The Association for Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) is pleased to announce the call for papers for the 23rd ASEN Annual Conference: Nationalism and Revolution. The conference will take place from the 9-11th April, 2013 at the London School of Economics. All the information on the Call for Papers is available online (http://tinyurl.com/ASEN2013CFP) and you can submit your abstract here (http://tinyurl.com/ASEN2013abstract). Abstracts are accepted until November 30, 2012.

Confirmed keynote speakers include: John Breuilly, Charles King, John Lonsdale, Karma Nabulsi, Stein Tψnnesson and Sami Zubaida.

Proposals are invited for papers focusing on 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

Successful submissions will be announced in January 2013.

The ASEN conference team looks forward to reading your abstract!