ASN 2014 WORLD CONVENTION PROGRAM

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ASN 2014 WORLD CONVENTION PROGRAM

150+ PANELS ON THE BALKANS, CENTRAL EUROPE, RUSSIA, UKRAINE/BELARUS, THE
CAUCASUS, EURASIA, TURKEY/GREECE, CHINA, MIGRATION, and NATIONALISM STUDIES

The final program of the ASN 2014 World Convention can be downloaded at
http://nationalities.org/convention/pdfs/ASN-2014-Final-Program.pdf. The
Convention, sponsored by the Harriman Institute, will be held at Columbia
University, New York, on April 24-26, 2014.

**Registration fees are $90 for ASN members, $110 for nonmembers, $60 for
students (and a special rate of $30 for nonpanelist graduate students
enrolled in New York area universities). The registration form can be
downloaded at https://nationalities.wufoo.com/forms/asn-registration-form/.
For registration information, please contact Kelsey Davis
(asnreg2014@gmail.com<mailto:asnreg2014@gmail.com>). For general convention
information, please contact Ryan Kreider
(rk2780@columbia.edu<mailto:rk2780@columbia.edu>,  212 854 2514)**

Two special roundtables will be held on the Ukraine escalating crisis (on
Thursday April 24 at 6.20 PM and Friday April 25 at 11.20 AM). Up-to-the
minute roundtables on the "Bosnian Spring" and the 2014 Hungarian election
were also added to the program.

As always, the Convention boasts the most international lineup of panelists
of North American-based conventions, with more than half of the 400+
scholars delivering papers, currently based outside of the United States in
nearly 50 countries. More than 750 panelists and participants are expected
at the Convention. The program features 150 panels, including the screening
of 12 new documentaries that will be announced shortly. The films include
Watchers of the Sky, Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer, and Putin's Games.

The Convention offers an exceptionally strong lineup of panels in all
regions of the former Communist world and Eurasia: Russia, the Caucasus,
Central Asia/Turkey-Greece/China, the Balkans, Ukraine/Belarus and Central
Europe (including the Baltics and Moldova). Every year, the Program
Committee has to be more selective in devising the lineup, due to the
increasing number of proposals. The Central Europe and Balkans sections are
the largest, with 25 and 23 panels respectively, followed by Russia and the
Caucasus-21, Ukraine (and Belarus)-17, Central Asia/China/
Turkey/Greece-a combined 17, Nationalism Studies-13 and the new Migration
section-8 panels.

In its most visible section, the Convention will be hosting 17 special
panels featuring new important books. The list includes Ian Buruma's Year
Zero: A History of 1945, Andreas Wimmer's Ethnic Boundary Maker and Serhii
Plokhy's The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union, the latter
event conducted in the form of a conversation with the author. The book
panel Totally Unofficial: The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin (by Donna
Lee-Frieze) will be followed, in the next session,  by the documentary
Watchers of the Sky, partly evoking the live of Raphael Lemkin. Other book
panels will feature the latest monographs by Margarita Balmaceda (The
Politics of Energy Dependency), David Crowe (War Crimes, Genocide &
Justice), Montserrat Guibernau (Belonging), Ipek Yosmaoglu (Blood Ties), Jan
Grabowski (Hunt for the Jews), Maria Koinova (Varieties of Governance in
Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Kosovo), Soeren Keil (Multinational Federalism in
Bosnia), Stephen Jones (Georgia: A Political History), Lynn Tesser (Ethnic
Cleansing and the EU), Elissa Helms (Innocence and Victimhood), Larry
Markowitz (State Erosion), and Jessica Greenberg (Youth, Democracy, and the
Politics of Disappointment in Serbia).

The opening reception of the Convention will be held on the 15th Floor of
the International Affairs Building, 420 W. 118th St., New York on Thursday
April 24 at 8.30 PM. The closing reception, at the same place on Saturday
April 26 at 7.15 PM, will feature the announcements of the ASN Harriman Book
Prize, the Best Doctoral Students Papers Awards and the Award for Best
Documentary.

For practical information regarding the convention, please contact Ryan
Kreider (rk2780@columbia.edu<mailto:rk2780@columbia.edu>, 212 854 2514). For
registration information, please contact Kelsey Davis
(asnreg2014@gmail.com<mailto:asnreg2014@gmail.com>). For information on
panels, please contact Dominique Arel
(darel@uottawa.ca<mailto:darel@uottawa.ca>).