Political Research and an Honorary Professor at the University of York\, where she worked from 2011 to 2022. \nFind out more about Sofia on her website or follow her on Twitter. \nDr Elliott Green is Associate Professor of Development Studies in the Department of International Development at the LSE\, where he is also director of the PhD programme. His main research areas are ethnic politics and national identity in Africa; patronage\, clientelism and African development; and the political demography of modern Africa. He has conducted fieldwork in Uganda\, Tanzania and Botswana\, and for several years taught a course entitled ‘Poverty and Development’ at the annual LSE-University of Cape Town Summer School. Outside academia he has briefed the British High Commissioner to Uganda twice (in 2008 and 2010) and regularly writes blog entries for a variety of websites. \nFind out more about Elliott at the LSE or follow him on Twitter. \n 
URL:https://asen.ac.uk/event/populism/
LOCATION:Old Theatre\, LSE\, Houghton Street\, London\, London\, WC2A 2AE\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The Left(s) and Nationalism(s) in contemporary Western Europe
DESCRIPTION:The relationship between the left and nationalism is an ongoing field of discussion and debate. We join the authors of the recent Nations and Nationalism themed section\, ‘The Left(s) and Nationalism(s) in contemporary Western Europe’ to look at nationalism and the left in Spain\, Italy\, the UK\, in green politics\, and more. As ever\, we’ll be live on Facebook and YouTube\, with members being invited to join us on Zoom. \nThe articles\nIntroduction – Emmanuel Dalle Mulle & Tudi Kernalegenn \nThe nation of the people: An analysis of Podemos and Five Star Movement’s discourse on the nation – Jacopo Custodi and Enrico Padoan \nGreens and the nation: Is small beautiful? – Tudi Kernalegenn \nUniversalism within: The tension between universalism and community in progressive ideology – Emmanuel Dalle Mulle and Ivan Serrano \n“We’re socialists not nationalists”: British labour and the national question(s) – Coree Brown Swan \n 
URL:https://asen.ac.uk/event/leftnationalism/
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SUMMARY:Book discussion: Global Nationalism with Pablo De Orellana and Nicholas Michelsen
DESCRIPTION:We sit down with Pablo de Orellana and Nicholas Michelsen to discuss their new edited volume\, Global Nationalism: Ideas\, Movements And Dynamics In The Twenty-first Century. We’ll be live on Facebook and YouTube\, and members will receive an invite to join on Zoom. \nAbout Global Nationalism \nThe twenty-first century is witnessing a truly transnational revival of a very old set of ideas. Despite romantic attachments to old symbols\, these late modern nationalism movements are not simply replicas of the previous two waves of nationalism in the 1860s and 1920s. Nor is it true that today’s nationalism movements want simply to return to the past and effect a nationalist 1930s-style retrenchment. From Putin’s macho revivalism\, through to Trump’s shocking victory and Xi’s strongman regionalism\, nationalists engage with the economic context of our time and address issues born of globalization. Crucially\, in their vision for international relations they seek the destruction of key international norms in a drive to restore a vision of sovereignty predicated on a survivalist understanding of state power. Global Nationalism\, edited and framed by Pablo de Orellana and Nicholas Michelsen\, brings together the latest research by up-and-coming early career researchers and scholars. Beginning with a succinct history and typology of contemporary nationalism and its predecessors\, this book offers analysis of several cases of contemporary nationalism\, examining how specific movements define identity\, address grievances and propose identity-based solutions. Key themes and lessons emerge from the study of a variety of cases\, from the very ideas animating nationalist thought\, to their expression in a wide variety of nationalist movements around the world. The reflections on the ecosystem of nationalist ideas and movements offered in this volume are a vital starting point in the study of contemporary nationalism as a global twenty-first century phenomenon. Global Nationalism is published by World Scientific \nAbout the editors \nPablo de Orellana is Lecturer in International Relations\, Department of War Studies at King’s College\, London. He is an inter-disciplinary scholar-working on diplomacy\, nationalism and the relationship between art and conflict. He graduated in French and Italian at Oxford before a Master’s in International Relations at Cambridge\, leading to a PhD at King’s College London\, completed in December 2015. \nHis research on how diplomatic communication constitutes the representations upon which policy is made threads together his passion for political philosophy\, literary analysis\, history and aesthetics. In this research\, theoretical approaches are put to work analysing archival research determining how policy comes to identify the political identity of peoples and their contexts. \nRead more about Pablo at KCL or follow Pablo on Twitter. \nNicholas Michelsen is Reader in International Relations at King’s College\, London. He was awarded his undergraduate degree in International Relations and Philosophy by the University of Sussex\, and holds an MA in International Conflict Studies and an MRes in War Studies from King’s College London. He wrote his doctoral thesis in the Department of War Studies\, King’s College London. \nRead more about Nicholas at KCL.
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SUMMARY:Ernest Gellner Lecture 2023: Ukraine at War with Andrew Wilson
DESCRIPTION:The Ernest Gellner Lecture 2023 will be given by Andrew Wilson on Ukraine at War: Baseline Identity and Social Construction at the University of Loughborough as the traditional ‘eve of conference’ event. \nIt will also be livestreamed on Facebook and YouTube. \n  \n 
URL:https://asen.ac.uk/event/gellner2023/
LOCATION:Stewart Mason Building\, Loughborough University
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SUMMARY:ASEN Conference 2023: Nationalism and Multiculturalism
DESCRIPTION:The 2023 ASEN Conference will be on Nationalism and Multiculturalism and will be held at the University of Loughborough. Please see the conference pages for full information.
URL:https://asen.ac.uk/event/asen-conference-2023-nationalism-and-multiculturalism/
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED: N&N Debate: The New Nationalism in America and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Regrettably\, this event has been postponed as one of the panellists cannot attend due to family reasons. We will advertise the rescheduled date as soon as we have it. \nJoin us at the London School of Economics for the 2023 Nations and Nationalism debate on “The New Nationalism in America and Beyond: The Deep Roots of Ethnic Nationalism in the Digital Age” with the authors\, Robert Schertzer and Eric Taylor Woods\, joined by Sophie Duchesne and Cynthia Miller-Idriss. The debate will be held at the London School of Economics and will be livestreamed on Facebook and YouTube. \nFor more information on the event and the speakers\, please visit the LSE Ideas event page. To register for the event\, please email asen@asen.ac.uk. \nAcross the West\, there has been a resurgence of ethnic nationalism\, populism\, and anti-immigrant sentiment – a phenomenon that many commentators have called the “new nationalism.” In The New Nationalism in America and Beyond\, Robert Schertzer and Eric Taylor Woods seek to understand why the bastions of liberalism are proving to be fertile ground for a decidedly illiberal ideology. To do so\, they examine the social media campaigns of three of the most successful exemplars of the new nationalism: Donald Trump in the US\, Marine Le Pen in France\, and Brexit in the UK. Schertzer and Woods show how today’s new nationalists are cultivating support from white majorities by drawing from long-standing myths and symbols to construct an image of the nation as an ethnic community. Their cutting-edge and multidisciplinary approach combines elements of political science\, sociology\, history\, and communication and media studies\, to show how leaders today are updating the historical foundations of ethnic nationalism for the digital age.
URL:https://asen.ac.uk/event/nandn23/
LOCATION:Sumeet Valrani Theatre\, London School of Economics\, Centre Building\, Houghton Street\, London\, London\, WC2A 2AE\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:ASEN Summer School 2023
DESCRIPTION:The 2023 ASEN Conference will be on Nationalism and Multiculturalism and will be held at the University of Zadar. Please see the summer school pages for full information.
URL:https://asen.ac.uk/event/asen-summer-school-2023/
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SUMMARY:Vinod Goel | Why is Ethnicity Grouping Universal\, Powerful\, and Persistent: Insights from Neurodevelopment
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Birkbeck\, University of London\, in the Paul Hirst Seminar Room\, 10 Gower Street\, on July 17th from 1800 for a seminar with Prof Vinod Goel on what ethnicity studies can learn from neurodevelopment. Free and no ticket required. The event will also be livestreamed on Facebook and YouTube. \nAbstract\nEthnicity is among the most powerful of social/political forces. One definition of an ethnic group is “any group who set themselves apart and/or are set apart by others with whom they interact or coexist on the basis of their perceptions of cultural and/or common ancestry” (Jones\, 1997). The various accounts of the phenomenon can be organized into two broad categories of “primordialism” and “constructivism” or “instrumentalism.” The former explains ethnicity as a natural phenomenon grounded in kinship ties and assigned at birth (e.g. Van den Berghe\, 1981; Connor\, 1993; Blanton\, 2015). The latter explains ethnic group formation as a cognitive\, social construction strategy for protecting and projecting economic and political interests (e.g. Cohen\, 1974; Anderson\, 1991). Social Identity Theory is an influential variation on the latter (Hale\, 2004). The two accounts need not be mutually exclusive (Fearon\, 1999).  The critical difference between these theories is their position on the question of the ease or difficulty with which ethnic identities can be changed\, once established. On the primordial accounts it is difficult; on the constructivist accounts much easier. \nWhatever their merits\, these theories struggle to explain the special status of ethnicity in human affairs and convincingly answer the following four questions: (1) What is special about the formation of ethnic groups? (2) Why is it so difficult to change ethnic identities\, once formed? (3) Why do ethnic motives have such emotive power? (4) Why is there an asymmetry in the wielding of ethnicity as a political tool (i.e. why is it easier to provoke interethnic violence versus attenuating it)? I will propose a very different account of ethnic grouping in terms of neural maturation trajectories and the tethered nature of minds that can provide substantive answers to these questions. Time permitting\, I will also discuss the implications of this model for multiethnic societies and nationalism. \nAbout Vinod Goel\nVinod Goel is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at York University\, Toronto\, Canada. His research interests include the cognitive\, computational\, and neural basis of rational decision-making and emotional processing in humans\, and more recently\, the interaction between the two. His primary methodologies include brain imaging (fMRI & PET)\, patient studies\, and computational modelling. \nHis most recent book is Reason and Less\, published by MIT. \nRead more about Prof. Goel at York U.
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LOCATION:Paul Hirst Seminar Room\, Birkbeck\, 10 Gower Street\, 10 Gower Street\, London\, WC1E 6HE\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Symposium on nationalism and irony
DESCRIPTION:Jump to: Schedule | Introduction | Abstracts | Biographies \nIn collaboration with Dr Alex Marshall (SHU)\, we are delighted to offer the opportunity to join in the third annual Symposium on Nationalism on Irony. \nPapers to be presented include \n\nDiscursive (re)production of internet-mediated Chinese national identity – Zhiwei Wang\nIrony on the edge: the behaviour of far-right deputies in the State Duma of the Russian Empire (1905-1917) – Dr Anastasia Mitrofanova\nMore quixotic than ever: ironic re-ironisation of national iconography in Zoo’s ‘Panya’ (2022) – Dr Laia Darder & Dr Alex Marshall\n‘Being both’ Scottish and British: irony among Scots in London\n\nPlease click here to register for the symposium on Zoom. \nSchedule\n1030-1100: Arrival and Welcome \n1100-1230: Panel 1: The Trolls\n𐫱 Zhiwei Wang: Discursive (Re)production of Internet-Mediated Chinese National Identity\n𐫱 Chris Cannell ‘Being both’ Scottish and British: Irony among Scots in London \n1230-1330: Lunch \n1330-1500: Panel 2: Regions and Overlaps\n𐫱 Dr. Laia Darder and Dr. Alex Marshall: More Quixotic than Ever: Ironic Re-Ironisation of National Iconography in Zoo’s ‘Panya’ (2022)\n𐫱 Dr. Anastasia Mitrofanova: Irony on the Edge: The Behaviour of Far-Right Deputies in the State Duma of the Russian Empire (1905-17) \n1500-1515: Break \n1515-1630: Round Table Discussion \nIntroduction\nFor the third year in a row\, participants at the Nationalism and Irony Symposium will attempt to interpret the complex\, often insidious interaction between irony and nationalism\, both extreme and mainstream. Research into this intersection seems to be gaining traction\, helping understand both the more serious aspects of humour and how nationalisms navigate their own absurdities and incongruities. \nLess than a decade ago\, irony had become almost a staple of reactionary discourse\, yet this association seems to have weakened as the far-right have gained\, consolidated and at times lost power and influence. Yet also ubiquitous\, innocuous forms of nationalism are shaped and processed using irony\, proud of a particular style of or deftness with irony\, or fought over irony as a battleground. \nPrevious years’ events considered the use of irony to test the water\, and how it “allows room for the possible turning of coats”\, but also serves as a way to distinguish the in-group who get the joke from baffled out-groups. We thought about the uses a captive\, defanged form of subversion can offer to power\, or to stigmatised groups having difficult conversations in public. We thought about how useful an ambiguous level of commitment can be to comfortably navigate directly conflicting beliefs. And we speculated that\, if everyone laughs at the same joke for the different reasons\, irony can hide ideology in an innocuously transmissible form. The first year we ended by asking how Boris Johnson gets away with it\, and successfully manages to be his own parody. The second year\, we wondered when and how this stopped working. \nThis year we have\, among other themes\, Chinese social media\, Scottish identity in London\, the possibility of an entirely ironic national identity\, satires of Spain and tourism in Catalan hip-hop\, and provocations by far-right deputies in the pre-Revolution Russian Duma. \nAbstracts\nChris Cannell\, University of Edinburgh\, ‘Being both’ Scottish and British: Irony among Scots in London\nScottish people who live in London present a distinct case for examining irony and its relationship to nationalism. This paper presents ongoing data analysis of fieldwork among this population\, where semi-structured interviews raised interesting ironical understandings\, and ironic and humorous uses\, of national identity and personal cultural repertoire and resources. \nScots in London present a unique\, and under-researched\, site of inquiry into this topic\, due to their liminal\, “edge”-case status within the multinational United Kingdom. Irony here is used as both a conscious way of navigating London’s massive multiplicity and assumed ‘Englishness’ and\, in what I call the ‘dramatic ironic’ form\, a mostly unconscious\, and yet sociologically analysable from data\, way of separating out the differential\, nested\, and potentially conflictual\, but obviously closely allied\, concepts of being both Scottish and British. Further\, the ironic approach to national identity\, with irony as a fairly fluid concept\, and humour as something necessarily frame-breaking\, shows that identities\, and identifications\, are not fixed or consistent\, but things that are contingent on audience\, and also on moment-to-moment self identifications. A joke for one person may not be meant as a joke for another. And even further\, it is the contention of this paper that this ironic content to national identity actual allows Scots in London to navigate the ambiguities of ‘being both’ – joking about Scottishness at one moment and Britishness the next is a way for Scots to finesse the schismogenetic ‘narcissism of small difference’\, as well as the weight of long history and vicissitudes of contemporary politics\, that exists between these two possible forms of identification. \nThis paper argues that irony is a fundamental aspect of London Scot’s perception of\, and ability to navigate\, the multi-nationality of the United Kingdom. This population has an idiosyncratic place in both UK politics and the social processes of the imperial and post-imperial metropole\, and their position is rendered into global import by the historical and present cultural force of London\, especially as a way of understanding the longue durée and deep archaeology of London’s present multiculturalism\, “superdiversity” and modernity. Scottish Londoner’s use of irony\, both witting and unwitting\, as a way of reinforcing national identity is worthy of examination. \nThe history and present understanding of Scottishness in the capital has to navigate and react to an ‘Englishness’ that is both umbral and quintessential. ‘Englishness’ is a cultural artefact that is\, following McCrone (2002) and Nairn (1981)\, of mostly unspoken and yet immense power. Scots in London have a liminality to their national identity which makes irony a fundamental tool in promoting that identity in the face of what McCrone calls the “minus-one”\, or datum identity\, of (white\, middle class\, and at times\, Anglican) Englishness. The unspoken power of Englishness makes it difficult\, in certain cases\, to wholeheartedly embrace Britishness\, which also becomes a site for ironic engagement. This desire to ‘be both’ in the face of assertive Englishness leads to a ‘dramatic ironic’ identification of certain elements of Britishness with those of Scottishness\, but also at times an obscurification as to which is which\, they being entangled and nested identities. \nThe sharing of a “sense of humour”\, both Scottish and British\, is a key aspect\, as is the use of subtle jokey cultural signs\, mostly\, following Fox and Miller-Idriss (2008)\, in the form of “everyday nationalism” of consumption: Tunnocks cakes\, Buckfast\, jokingly sacral ideas around haggis and\, more seriously\, the ‘correct’ drinking of whisky. What makes this context so fascinating is\, as Fox (2018) points out\, the spatial and political national “edge” at which Scots find themselves – both ‘outside’ the national boundaries of Scotland\, but within the capital of their nominal ‘other’ national identity – Britain. However\, the variety of responses to questions about what Britishness entails\, and whether London is a British city\, were laced with irony\, both jokingly\, and dramatic in the sometime inability to separate out the qualities of Scottish sensibilities and sense of humour from British ones. \nIn short\, the irony used by Scots in London is multifaceted\, in that is sometimes a conscious approach to the promotion and use of a national identity in the face of the sheer scale of multicultural modernity in London\, and a reaction to datum Englishness\, and sometimes as an unconscious\, ‘dramatic ironic’ reaction to the same. \nDr. Laia Darder & Dr. Alex Marshall\, Sheffield Hallam University\, More Quixotic than Ever: Ironic Re-Ironisation of National Iconography in Zoo’s ‘Panya’ (2022)\nValencian hip-hop group Zoo use the 2022 video to ‘Panya’ to criticise the cultural and political dominance of both Spain over Catalan-speaking areas and\, with the blessing of nationalist political forces\, the tourist industry over Spain. Filmed in various tourist locations\, the denunciation is assembled semiotically and linguistically\, in a mixture of Valencian Catalan\, Spanish\, English and English-accented Spanish by the vocalists dressed as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. This paper will examine the critiques of Spanish nationalism\, tourism and capitalism\, both explicit in the lyrics and implicit in the video. We will pay particular attention to the ironic use of Don Quixote\, a famously satirical figure central to Spain’s literary heritage and national iconography and one of the country’s most recognisable cultural exports\, against a backdrop of conflict between Spanish and Catalan national identities. In doing so it will elaborate and attempt to quantify the spiralling multi-layered and self-referential irony\, and how the comic appropriation\, détournement and anachronistic deployment of Don Quixote reinscribes the self-satire and absurdism often stripped from national symbols. Finally\, we will attempt to situate the relationship of the comic figure to straight-faced nationalism both as a site of conflict and tensions between two strategies\, the one of denial and expulsion\, the other of appropriation and assimilation. \nDr. Anastasia Mitrofanova\, Federal Center for Theoretical and Applied Sociology\, Russian Academy of Sciences – Irony on the Edge: The Behaviour of Far-Right Deputies in the State Duma of the Russian Empire (1905-17)\nThis presentation examines the tactics employed by far-right deputies in the State Duma\, specifically focusing on figures such as Vladimir Purishkevich\, Nikolai Markov the Second\, Sergei Kelepovskii\, and Pavolakii Krushevan. Their behavior was marked by scandalous and extravagant actions.  These deputies often resorted to rough humor and offensive irony in their public speeches\, particularly when discussing topics related to Jews and socialists. Additionally\, they engaged in epatage behavior\, with Markov even adopting the external image of Peter the Great. Some of their satirical gestures were on the edge\, such as Purishkevich once arriving at the Duma with a red flower in his trousers. \nThe far-right deputies did not shy away from intertwining irony with violence\, as seen in the case of mockery duels\, like the ironic duel between Markov and a Jewish deputy\, Osip Pergament. Some authors note instances where the far-right deputies intentionally voted alongside socialists to support revolutionary resolutions that contradicted their own viewpoints. One plausible reason behind this behavior is that they were a minority in the left-liberal Duma and felt compelled to employ such strategies to propagate their position. Another perspective suggests that these far-right monarchists fundamentally opposed parliamentary practices and used their participation in the parliament to underscore its superfluity. \nZhiwei Wang\, University of Edinburgh\, Being Chinese Online – Discursive (Re)production of Internet-Mediated Chinese National Identity\nA further investigation into how Chinese national(ist) discourses are daily (re)shaped online by diverse socio-political actors (especially ordinary users) can contribute to not only deeper understandings of Chinese national sentiments on the Chinese Internet but also richer insights into the socio-technical ecology of the contemporary Chinese digital (and physical) world. I propose an ethnographic methodology\, with Sina Weibo (a Twitter-like microblogging site) and bilibili (a YouTube-like video-streaming platform) as ‘fieldsites’. The data collection method is virtual ethnographic observation on everyday national(ist) discussions on both platforms. Critical discourse analysis is employed to analyse data. From November 2021 to December 2022\, I conducted 36 weeks’ digital ethnographic observations with 36 sets of fieldnotes. For 36 weeks’ observations\, I concentrated much upon textual content created by ordinary users. Based on fieldnotes of the first week’s observations\, I found multifarious national(ist) discourses on Sina Weibo and bilibili\, targeted both at national ‘Others’ and ‘Us’\, both on the historical and real-world dimension\, both aligning with and differing from or even conflicting with official discourses\, both direct national(ist) expressions and articulations of sentiments in the name of presentation of national(ist) attachments but for other purposes. Second\, Sina Weibo and bilibili users have agency in interpreting and deploying concrete national(ist) discourses despite the leading role played by the government and two platforms in deciding on the basic framework of national expressions. Besides\, there are also disputes and even quarrels between users in terms of explanations for concrete components of ‘nation-ness’ and (in)direct dissent to officially defined ‘mainstream’ discourses to some extent\, though often expressed mundanely\, discursively and playfully. Third\, the (re)production process of national(ist) discourses on Sina Weibo and bilibili depends upon not only technical affordances and limitations of the two sites but also\, to a larger degree\, some established socio-political mechanisms and conventions in offline China. \nBiographies\nDr. Laia Darder & Dr. Alex Marshall\nAlex Marshall is a Senior Lecturer in German at Sheffield Hallam University. Following an undergraduate degree in French and German at the University of Edinburgh\, he completed a doctorate at the University of Oxford on early Political Zionist concepts of nationhood. He has also worked for several years in the TEFL industry. His publications include Theodor Herzl: Comedy and Politics Mix for Zeteo journal and a chapter on the early communist and proto-Zionist Moses Hess for the collection Nationalism before the Nation-State: Literary Constructions of Inclusion\, Exclusion\, and Self-Definition (1756–1871). \nDr Anastasia Mitrofanova\nAnastasia V. Mitrofanova (born 1973) is Leading Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2019); Professor at the Financial University under the Government of Russia. She received her M.A. (1994) and Ph.D. (1998) from the Department of Philosophy of the Moscow State University\, and her Dr.habilitat degree from the Diplomatic Academy of the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Russia (2005). Mitrofanova’s research interests include: religious politicisation\, fundamentalism\, Orthodox Christianity and politics\, nationalism in postsoviet states\, social movements\, late Soviet and postsoviet society\, memory politics. Main publications: Politizatsiia ‘pravoslavnogo mira’ (Moskva: Nauka\, 2004); The Politicization of Russian Orthodoxy: Actors and Ideas (Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag\, 2005). \nZhiwei Wang \nZhiwei is a third-year PhD student in Sociology at the School of Social and Political Science\, University of Edinburgh. His research interests include nations\, nationalism and national identity; digital media and social media; cyberpunk culture; biopower and biopolitics; digital health; social capital; Marxism; neoliberalism; digital labour; agency and structure; surveillance; deviance; East Asia; and China. The topic of his PhD research is discursive (re)production of Internet-mediated Chinese national identity\, which assesses how Chinese national identity is discursively (re)generated by socio-political actors (especially ordinary users) on China’s Internet. Zhiwei obtained an MA in Digital Media and Society from the University of Sheffield and a Bachelor of Literature in English (International Trade) from Hefei University of Technology. His publication is ‘How the State Builds Collective Identity through the Mass Media? Reading Media\, State and Nation: Political Violence and Collective Identities (in Chinese)’ and ‘Jasper M. Trautsch (ed.)\, Civic Nationalisms in Global Perspective. Routledge\, 2019. viii + 213 pp. £36.99 (ebk)\, £36.99 (pbk)\, £120.00 (hbk)\, DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315099002 . His PhD project was awarded the 3rd place of the Management & Social Sciences category of the 11th Doctoral Research Awards (DRA) (UK) organised by the Association of British Turkish Academics (ABTA) on 10th September 2022. \nPlease click here to register for the symposium.
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SUMMARY:Denisa Kostovicova | Reconciliation by Stealth: how people talk about war crimes
DESCRIPTION:We sit down with Prof. Denisa Kostovicova (LSE) to discuss her new book\, “Reconciliation by Stealth: how people talk about war crimes”. Join us live on Facebook and YouTube; members will receive an invitation to join the Zoom call. \nReconciliation by Stealth is available open access to download from Cornell University Press as an ebook for free. \nAbout Reconciliation by Stealth\nReconciliation by Stealth advances a novel approach to evaluating the effects of transitional justice in postconflict societies. Through her examination of the Balkan conflicts\, Denisa Kostovicova asks what happens when former adversaries discuss legacies of violence and atrocity\, and whether it is possible to do so without further deepening animosities. Reconciliation by Stealth shifts our attention from what people say about war crimes\, to how they deliberate past wrongs. \nBringing together theories of democratic deliberation and peacebuilding\, Kostovicova demonstrates how people from opposing ethnic groups reconcile through reasoned\, respectful\, and empathetic deliberation about a difficult legacy. She finds that expression of ethnic difference plays a role in good-quality deliberation across ethnic lines\, while revealed intraethnic divisions help deliberators expand moral horizons previously narrowed by conflict. In the process\, people forge bonds of solidarity and offset divisive identity politics that bears upon their deliberations. \nReconciliation by Stealth shows us the importance of theoretical and methodological innovation in capturing how transitional justice can promote reconciliation\, and points to the untapped potential of deliberative problem-solving to repair relationships fractured by conflict. \nAbout Denisa\nDenisa Kostovicova is Associate Professor in Global Politics at the European Institute\, London School of Economics\, and is a leading scholar of post-conflict reconstruction with a particular interest in post-conflict justice processes. She is the author of Kosovo: The Politics of Identity and Space (Routledge\, 2005) and Reconciliation by Stealth: How People Talk about War Crimes (Cornell University Press\, forthcoming)\, and co-editor of a number edited volumes\, including Transnationalism in the Balkans (Routledge\, 2008)\, Persistent State Weakness in the Global Age (Ashgate 2009)\, Bottom up Politics: An Agency-Centred Approach to Globalisation (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2011)\, Civil Society and Transitions in the Western Balkans (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2013)\, and Rethinking Reconciliation and Transitional Justice After Conflict (Routlege\, 2018). Her work\, which has also been published in top political science and international relations journals\, has informed policy-making at the EU\, UN and in the UK. Dr Kostovicova’s research was funded by a number of prestigious grants\, including those by the Leverhulme Trust\, MacArthur Foundation and Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)\, among others. She is currently directing a major research programme funded by the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant\, “Justice Interactions and Peacebuilding: From Static to Dynamic Discourses Across National\, Ethnic\, Gender and Age Groups.” She has a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining LSE\, she held junior research fellowships at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford.
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SUMMARY:Harris Mylonas and Maya Tudor | Varieties of Nationalism
DESCRIPTION:We sit down with Harris Mylonas and Maya Tudor to discuss their new book\, Varieties of Nationalism. Join us live on Facebook and YouTube; members will receive an invitation to join on Zoom. \nAbout Varieties of Nationalism\nNationalism has long been a normatively and empirically contested concept\, associated with democratic revolutions and public goods provision\, but also with xenophobia\, genocide\, and wars. Moving beyond facile distinctions between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ nationalisms\, the authors argue that nationalism is an empirically variegated ideology. Definitional disagreements\, Eurocentric conceptualizations\, and linear associations between ethnicity and nationalism have hampered our ability to synthesize insights. This Element proposes that nationalism can be broken down productively into parts based on three key questions: (1) Does a nation exist? (2) How do national narratives vary? (3) When do national narratives matter? The answers to these questions generate five dimensions along which nationalism varies: elite fragmentation and popular fragmentation of national communities; ascriptiveness and thickness of national narratives; and salience of national identities. \nAbout Harris\nHarris Mylonas is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs\, George Washington University. His work contributes to the understanding of states’ management of diversity that may originate from national minorities\, immigrants\, diasporas\, or refugees. He is particularly interested in the role of decision makers’ perceptions about foreign involvement in their domestic affairs and the impact these perceptions have on the planning and implementation of state policies. He is teaching undergraduate courses on Nationalism\, Patriotism\, and European Integration\, and graduate courses on Nation-Building in the Balkans\, Nationalism and Nation-Building\, and Qualitative Research Methods. \nRead more about Harris at GWU or follow him on Twitter. \nAbout Maya\nMaya Tudor is Associate Professor of Government and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government\, University of Oxford. Her research investigates the origins of stable\, democratic and effective states across the developing world\, with a particular emphasis on South Asia. She was educated at Stanford University (BA in Economics) and Princeton University (MPA in Development Studies and PhD in Politics and Public Policy). She has held fellowships at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs\, Oxford University’s Centre for the Study of Inequality and Democracy\, and Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. \nRead more about Maya at Oxford or follow her on Twitter.
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SUMMARY:Historical Memory in Greece
DESCRIPTION:Join us on 29th November as we sit down to discuss Christina Koulouri’s new book\, Historical Memory in Greece 1821-1930\, with the author herself\, Maria Kaliambou\, Rainer Liedtke\, and Athena Leoussi. We’ll be live on YouTube and Facebook; members will receive an invitation to join the Zoom call. \nAbout Historical Memory in Greece\nHistorical Memory in Greece presents a social and cultural history of collective memory in modern Greece during the first century of state independence\, contributing to the debate over the relationship between memory and identity. We’ll be live on YouTube and Facebook; members will receive an email to join the Zoom call. \nIt discusses how modern Greek society commemorated its distant and recent pasts\, both real and imagined\, namely antiquity\, Byzantium\, the Greek Revolution and the Asia Minor Catastrophe; how cultural memory was shaped by the various war experiences (victory\, defeat\, mass death and mourning\, refugeedom); and how memory politics became arenas of social and political strife. Historical painting\, monuments\, historical pageantry\, tableaux vivants\, national anniversaries\, performances of ancient drama and revivals of ancient games are analyzed as instances where the past was visualized\, represented\, performed and “consumed”. \nAn explosion in public history has taken place over the last decades around the world\, with a veritable flood of commemorations\, anniversaries and “memory wars”. As more and more social groups claim the “right to remember”\, public discourse and polemics have arisen at the same time that traumatic memory has become a field of international academic research. In the arena of public history\, historical memory is being constructed through the sentimental\, irrational reception of mythological narratives told through images. \nHistorical Memory in Greece is published by Routledge. \nAbout Christina Koulouri\nChristina Koulouri is Professor in Modern and Contemporary History and Rector of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Athens\, Greece). From 2013-2017 she was the Dean of the School of Political Sciences\, Panteion University. She studied at the University of Athens (Department of History and Archaeology)\, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and Paris I – Panthéon – Sorbonne where she also received her PhD. She was Visiting Research Fellow at Université de Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne (2010)\, Princeton University (2017) and the University of Regensburg (2019). Awarded with the Nikos Svoronos Prize (1993)\, the Delphi Prize (2012)\, and the Vikelas Plaque (2018). Author of several books and articles on the teaching of history\, the history of historiography\, national identity\, memory\, public history\, and the history of sports and the Olympic Games. Her last book (2020) received the National Essay Prize in Greece. \nAbout Maria Kaliambou\nMaria Kaliambou is Senior Lector at the Hellenic Studies Program at Yale University. She earned her B.A. in History and Archaeology at the University of Thessaloniki\, Greece\, and her Ph.D. in European Ethnology/Folklore Studies at the University of Munich\, Germany. She held post-doctoral positions at the University Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3 and at Princeton University. In 2006\, her dissertation received the Lutz Röhrich Prize in Germany as the best dissertation in oral literature\, and in 2011 the European Commission elected her the Erasmus Student Ambassador of Greece. Her research focuses on the dialogue between folklore and book history\, particularly in the diaspora. She is also interested in foreign language pedagogy\, especially the teaching of Modern Greek. She publishes in Greek\, German and English. In 2006 she published her first monograph with the title Home – Faith – Family: Transmission of Values in Greek Popular Booklets of Tales (1870-1970) (in German). In 2015 she published The Routledge Modern Greek Reader\, Greek Folktales for Learning Modern Greek\, Routledge\, an anthology of Greek folktales for the foreign language classroom. In 2023 her edited volume “The Greek Revolution and the Greek Diaspora in the United States” was published both in English (Routledge) and in Greek (Asini). She is currently working on her next monograph\, tentatively titled “The Book Culture of Greek Americans”. \nAbout Rainer Liedtke\nRainer Liedtke is Professor of European History of the 19th and 20th Centuries at Regensburg. Since October 2014\, holder of a W3 professorship in European History of the 19th and 20th Centuries at Universität Regensburg. 2013-2014 research associate at the Institute of History of TU Darmstadt. 2013 interim professor (representative of Prof. Dr. med. Jens-Ivo Engels) at the Institute of History of TU Darmstadt. 2009-2013 visiting professor and research assistant at the Institute of History of the TU Darmstadt and associate professor at the Historical Institute of the Justus-Liebig-University-Gießen. 2006-2009 Research associate and associate professor at the Historical Institute of the Justus-Liebig-Universität-Gießen\, DFG project: “Zivilgesellschaft und familiäre Regulationsmechanismen: Die Großstadtwerdung Athens im 20. Jahrhundert als Testfall für das Konzept der ‘europäischen Stadt”. 2004-2006 interim assistant professor at the Department of History of Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel (Chair Prof. Dr. Christoph Cornelißen) and private lecturer at the Historical Institute of Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. 2004 habilitation in modern and recent history at the Justus Liebig Universität Gießen on “Kommunikationswege und Informationstransfer im europäischen Privatbankwesen des 19. Jahrhunderts”. 1991-95 doctoral thesis in modern history at St. Antony’s College\, Oxford University: “Jewish Welfare in Hamburg and Manchester\, 1850-1914”. \nAbout Athena Leoussi (chair)\nAthena Leoussi is a founder of ASEN and currently a member of the steering committee\, having held various other roles in ASEN and with Nations and Nationalism\, of which she is a Founder Editor. Her teaching and research interests include the history\, theories and problems of nationalism and national identity; the comparative study of the peoples of Europe\, including their political and cultural histories and contacts; the representation of national identity in art; race\, anti-semitism and national identity in 19th Century Europe; and the role of the classical tradition in the making of modern national identities. As a result of her research interest in in the revival of the classical Greek body in modern Europe\, she organised\, together with Ian Jenkins\, the British Museum exhibition\, ‘Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greek Art’.
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SUMMARY:Eviane Leidig | The women of the far right: social media influencers and online radicalisation
DESCRIPTION:We sit down with Dr Eviane Leidig\, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Tilburg University\, to discuss her new book\, The women of the far right: social media influencers and online radicalisation. Join us live on Facebook and YouTube; members will receive an invitation to join on Zoom. \nAbout The Women of the Far Right\nEviane Leidig offers an in-depth look into the world of far-right women influencers\, exploring the digital lives they cultivate as they seek new recruits for white nationalism. Going beyond stereotypes of the typical male white supremacist\, she uncovers how young\, attractive women are playing key roles as propagandists\, organizers\, fundraisers\, and entrepreneurs. Leidig argues that far-right women are marketing themselves as authentic and accessible in order to reach new followers and spread a hateful ideology. This insidious—and highly gendered—strategy takes advantage of the structure of social media platforms\, where far-right women influencers’ content is shared with and promoted to mainstream audiences. Providing much-needed expertise on gender and the far right\, this timely and accessible book also details online and offline approaches to countering extremism. The Women of the Far Right is published by Columbia University Press. \nAbout Eviane Leidig\nEviane Leidig is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at Tilburg University. She is affiliated with the Center for Research on Extremism at the University of Oslo\, the Global Network on Extremism and Technology in London\, and the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism in The Hague. She has been featured by The Independent\, Al Jazeera\, BBC\, Australia Broadcasting Corporation\, and Bellingcat\, among others. \nRead more about Eviane at her website or follow her on Twitter.
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SUMMARY:Defensive Nationalism: explaining the rise of populism and fascism in the 21st century
DESCRIPTION:Daphne Halikiopoulou sits down with Beth Rabinowitz to discuss her new book\, Defensive Nationalism: explaining the rise of populism and fascism in the 21st century\, published with Oxford University Press. As ever\, we’ll be live on Facebook and YouTube\, with members receiving an invite to join on Zoom. \nHandouts\nFlow Chart | Table 1 \nAbout Defensive Nationalism\nWhy have atavistic political ideologies taken hold in the most technologically advanced societies? Defensive Nationalism argues that the irrationalism and hatred that marked the early 20th is recurring in the 21st centuries\, and for the same reasons. Combining Karl Polanyi’s concept of the “double movement” with Joseph Schumpeter’s theory of innovation\, the book traces how the explosive politics of both eras stem from the very technological changes that brought humankind to its highest levels of sophistication. In the mid-19th century\, it was railroads\, steam ships\, automated printing presses\, and telegraphy; in the mid-20th century\, turbo jets\, container ships\, satellites\, and computers. These magical modern innovations seemed to hold the promise of global peace and prosperity. But the mid-century liberal trust in international cooperation was quickly eclipsed by something much darker. The new economies of speed and scale created by the Industrial and Digital Revolutions dislodged the moorings of societies. Countries were made vulnerable to global economic crises\, existing systems of production were uprooted\, mass migrations accelerated\, and uniquely modern forms of mass media threatened the social and political order. These same changes also produced never-before-seen modes of international terrorism—anarchist bombings and assassinations in the late-eighteen hundreds\, and Islamist suicide bombings and beheadings in the late-nineteen hundreds. Political actors were able to capitalize on the growing disorientation and fear. Nations began to turn inward as left-wing populist and right-wing proto-fascist movements took hold across the United States and Europe. An era of “defensive nationalism” had commenced. \nAbout Beth Rabinowitz\nBeth is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers. Her research interests cross a number of areas\, including political institutions\, political leadership\, comparative political economy\, nationalism and ethnic conflict\, military institutionalization\, decentralization\, and state building. \nA diverse set of experiences have shaped her approach to research. In the early 1990s I backpacked around Africa for sixteen months. She was most affected by my experiences in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo)\, where she spent three months in the interior and witnessed some of the effects of a failed State. She saw highways that had decayed into mud traps\, banks with no currency\, and an economy so decimated that urban workers were forced to ‘return’ to the bush to grow crops to sell in Kinshasa with no knowledge of how to live do so. She found myself asking: How could a State just crumble away? She wanted to understand how to place what I had seen: what was ‘African\,’ what was ‘colonial heritage\,’ and what was ‘neo-imperialism.’ When she began graduate studies at the University of Chicago\, she found myself drawn to all courses on Africa. \nHer extensive travels and exposure to different disciplines (with my undergraduate studies in philosophy and my interdisciplinary Masters studies) solidified my conviction that the evolution of political systems must be understood in terms of the cultural and institutional contexts in which they develop. However\, as my knowledge of African politics evolved\, I came to see that institutional analyses were not effectively accounting for different political outcomes in the region. I have since tried to develop an approach that draws upon both historical institutionalism as well as analyses of leadership and agency. \nAbout Daphne Halikiopoulou\nDaphne Halikiopoulou is Chair in Comparative Politics at the University of York\, having previously been Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Reading. She gained her PhD from LSE (2007) where she also worked as a Fellow in Comparative Politics (2009-2012). \nDaphne is interested in party politics and voting behaviour with a focus on the far right\, populism and nationalism in Europe. She is the author of Understanding right-wing populism and what to do about it (with Tim Vlandas)\, The Golden Dawn’s ‘Nationalist Solution’: explaining the rise of the far right in Greece (with Sofia Vasilopoulou) and numerous articles on European far right parties. Her research appears in the European Journal of Political Research\, West European Politics\, Journal of Common Market Studies\, European Political Science Review\, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies\, Government and Opposition\, Environmental Politics and Nations and Nationalism among others. Her article ‘Risks\, Costs and Labour Markets: Explaining Cross-National Patterns of Far-Right Party Success in European Parliament Elections’ (with Tim Vlandas) has been awarded Best Paper from the American Political Science Association (APSA).
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SUMMARY:The Greek Revolution in the Age of Revolution
DESCRIPTION:This event is free and open to all\, but pre-registration is required. Please email us to register. \nJoin Paschalis Kitromilides\, John Hutchinson\, and Athena Leoussi to discuss Paschalis’s book\, The Greek Revolution in the Age of Revolutions (1776-1848). The event takes places on 5th February from 1800 at the Graham Wallas Room\, LSE\, and will be streamed live on Facebook and YouTube. \nAbout the book\nThis volume aims to demonstrate the significance of the Greek liberation struggle to international history\, and to highlight how it was a turning point that signalled the revival of revolution in Europe after the defeat of the French Revolution in 1815. It argues that the sacrifices of rebellious Greeks paved the way for other resistance movements in European politics\, culminating in the ‘spring of European peoples’ in 1848. Richly researched and innovative in approach\, this volume also considers the diplomatic and transnational aspects of the insurrection\, and examines hitherto unexplored dimensions of revolutionary change in the Greek world. The Greek Revolution in the Age of Revolutions (1776-1848) is published by Routledge. \nAbout the speakers\nPaschalis Kitromilides is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Athens and a member of the Academy of Athens\, where he holds the chair of the History of Political Thought. He has held visiting appointments at Harvard and Brandeis Universities\, University of Cambridge\, University of Oxford\, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales\, and the European University Institute. The author of more than fifty books and two hundred and sixty articles\, his works have been published in Russian\, Romanian\, Serbian\, and Bulgarian as well as English and Greek.\n\nAthena Leoussi is Associate Professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of Reading and a Visiting Senior Fellow in the Government Department at the LSE. She is a founder of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism and a founding editor of Nations and Nationalism. Her research interests include the history\, theories and problems of nationalism and national identity; the comparative study of the peoples of Europe\, including their political and cultural histories and contacts; the representation of national identity in art; race\, anti-semitism and national identity in 19th Century Europe; and the role of the classical tradition in the making of modern national identities. She organised\, together with Ian Jenkins\, the British Museum exhibition\, ‘Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greek Art’.\n\nJohn Hutchinson is Reader in Nationalism at the LSE. He has authored and edited eleven books in the field of Nationalism\, including The Dynamics of Cultural Nationalism (1987)\, Modern Nationalism (1994) and Nations as Zones of Conflict (2005) and Nationalism and War (2017)\, which was nominated for the ENMISA book prize and the Hedley Bull Book Prize in International Relations. He is currently Vice-President of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism and Co-Editor-in Chief of Nations and Nationalism. In addition\, he sits on the advisory boards of the Institute for the Advancement of the Social Sciences\, Boston University\, and of the Study Platform on Interlocking Nationalisms\, University of Amsterdam. He is working on a book\, provisionally entitled ‘The Herderian Explosion’.\n 
URL:https://asen.ac.uk/event/greekrev/
LOCATION:Graham Wallas Room LSE\, LSE\, Houghton Street\, London\, WC2A 2AE\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The Army\, the Nation\, Nuclear Annihilation
DESCRIPTION: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 receive a link to join on Zoom. \nAbstract\nBeginning in the Cold War\, joint training exercises between the German and US armies involved tens of thousands of soldiers\, colliding in imaginative play of plausible WW3 scenarios on the open fields and farms of West Germany. Proceeding from the reports and recollections of the two officer corps\, I contend that ‘Western’ identity in the military context of NATO exercises was not principally the product of Christian conviviality\, shared democratic ethos (Winkler\, 2007)\, or civilisational public rhetoric (Jackson\, 2006). Rather\, I call attention to precise military tactics and operational assumptions employed by both armies to construct mock war. By interrogating the underlying logic of training exercises\, I argue that the army as the ‘people in arms’ (Moran and Waldron\, 2003) embodied the German and American nations through their (re)enactment of World War 3. When the US Army trained in defending Germany\, the American nation incrementally embraced the identity of the preponderant superpower (Bavaj and Steber\, 2015). Conversely\, mock war  compelled Germans\, for the first time in the 20th century\, to surrender national notions of self reliance. Both nations adopted the standpoint of shared security and the ‘coupling of fates’ as an essential pillar of the Atlantic pact. Through the recurring rehearsal of exercises\, ‘Western’ identity emerges in this context as synthetic\, ultimately channeled through lenses of German and American national identity. \nAbout Jack\nJon-Wyatt ‘Jack’ Matlack is a PhD student at the GSOSES and a doctoral researcher at the Leibniz ScienceCampus at the University of Regensburg. He received the 2023 Anthony D. Smith Visiting Fellowship at LSE IDEAS for his research proposal\, “Maneuvering Westward”\, concerning training exercises of the US Army and German Army in the Cold War. \nFor more information about the Anthony D. Smith Visiting Fellowship\, please visit asen.ac.uk/smith.
URL:https://asen.ac.uk/event/matlack/
LOCATION:PAN9.05\, Pankhurst House\, LSE\, 1 Clement's Inn\, London\, WC2A 2AZ\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The new nationalism in America and beyond
DESCRIPTION: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. \nOur speakers\, Sophie Duchesne\, Philip Gorski and Cynthia Miller-Idriss join the authors\, Robert Schertzer and Eric Woods\, for a debate on their book which analyses the social media campaigns of Donald Trump\, Marine Le Pen\, and the Brexit campaigners\, showing how today’s new nationalists are cultivating support from white majorities by tapping into their history and culture. \nAcross the West\, there has been a resurgence of ethnic nationalism\, populism\, and anti-immigrant sentiment – a phenomenon that many commentators have called the “new nationalism.” In The New Nationalism in America and Beyond\, Robert Schertzer and Eric Taylor Woods seek to understand why the bastions of liberalism are proving to be fertile ground for a decidedly illiberal ideology. To do so\, they examine the social media campaigns of three of the most successful exemplars of the new nationalism: Donald Trump in the US\, Marine Le Pen in France\, and Brexit in the UK. Schertzer and Woods show how today’s new nationalists are cultivating support from white majorities by drawing from long-standing myths and symbols to construct an image of the nation as an ethnic community. Their cutting-edge and multidisciplinary approach combines elements of political science\, sociology\, history\, and communication and media studies\, to show how leaders today are updating the historical foundations of ethnic nationalism for the digital age. \nMeet the speakers and chair \nSophie Duchesne is a political sociologist at CNRS / Centre Emile Durkheim\, Sciences Po Bordeaux. Her research is in citizenship and individualism\, and national and European identities. She published “Citoyenneté à la Française” (Paris\, Presses de Sciences). \nPhilip S. Gorski (Ph.D. University of California\, Berkeley 1996) is a comparative-historical sociologist with strong interests in theory and methods and in modern and early modern Europe. His empirical work focuses on topics such as state-formation\, nationalism\, revolution\, economic development and secularization with particular attention to the interaction of religion and politics. Other current interests include the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences and the nature and role of rationality in social life. Among his recent publications are “The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Growth of State Power in Early Modern Europe” (Chicago\, 2003); “Max Weber’s Economy and Society: A Critical Companio”n (Stanford\, 2004); and “The Poverty of Deductivism: A Constructive Realist Model of Sociological Explanation\,” Sociological Methodology\, 2004. Philip Gorski co-runs the Religion and Politics Colloquium at the Yale MacMillan Center \nCynthia Miller-Idriss is a sociologist and professor in the School of Public Affairs and in the School of Education\, American University and runs the Polarization and Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL). Dr. Miller-Idriss has testified several times before the U.S. Congress and regularly briefs policy\, security\, education and intelligence agencies in the U.S.\, the United Nations\, and other countries on trends in domestic violent extremism and strategies for prevention and disengagement. She is the author\, co-author\, or co-editor of six academic books\, including her most recent books “Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right” (Princeton University Press\, 2020) and “The Extreme Gone Mainstream: Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany” (Princeton University Press\, 2018). She has also published over one hundred peer-reviewed articles\, book chapters\, and essays on nationalism\, extremism\, education\, higher education and internationalization. \nRobert Schertzer is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Political Science at the University of Toronto and UTSC. His research and teaching focus on the intersections of three areas: federalism\, judicial politics\, and ethno-national diversity\, with a tendency to look at Canada from a broadly comparative perspective. He is the author of “The Judicial Role in a Diverse Federation: Lessons from the Supreme Court of Canada” (University of Toronto Press\, 2016) and “The New Nationalism in American and Beyond” (Oxford University Press\, 2022\, with Eric Taylor Woods). His work has been published in Nations and Nationalism\, Ethnic and Racial Studies\, the Canadian Journal of Political Science\, Publius\, and the International Journal of Constitutional Law. He is also the founding co-editor of The State of Nationalism\, an open-access portal for review articles on the study of nationalism. \nEric T. Woods is an Associate Professor in Sociology\, School of Society and Culture at the University of Plymouth.  His research and teaching examines the intersections of politics\, culture\, and media – with a particular focus on how these phenomena relate to nationalism.  His most recent book (co-authored with Dr Robert Schertzer) is entitled\, ‘The New Nationalism in America and Beyond: The Deep Roots of Ethnic Nationalism in the Digital Age‘ (Oxford University Press\, 2022).  He also researched the cultural politics of Britain’s imperial past\, and he has published extensively on Christian-Indigenous relations in Canada\, including the 2016 book\, ‘A Cultural Sociology of Anglican Mission and the Indian Residential Schools in Canada‘ (Palgrave\, 2016). He has also edited several multi-author volumes on these topics\, including on the role of rituals in the forging of nations; the potential for cultural sociology to shed new light on nationalism; and on nationalism and conflict management. Alongside his scholarly publications\, he is keen to contribute to public debates through venues such as The Conversation and LSE Blogs. \nElliott Green is Professor in Development Studies in the Department of International Development at the LSE. He is currently Director of the department’s PhD program and convener of the MSc Course ‘Key Issues in Development Studies’ (DV442). Elliott has three main research areas: 1) ethnic politics and national identity in Africa\, 2) patronage\, clientelism and African development\, and 3) the political demography of modern Africa.  He has conducted fieldwork in Uganda\, Tanzania and Botswana\, and for several years taught a course entitled ‘Poverty and Development’ at the annual LSE-University of Cape Town Summer School. His research has published in a variety of academic journals\, including the British Journal of Political Science\, Comparative Politics\, Economic Development and Cultural Change\, International Studies Quarterly\, Journal of Modern African Studies\, Studies in Comparative International Development and World Development\, among others.  He currently sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Development Studies\, Nations and Nationalism and Regional and Federal Studies\, and is a series editor for the book series “Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa” published by the International Africa Institute.  Outside academia he has briefed the British High Commissioner to Uganda twice (in 2008 and 2010) and regularly writes blog entries for a variety of websites. \nMore information about the event \nThe book can be purchased in physical format via online bookshops such as Book depository: New-Nationalism-America-Beyond. \nThis event is hosted by LSE IDEAS and Nations and Nationalism \nEvent hashtag: #LSENewNationalism \nLSE IDEAS (@lseideas) is LSE’s foreign policy think tank. Through sustained engagement with policymakers and opinion-formers\, IDEAS provides a forum that informs policy debate and connects academic research with the practice of diplomacy and strategy. \nNations and Nationalism (@nationalism) is published on behalf of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) in partnership with LSE IDEAS. The journal is published quarterly by Wiley.
URL:https://asen.ac.uk/event/nn24/
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SUMMARY:Michael Hechter: Status Reversal and its Discontents
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe lecture will take place in the Violet Laidlaw Room\, 6th Floor\, Chrystal MacMillan Building\, 15a George Square\, Edinburgh EH8 9LD – check back soon for a link for free tickets. \nWe will also be livestreaming the event on Facebook and YouTube. \nAbout Michael Hechter\nMichael Hechter received both his AB and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences\, Foundation Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University and a core faculty member of the Center for the Study of Social Dynamics and Complexity. Hechter has previously taught at the Universities of Washington\, Arizona\, Oxford and Copenhagen. He has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences and the Russell Sage Foundation\, and was a visiting professor at the Universities of Bergen and Llubljana. \nHechter is the author of numerous books\, including Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development\, 1536-1966 (1975; 1998); Principles of Group Solidarity (1987); Containing Nationalism (2000)\, Alien Rule (2013)\, Rational Choice Sociology (2019)\, and\, with Steven Pfaff\, The Genesis of Rebellion (2020). He is editor/co-editor of The Microfoundations of Macrosociology (1983); Social Institutions: Their Emergence\, Maintenance and Effects (1990); The Origin of Values (1993); Social Norms (2001\, 2005); and Theories of Social Order (2003; 2008). His articles have appeared in the American Sociological Review\, American Journal of Sociology\, Demography\, Journal of Theoretical Politics\, Rationality and Society\, Sociological Theory\, European Sociological Review\, and many other journals. His writings have been translated into Italian\, Japanese\, Hungarian\, Chinese\, Arabic\, French\, Spanish\, Czech and Georgian. \nRead more about Michael on his website.
URL:https://asen.ac.uk/event/hechter/
LOCATION:Violet Laidlaw Room\, 6th Floor\, Chrystal MacMillan Building\, 15a George Square\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LD\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Conference 2024: Nationalism and Memory
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://asen.ac.uk/event/conference-2024-nationalism-and-memory/
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SUMMARY:Lars-Erik Cederman: The Anthony D. Smith Lecture 2024
DESCRIPTION: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’ \nThe Lecture is public and open to all\, and will be streamed on Facebook and YouTube. \nAbstract\nWhile it is often assumed that the core debates about nationalism were settled by modernist scholars already in the 1980s\, there are reasons to question this theoretical “consensus\,” especially since it fails to anticipate the nationalist geopolitics that is currently undermining the liberal world order. Contemporary studies of nationalism typically refrain from conceptualizing politics in spatial terms\, while overstating states’ ability to shape national identities irrespective of their ethnic roots\, and generally offering little systematic validation of their theoretical claims. To overcome these limitations\, it is useful to analyze how nationalism transforms the state\, rather than the other way around\, with major consequences for border change and conflict patterns. A recent EU-funded research project uses historical maps covering borders of states and ethnic groups in Europe to show how nationalism caused increasing congruence between state and ethno-national borders\, and how a lack of congruence increases the risk of conflict. This risk is further increased by “restorative” narratives targeting supposedly lost independence and unity. Further research traces the spread of nationalism through modernization processes driven by railroad expansion until the early 20th century. Yet it would be a mistake to conclude that state partition offers the only\, or even the best\, solution to nationality problems. Power sharing appears to pacify at least as well as ethno-nationalist border change. \nAbout Lars-Erik Cederman\nLars-Erik Cederman is professor of international conflict research at ETH Zürich. He is the author of Emergent Actors in World Politics: How States and Nations Develop and Dissolve (Princeton University Press\, 1997)\, and co-author of Inequality\, Grievances and Civil War (with Kristian Gleditsch and Halvard Buhaug; Cambridge University Press\, 2013)\, and Sharing Power\, Securing Peace? Ethnic Inclusion and Civil War (with Simon Hug and Julian Wucherpfennig; Cambridge University Press 2022). He has published many articles in scholarly journals\, such as the American Political Science Review\, American Journal of Political Science\, International Organization\, World Politics\, American Journal of Sociology\, and Science. His main research interests include nationalism\, state formation and conflict processes.
URL:https://asen.ac.uk/event/smith2024/
LOCATION:Teviot Lecture Theatre\, University of Edinburgh
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SUMMARY:How can ASEN hold an online conference?
DESCRIPTION: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 part. \nWe want to make such an online conference as useful as possible\, and that’s where you come in. To start the process\, we’d like to you what you think would work\, so we’re having a Zoom call to have the conversation\, ask what people would want at an online conference\, and see if we can make it work. \nThings we’re looking at include: \n\nis there a desire to have an online conference?\nshould the conference have a theme or be an open call for papers on nationalism?\nshould it be aimed at PhD students or more generally?\nhow long should the conference last and what should the schedule be?\nwhat do people expect in terms of technology?\nhow can we facilitate interaction outside of panels?\n\nPlus anything else you would like to cover! \nYou will need to register in advance at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUud-2vrDIrGdA4kNXh6grkpSB4MT2uhGh5. We are doing it as a drop-in\, so please come for as long or short a time as you like – we’re not expecting people to stay for the full two hours!
URL:https://asen.ac.uk/event/onlineconferencediscussion/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Summer School 2024
DESCRIPTION:The ASEN Summer School returns for its third year at the University of Zadar. Applications will open in November 2023.
URL:https://asen.ac.uk/event/summer-school-2024/
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SUMMARY:Nation-states and reactions to Covid in Europe
DESCRIPTION: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 this time in your city) – as ever\, we will be live on Facebook and YouTube. \nPlotting against our nation: COVID-19\, nationalisms\, and conspiracy theories in five European countries \nPro-social attitudes towards ethno-religious out-groups during the COVID-19 pandemic: A survey experiment in five countries \n“My Country First”: Vaccine Nationalism in England? \nHeroes\, villains and naked nations: micro-solidarity and grounded nationalism in times of crisis  \nCitations \nMalešević\, S.\, Uzelac\, G.\, Carol\, S.\, & David\, L. (2024). Plotting against our nation: COVID-19\, nationalisms\, and conspiracy theories in five European countries. National Identities\, 26(2)\, 141–171. \nCarol\, S.\, David\, L.\, Malešević\, S.\, & Uzelac\, G. (2024). Pro-social attitudes towards ethno-religious out-groups during the COVID-19 pandemic: A survey experiment in five countries. International Sociology\, 39(1)\, 113-137. \nUzelac\, G.\, Carol\, S.\, David\, L.\, & Malešević\, S. (2024). “My Country First”: Vaccine Nationalism in England? Nationalism and Ethnic Politics\, 30(3)\, 335–358. \nDavid\, L.\, Carol\, S.\, Malešević\, S.\, & Uzelac\, G. (2024). Heroes\, villains and naked nations: micro-solidarity and grounded nationalism in times of crisis. Ethnic and Racial Studies\, 1–22.
URL:https://asen.ac.uk/event/covid/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Nationalism: A World History
DESCRIPTION: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. \nAbout the book\nIn Nationalism\, historian Eric Storm sheds light on contemporary nationalist movements by exploring the global evolution of nationalism\, beginning with the rise of the nation-state in the eighteenth century through the revival of nationalist ideas in the present day. Storm traces the emergence of the unitary nation-state—which brought citizenship rights to some while excluding a multitude of “others”—and the pervasive spread of nationalist ideas through politics and culture. \nStorm shows how nationalism influences the arts and humanities\, mapping its dissemination through newspapers\, television\, and social media. Sports and tourism\, too\, have helped fashion a world of discrete nations\, each with its own character\, heroes\, and highlights. Nationalism saturates the physical environment\, not only in the form of national museums and patriotic statues but also in efforts to preserve cultural heritage\, create national parks\, invent ethnic dishes and beverages\, promote traditional building practices\, and cultivate native plants. Nationalism has even been used for selling cars\, furniture\, and fashion. \nBy tracing these tendencies across countries\, Storm shows that nationalism’s watershed moments were global. He argues that the rise of new nation-states was largely determined by shifts in the international context\, that the relationships between nation-states and their citizens largely developed according to global patterns\, and that worldwide intellectual trends influenced the nationalization of both culture and environment. Over the centuries\, nationalism has transformed both geopolitics and the everyday life of ordinary people. \nAbout Eric Storm \nEric Storm is associate professor of general history at Leiden University. He has been a visiting scholar at the University Complutense of Madrid\, Oxford University\, and the Free University in Berlin. He is the author of The Culture of Regionalism and The Discovery of El Greco and the coeditor of Writing the History of Nationalism\, Colonial Soldiers in Europe\, Regionalism in Modern Europe\, and World Fairs and the Global Moulding of National Identities.
URL:https://asen.ac.uk/event/storm/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Mechanisms of National Solidarity
DESCRIPTION: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 to join the Zoom call. \nThe themed section on ‘Mechanisms of National Solidarity’ explores key questions and challenges related to studying national solidarity as distinct from national identity. Focusing on the ‘how’ rather than the ‘what’\, this section highlights the importance of examining and theorising the social mechanisms that shape different manifestations of national solidarity. These mechanisms include interpersonal interactions\, social networks\, communicative processes\, socio-political institutions and iconic material objects. Additionally\, the introduction briefly outlines the six contributions in this section\, which examines specific solidarity mechanisms within particular national contexts. The contributions offer valuable insights into the study of nationhood and nationalism in both everyday life and public events\, helping to unravel the under-explored relationship between collective identity formation and the creation of solidarity. \nThe articles are:\nIntroduction – Danny Kaplan\nClubs and events: Two models of performance in studies of sport and national solidarity – Danny Kaplan\nBetween deep comradeship and nationalism: The social dynamics of solidarity on the battlefield – Siniša Malešević\nThe victims’ shoes trope and emerging solidarity in political protest – Lea David\nOrchestrating National Occasions: The formation of the Irish American athletic league in New York City (1904–1920) – Dan Lainer-Vos\nClapping the nation\, or\, from a global pandemic to national imaginaries via local solidarities – Jon Fox\nPerforming national practices of solidarity-through-sameness – Hizky Shoham
URL:https://asen.ac.uk/event/solidarity/
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SUMMARY:From Empire to Nation-State: Minority Rights in Estonia in the First Half of the 20th Century
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe talk will discuss new findings on the theoretical discussions and the implementation of non-territorial minority self-government in Estonia during the first half of the 20th century. Based on the principle of non-territorial autonomy\, Estonia introduced legislation in 1925 allowing minorities to establish self-government bodies to administer their cultural and educational affairs. This legislation was widely regarded as the most minority-friendly in interwar Europe. The talk will argue that this legislation and the debates surrounding it were a continuation of earlier discussions on the organisation of empires and the rights of nationalities\, with which theoreticians and politicians had intensively engaged in the Habsburg and Romanov empires. The talk will offer a fresh interpretation of the emergence and functioning of this minority protection system and show that the Estonian case was part of a transnational debate over the nature of modern statehood and the rights of nationalities. \nTimo Aava is a historian of modern Europe focusing on the history of political thought and minority rights. He holds a doctoral degree in history from the University of Vienna. He has held research positions at the Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, the Austrian Academy of Sciences\, the University of Vienna\, and the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies. In addition to the Anthony D. Smith Visiting Fellowship at LSE\, in the 2024-2025 academic year\, he will hold academic positions at Yale University and Harvard University.
URL:https://asen.ac.uk/event/estonia/
LOCATION:PAN 9.04\, LSE
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SUMMARY:Nationalism and cosmopolitanism in China
DESCRIPTION: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 Edinburgh or on Zoom (registration required for both). \nAbout the talk\nIn this talk\, I explore the intricate relationship between nationalism and cosmopolitanism and how they influence the discourse and practice of citizenship\, especially within Confucian education. I investigate the theoretical underpinnings of Confucian classical education and share insights from the teaching practices at a specific Confucian school\, showing how these elements come together to shape students into Confucian cosmopolitan citizens with a strong sense of Chinese national identity. Through this discussion\, I offer an insider perspective on how civic identity is nurtured within the Confucian tradition\, contributing to the broader shift toward post-orientalist understandings of citizenship. Ultimately\, I argue that Confucian education has the potential to enrich global conversations on citizenship by providing nuanced perspectives on the relationship between national identity and global awareness\, all within the unique context of China’s political and cultural environment. \nAbout the speaker\nCanglong Wang is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Brighton. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Edinburgh and has previously taught at the University of Hull and Birkbeck\, University of London. His research extensively explores the cultural\, social\, and political implications of the revival of Confucian education in contemporary China. He has a persistent research interest in the topic of Confucianism and citizenship in China. His work has been featured in many leading journals and edited volumes. He is the author of “The Rise of Confucian Citizens in China: Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Explorations” (Routledge\, 2023) and “Cultivating the Confucian Individual: The Confucian Education Revival in China” (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2023). As a guest editor\, Dr. Wang has successfully completed three Special Issues of journals\, including “Reconsidering Chinese Citizenship” for Citizenship Studies (2023)\, “Beyond the State’s Reach? Education and Citizen Making in China” for Social Transformations in Chinese Societies (2023)\, and “Reinventing Confucian Education in Contemporary China” for China Perspectives (2022).
URL:https://asen.ac.uk/event/natcoschina/
LOCATION:Violet Laidlaw Room\, 6th Floor\, Chrystal MacMillan Building\, 15a George Square\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LD\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:'Doing Nation' in a Digital Age: Banal Expressions of Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Polymedia Environments
DESCRIPTION:Sanja Vico discusses her new book\, ‘Doing Nation’ in a Digital Age Banal Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Polymedia Environments\, with Mirca Madianou\, Sandra Obradović\, and Birgül Yılmaz. We’ll be live on Facebook\, YouTube\, and Zoom on 7th April from 1730 – registration is required to join us on Zoom. \nThis is a joint event with the Centre for European Studies at the University of Exeter. \nAbout the book\nThis 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. \nDrawing 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. \nCovering 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. \nSanja Vico\nSanja Vico is a Lecturer (E&R) in Communications and Digital Media at the University of Exeter\, and a collaborator on the ERC-funded project Justice Interactions and Peacebuilding at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She received a PhD in Media and Communications from Goldsmiths\, University of London\, having previously graduated from the LSE and the Faculty of Political Sciences\, University of Belgrade. She has published on issues of digital media in contexts of migration\, identity\, nationalism\, cosmopolitanism\, post-conflict justice and reconciliation. Her monograph titled “‘Doing Nation’ in a Digital Age: Banal Expressions of Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Polymedia Environments” was published with Routledge in December 2024. She was awarded for her article “‘Globalised Difference’: Identity Politics on Social Media” by ECREA in 2019. \nMirca Madianou\nMirca Madianou is Professor in the Department of Media\, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths\, University of London. Her current research focuses on the social consequences of communication technologies\, infrastructures and artificial intelligence (AI) in a global south context especially in relation to migration and humanitarian emergencies. She is currently Principal Investigator on a British Academy grant on digital identity programmes in refugee camps in Thailand. Her latest book\, ‘Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful’ was published in November 2024. Earlier books include: Mediating the Nation: news\, audiences and the politics of identity\, and Migration and New Media: transnational families and polymedia. At Goldsmiths\, Mirca is academic co-director of the newly established Migrant Futures Institute and co-convenor of the Digital Culture Unit. \nSandra Obradović\nSandra Obradović is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the Open University and a researcher at the Electoral Psychology Observatory (EPO\, LSE). She completed her PhD in Social Psychology at the London School of Economics in the UK. She serves on the editorial board for the European Journal of Social Psychology. She specializes in researching how group identities and group boundaries are constructed\, mobilised and resisted\, and the consequences this has for political behaviour\, including in contexts of post-conflict societies\, populism\, polarization and elections. \nBirgül Yılmaz\nBirgül Yılmaz is Senior Lecturer in Intercultural Communication at the University of Exeter\, where she is one of the University Senators. She is a critical sociolinguist\, applied linguist\, and ethnographer conducting ethnographic and discourse analytic research projects that focus on language\, forced migration\, and everyday social inequalities in humanitarian settings. She has held research and teaching positions internationally\, with roles in Greece\, the UK\, the USA\, and Hong Kong. She was awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship\, during which she conducted an 18-month ethnography with refugees living in two neighbourhoods in Athens.
URL:https://asen.ac.uk/event/vico/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:ASEN Conference 2025: Nationalism and Borders
DESCRIPTION:Full information is at asen.ac.uk/conference.
URL:https://asen.ac.uk/event/conf2025/
LOCATION:Central European University\, Nador utca 15\, Budapest\, 1051\, Hungary
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