ASN 2011 Preliminary Program Now Available!

More than 140 Panels on the Balkans, Central Europe, Russia, Ukraine,
the Caucasus, Eurasia, Turkey, China, and Nationalism Studies

The preliminary program of the ASN 2011 World Convention can be
downloaded www.nationalities.org. Updated versions will be posted
regularly on the ASN website. The Convention, sponsored by the
Harriman Institute, will be held at Columbia University, New York, on
April 14-16, 2011.

**Registration fees are $70 for ASN members, $90 for nonmembers, $50
for students (and a special rate of $20 for nonpanelist graduate
students enrolled in New York area universities). The registration
form can be downloaded at www.nationalities.org. For registration
information, please contact Erin R. Carll (erinrcarll@gmail.com). For
general convention information, contact ASN Executive Director Gordon
N. Bardos (gnb12@columbia.edu or 212 854 8487)**

As always, the Convention boasts the most international lineup of
panelists of North American-based conventions, with more than half of
the 400+ scholars delivering papers, currently based outside of the
United States in nearly 50 countries. More than 750 panelists and
participants are expected at the Convention. The program features 140+
panels, including the screening of several new documentaries that will
be announced later.

A number of special panels are featured on the program, including a
presentation by Father Patrick Desbois, President of Yahad-in Unum in
Paris, on his multi-year project "The Holocaust by Bullets" in
Ukraine; a roundtable on the role of blogging in academic social
science, and a roundtable on the unity crisis currently experienced by
Belgium. In addition, the panel/workshop "How to Get an Article
Published," one of the most attended panels at the 2010 Convention,
will be making a repeat appearance, with the editors of Nationalities
Papers, Ethnopolitics, and Europe-Asia Studies. Several panels are
also adorn the three thematic sidebars of "History, Politics, and
Memory", "Ethnicity and Violence," and "Debating Self-Determination
after Kosovo."

These panels will enrich an exceptionally strong lineup of panels in
all regions of the former Communist world and Eurasia: Russia, the
Caucasus, Central Asia/Turkey/China, the Balkans, Ukraine and Central
Europe (including the Baltics and Moldova). Every year, the Program
Committee has to be more selective in devising the lineup, due to the
increasing number of proposals. Central Europe leads the way with 25
panels each, followed by the Balkans, with 20,  Central
Asia/China/Turkey--with a combined 18 panels, Russia--14, Ukraine and
Belarus--10, and the Caucasus--9. Thirteen panels appear in the
"Thematic" section. Recurrent themes on the program, other than the
sidebars, include War Tribunals, Post-Conflict, EU Enlargement,
Language, Ethnic Minorities, Foreign Policy and Diasporas.

In its most visible section, the Convention will be hosting twelve
special panels featuring new important books by Alfred Stepan, Juan
Linz and Yogenda Yadrav (Crafting State-Nations: India and Other
Multinational Democracies, Johns Hopkins 2011), Timothy Snyder
(Bloodlands, Basic 2010), Charles King (Odessa: Genius and Death in a
City of Dreams, Norton 2011), Christian Gerlach (Extremely Violent
Societies, Cambridge 2010), Fuat Dundar (Crime of Numbers: The Role of
Statistics in the Armenian Question, 1878-1918, Transaction 2010),
Larry Wolff (The Idea of Galicia, Stanford 2010), Scott Radnitz
(Weapons of the Wealthy: Predatory Regimes and Elite-Led Protests in
Central Asia, Cornell 2010), Elise Giuliano (Constructing Grievance:
Ethnic Nationalism in Russia's Republics, Cornell 2010), Nadav Shelef
(Evolving Nationalism: Homeland, Identity, and Religion in Israel,
1925-2005, Cornell 2010), Monika Baár (Historians and Nationalism:
East Central Europe in the Nineteenth Century, Oxford 2010), Lara
Nettelfield (Courting Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Columbia
2010), and Milica Uvalic (Serbia's Transition: Towards a Better
Future, Palgrave 2010).

Two of these book panels are part of the section "Nationalism
Studies", which offers a platform for the latest trends in nationalism
studies worldwide. Ten more panels appear in the Nationalism section,
such as "Historical Legacy in the Making of Boundaries, Loyalty and
Political Identity," "Power Sharing: Theory and Practice," and
"Multiethnic Societies".

Since 2005, the ASN Convention has acknowledged excellence in graduate
studies research by offering Awards for Best Doctoral Student Papers
in five sections: Russia/Ukraine/Caucasus, Eurasia/Turkey, Central
Europe, Balkans, and Nationalism Studies. The winners at the 2010
Convention were Marlene Spoerri (U of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) for
the Balkans, Cristian Cercel (Durham U, UK) for Central Europe, Nicole
Eaton (UC Berkeley, US) and Michal Simecka (U of Oxford, UK) for
Russia/Ukraine/Caucasus, and Mateusz Laszczkowski (Max Planck
Institute, Germany) for Central Eurasia/Turkey. More than a hundred
doctoral students will be eligible for the awards at the 2011 Convention.

For practical information regarding the convention, please contact
Gordon N. Bardos (gnb12@columbia.edu, 212 854 8487). For registration
information, please contact Erin R. Carll (erinrcarll@gmail.com). For
information on panels, please contact Dominique Arel (darel@uottawa.ca).

We look forward to seeing you at the convention!

Dominique Arel, ASN President
Gordon N. Bardos, Convention Executive Director

Erin R. Carll, Convention Director (Registration)
on behalf of the ASN Convention Organizing Committee