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
