

The ASN World Convention, the largest international and inter-disciplinary scholarly gathering of its kind, welcomes proposals on
a wide range of topics related to nationalism, ethnicity, ethnic conflict and national identity in regional sections on the Balkans, Central Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia, the Caucasus, and Turkey/Greece, as well as thematic sections on Nationalism Studies and Migration/Diasporas. Disciplines represented include political science, history, anthropology, sociology, international
studies, security studies, geopolitics, area studies, economics, geography, sociolinguistics, literature, psychology, and related fields.
About the ASN World Convention
The Convention is also inviting paper, panel, roundtable, book, documentary, or special presentation proposals related to:
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“The Conflict in Ukraine,” on the domestic, regional and international crisis unleashed by Maidan, the annexation of Crimea, the war in Donbas, and the role of Russia, Europe and the United States;
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“Russia and the New Cold War,” on Russia’s involvement in international crises (i.e. Ukraine, Syria), authoritarianism, information warfare, geopolitics, NATO/EU, energy politics, sanctions, nationalism;
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“Internally Displaced People and Refugees,” on the refugee crisis in Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere, securitization of borders, human and civil rights;
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“The Rise of the Far Right,” on migration, multiculturalism, populism, nativism in Eastern/Western Europe and America;
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“Political Violence,” on insurgencies, civil wars, terrorism, the rise of ISIS, post-conflict settlement, international justice;
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“The Crisis in Turkey,” on the spectre of authoritarianism, the Kurdish question, Gulenism, the army and the state, refugees, the war in Syria, relations with Russia;
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“The Political Use of Historical Memory,” on the construction and contestation of the memory of historical events in sites, symbols, state and (social) media narratives, and academic research;
Prospective applicants can get a sense of the large thematic scope of ASN Convention papers and presentations
by looking at the 2016 Final Program, which can be accessed here:
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For several years, the ASN Convention has acknowledged excellence in graduate studies research by offering Awards for Best Doctoral Student Papers.
THE ASN 2016 DOCTORAL STUDENT AWARDS were given to:
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Vujo Ilic (Political Science, CEU, Hungary — Balkans Section) on the civil war in 1941 Montenegro;
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Alexandra Klyachkina (Political Science, Northwestern U, US — Caucasus/Turkey Sections) on state-building in Chechnya;
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Egle Kesylyte-Alliks (Literature, U of Oslo, Norway — Central Europe Section) on the national flag and nationhood in Lithuania;
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Alina Jasina (Slavic Studies, U of Giessen, Germany — Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia Sections) on the Russianspeaking youth in Kazakhstan; and
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David Emre Amasyali (Sociology, McGill U, Canada — Nationalism/ Migration Sections), on colonialism, non-colonialism and strategies of ethnic conflict.
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Doctoral student applicants whose proposals are accepted for the 2017 Convention, who will not
have defended their dissertation by 1 November 2016, and whose papers are delivered by the
deadline, will automatically be considered for the awards (unless their paper is co-authored with someone not eligible for the doctoral prize). Each award comes with a certificate and a cash prize.
THE 7th ANNUAL HARRIMAN ASN ROTHSCHILD BOOK PRICE went to Edin Hajdarpašić for Whose Bosnia? Nationalism and Political Imagination in the Balkans, 1840-1914 (Cornell University Press, 2015). Honorable mentions were given to Ronald Grigor Suny for “They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else”: A History of the Armenian Genocide (Princeton University Press, 2015) and Iryna Vushko for The Politics of Cultural Retreat: Imperial Bureaucracy in Austrian Galicia, 1772-1867 (Yale University Press, 2015).
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THE BOOK PRICE AWARD comes with a certificate and a cash prize. For information on how to have a book considered for the ASN 2017 Convention Book Prize:
THE FIRST ANNUAL ASN DOCUMENTARY AWARD went to Oleg’s Choice (Le choix d’Oleg) (France, 2016), from directors James Keogh and Elena Volochine, on Russian volunteers in the Donbas War. Honorary mentions were given to The Siege (Sarajevo 1992-1995) (France, 2016), directed by Rémy Ourdan and Patrick Chauvel, and All Things Ablaze (Ukraine, 2014), directed by Oleksandr Techynskyi, Alexey Solodunov and Dmitry Stoykov, on violence on the Ukrainian Maidan.
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Fourteen new international documentaries were shown at the 2016 ASN Documentary Festival. The full 2016 lineup can be accessed here:
The Convention is also inviting submissions for its ASN World Documentary Festival on new documentaries produced between 2015-2017. The documentaries are screened during regular panel slots and are followed by a Q&A. Documentaries are submitted with a secured streaming link. For information on how to submit a documentary, click on the links below.
Organising Committee

Dominique Arel
Convention Director

Ryan Kreider
ASN Executive Director
CONVENTION STUDENT STAFF
Andrew Vincent Dolinar
Abby Downing-Beaver
Djivo Djurovic
Xan Faber
Seth Farkas
Max de Haldevang
Ilya Karnaukhov
Lucia Savchick
Anastasia Tkach
Matthew Van Meter
Angela Wheeler
Harriman Institute
Sitora David
Isabelle Fortin
Ariane Larouche
Natalia Stepaniuk
Klavdia Tatar
U of Ottawa

Ilke Denizili
Convention Manager

Kelsey Davis
Convention Communication Manager

Agathe Manikowski
Communication
Manager
Kimberly Marten
Director, Program for U.S.-Russia Relations
Ronald Meyer
Communications Manager
Alla Rachkov
Associate Director
Barbara Singleton
Administrative Aide
(Fellowships, Visiting Scholars)
Alan H. Timberlake
Director, East Central European Center; Deputy Director for Humanities Programming
Masha Udensiva-Brenner
Coordinator, Communications
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Mark Andryczyk
Staff Associate, Ukrainian Studies Program
Tatiana Beloborodova
Administrative Coordinator
Alexander Cooley
Director
Rebecca Dalton
Program Manager, Student Affairs
Elise Giuliano
Faculty Advisor,
MARS-REERS
Kevin P. Hallinan
Business Manager
Ryan Kreider
Assistant Director
Kevin Eric Laney
Coordinator, Finance
HARRIMAN INSTITUTE
Program Committee
Dominique Arel
U of Ottawa, Canada
Coordination


Soeren Keil
Canterbury Christ Church U, UK

Florian Bieber
U of Graz
Austria

Mila Dragojević
The U of the South
US

Adam Fagan
Queen Mary
U of London, UK

Ljubica Spaskovska
U of Exeter
UK
Balkans

Jean-François Ratelle
U of Ottawa
Canada

Julie George
CUNY Queens College US

David Siroky
Arizona State
US
Caucasus

Vejas Liulevicius
U of Tennessee
US
Central Europe

Jennie Schulze
Duquesne U
US

Sherrill Stroschein
U College London, UK

Peter Vermeersch
U of Leuven
Belgium

Michele Commercio
U of Vermont
US

Lawrence P. Markowitz
Rowan U
US

Regine Spector
U of Mass Amherst
US
Eurasia
Migration

Lisa Koryushkina
MCLA
US

Alena Alamgir
Oxford U
UK

Maria Koinova
Warwick U
UK
Nationalism

Evgeny Finkel
George Washington U US

Zeynep Bulutgil
Tufts U
US
Dmitry Gorenburg
Harvard U
US
Russia

Elise Giuliano
Columbia U
US

Paul Goode
U of Oklahoma
US
Erik Scott
U of Kansas
US


Ceren Belge
Concordia U
Canada
Turkey

YeÅŸim Bayar
Concordia U
Canada

Elektra Kostopoulou
NYU, US
ÅŸener Aktürk
Koç U
Turkey

Ukraine

Alexandra Hrycak
Reed College
US

Oxana Shevel
Tufts U
US
Films

Dominique Arel
U of Ottawa
Canada

Lisa Koryushkina
MCLA
US

Dmitry Gorenburg
Harvard U
US
Book Prize

Florian Bieber
U of Graz
Austria

Aviel Roshwald
Georgetown U
US
Madeleine Reeves
U of Manchester
UK


Board of Directors












Advisory Board

Michael Rywkin
PRESIDENT EMERITUS
City College, US

Nina Caspersen
York U, UK

Alexandra Goujon
U of Bourgogne, Dijon
France

André Liebich
Graduate School of
International Studies,
Switzerland

David Crowe
PRESIDENT EMERITUS
Elon U, US

Michele Commercio
Harvard U, US

Henry Hale
George Washington U, US

Oxana Shevel
Tufts U, US

Stefano Bianchini
U of Bologna, Italy

Bhavna Dave
School of Oriental &
African Studies, UK

Alexandra Hrycak
Reed College, US

Andreas Wimmer
Columbia U, US

Holly Case
Cornell U, US

Elise Giuliano
Harriman Institute
Columbia U, US

Charles King
Georgetown U, US

Stefan Wolff
U of Birmingham, UK