The Association for Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) would like to remind you to submit your abstract for its 22nd Annual Conference entitled:

Nationalism, Ethnicity and Boundaries

The conference will take place from the 27-29th March, 2012 at the London School of Economics.

Confirmed keynote speakers include: Rogers Brubaker, Miguel Centeno, Mary Fulbrook, Richard Jenkins, Michele Lamont and Wendy Pullan. There will also be workshops with Jon Fox, Michael Banton, Liam O'Dowd, James Anderson and Jennifer Todd.

Proposals are invited for papers focusing on the following themes:

Partition, secession and irredentism
The legality of boundaries and citizenship rules
Boundary surveillance and enforcement
Border controls, passports and identity documents
Territorial and non-territorial sub-national claims
Social and symbolic boundaries and everyday practices
Symbolic boundaries and identity formation
The mechanisms of boundary formation, transgression and change
Interactions between physical and symbolic boundaries

To submit your 250 word abstract, please follow this link:

http://www2.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/units/ASEN/Conference/Abstract.aspx

Successful submissions will be announced in December, 2011.