[Bilimsel Haber] CONF. PROG.- ASN 2012, Columbia Univ., Apr. 19-21

[Gonul Pultar]

CONF. PROG.- ASN 2012, Columbia Univ., Apr. 19-21

Posted by: Dominique Arel <darel at uottawa.ca>



ASN 2012 Preliminary Program Now Available!

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

The preliminary program of the ASN 2012 World Convention can be 
downloaded at 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 
19-21, 2012.


**Registration fees are $80 for ASN members, $100 for nonmembers, $60 
for students (and a special rate of $30 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 Carll (erincarllasn at gmail.com). For 
general convention information, please contact ASN Convention Executive 
Director Lydia Hamilton (lch2111 at columbia.edu or 212 854 6239)**

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 150 
panels, including the screening of several new documentaries that will 
be announced later.

ASN is celebrating its 40th Anniversary in 2012 and a number of special 
events are planned for the occasion during the Convention. These events 
are not yet included in the preliminary program and will be announced later.

These program features 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. The Balkans section has the largest offering of 
panels this year, with 28, followed by Central Europe 20, Central 
Asia/China/Turkeya combined 19 panels, Ukraine and Belarus13, Russia 
(minus the Caucasus)11, and the Caucasus10. Fourteen panels appear in 
the "Nationalism" section. Several panels will adorn the three thematic 
sidebars of "History, Politics and Memory," "Ethnicity and Violence," 
and "Religion and Multiculturalism." Other recurrent themes on the 
program include War Tribunals, Post-Conflict, EU Enlargement, Language, 
Ethnic Minorities, Foreign Policy, Gender and Diasporas.

In its most visible section, the Convention will be hosting thirteen 
special panels featuring new important books by Timothy Snyder (with 
Tony Judt), Thinking the Twentieth Century (Penguin, 2012), Ron Suny et 
al, A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the 
Ottoman Empire (Oxford, 2011); Gail Kligman and Katherine Verdery, 
Peasants under Siege: The Collectivization of Agriculture in Romania, 
1949-1962 (Princeton, 2011); Roger Petersen, Western Intervention in the 
Balkans: The Strategic Use of Emotion in Conflict (Cambridge, 2011); 
Steve A. Barnes, Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of 
Soviet Society (Princeton, 2011); Oxana Shevel, Migration, Refugee 
Policy and State-Building in Postcommunist Europe (Cambridge, 2011); 
Ugur Umit Ungor, The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in 
Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950 (Oxford, 2011); Michael Khodarkovsky, Bitter 
Choices: Loyalty and Betrayal in the Russian Context of the North 
Caucasus (Cornell, 2011); William Jay Risch, The Ukrainian West: Culture 
and the Fate of Empire in Soviet Lviv (Harvard, 2011); Eric McGlinchey, 
Chaos, Violence, Dynasty: Politics, Islam in Central Asia (Pittsburgh, 
2011); Nina Caspersen, Unrecognized States: The Struggle for Sovereignty 
in the Modern International System (Polity, 2011), Alexander J. Motyl, 
The Jew Who Was Ukrainian (Cervena Barva, 2011), and Oded Haklai, 
Palestinian Ethnonationalism (Pennsylvania, 2011). A few of these book 
panels are still completed and will be included in the program later.

Two of these book panels are part of the section "Nationalism Studies", 
which offers a platform for the latest trends in nationalism studies 
worldwide. Fourteen more panels appear in the Nationalism section, such 
as "Ethnic Divides and Political Regimes," "Causes and Consequences of 
External Intervention in Ethnic Politics," "Framing the Nation in 
Radical Right Discourse," and "Political Myths about the Nation."

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 2011 Convention 
were Ljubica Spaskovska (U of Exeter, UK) for the Balkans; Christina 
Zuber (U of Cologne, Germany) for Central Europe; Kitty Lam (Michigan 
State U, US) for Russia/Ukraine/Caucasus; Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular 
(Columbia U, US) for Eurasia/Turkey; and Sarah Jenkins (U of 
Aberystwyth, UK) for Nationalism. More than a hundred doctoral students 
will be eligible for the awards at the 2012 Convention.

For practical information regarding the convention, please contact Lydia 
Hamilton (lch2111 at columbia.edu, 212 854 6239). For registration 
information, please contact Erin Carll (erinrcarllasn at gmail.com). For 
information on panels, please contact Dominique Arel (darel at uottawa.ca).

We look forward to seeing you at the convention!

Cordially,

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

Lydia Hamilton, ASN Convention Executive Director

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




Distrib. by: Central-Eurasia-L - Announcement List for Central Eurasian 
Studies