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Nationalism and Ethnicity: Upcoming Conferences and Events

Upcoming Conference

The Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association

Date: 15–20 August 2014

Location: San Francisco, USA

Interested scholars, educators, and students will gather for a weekend of sessions about ethnicity and nationalism at the upcoming Annual Meeting of the ASA:

Regular Session on Nations/Nationalism Saturday, August 16, 4:30–6:10 p.m.

Session Organizer: Genevieve Zubrzycki, University of Michigan

  • Nation Matters. On British Sports, Professional Jerseys and the Inscription of Argentinean “National Feeling” – Claudio Ezequiel Benzecry, University of Connecticut 
  • In, On, and Of the Inviolable Soil: Pottery and the De-fragmentation of Italian Nationhood – Fiona Rose-Greenland, University of Chicago 
  • Raw Materials: Natural Resources, Technological Discourse and the Making of the Canadian Nation – Melissa Miriam Aronczyk, State University of New Jersey-Rutgers 
  • Performing Legitimate Nationhood: Actors, Audiences and Scripts in the French Veil Debates – Emily J. Laxer, University of Toronto 

Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities Paper Session. Race and Ethnicity in Everyday Encounters, Sunday, August 17, 8:30–10:10 a.m. 

Session Organizer: Sofya Aptekar, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity

  • Black/White Race Relations in a New Immigrant Destination – Monica McDermott, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
  • Embracing Ambiguity: Afro-Cuban Immigrants Negotiating Identity in the United States Monika Gosin, College of William & Mary 
  • Encountering Racialized Navism: Mexican and Korean Youth Doing American from an Outsider-Within Position – Hyeyoung Kwon, University of Southern California 
  • Inconsistency within Expressed and Observed Racial Identifications: Identity, Signaling, and Mental Health Status – Whitney Nicole Laster, Vanderbilt University; Tony N. Brown, Vanderbilt University 
  • Sexual Racism and the Puzzle of Interracial Relationship Rates in the Internet Age – Jason Ronald Orne, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 Regular Session. New Directions in the Study of the Dynamics of Racial and Ethnic Conflict, Monday, August 18, 4:30–6:10 p.m.

Session Organizer: Kathleen M. Blee, University of Pittsburgh

  • Double Legitimacy Crises and Dynamics of Contention in Ethnic Democracies –Gregory Maney, Hofstra University 
  • Emergence of Armed Resistance against Insurgent Violence during Civil War-Daniel Blocq, University of Wisconsin-Madison 
  • Lynch Victims as Marginal Men? Community Characteristics, Outsider Status, and Vulnerability to Mob Violence – Amy Kate Bailey, University of Illinois-Chicago; Stewart E. Tolnay, University of Washington 
  • The Production of Local Race Relations: Race, Crime, and Politics in Multiracial Neighborhoods – Jan Doering, University of Chicago 

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Upcoming Conference

20th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities

Date: 23–25 April 2015

Location: Harriman Institute, Columbia University

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Nationalism and Ethnicity: Upcoming Conferences and Events

Upcoming Conference:

Gender and Nationalism: An International Conference

Date: 11 September 2014

Location: Middlesex University London

This two-day conference will provide a forum for international researchers to share, review and debate new empirical and theoretical developments in the field of gender and nationalism.

The conference will explore the gendered identities, meanings, relations, practices and structures associated with contemporary nationalist movements, and in their variable relationships to their male and female activists and supporters. The conference will address the following aims:

  • To showcase the latest empirical international research in the field of gender and nationalism
  • To apply and evaluate established and new theoretical and conceptual developments in the light of this empirical research
  • To provide a forum for social scientific debate, networking, collaboration and the formulation of new directions for research

Plenary Speakers: Nira Yuval-Davis; Floya Anthias; Kathleen Blee; Jon Mulholland, Nicola Montagna and Erin Sanders-McDonagh

For more information: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/events/2014/09/gender-and-nationalism-an-international-conference-a-call-for-papers

 

Upcoming Conference:

The Roots of Nationalism: National Identity Formation in Early Modern Europe, 1600-1815

Date: 22 and 23 January 2015

Location: Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

For more information: http://www.ru.nl/rootsofnationalism/

 

Call for Applications:

Visiting Research Scholar, Fung Global Fellows Program (Theme on “Ethnic Politics and Identities”), Princeton University

Princeton University announces a call for applications to the Fung Global Fellows Program at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS). Each year the program selects six scholars from around the world to be in residence at Princeton for an academic year and to engage in research and discussion around a common theme. Fellowships are awarded to scholars employed outside the United States who are expected to return to their positions, and who have demonstrated outstanding scholarly achievement and exhibit unusual intellectual promise but who are still early in their careers.

During the academic year 2015/16, the theme for the Fung Global Fellows Program will be “Ethnic Politics and Identities.” Recent events around the world have highlighted the role of ethnic politics and identities in shaping domestic and international political arenas. The Fung Global Fellows Program seeks applications from scholars who explore the causes, narrative modalities, and consequences of the politicization of ethnic, racial, and national divides from a comparative perspective. Researchers working on any historical period of the modern age or region of the world and from any disciplinary background in the social sciences or humanities are encouraged to apply.

Applications are due on November 1, 2014 (deadline 11:59 p.m. EST). To be eligible, applicants must have received their Ph.D. (or equivalent) no earlier than September 1, 2005. Fellowships will be awarded on the strength of a candidate’s proposed research project, the relationship of the project to the program’s theme, the candidate’s scholarly record, and the candidate’s ability to contribute to the intellectual life of the program.

For more information on eligibility requirements and the application process itself, see the program’s website at http://www.princeton.edu/funggfp/