45 PANELS on Empires And Nations
In Russia, The Caucasus, Eurasia, China, Ukraine, The Balkans,
Turkey And The Ottoman Em-pire, Central Europe, The European
Union And In The Colonial World
The program of the
Sciences Po-ASN 2008 Conference “Empires & Nations”
can now be downloaded here
The Conference, organized by SciencesPo (the Institut
d’Etudes Politiques de Paris) and the Association for
the Study of Nationalities (ASN) on July
3-5, 2008, is taking place in the Sciences Po building,
27, rue Saint-Guillaume, Paris
75006, near the famed Boulevard Saint-Germain.
There are no registration
fees, although people interested in attending the event
are invited to contact the Conference
organizers by providing their name, institutional
affiliation and email, in order to receive updated information
prior to the Conference.
The Conference will bring together more than 200
scholars from nearly 40 states and includes a large proportion
of presenters currently based in Central
Europe, the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, Eurasia, and China.
Thirty-five panelists benefited from travel grants made possible
by the financial support of the Région Ile-de-France
and several other sponsors > More
about the sponsors
The Joint Sciences Po-ASN Conference, the second
ASN academic gathering organized in Paris in the last few years,
will feature a number of special panels
on the theme of Empires, including
“Nationalism and Empires”, “The Concept and
Practice of Empire,” “The EU as a Substitute for
Empire,” “Empire, Nation, and Film,” and “The
French Empire.” Bertrand Badie, Jane Burbank, Dominic
Lieven, Olivier Roy, Jacques Rupnik, and Valery Tishkov will
be among the guest panelists. Mark Beissinger, of Princeton
University, will deliver the keynote address.
The Conference will feature a strong lineup of a dozen
panels dealing with the Russian historical and geographical
zone, including “Local Politics and Imperial Projects,”
“The Politics of Empire and Mass Deportations,”
“Language Policy and Resistance in the Russian/Soviet
Era,” and “The North Caucasus: Russia’s Troubled
Frontier.” Panels in the extensive Eurasian section include
“The Chinese Nation at the Crossroads,” “Islam
under Soviet and Russian Rule,” and “Politics, Memories
and Official Histories in Central Asia.” Several
panels will also be devoted to the Ottoman Empire, the
Greek-Turkish exchange of population, imperial legacies in Croatia
and in Bosnia-Herzegovina, on Romania, Hungary, the Roma under
Three Empires, and many
more.
Since 2005, the Annual World ASN Convention at
Columbia University, New York, has acknowledged excellence in
graduate studies research by offering Awards for Best Doctoral
Papers in several sections. The SciencesPo-ASN 2008 Conference
on “Empires and Nations” will maintain this tradition
and the winner will be announced at the closing reception.
We look forward to seeing you at the Conference!
Cordially,
DOMINIQUE COLAS, SciencesPo, Conference Organizer
CÉLINE BALLEREAU, Conference Executive Assistant
ALEXANDRA GOUJON, U of Bourgogne
OLIVIER FERRANDO, Sciences Po
DOMINIQUE AREL, ASN President
on behalf of the ASN Convention Organizing Committee
Program
Program
of the conference
Conference organizer
Professor Dominique Colas, director of the doctoral
program on Russia and the CIS at the Institut d’Etudes
Politique.
For all queries regarding the Conference, please
contact Dominique Colas at <dcolasasn@gmail.com>,
or at + 33 1 58 71 70 27.
Sponsors
The Sciences Po-ASN Conference wishes to thank
for their generous support
