[Bilimsel Haber] CONF. PROGRAM- ASN 2006 World Convention Preliminary Program Now Online

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From: Dominique Arel <darel@uottawa.ca>


CONF. PROGRAM- ASN 2006 World Convention Preliminary Program Now Online

ASN 2006 Preliminary Program Now Online!

100 Panels, More than 300 Papers on Central Europe, Russia, Ukraine, The
Caucasus, Eurasia, Turkey, The Balkans, And Nationalism Studies

The preliminary program of the ASN 2006 World Convention is now 
available at:
http://www.nationalities.org/ASN_2006_Prelim_Program.pdf.

A registration form can also be downloaded at:
http://www.nationalities.org/ASN_2006_REGISTRATION_FORM.pdf

The Convention, sponsored by the Harriman Institute, will be held at 
Columbia
University, New York, March 23-25, 2006.

The program features 100 panels, not yet including up to ten film 
screenings to
be announced later. As usual, the Convention boasts the most international
lineup of panelists of North American-based conventions, with more than 
half of
the 307 scholars who will be delivering papers (54 percent, from 42 
countries,
the same numbers as last year) currently based outside of the United States.
More than 600 panelists and participants are expected at the convention.

The Convention will be hosting six special panels featuring new major 
books by
Rogers Brubaker (Ethnicity Without Groups, Harvard 2004), Yuri Slezkine (The
Jewish Century, Princeton 2005), Jack Snyder (Electing to Fight: Why 
Emerging
Democracies Go to War, MIT, 2005, co-written with Edward D. Mansfield), 
V. P.
"Chip" Gagnon, Jr., (The Myth of Ethnic War, Cornell 2004), Francine Hirsch
(Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet 
Union,
Cornell 2005), and Yoshiko Herrera (Imagined Economies, Cambridge 2005).

The Brubaker book panel is part of the section "Theories of 
Nationalism," now in
its third year at the ASN Convention, which offers a platform for the latest
trends in nationalism studies worldwide. "Nationalism" features eleven 
panels,
such as "The Causes of Violent Conflicts," "Nationalism and 
Self-Determination,"
"Asymmetric Federalism Unrivalled: The Institutional Design of Peace
Settlements," and "Nationalism in the Middle East." Charles Tilly, Paul 
Brass,
Michael Hechter, Roger Petersen, Andreas Wimmer and John McGarry will be 
among
the panelists.

The Convention is also introducing a "Romania Day" (Saturday March 25),
featuring four consecutive Romania-related panels, and the annual 
meeting of the
Society for Romanian Studies, which will be held at ASN for the first time.
These panels are part of a record number of seventeen panels for the Central
Europe section, six of which involving historians, a growing constituency at
ASN. The American Association of Ukrainian Studies will also hold its annual
meeting at ASN, amidst the large offering of Ukraine-related panels 
(thirteen).
A special roundtable on the March parliamentary elections in Ukraine, 
which will
take place the day after the convention closes, will be of the numerous
highlights of the Ukraine section.

As always, the Convention offers a strong lineup of panels in all 
regions of the
former Communist world and Eurasia: Russia, the Caucasus, Central 
Asia/Turkey,
the Balkans and, as mentioned above, Ukraine and Central Europe. Every 
year, the
Program Committee has to be more selective in devising the lineup, due 
to the
increasing number of proposals. Russia and the Caucasus will have a 
combined 13
panels, Eurasia and Turkey - a combined 15, the Balkans -a dozen. Thirteen
panels appear in the "Thematic" section.

Three panels on Oil Politics, a panel and a new documentary on Chechnya, two
panels on the Kurds, panels on Kosovo and the International Criminal 
Tribunal
for the former Yugoslavia, three panels on the Roma, three panels on the
"Colored Revolutions," and a panel on "Nationalism and Islam" are among the
highlights of the program.

The Convention will also feature a film lineup, which will be announced 
in late
February.

Since 2005, the ASN Convention is acknowledging excellence in graduate 
studies
research in offering Awards for Best Graduate Student Papers in five 
sections:
Russia/Ukraine/Caucasus, Central Asia/Eurasia, Central Europe, Balkans, and
Nationalism Studies. The winners at the 2005 Convention were Lisa 
Koriouchkina
(Brown U, Anthropology, Russia/Ukraine/Caucasus), Evangelos Liaras (MIT,
Political Science, Central Asia/Eurasia), Shannon Woodcock (U of Tirana,
Anthropology, Central Europe), Jessica Greenberg (U of Chicago, 
Anthropology,
Balkans), and Bijita Majumdar (Rutgers U, Sociology, Nationalism Studies).
Several dozens doctoral students will be eligible for awards at the 2006
Convention.

Central Eurasia-related panels at the 2006 Convention include:

Nation Building through Nation Destroying? Stalinism in Kazakhstan and
Kyrgyzstan
Local Politics and State-Building in Central Asia
Islam, Democracy, and the State in Central Asia
Ethnicity, Conflict, and Nationhood in Afghanistan
Kyrgyzstan Before and After the Tulips
Globalization, Capitalism, and Nationalism in Central Asia
Disputed Property and Conflict Resolution in Iraqi Kurdistan
Producing and Reproducing Identities in Central Asia
Ethnicity and Nation Building in Kazakhstan
State, Nation, and Economy in Uzbekistan
A Comparative Approach to the Study of Russian-Speakers in Central Asia
Freeze or Flux: Whither the Nagorny Karabakh Peace Process?
Between Integration and Resettlement: Meskhetian Turks
Theories of Conflict in the Caucasus
Conflict in Chechnya
Political Mobilization in the Caucasus
Ethnic Identities in the Caucasus
A Multi-Level Approach to Turkey's Kurdish Issue
Shifting State-Society Interaction in Turkey: Nationalism and Islamism
Identity in Motion: Turks and Turkey
The Kurdish Question in Comparative Perspective

We look forward to seeing you at the convention!

For practical information regarding the convention, please contact 
Gordon Bardos
(gnb12@columbia.edu, 212 854 8487). For information on panels, please 
contact
Dominique Arel (darel@uottawa.ca) or Sherrill Stroschein
(s.stroschein@ucl.ac.uk).

Dominique Arel, ASN President
Gordon N Bardos, Convention Director
Sherrill Stroschein, Program Chair

on behalf of the ASN Convention Organizing Committee




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