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SESSION 1     THURSDAY MAY 22      10.00-11.40 AM

Session I

ASN 2025 PROGRAM - Panels by Date

THURSDAY

PANEL BK5

Language, Education, Belonging

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PANEL BK8

Ageing and Demographic Nationalism in Southeast Europe​

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PANEL CE5

Central European Political Movements in the 19th Century

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PANEL CE9

Nationalist Policies and Illiberalism in Central Europe

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PANEL CE20

Beyond the Nation and the Empire:
Identities and Subjectivities in 20th Century Eastern Europe

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PANEL CE22

Combatting Russian Narratives in Central and Northeastern Europe

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PANEL K8

Nationalism and History in Armenia and Georgia​​

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PANEL N5

The Politics of Culture under Populism

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PANEL N10

Performing Everyday, Banal and Popular Nationalisms

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PANEL R10

Ethnic Minorities in Russia Amidst the Ongoing War​

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PANEL U3

Public Opinion & State-Citizen Interactions in Ukraine

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PANEL U4

Knowledge Production and Image Formation in Times of War:
The Role of Ukraine’s Public Diplomacy and the Boundaries of Soft Power

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PANEL U8

Book Panel on Nataliya Kibita’s The Institutional Foundations of Ukrainian Democracy:
Power, Sharing, Regionalism and Authoritarianism (Oxford, 2024)

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PANEL U27

Aspects of the Polish-Ukrainian Cultural and Historical Encounter

Session II

SESSION 2     THURSDAY MAY 22      12.00-1.40 PM

PANEL BK12

Book Panel on Ivana Stepanovic’s Influencers, Online Alliances
and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe #Balkans (Routledge, 2024) 

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PANEL BK15

Hate Speech in Multiethnic Societies:
Political, Legal, and Social Dimensions in the Balkans​

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PANEL CE2

Noticing Otherwise: De-Centring Modes of Representation and
Research on Minority and Migrant Populations in ‘Eastern Europe’ (Roundtable)

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PANEL CE8

Confronting Authoritarianism in Central Europe

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PANEL EU6

Book Panel on Joldon Kutmanaliev’s Intercommunal Warfare and Ethnic Peacemaking :
The Dynamics of Urban Violence in Central Asia (McGill-Queen’s, 2023)

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PANEL K6

War, Violence, and Peace in the Caucasus and Ukraine

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PANEL K7

Refugees and Migrants in the Caucasus

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PANEL TK4

Defining Identity in Türkiye

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PANEL N4

Understanding Violence

 

PANEL N14

Nationalism and Colonialism

 

PANEL R8

Russian Uncivil Society

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PANEL R17

Book Panel on Polly Zavadivker’s A Nation of Refugees:
Russia’s Jews in World War I (Oxford, 2024)

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PANEL U11

What Will Remain and What Will Be Remembered?
Part One: Heritage, Memory and Hope for Justice in the Russo-Ukrainian War

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PANEL U16

Book Panel on Denys Gorbach’s The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class:
Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Soviet City (Berghahn, 2024) 

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PANEL U19

War, Identity, and Political Behavior in Ukraine​

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PANEL U20

Europe on the Mental Maps of Ukrainian Intellectuals of the 19-20th Centuries

LUNCHTIME     THURSDAY MAY 22      1.40-3.20 PM

TBA

Session III

SESSION 3     THURSDAY MAY 22      3.20-5.00 PM

PANEL BK14

Contemporary Perspectives of Indigenous and Minority Participation

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PANEL CE12

Activism in Hard Times: What Can We Learn from CEE Activists? (Roundtable)

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PANEL CE21

Book Panel on Iryna Vushko’s Lost Fatherland:
Europeans Between Empire & Nation-States, 1867-1939 (Yale, 2024)​

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PANEL EU1

Ethnicity and Conflict in Soviet Central Asia

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PANEL K10

Book Panel on Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky’s Empire of Refugees:
North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford, 2024) 

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PANEL TK2

War, Memory, and Greek-Turkish Relations 

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PANEL N2

Nation-Building, Institutions and Civic Participation

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PANEL N11

Book Panel on Alexander Cooley and Alexander Dukalskis’ Dictating the Agenda:
The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics (Oxford, 2025)

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PANEL R2

Russian War Narratives 

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PANEL R5

Russian Power Repertoires in MENA and Black Sea Region

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PANEL U6

The Past and the Present of Greeks in Ukraine

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PANEL U10

Popular Culture in Times of War

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PANEL U23

Dissent and Discourses of Belonging in Eastern Ukraine
(and beyond) from Perestroika to the Present Day

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PANEL U35

Book Panel on Sergiy Kudelia’s Seize the City, Undo the State:
The Inception of Russia's War on Ukraine (Oxford, 2025)

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Session IV

SESSION 4     THURSDAY MAY 22      5.20-7.00 PM

PANEL BK1

Identity, Nationalism and Nation-State in the Balkans

 

PANEL BK7

Understanding War and its Legacies in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Beyond

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PANEL CE11

The Effects of the War in Ukraine in Central Europe, the Baltics and the Balkans

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PANEL K1

Historical Memory and Narratives in Conflict Transformation:
Perspectives from the North Caucasus and Ukraine

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PANEL M6

Asylum and the Politics of Crisis and National Emergency

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PANEL N1

The Far Right: Ideologies, Parties and Mythologies

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PANEL N8

Book Panel on Gerard Toal’s Oceans Rise Empires Fall:
Why Geopolitics Hastens Climate Catastrophe (Oxford University Press, 2024)

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PANEL R6

Ideological Change in Russia: State, Society, and Military Developments (Roundtable)

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PANEL R13

Russian Society and the War

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PANEL U2

Beyond the Contact Line : Occupation and Foreign Fighters in Ukraine​

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PANEL U18

Ukrainian Women's Resilience During Russia's War on Ukraine: Sources, Practices, Potential

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PANEL U33

A Conversation on Eugene Finkel’s Intent to Destroy (Basic Books, 2024)

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PANEL SE1

The End of the Nations in Transit Paradigm? (Special Roundtable)

OPENING RECEPTION, 15TH FLOOR OPEN AREA     THURSDAY MAY 22      7.00 PM

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FRIDAY

FRIDAY
10.00-11.40 AM    •   12.00-1.40 PM    •    3.20-5.00 PM

SESSION 5     FRIDAY MAY 23      10.00-11.40 AM

Session V
Session VI

SESSION 6     FRIDAY MAY 17      12.00-1.40 PM

PANEL BK2

Youth, War and Memory (Roundtable) 

 

​PANEL BK9

Minority Politics Across the Balkans

 

PANEL CE1

Utopia and the Nation in Eastern and Central Europe
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PANEL CE4

Parties and External Influence in Central Europe

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PANEL EU3

Ethnic and National Identities  in Central Asia​

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PANEL K4

Governance and Accountability: Regime and Legitimacy in the Caucasus and Eastern Europe

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PANEL M2

Forcible Displacement: Concepts, Identities, and Narratives

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PANEL N6

Book Panel on Robin Ostow’s Curating Human Rights:
Displaying, Combating and Obscuring Human Rights Violations in Museums (Routledge, 2025)

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PANEL R14

Book Panel on Donnacha Ó Beacháin’s Unfinished Empire:
Russian Imperialism in Ukraine and the Near Abroad (Columbia, 2025)

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PANEL R16

Russians Outside Russia​

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PANEL U17

From Resistance to Recovery: The Role of Local and International Professional
and Creative Communities in Ukraine

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PANEL U21

Book Panel on Darya Tsymbalyuk’s Ecocide in Ukraine: The Environmental Costs of Russia’s War (Polity, 2025)

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PANEL U22

The Transformation of the Politics of Memory in Ukraine (Roundtable)

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PANEL U28

A Conversation on Lada Kolomiyets and Antonina Berezovenko’s’s Living the Independence Dream : Ukraine and Ukrainians in Contemporary Socio-Political Context (Basic Books, 2024)

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SESSION 6     FRIDAY MAY 23      12.00-1.40 PM​

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PANEL BK6

Constructing Identity in the Former Yugoslavia

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PANEL BK11

Book Panel on Daniela Simon’s Die bedrohte Ordnung der Vielfalt. Kulturelle Hybridität in Istrien,
1870-1914 [The Threatened Order of Diversity: Cultural Hybridity in Istria, 1870-1914] (Transcript, 2024)  

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PANEL CE3

Religious and National Minorities

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PANEL CE19

Jewish History in Central Europe

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PANEL EU5

Power and Violence in Central Asia

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PANEL K5

The Crisis in Georgia: Domestic and International Ramifications (Roundtable)

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PANEL TK3

Geopolitics and Security Dilemmas in Turkey, Greece, and the Caucasus

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PANEL M3

Diaspora and Return

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PANEL N9

The State of the Everyday: What Can We Learn from
Two Decades of Everyday Nationalism? (Roundtable)

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PANEL R11

Book Panel on Alexis Lerner’s Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States
(U of Toronto Press, 2025)

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PANEL R15

Geopolitical Re-orientations in the Post-Soviet Space after the 2022 Russian Invasion

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PANEL U15

Remembering Traumatic Pasts: Jewish Ukrainian Relations in the 20th Century

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PANEL U24

Living Through War: Civilian Experiences of and Responses to Russia's Invasion(s) of Ukraine

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PANEL U29

Book Panel on Tamara Hundorova’s Transyt’na kul’tura i postkolonial’na travma
(Transit Culture and Postcolonial Trauma)(Vikhola, 2024)​

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PANEL U34

A Conversation on Alexander Vindman’s The Folly of Realism:
How the West Deceived Itself About Russia and Betrayed Ukraine (Hachette 2025).​

LUNCHTIME     FRIDAY MAY 23      1.40-3.20 PM

TBA

Session VII

SESSION 7     FRIDAY MAY 23      3.20-5.00 PM

PANEL BK3

Youth Identities, Activism and Politics in the Contemporary Balkans

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PANEL CE6

Migration Debates in Central Europe

 

PANEL CE17

Book Panel on Jan Rovny's Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition, and Democracy :
Circumstantial Liberals (Oxford, 2024)

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PANEL EU4

Geopolitics in Central Asia and the Caucasus

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PANEL K9

Armenia and Azerbaijan

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PANEL M5

Book Panel on Volha Charnysh’s Uprooted:
How post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe (Cambridge, 2024)

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PANEL N7

Nationalism in the US and Canada

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PANEL N12

Nationalism in South Asia

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PANEL R9

Russia’s External Influence: Past and Present

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PANEL R18

Book Panel on Ekaterina Haskins’ Remembering the War, Forgetting the Terror:
Appeals to Family Memory in Putin’s Russia (Penn State, 2024)​

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PANEL U12

Russia’s War Against Ukraine in the Information Space

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PANEL U30

Russia’s Aggression against Ukraine and Fields of Study (Roundtable)​

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PANEL U31

Shift in the National Mentality of Ukrainians during the Russian War against Ukraine

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PANEL SE2

How to Get Published in Academic Journals: A Conversation with Nationalities Papers Editors

SATURDAY
10.00 – 11.40 AM    •   12.00 – 1.40 PM

SATURDAY
Session VIII

SESSION 8     SATURDAY MAY 24      10.00-11.40 AM

PANEL BK4

Illiberal and Right-Wing Political Parties and Elites

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PANEL CE10

The Lasting Impact of History in Central Europe​

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PANEL CE15

Nationalism in Central Europe

 

PANEL EU2

Soviet Legacy in Central Asia

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PANEL K2

Social Cohesion in Post-Communist Georgia

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PANEL M7

Immigration and Public Policy: The Roles of Religion, Ethnicity and Nationality
in the Rise of Nationalist Populism (Roundtable)

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PANEL N3

Populism, Cults of Personality and the Politics of Crisis

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PANEL R3

Russian War Online

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PANEL R12

Russia at War: Regional Actors and Regime Legitimation

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PANEL U1

Nationalism, Sexuality, and Marginalized Lives:
Rethinking Gender, Heroism and Resistance during Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine (Roundtable)

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PANEL U7

Identity and Belonging in Times of War​​

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PANEL U9

Book Panel on Bálint Magyar and Bálint Madlovics’ Ukraine’s Patronal Democracy and the Russian Invasion:
The Russia-Ukraine War (CEU, 2024)

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PANEL U13

What Will Remain and What Will Be Remembered?
Part Two: Memory Politics and War(s)

Session IX

SESSION 9     SATURDAY MAY 24     12.00-1.40 PM

PANEL BK10

Foreign Affairs and Their Reception at Home

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PANEL BK13

Book Panel on Sanja Vico’s ‘Doing Nation’ in a Digital Age:
Banal Expressions of Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Polymedia Environments (Routledge, 2025)​

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PANEL CE7

Book Panel on Maria Snegovaya's When Left Moves Right:
The Decline of the Left and the Rise of the Populist Right in Postcommunist Europe (Oxford, 2024)

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PANEL CE18

The Impact of Russia’s War on Kin Politics in the Region (Roundtable)

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PANEL M1

Migrant Well-Being and National Identity

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PANEL N13

Far Right Violence

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PANEL R1

Book Panel on Pål Kolstø’s Family, Sex and Faith:
The Biopolitics of the Russian Orthodox Church (Northern Illinois, 2025)

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PANEL R7

States of Surveillance: Ethnic Politics and Practices of National Security
in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany

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PANEL U5

International Dimension of the Russo-Ukrainian War

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PANEL U14

The Holodomor and Cold War Politics: Memory and Denial

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PANEL U25

Resistance and Resilience in Ukraine 

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PANEL U26

Book Panel on Olena Nikolayenko’s Invisible Revolutionaries:
Women’s Participation in Ukraine’s Euromaidan (Cambridge, 2025)​

AWARDS CEREMONY     SATURDAY MAY 24      2.00 PM

AWARDS CEREMONY • Room 1512

 

Followed by CLOSING RECEPTION • OPEN AREA, 15th FLOOR

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