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Title: 23rd annual ASEN Conference: Nationalism and Revolution
Dates: 9-11 April 2013 (annual Ernest Gellner Lecture on the evening of the 8th April)
Location: London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom
Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 November 2012
The theme of the 23rd annual Association for the Study of Ethnicity & Nationalism Conference is Nationalism and Revolution. There are three broad perspectives at the conference, reflected by the plenary sessions on each of the three days. The first concerns itself with conceptual and theoretical issues concerning nationalism and revolution. The second looks at historical connections between nationalism and revolution. The third focuses on contemporary issues of nationalism and revolution. We welcome proposals from a range of disciplines including Political Theory, Political Science, Sociology, Social Theory, Social Anthropology, History, Economics, as well as those with interdisciplinary perspectives.
Paper proposals are invited on issues on or broadly related to any of the following themes:
CONCEPTUAL-THEORETICAL
Theories of nationalist revolution
Class conflict, nationalism and revolution
Popular nationalism and revolution
Nationalist ideology and revolution
Nationalist ideology and counter-revolution
Elite nationalism and revolution
HISTORICAL
Nationalism and the great revolutions (English, French, Russian, Chinese)
Revolutions and national liberation movements
Revolution and the diffusion of nationalism
Internationalism, nationalism and revolution
The art and media (printed, visual, etc.) of nationalism and revolution
CONTEMPORARY
Nationalism, revolution and the collapse of communism
Radical nationalism (left and right) as revolutionary e.g. European cases
Popular national resistance to dictatorship e.g. in the Middle East
State nationalism as anti-revolutionary
Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words by 30th November using the online form available at http://www2.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/units/ASEN/Conference/AbstractSubmission.aspx.
For further information on the conference, Gellner lecture, and/or ASEN, please visit http://www2.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/units/ASEN/Conference/Conference2013.aspx or contact the conference co-chairs Carys Moseley (C.Moseley@lse.ac.uk) and Pheroze Unwalla (P.Unwalla@lse.ac.uk).
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