24th ASEN Annual Conference "Nationalism and Belonging". London School of Economics, April, 1-3, 2014

Confirmed keynote speakers include: William Callahan, Sheila Croucher, Alain Dieckhoff, Th�omas Hylland Eriksen, Gregory Jusdanis, and Bo Strath

The complete call for papers is attached to this email and proposals�are invited for papers focusing on the following themes:

EXPRESSIONS OF BELONGING:

° How national belonging is ascribed and cultivated

° The role of symbols and rituals in national belonging

° The process by which individuals and groups construct their belonging to nations

° How states use claims about national belonging to define their communities

CROSS-BORDER FORMS OF BELONGING:

° The examination of forms of diaspora and kin nationalism

° How transnational communities maintain a sense of belonging across space and time

° How migrant and diaspora communities construct new ways of belonging

NON-NATIONAL FORMS OF BELONGING:

° How national belonging is responding to alternative, non-national forms of attachment

° The role of supra-national and sub-national forces in redefining belonging

° The relationship between national belonging and cosmopolitanism/post-nationalism

° How possible shifts in the centrality of national belonging in the contemporary world affect the study of nationalism.

Abstracts should be submitted online no later than November 30, 2013. To submit your abstract, please follow this link: http://tinyurl.com/asen2014CFP

Successful submissions will be announced in January 2014. The ASEN conference team looks forward to reading your abstract!

Please email asen.conference2014@lse.ac.uk if you have any queries.