17th Annual ASN World Convention
The Wages of Nationhood: Conflicts, Compromises, and Costs

International Affairs Building,
Columbia University, NY
Sponsored by the Harriman Institute
19-21 April 2012

140 panels on the Balkans, Central Europe and the Baltics, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Central Asia and Eurasia, the Caucasus, Turkey, China, and Nationalism Studies.

Including Special Sections on:

  • History, Politics, and Memory
  • Ethnicity and Violence
  • Religion and Multiculturalism

Thematic Panels on Islam and Politics, Genocide and Mass Killing, Language Politics, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Autonomy, Gender and Identity, EU Integration, Migration, Borders and Diasporas, War Crimes and International Tribunals, Political Economy, Nation-Building, and many more...

As well as:

  • Screening of New Documentaries
  • Special Roundtables on new Books
  • Awards for "Best Doctoral Student Papers", the "ASN Harriman Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies" and the "ASN Audience Award for Best Documentary"
  • Special Events for the ASN 40th Anniversary and sponsored by the ASN Journal Nationalities Papers

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We look forward to seeing you there!

The Convention organizing committee:
Dominique Arel, ASN President
Gordon N. Bardos, Executive Director
Sherrill Stroschein, Program Chair
Florian Bieber, Zsuzsa Csergo, Dmitry Gorenburg, Vejas Liulevicius, and Harris Mylonas, ASN Executive Committee