[MGSA-L] CfP: ASN 2017 World Convention (Deadline Reminder: 27 October 2016)

Wed Oct 19 13:42:13 PDT 2016

****Proposal Deadline Reminder: 27 October 2016***

Call for Papers

*22nd Annual World Convention of the*

*Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN)*

International Affairs Building,

Columbia University, NY

Sponsored by the Harriman Institute

4-6 May 2017

www.nationalities.org

Contact information:

Proposals must be submitted to:

darel at uottawa.ca *and* darelasn2017 at gmail.com

Over 150 PANELS in nine sections:

Nationalism Studies

Migration & Diasporas

Balkans

Russia

Ukraine (and Belarus)

Central Europe (including Baltics & Moldova)

Eurasia (including Central Asia & China)

Caucasus (North and South)

Turkey and Greece (and Cyprus)

THEMATIC Panels on

The Conflict in Ukraine

Russia and the New Cold War

Internally Displaced People and Refugees

The Rise of the Far Right

Political Violence (Insurgency, Terrorism, War)

The Crisis in Turkey

The Political Use of Historical Memory

ASN WORLD DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL

ASN BOOK PANELS (SPECIAL PANELS ON NEW ACADEMIC BOOKS)

ASN AWARDS (BEST DOCTORAL PAPERS, BEST BOOK, BEST FILMS, BEST NATIONALITIES
PAPERS ARTICLE)

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.

The Convention is also inviting paper, panel, roundtable, book,
documentary, or special presentation proposals related to:

•“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;

•“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;

•“Internally Displaced People and Refugees,” on the refugee crisis in
Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere, securitization of borders, human and
civil rights;

•“The Rise of the Far Right,” on migration, multiculturalism, populism,
nativism in Eastern/Western Europe and America,

•“Political Violence,” on insurgencies, civil wars, terrorism, the rise of
ISIS, post-conflict settlement, international justice;

•“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;

•“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 at

http://nationalities.org/uploads/documents/ASN16_FinalProgram_April.pdf.

Popular topics have also included language politics, religion and politics,
EU integration/exit, nation-building, energy politics, and civil society.

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:

*Vujo Ilic *(Political Science, CEU, Hungary — Balkans Section) on the
civil war in 1941 Montenegro; *Alexandra Klyachkina* (Political Science,
Northwestern U, US — Caucasus/Turkey Sections) on state-building in
Chechnya; *Egle Kesylyte-Alliks* (Literature, U of Oslo, Norway — Central
Europe Section) on the national flag and nationhood in Lithuania; *Alina
Jasina* (Slavic Studies, U of Giessen, Germany — Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia
Sections) on the Russian-speaking youth in Kazakhstan; and *David Emre
Amasyali* (Sociology, McGill U, Canada — Nationalism/Migration Sections),
on colonialism, non-colonialism and strategies of ethnic conflict.

http://nationalities.org/prizes/doctoral-student-awards/2016-best-doctoral-
student-papers-awards

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 Prize 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 *“T**hey 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).

http://nationalities.org/prizes/joseph-rothschild/2016-rothschild-prize

The Book Prize 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, please go http://nationalities.org/uploads/documents/ASN17_
RothschildPrize.pdf or contact Dmitry Gorenburg at asnbookprize at gmail.com.

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. http://nationalities.org/prizes/documentary-film-
award/best-documentary-film-award-2016

Fourteen new international documentaries were shown at the 2016 ASN
Documentary Festival. The full 2016 lineup can be accessed at
http://nationalities.org/conventions/film-presentations/2016-film-
presentations

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, go to http://nationalities.org/
prizes/documentary-film-award or see below.

*Proposal Information*

The ASN 2017 Convention invites proposals for *individual papers* or
*panels*. A panel includes a chair, three or four presentations based on
written papers, and a discussant.

The Convention is also welcoming offers to serve as *discussant *on a panel
to be created by the Program Committee from individual paper proposals. The
application to be considered as discussant is self-standing, and does not
apply to applicants already involved in individual or panel proposals. (At
a later stage, many applicants whose proposals were accepted will be
invited to serve as chair or discussant on other panels).

In order to submit proposals to the Convention, *the three mandatory items
indicated below (contact information, abstract, biographical statement)
must be included in a single Word document (PDF documents will not be
accepted) attached to a single email message*. *Applications containing
more than one attachment will be returned.*

Each applicant – including co-authors (unless they are not planning to
attend the Convention if their proposal is accepted) and each member of a
panel proposal – must also fill out a Fact Sheet online that can be
accessed at

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ASN2017FS

Applicants that are on two proposals need to fill out two separate Fact
Sheets.

IMPORTANT: Applicants can only send one paper proposal  -- either as an
individual proposal, or as a paper part of a panel proposal. If an
applicant sends more than one proposal based on a written paper, neither
will be considered. This applies to co-authors as well. A co-author can
only appear on one proposal based on a paper. At the Convention, a panelist
can only appear on a maximum of TWO panels, only one of which can be in the
capacity of a paper presenter. For example, a panelist can be discussant or
chair on a panel and present a paper on another, or chair a panel and be
discussant in another, and so forth. This rule applies to co-authored
papers. This means that *applicants can appear on a maximum of two
proposals sent to the Convention, only one of which can be in the capacity
of a paper-giver*.

*Individual paper proposals* must include four items:

*Contact information: the name, email, postal address and academic
affiliation of the applicant.

*A 300- to 500-word abstract (shorter abstracts will not be considered)
that includes the title of the paper.

*A 100-word biographical statement, *in narrative form* (essentially one
paragraph). *Standard CVs will *be rejected and the entire proposal must be
sent in a single document.

Individual proposals featuring more than one author (joint proposal) must
include the contact information and biographical statement of all authors *and
specify who among the co-authors intend to attend the Convention *to
present the paper. Only co-authors attending the Convention will have their
names in the official program.

*A Fact Sheet, to be filled out online (see above). In the case of
co-authors, only those intending to attend the Convention must send a Fact
Sheet. *The Word document proposal must indicate that the Fact Sheet has
been filled out online.*

*Panel proposals* must include four items:

*Contact information (see above) of all proposed panelists.

*The title of the panel and the title and a 200- to 300-word abstract of
each paper.

*A 100-word biographical statement (see above) for each proposed
panelist. *Statements
in standard CV format will not be considered*. The rules on joint proposals
are the same as with individual proposals (see above).

*A Fact Sheet, to be filled out online (see above), for each panelist
attached to the proposal. *The Word document proposal must indicate that
all panelists have filled out their Fact Sheet online*.

Proposals for *roundtables* include a chair and four presenters, but no
discussant, since the presentations, unlike regular panels, are not based
on written papers. Roundtable proposals include the same four items as a
panel proposal, including the title of each presentation, except that the
200- to 300-word abstracts are presentation abstracts, rather than paper
abstracts.

The Convention is also inviting *proposals for Book Panels*, based on books
published between September 2015 and February 2017. The proposal must
include the Chair, three discussants, as well as the author. A Book Panel
proposal must include the same four items as a panel proposal, except that
the abstract is limited to a 200- to 300-word abstract of the book. The
discussants need not submit an abstract. The organizer of a Book Panel
might, but is not required to be the book’s author.

*Proposals for documentaries* must include four items:

*Contact information (see above)

*A 300 word abstract of the documentary

*A 100-word biographical statement (see above).

*A Fact Sheet filled out online (see above).

*A secure streaming link for reviewing purposes.

The ASN Documentary Festival prioritizes films longer than 50 minutes.
Shorter documentaries will be considered.

*Proposals to serve as a discussant* must include four items:

*Contact information (see above)

*A 100-word statement about your areas of expertise

*A 100-word biographical statement (see above). *CVs will not be
considered.*

*A Fact Sheet filled out online (see above)

Discussant proposals can only be sent by applicants who are not part of an
individual or panel (or roundtable) proposal.

TO REPEAT: All proposals must be sent in *a single email message*, with an
attached proposal in a Word document (PDFs will not be accepted) containing
contact information, an abstract, a biographical statement, as well as a
confirmation that the Fact Sheet has been filled out online (or multiple
Fact Sheets, in the case of co-authors and/or panel proposals). Proposals
including contact information, the abstract and the bio statement in
separate attachments, or over several email messages, will not be
returned. *The
proposals must be sent to darel at uottawa.ca <darel at uottawa.ca> AND
darelasn2017 at gmail.com <darelasn2017 at gmail.com>*.

The receipt of all proposals will be acknowledged electronically, with some
delay during deadline week, due to the high volume of proposals.

IMPORTANT: Participants are responsible for covering all travel and
accommodation costs. *Unfortunately,* *ASN has no funding available for
panelists*.

An international Program Committee will be entrusted with the selection of
proposals. Most applicants will be notified by January 2017. Since final
decisions are dependent upon room availability, some applicants may not be
notified until early February 2017. Information regarding registration
costs and other logistical questions will be communicated afterwards.

The full list of panels from *last year’s (2016) Convention* can be
accessed at http://nationalities.org/uploads/documents/ASN16_
FinalProgram_April.pdf.

The programs from past conventions, going back to 2001, are also available
online at http://nationalities.org/conventions/world/

Several dozen publishers and companies have had exhibits and/or advertised
in the Convention Program in past years. Due to considerations of space,
advertisers and exhibitors are encouraged to place their order early. For
information, please contact ASN Executive Director Ryan Kreider (
rk2780 at columbia.edu).

The ASN Facebook page will post regular updates on the ASN 2017 Convention.
To become a follower of ASN on Facebook, go to https://www.facebook.com/
Nationalities

and click on the “Like” option.

We very much look forward to hearing from you and receiving your proposal!

Dominique Arel, ASN Convention Director

Ceren Belge, Evgeny Finkel, Harris Mylonas, ASN Convention Associate
Directors

Sherrill Stroschein, ASN Program Chair

On behalf of the ASN Convention Program Committee

*Deadline for proposals: 27 October 2016 (to be sent to both
darel at uottawa.ca <darel at uottawa.ca> AND darelasn2017 at gmail.com
<darelasn2017 at gmail.com>)*

To contact the ASN Convention’s headquarters:

Ryan Kreider

ASN Executive Director

Assistant Director, The Harriman Institute

Columbia University

420 W. 118th St., Room 1218, MC 3345

New York, NY 10027

212 851 2174 tel

212 666 3481 fax

rk2780 at columbia.edu
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