CfP: Nationality and Citizenship in Post-Communist Europe
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Subject: CfP: Nationality and Citizenship in Post-Communist Europe
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CfP: Nationality and Citizenship in Post-Communist Europe
Nationality and Citizenship in Post-Communist Europe
An International Conference organized
by the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques
with the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN)
Call for Papers
Paris (France), 9-10 July 2001
The Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques is organizing an
international conference devoted to the issue of identity - national,
political, cultural, local, or supra-national - in the post-communist
world. The conference aims at bringing together scholars from academic
disciplines such as political science, history, demography,
anthropology, economics, sociology, and sociolinguistics. It is
co-sponsored by the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN),
whose annual convention in New York has established itself as the
leading academic gathering in the field of nationalism studies.
The construction and reconstruction of nations and states raises
questions related to identity at various levels: regional (for
instance, the Russian Republic), macro-regional (European, Eurasian),
micro-regional, transnational (especially religious), cross-border
(national minorities linked to a state other than the one in which
they live), or inter-regional (for instance, Visegrad). The identities
of networks (diaspora, economic or virtual networks) and social groups
also create new affiliations, non-territorial affiliations produced by
links which reconstruct the social, cultural, and political space. In
this perspective, the conference aims at providing a forum of
discussion on the emerging identities of the post-communist space
(nationalist, ethnic, civic, regional, European/cosmopolitan), how
these new identities relate to older ones (tribal or religious
identities), and how they are challenged by a Europe in the process of
(re-) formation.
The conference will feature twenty to twenty-five panels and is
requesting paper proposals on any of the following ten themes:
* Changing Notions of Citizenship and Nationality
* The Use of Language and Ethnic (Nationality) Categories in Censuses
* Mobilization, Conflict and Secessionism in the Caucasus
* Islam and Politics in Central Asia
* Threats of Regional Disintegration in Russia
* Identity Claims and Economic Development
* Central European Reactions to the Expansion of the European Union
* NATO Expansion and Its Consequences in Eastern Europe and Russia
* Rebuilding the Balkans
* Diaspora and Transnational Politics
Panel proposals are also invited on topics congruent with the general
theme of the conference. All proposals should include the full
coordinates of each applicant, a 200-500 word abstract of each paper,
as well as a one-paragraph curriculum vitae. Email applications are
recommended.
The conference will be in a position to fund the travel and
accommodation of at least twenty scholars from the former Communist
bloc. Eligible scholars have to be citizens of one of the successor
states of the former Communist bloc and reside in a country of the
former Communist bloc at the time of the conference.
Other participants, from Western Europe, North America, or elsewhere
in the world, have to secure their own funding. A limited number of
rooms will be available on campus at the Cit� Universitaire. For
further information and for a list of recommended hotels, please
consult the convention's web site at
http://mapage.cybercable.fr/colloque_paris_2001
The Conference will take place at the
Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
27, rue Saint Guillaume
75007 Paris
near the subway station S�vres Babylone/ Saint Germain des Pr�s.
The deadline for submissions is 15 January 2001. Due to a limit in the
number of panelists, applicants are strongly encouraged to send their
submissions as early as possible. Submissions, as well as all general
correspondence, should be directed to
Dominique Colas
Conference Program Chair
Professeur de Science Politique
Directeur du D.E.A. d'analyse comparative des aires politiques
199, Bd Saint-Germain
tel : (33-1) 45 49 50 77
fax : (33-1) 45 44 95 49
email: [email protected].
The Program Committee of the Conference will be comprised of scholars
from the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques and ASN. Please
note that this thematic conference does NOT supersede the ASN Annual
Convention, whose next edition is scheduled for 5-7 April 2001 at the
Harriman Institute, Columbia, New York, and which will feature a
hundred panels on national identity issues in Eastern Europe, Balkans,
former Soviet Union, Caucasus, and Central Asia, For information on
the ASN Convention, and on ASN in general, please visit the ASN web
site at http://asn.uno.edu
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