PROGRAM SCHEDULE

//2016 P R E L I M I N A R Y
THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF
NATIONALITIES 2016 WORLD CONVENTION
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
14-16 APRIL 2016
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
BUILDING (IAB)
420 W. 118TH ST.
NEW YORK, NY 10027

Registration (15th Floor, Central Space)

Thursday (April 14): 10 AM - 6 PM
Friday (April 15): 8 AM - 5 PM
Saturday (April 16): 8 AM - 5 PM
Book Exhibit and Caf (15th Floor, 1501)
Thursday: 11 AM - 6 PM
Friday: 9 AM - 6 PM (8 AM for the Caf)
Saturday: 9 AM - 6 PM (8 AM for the Caf)
Opening Reception (6th Floor Caf)
Thursday: 8:00 PM
Closing Reception (6th Floor Caf)
Saturday: 7:00 PM
Presentation of the ASN 2016 Best Doctoral Paper
Awards,the Harriman ASN 2016 Book Prize
and the ASN 2016 Film Award
ASN Meetings
Friday: Lunch, 1:202.50 PM
Program Committee (Room 1219)
Saturday: 9:00-11:00 AM
Board of Directors/Advisory Board (Room 1219)
Saturday: Lunch, 1:202.50 PM
Nationalities Papers Editorial Board (Room 1219)
American Association of Ukrainian Studies (Room 1201)

SUMMARY

Session I

THURSDAY
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Session II

THURSDAY
1:20 - 3:20 PM

Session III

THURSDAY
3:40 - 5:40 PM

Session IV

THURSDAY
6:00 - 8:00 PM

Session V

FRIDAY
9:00 - 11:00 AM

Session VI

FRIDAY
11:20 AM - 1:20 PM

Session VII

FRIDAY
2:50 - 4:50 PM

Session VIII

FRIDAY
5:10 - 7:10 PM

Session IX

SATURDAY
9:00 - 11:00 AM

Session X

SATURDAY
11:20 AM - 1:20 PM

Session XI

SATURDAY
2:50 - 4:50 PM

Session XII

SATURDAY
5:10 - 7:10 PM

THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION I // 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

PANEL BK10
Civil Society and Democratization in the Post-Socialist Countries
CHAIR

Rory Archer
(U of Graz, Austria)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Paula Pickering
(College of William and Mary, US)
[email protected]
Public Skepticism of NGOs in Serbia
Anna Bogic
(U of Ottawa, Canada)
[email protected]
Gender and Nation in Post-Communist Serbia:
Belgrade Feminists and Transgression of National, Ethnic, and Sexual Borders
Ana Bracic
(U of Oklahoma, US)
[email protected]
The Tolerant Youth? Exploring Discrimination Against the Roma in Slovenia and Croatia
James Gow
(Kings College, UK)
[email protected]
Command and Responsibility at Srebrenica:
Outcomes of the Mladic and Karadzic Trials and the Legacy of the Yugoslavia Tribunal
DISCUSSANT

Stefano Bianchini
(U of Bologna, Italy)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION I // 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

PANEL BK21
Politics of Memory in Sarajevo
CHAIR

Dijana Jelaa
(St. Johns U, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Jana Jevtic
(U of Sarajevo, Bosnia)
[email protected]
European Islam in Practice? Bosnian Muslims
and the Shifting Boundaries of Religious Discourse in Post-War Sarajevo

Andreas Ernst
(Neue Zrcher Zeitung, Switzerland)
[email protected]
Armina Galijas
(University of Graz, Austria)
[email protected]
Sarajevos Serbs and their Conflicting War Memories
Dalibor Misina
(Lakehead U, Canada)
[email protected]
The Blue (White & Red) Orchestra:
A Soundtrack for the Country that Never Was
Renata Summa
(U of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
[email protected]
Everyday Boundaries in post-Dayton Sarajevo
DISCUSSANT

Aleksandra Zdeb
(Jagiellonian U, Poland)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION I // 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

PANEL CE13
Narratives of Identity in Central Europe
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Ioan Marius Eppel

(Babes-Bolyai U, Romania)
[email protected]
The Ties that Divide: Nationalities and Confessions in the Debate on Civil Marriage
in the Hungarian Parliament (1894-1895)
Robert Sata
(Central European U, Hungary)
[email protected]
Abundance of Citizenship:
The Identity Effects of Non-Territorial Citizenship
David Edwards
(U of Glasgow, UK)
[email protected]
Seeing the Self in the Other: Estonia, Regionalism, and a Reorientation
of the Study of National Identity
Janine Holc
(Loyola U Maryland, US)
[email protected]
The Polish-Lithuanian Borderlands, Past and Present: Multicultural
versus Decolonial Responses to Local and State Violence
DISCUSSANT

TBA

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION I // 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

PANEL CE17
Central EuropesCommunist Societies and Legacies
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Alena Alamgir
(U of Oxford, UK)
[email protected]
Vietnamese Female Workers Struggle Over (Re)Productive Rights
in State Socialist Czechoslovakia
Kjetil Duvold
(Dalarna U, Sweden)
[email protected]
Nationality-driven Soviet Nostalgia:
Determinants of Retrospective Regime Evaluation in the Baltic States
Susanne Kranz
(Zayed U, UAE)
[email protected]
Gendered Nation-Building in the German Democratic Republic
Sokol Lleshi
(Central European U, Hungary)
[email protected]
Institutions as Vehicles of Memory Politics:
The Czech Anti-Communist Bureaucrats Eradicating Communism?
DISCUSSANT

Vejas Liulevicius
(U of Tennessee, US)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION I // 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

PANEL EU4/M12
Migration Dynamics Between Central Asia and Russia
CHAIR

Franziska Keller
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Hlne Thibault
(U of Montral, Canada)
[email protected]
Migrant Workers as De Facto Geopolitical Actors:
A Bottom-Up Perspective on Eurasian Integration
Caress Schenk
(Nazarbaev U, Kazakhstan)
[email protected]
Protecting Workers or Creating an International Labor Market?
Managing Labor Migration in Russia and Kazakhstan
Michelle OBrien
(U of Washington, US)
[email protected]
Gender, Nationalism, and Migration in Contemporary Russia
DISCUSSANT

Liz Malinkin
(Kennan Institute, DC, US)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION I // 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

PANEL K9
Abkhazia and the Unrecognized States
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Till Spanke
(LSE, UK)
[email protected]
State Building in South Ossetia and Abkhazia: Comparative Analysis of Internal and External
Actors Influences on State Building Processes in Unrecognized States
Benedikt Harzl
(U of Graz, Austria)
[email protected]
Self-Determination as Opium of the Peoples: Engaging Abkhazia
Giulia Prelz Oltramonti
(U libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
[email protected]
Overlapping and Non-Overlapping Cleavages in the South Caucasus
Malkhaz Toria
(Ilia State U, Georgia)
[email protected]
Trauma and Memories of Forced Displacement in Autobiographies of IDP
Memory Specialists from the Abkhazia Region of Georgia
DISCUSSANT

Sufian Zhemukhov
(George Washington U, US)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION I // 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

PANEL R6
Myths and Memory in Regime Legitimization
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Volodymyr Chumachenko
(Kansas State U, US)
[email protected]
The Doomed: The Mass Mobilization to the Red Army in the Soviet Ukraine
in 1943-1944 and the Soviet Politics of Forgetting
Paul Goode
(U of Bath, UK)
[email protected]
The Dangerous Decade? Collective Memory of the 1990s and Regime Legitimacy in Russia
Boris Bruk
(Institute of Modern Russia, US)
[email protected]
Russian Patriotism In and Beyond the Great Power Game
Nataliya Danilova
(U of Aberdeen, UK)
[email protected]
Remembering/Forgetting/Forging Wars:
The Politics of Commemorative Symbols in Russia and Ukraine
DISCUSSANT

Kate Graney
(Skidmore College, US)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION I // 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

PANEL U3
Civil Society and Activism during and since Maidan
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Maria Sonevytsky
(Bard College, US)
[email protected]
The Politics of Ukrainian Aesthetics: Musical Performance on the Maidan
Alla Korzh
(SIT Graduate Institute, US)
[email protected]
Serhiy Kovalchuk
(Independent Researcher, Toronto, Canada)
[email protected]
Euromaidan Abroad:
Civic Activism of Transnational Ukrainian Youth in the United States
Megan Metzger
(NYU, US)
[email protected]
Language and Strategic Choice During EuroMaidan
Myroslav Shkandrij
(U of Manitoba, Canada)
[email protected]
Transformed by War: Ukrainian Intellectuals on 2014-15
DISCUSSANT

Olena Nikolayenko
(Fordham U, US)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION I // 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

PANEL N17
Visual Sites of Memory: Museums and Murals
CHAIR

Neven Andjelic
(Regents U London, UK)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Lizaveta Kasmach
(U of Alberta, Canada)
[email protected]
Memory Politics in Contemporary Belarus:
The New Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Minsk
Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
The Vanishing Act of Socialism: Analysis of the Remains of Yugoslav Memorial Complex
in Kumrovec, Birth Place of Josip Broz Tito
Robin Ostow
(Wilfrid Laurier U, Canada)
[email protected]
The Memory Politics of Slavery, Civil Rights and Human Rights:
Musealizing Human Rights in Liverpool, UK and Atlanta, Georgia (US)
Fredrika Larsson
(Lund U, Sweden)
[email protected]
Muralizing History: The Case of the Northern Ireland Conflict
DISCUSSANT

Laia Balcells
(Duke U, US)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION II // 1:20 - 3:20 PM

PANEL BK6
Between Class and Nation:
Labor, Identity and Care in Post-Socialism
CHAIR

Marko Grdesic
(U of Wisconsin Madison, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Ivan Rajkovic
(U College London, UK)
[email protected]
We Should Now Gather as Serbs, to Become Workers Again:
Foreign Privatisations as National Redemption in Serbia
Fabio Mattioli
(CUNY Graduate Center, US)
[email protected]
The Value of Labor: An Ethnographic Analysis of the Economic
and Existential Implications of Authoritarianism in Skopje, Macedonia
Larisa Kurtovic
(U of Ottawa, Canada)
[email protected]
On Labor, Occupation and Other Not-Quite-National Things:
The Case of Detergent Factory Dita in Tuzla
DISCUSSANT

Susan Woodward
(CUNY Graduate Center, US)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION II // 1:20 - 3:20 PM

PANEL BK17
Discussing the Link Between Memory and Nationalism
CHAIR

John Kraljic
(Garfunkel Wild Solicitors, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Shasivar Kabashi
(U of Istanbul, Turkey)
[email protected]
The Issue of the Alphabet in the Vilayet of Kosovo During the End of the Ottoman Rule
Atdhe Hetemi
(Ghent U, Belgium)
[email protected]
Seeing Each Other: Nesting Orientalisms and Internal Balkanism
among the Albanians and South Slavs in the Former Yugoslavia

Anida Sokol
(Sapienza U of Rome, Italy)
[email protected]
Alberto Becherelli
(Sapienza U of Rome, Italy)
[email protected]
Once He Was a Yugoslav Hero: The Contested Memory of Gavrilo Princip
Milica Popovic
(U of Ljubljana, Serbia)
[email protected]
To Whom Does Gavrilo Princip Belong?
DISCUSSANT

Jared Manasek
(Pace U, US)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION II // 1:20 - 3:20 PM

PANEL CE11
Polands Identity and Challenges
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Magdalena Gross
(U of Maryland, US)
(Brown U, US)
[email protected]
Encountering the Past in the Present:
An Exploratory Study of Educational Tourism and Memory Politics
Aga Skrodska
(Clemson U, US)
[email protected]
Women and the Polish Communist Legacy in Pawe Pawlikowskis film Ida (2014)
Mara Cristina lvarez Gonzlez
(U Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
[email protected]
Polishness through Otherness: The Meaning of Polands Existence between Russia
and the West in the Discourses of Polish Democratic Opposition Intellectuals (1976-1991)
Krzysztof Jasiewicz
(Washington and Lee University, US)
[email protected]
The 2014-2015 Super-Election Season in Poland:
The Triumph of the Right, the Defeat of the Left, or the Irrelevance of the Left-Right Axis?
DISCUSSANT

Piotr Wrobel
(U of Toronto, Canada)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION II // 1:20 - 3:20 PM

PANEL EU3
Language, Cultural Production, and National Identity
CHAIR

Joseph MacKay
(Harriman Institute, Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Maria Blackwood
(Harvard U, US)
[email protected]
Nationalists and Colonizers:
Factions, Factionalism, and Interethnic Relations in Early Soviet Kazakhstan
Sandrina Catris
(Augusta U, US)
[email protected]
Violence as Performance:
The World of Public Violence and Individual Attacks in Xinjiang, 1966-1969
Adrienne Edgar
(U of California, Santa Barbara, US)
[email protected]
Language and Identity in Ethnically Mixed Families in Soviet Central Asia
Milena Oganesyan
(U of Montana-Missoula, US)
[email protected]
Wearing the Others Hat:
Ethno-Religious Intermarriage in Georgia
Lisel Hintz
(Cornell U, US) [email protected]
Allison Quatrini
(George Washington U, US) [email protected]
Its MY Party: Holiday Celebrations as Sites of Minority Identity Contestation
in China and Turkey
DISCUSSANT

Svetlana Peshkova
(U of New Hampshire, US)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION II // 1:20 - 3:20 PM

PANEL TK6
The Politics of Belonging and Exclusion
from the Ottoman Empire to Modern Turkey
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Gulen Gokturk
(Bakent U, Turkey)
[email protected]
Disrupting Illusion, Normalizing the Ottoman Plurality:
The Case of the Orthodox Christians in Late Ottoman Cappadocia
Melis Sulos
(CUNY Graduate Center, US)
[email protected]
The Father and His Children:
Affection, Nationalism, and the Construction of a Family Rhetoric in Turkey
Onur Yildirim
(Middle East Technical U, Turkey)
[email protected]
Refugees and the Nation: Alexander Pallis and Anastasios Bakalbasis
on the Greco-Turco Exchange of Populations
DISCUSSANT

TBA

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION II // 1:20 - 3:20 PM

PANEL R13
Language Policy in the Former Soviet Union
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Nadezhda Borisova
[email protected]
Konstantin Sulimov
[email protected]
(Perm State U, Russia)
The Institutionalization of Language Policy in Polylingual Ethnic Territorial Autonomies
Ksenia Maksimovtsova
(Justus-Liebig U of Giessen, Germany)
[email protected]
Contemporary Language Policy and Educational Reforms in Estonia, Latvia and Ukraine:
Public Debates in Russian-Language Blogs and News Websites
Ioana Nechiti
(U of Vienna, Austria)
[email protected]
Language Politics of the Kalmyks after the Deportation
Viktoria Ferenc
(Research Institute for Hungarian Communities Abroad, Budapest)
[email protected]
Ukraines Democratization Process Through the Lens of Language Policy
Volodymyr Kazarin
(Taurida National V.I. Vernadsky U, Ukraine)
[email protected]
Education and Forming of National Self-Consciousness in the Crimea
DISCUSSANT

Matthew Ciscel
(Central Connecticut State U, US)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION II // 1:20 - 3:20 PM

PANEL U4
The Turmoil in Eastern Ukraine
CHAIR

Elise Giuliano
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Ivan Kozachenko
(U of Alberta, Canada)
[email protected]
The City on the Brink of War: Kharkiv During and After the Russian Spring
Henry Hale
(George Washington U, US)
[email protected]
Oxana Shevel
(Tufts U, US)
[email protected]
Understanding the Odesa Tragedy:
Political Belief Formation During the Onset of War
Nadiya Kostyuk
Yuri Zhukov
(U of Michigan, US)
[email protected]
[email protected]
Invisible Digital Fronts: The Logic of Cyber and Kinetic Operations in Ukraine
Serhy Yekelchyk
(U of Victoria, Canada)
[email protected]
From the Anti-Maidan to the Donbas War:
The Spatial and Ideological Evolution of the Counter-Revolution in Ukraine (201314)
DISCUSSANT

TBA

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION II // 1:20 - 3:20 PM

PANEL M4
The Intersection of the National and Transnational
in the Refugee Crisis in Europe (Roundtable)
CHAIR

Robin Brooks
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Ayse Parla
(Sabanc U, Turkey)
[email protected]
The Europeanization of Turkeys Migration Regime and the Unequal Distribution of Hope
Anwen Tormey
(U of Chicago, US)
[email protected]
Still Committed to Protect?: The Struggle to Harmonize Europes Human Rights Values
with its Refugee Determination Processes
Dace Dzenovska
(U of Oxford, UK)
[email protected]
Refugees, Compassion and the Limits of Europeanness
Esther Romeyn
(U of Florida, US)
[email protected]
The Accounting of Human Rights: Refugees and Cultural Deficits
Maria Stoilkova
(U of Florida, US)
[email protected]
The Political Openings of Reasoning Between the Sympathy and the Indifference
Elisa Helms
(Central European U, Hungary)
[email protected]
Men at the Borders:
Gender, War, and Nation in the European Migration Crisis of 2015

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION II // 1:20 - 3:20 PM

PANEL N12
Nationalism and Self-Determination
CHAIR

John Coakley
(Queens U Belfast, UK)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Karlo Basta
(Memorial U of Newfoundland, Canada)
[email protected]
Processes, Critical Junctures, Political Events:
Catalan Nationalism from the 2006 Statute to the 2010 Constitutional Court Decision
Sahan Savas Karatasli
(Princeton U, US)
[email protected]
Crisis, War and Global Waves of Nationalism:
Secessionist Movements of 21st Century in a World-Historical Perspective
Jaime Lluch
(U of Puerto Rico, US)
[email protected]
Sub-State Nationalism and Material Constraints
Alexandra Remond
(Edinburgh U, UK)
[email protected]
When you Ask the People:
Consequences of Independence Referendums on Secessionist Dynamics
Neven Andjelic
(Regents U London, UK)
[email protected]
Slovenia and Scotland: Nationalism and Self-Determination
in Liberal Democracy and Communist Federation
DISCUSSANT

Jordi Graupera
(New School U, US)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION II // 1:20 - 3:20 PM

PANEL BO12/N19
Book Panel on Joyce Apsel, Introducing Peace Museums
(Routledge, 2016)
CHAIR

Nitza Milagros Escalera

(Fordham Law School, US)
[email protected]
PARTICIPANTS

Michael D. Dinwiddie
(NYU, US)
[email protected]
Elazar Barkan
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
Amy Sodaro
(Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY, US)
[email protected]
Brian Boyd
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
Joyce Apsel
(NYU, US)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION III // 3:40 - 5:40 PM

PANEL BK2
The Business of State Capture in the Western Balkans 2
CHAIR

Soeren Keil
(Canterbury Christ Church U, UK)
[email protected]
PAPERS

John Hulsey
(James Madison U, US)
[email protected]
Political Coalitions and the Reversal of State Capture:
Bosnia and Herzegovina in Comparative Perspective
Joseph Coehlo
(Framingham State U, US)
[email protected]
Collision and Collusion:
International State-Building and State Capture in Kosovo
Anastasiia Kudlenko
(Canterbury Christ Church U, UK)
[email protected]
The Croatian Army under Tuman:
A Security Provider to Citizens or the Regimes Criminal Enterprise?
Valery Perry
(Democratization Policy Council, Bosnia)
[email protected]
State of the Art? State-Owned Enterprises in Bosnia and Herzegovina
DISCUSSANT

Florian Bieber
(U of Graz, Austria)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION III // 3:40 - 5:40 PM

PANEL BK19/M8
New Perspectives on Refugees and Diasporas in the Balkans
CHAIR

Tanya Domi
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Gzin Aycan ztrk

(Sabanv U, Turkey)
[email protected]
An Assessment of the Refugee Crisis in Europe:
The Western Balkans as a Way Through
Renata Cuk
(Independent Scholar, Spain)
[email protected]
Dobro doli, dobro proli! (Welcome and please pass!)
The Refugee Crisis and the Croatian Experience
Mirsad Krijestorac
(Florida International U, US)
[email protected]
First Nationalism then Desired Identity:
The Analysis of US Bosniak Diaspora Survey Data
Svetlua Surov
(Comenius U, Slovakia)
[email protected]
Exploring the Multiple Membership and Identities of Slovak Diaspora in Serbia:
Context of Serbian Minority Regime and Slovak Diaspora Regime
DISCUSSANT

TBA

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION III // 3:40 - 5:40 PM

PANEL CE6
Jewish Minorities and Identities
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Giuseppe Motta
(Sapienza U of Rome, Italy)
[email protected]
The First World War and the Emergency of Jewish Refugees:
The Relief Action of the Joint and the Reaction of National States
Victoria Khiterer
(Millersville U, US)
[email protected]
Jews and Anti-Semitism in Kiev in 1953-1970s
Felicia Waldman
(U of Bucharest, Romania)
[email protected]
Alyahas Exile: The Effect of Emigration on the Cultural Identity
of Romanian Jewish Writers who Moved to Israel
Michael Rom
(Yale U, US)
[email protected]
Tranquil Harmony and Mutual Respect:
European Jewish Immigrants Ideas About Brazilian National Identity, 1945-1955
Francine Friedman
(Ball State U, US)
[email protected]
The Challenges and Rewards of Being a State-Supportive Minority:
The Bosnian Jews
DISCUSSANT

Meirav Jones
(Yale U, US)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION III // 3:40 - 5:40 PM

PANEL CE7
External Actors, Kin-States and Minority Politics in Central Europe
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Andrea Carteny
(Sapienza U of Rome, Italy)
[email protected]
National Mobilization and Symbols of Szeklers in Transylvania:
Trends and Factors
Alexandra Liebich
Zsuzsa Cserg
(Queens U, Canada)
[email protected]
[email protected]
How External Intervention Shapes the Trajectories of Interethnic Conflict:
An Event-based Analysis of European and Kin-state Engagement in Central and Eastern Europe
Petra Hamerli
(U of Pcs, Hungary /Sapienza U of Rome, Italy)
[email protected]
The Hungarian Optants in Transylvania in the Italian Diplomacy (1927-1931)
DISCUSSANT

TBA

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION III // 3:40 - 5:40 PM

PANEL EU1
Elite and Authoritarian Approaches to Conflict Management
in Central Asia
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

David Lewis
(U of Exeter, UK)
[email protected]
Illiberal Peace in Kyrgyzstan:
Authoritarian Patterns of Conflict Management in Post-2010 Osh
Alisher Khamidov
(Newcastle U, US)
[email protected]
How Local Actors Managed to Prevent the Spread of Violence
in Southern Kyrgyzstan, June 2010: The Lessons from Aravan and Uzgen
Eric Hamrin
(Independent Scholar, VA, US)
[email protected]
Patterns of Elite, Apparatus, and International Complementarity
in the Securing of Authoritarian Stability in Tajikistan
John Heathershaw
(U of Exeter, UK)
[email protected]
Rebels without a Cause?
Authoritarian Conflict Management as State Formation in Tajikistan
DISCUSSANT

Jesse Driscoll
(U California San Diego, US)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION III // 3:40 - 5:40 PM

PANEL TK9
The Armenian Genocide: Denial and Recognition
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Maria Karlsson
(Lund U, Sweden)
[email protected]
Cultures of Denial: From the Armenian Genocide to the Holocaust
Tunc Aybak
(Middlesex U, UK)
[email protected]
Geopolitics of Denial and Memory: Turkish States Diplomatic State Craft
Vahagn Avedian
(Lund U, Sweden)
[email protected]
Memory, History and Justice: The Armenian Genocide and its Recognition
Vahe Sahakyan
(U of Michigan, US)
[email protected]
Constructing Belongings, Negotiating Spaces:
Armenian Genocide Survivors in Lebanon, France and the United States
DISCUSSANT

Joyce Apsel
(NYU, US)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION III // 3:40 - 5:40 PM

PANEL R9/BO2
Book Panel on Pl Kolst and Helge Blakkisrud, The New Russian
Nationalism: Imperialism, Ethnicity and Authoritarianism 2000-2015
(Edinburgh, 2016)
CHAIR

Gulnaz Sharafutdinova
(Kings College London, UK)
[email protected]
PARTICIPANTS

Oxana Shevel
(Tufts U, US)
[email protected]
Paul Goode
(U of Bath, UK)
[email protected]
Igor Zevelev
(CSIS, Washington, DC, US)
[email protected]
Pl Kolst
(U of Oslo, Norway)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION III // 3:40 - 5:40 PM

PANEL R15
Russian-Speaking Minorities and Migrants
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Richard Arnold
(Muskingum U, US)
[email protected]
The Promised Land?
The Social Imaginary and the Cossack Congress of America
AlinaJasina
(U of Giessen, Germany)
[email protected]
Exploring the Individual Narratives and Experiences of Homeland
among the Russian-speaking Youth in Kazakhstan
Diana Kudaibergenova
(U of Cambridge, UK/CERI Sciences Po, France)
[email protected]
Lost in Translation: Russian Speaking Minorities and their Failed Nationalisms
in Post-Independent Latvia and Kazakhstan
Lisa Tuhkanen
(U College London, UK)
[email protected]
Citizenship, Identity and Integration:
The Case of Finlands Russian-Speaking Minority
Ruth McKenna
(U of Glasgow, UK)
[email protected]
Anti-Russian Narratives? The Impact of British Media and Popular Representations
of Russia upon Russian Migrants and Refugees Living in Scotland
DISCUSSANT

Allan Kagedan
(Carleton U, Canada)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION III // 3:40 - 5:40 PM

PANEL U1
State and Civil Society in post-Madan Ukraine
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Mykhailo Minakov
(U Mohyla Academy, Ukraine)
[email protected]
Civil Society and the Misbalance of a Political System in Post-Maidan Ukraine
Alexandra Goujon
(U of Burgundy, France)
[email protected]
Local State Capacities Facing Multiple Actors in the City of Slaviansk
Anna Colin Lebedev
(CERCEC, EHESS, Paris, France)
[email protected]
Civilians at War: Afghanistan Veterans in the Armed Conflict in Donbas
Natalia Stepaniuk
(U of Ottawa, Canada)
[email protected]
The Rise of Voluntary Movements Amidst War in Ukraine
Ioulia Shukan
(U Paris Ouest Nanterre La Dfense, France)
[email protected]
Caring for Wounded Soldiers: The Sisters of Mercy in Kharkiv
DISCUSSANT

TBA

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION III // 3:40 - 5:40 PM

PANEL N3
Nationalist Violence
CHAIR

Anastasia Shesterinina
(Yale U, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Kyle Marquardt
(U of Gothenburg, Sweden)
[email protected]
Identity, Political Power and Conflict:
Social Group Exclusion and Civil War Onset
David Emre Amasyali
(McGill U, Canada)
[email protected]
Fighting Over or Against the State:
Colonialism, Non-Colonialism, and Strategies of Ethnic Conflict
Mehri Ghazanjani
(McGill U, Canada)
[email protected]
From Tension to War: A Fuzzy-Set Analysis on Levels of Civil Conflict
in the Middle East and North Africa
Alan Kuperman
(U of Texas at Austin, US)
[email protected]
Explaining Ethnonational Rebellion in Sudans Two Areas
Durukan Kuzu
(Coventry U, UK)
[email protected]
Multiculturalism and Ethnic Insurgency: Prospects for Peace
DISCUSSANT

Tamar Mitts
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION III // 3:40 - 5:40 PM

PANEL N4
Nationalism: Methods, Approaches, Concepts
CHAIR

Zeynep Bulutgil
(Tufts U, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Dmitry Kochenov
(Princeton U, US)
[email protected]
An Objective Measure to Compare Nationalities?
Designing the Quality of Nationalities Index
Sherrill Stroschein
(U College London, UK)
[email protected]
Navigating between Research Transparency and Harm:
DA-RT and the Study of Nationalism
John Coakley
(Queens U Belfast, UK)
[email protected]
National Identity and the Kohn Dichotomy
Dragana Svraka
(U of Florida, US)
[email protected]
How Do States Classify Their Populations and What Are the Consequences
of Such Classifications? Evidence from Europe
Bla Filep
(Harvard U, US)
[email protected]
The Transnationalization of Self-Determination Claims in Europe
DISCUSSANT

Meg Guliford
(Tufts U, US)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION IV // 6:00 - 8:00 PM

PANEL BK7
LGBT Politics in the Western Balkans: Assessing the Role of Transnational
Linkages and European Union Accession processes
CHAIR

Chip Gagnon
(Ithaca College, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Koen Slootmaeckers
(Queen Mary U of London, UK)
[email protected]
Discrimination in the Closet:
When Social Conditions Limit the Europeanisation of LGBT Rights in Serbia
Safia Swimelar
(Elon U , US)
[email protected]
The Journey of LGBT Rights: Norm Diffusion and its Challenges
in EU Seeking States (Bosnia and Serbia)
Rene Bogovic
(U of Toronto, Canada)
[email protected]
LGBTQ Activism in Former Yugoslavia:
Cross-Ethnic Collaboration and De-Radicalization
DISCUSSANT

Tanya Domi
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION IV // 6:00 - 8:00 PM

PANEL BK13
International Actors in Western Balkans
CHAIR

Mila Dragojevic
(The U of the South, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Julia Himmrich
(LSE, UK)
[email protected]
The Increased Use of Constructive Ambiguity for the Conflict Management
of Contested Statehood in Europe and its Neighbourhood
Gorana Grgic
(U of Sydney, Autralia)
[email protected]
Dayton Lessons: Hopes for Syria?
A Guide to Conflict Termination and Nation-Building
Dimitar Bechev
(Sofia U, Bulgaria/Harvard U, US)
[email protected]
Friends with Benefits: Understanding Russias Influence in the Balkans
Roswitha M. King
(stfold U College, Norway)
[email protected]
Attitudes toward Joining the EU in Kosovo:
Do Migration, Gender and Ethnicity Matter?
Arlinda Rrustemi
(Leiden U, Netherlands)
[email protected]
The Implications of International Engagement in Kosovos Statebuilding
for Religious Radicalization
DISCUSSANT

Indraneel Sircar
(Queen Mary U of London, UK)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION IV // 6:00 - 8:00 PM

PANEL CE3
Defending the Narrative of National Suffering: Remembering World War II
and Communism in Museums in Central and Eastern Europe
CHAIR

Jennie Schulze
(Duquesne U, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Muriel Blaive
(Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Austria)
[email protected]
In search of a Monopolistic Historical Narrative on the Communist Past: Czech Memory
Entrepreneurs and the Vagaries of post-1989 Memory Politics
Stephen Norris
(Miami U Ohio, US)
[email protected]
Sensing the Uprising:
The Warsaw Uprising Museum and the Emotions of the Past
Katja Wezel
(U of Pittsburgh, US)
[email protected]
Rigas Cheka House:
From a Soviet Place of Terror to a Latvian Site of Remembrance?
DISCUSSANTS

Hope M. Harrison
(George Washington U, US)
[email protected]
Daina S. Eglitis
(George Washington U, US)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION IV // 6:00 - 8:00 PM

PANEL CE4
Europeanization, Democracy and Nationalism in the EU
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Zelal Bal
(Sdertrn U, Sweden)
[email protected]
Returning to Europe and Turning Away from Europe?
Post-Accession Attitudes in Central and Eastern Europe
Eleanor Knott
(LSE, UK)
[email protected]
Daniel Brett
(The Open U, UK)
[email protected]
Beyond Identity Politics and Geopolitics: Dirty Politics as an Explanation
for the Waning of Support for Europeanization in Moldova
Vello Pettai
(U of Tartu, Estonia)
[email protected]
Testing EU Democratization Effects:
Varieties of Democracy in Eastern Europe, pre-1940 and post-1990
Jack Williams
(U of Zrich, Switzerland)
[email protected]
Rising Nationalism in the EU: A Grave Threat and a Potential Saviour
DISCUSSANT

TBA

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION IV // 6:00 - 8:00 PM

PANEL EU6
Nation-Building in Kazakhstan:
Education, Everyday Nationalism, Symbols and Popular Culture
CHAIR

Sandrine Catris
(Augusta U, US)
[email protected]
PANELISTS

Steven Sabol
(UNC Charlotte, US)
[email protected]
Comparing Russian and American Imperial Education Strategies and the Unintended
Consequences: Case Studies of the Sioux and the Kazakhs, 1880s to 1914
John Schoeberlein
(Nazarbayev U, Kazakhstan)
[email protected]
The Unnoticed Transformation of National Identity from Soviet to Post-Soviet Kazakhstan
Dina Sharipova
(KIMEP U, Kazakhstan)
[email protected]
Civic and Ethnic Nationalism in Kazakhstan:
Evidence from the Grassroot Level
Kristoffer Rees
(Indiana U East, US)
[email protected]
Recasting the Nation: De-Sovietizing Kazakhstani Heroes
Aziz Burkhanov
(Nazarbayev U, Kazakhstan)
[email protected]
Nation-Building in Kazakhstan:
Identity Formation in the Popular Culture, Media and Television
DISCUSSANT

Edward Schatz
(U of Toronto, Canada)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION IV // 6:00 - 8:00 PM

PANEL K2
Power, Identity and Belonging in the North Caucasus
CHAIR

Sufian Zhemukhov
(George Washington U, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Egor Lazarev
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
Laws in Conflict: The Politics of Legal Pluralism in Chechnya
Alexandra Klyachkina
(Northwestern U, US)
[email protected]
Localized Order and State-Building in Chechnya
Karena Avedissian
(U of Southern California, US)
[email protected]
Clerics, Weightlifters, and Politicians: Ramzan Kadyrovs Instagram
as an Official Project of Chechen Memory and Identity Production
DISCUSSANT

Ekatrina Sokirianskaya
(International Crisis Group, Turkey)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION IV // 6:00 - 8:00 PM

PANEL TK3
Religion, Post-Colonial Identity Formation and Turkish Nationalism
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Hale Yilmaz
(Southern Illinois U Carbondale, US)
[email protected]
Children and the Quran Courses After Turkeys 1928 Alphabet Reform
Elin Aktoprak
(Ankara U, Turkey)
[email protected]
New Turkey and its New Nation in terms of Postcolonial Nationalism
Aya Alemdarolu
(Northwestern U, US)
[email protected]
Politics of History and Neoliberal Expansionism in the Government of Youth in Turkey
Sefika Kumral
(Johns Hopkins U, US)
[email protected]
Democratization, Collective Action and Transformation of Ethnic Boundaries:
Anti-Kurdish Communal Violence in Turkey
DISCUSSANT

Yeim Bayar
(Concordia U, Canada)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION IV // 6:00 - 8:00 PM

PANEL R3/M13
Migration and Intolerance in Russia and the Caucasus
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Alexia Bloch
(U of British Columbia, Canada)
[email protected]
Fortress Russia and Emerging Citizenship Regimes:
Of Migrants, Refugees, and Childrens Rights
Vanessa Ruget
(Salem State U, US)
[email protected]
Name the Republic that was Joined to Russia in 2014:
Russias New Civics and History Test for Migrants
Ekaterina Demintseva
(Higher School of Economics, Russia)
[email protected]
State Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and its Impact on the Daily Life of Migrants
from Central Asia in Moscow
Lawrence Markowitz
(Rowan U, US)
[email protected]
Explaining the Rise of Anti-Immigrant Violence in Russia
DISCUSSANT

Leah Haus
(Vassar College, US)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION IV // 6:00 - 8:00 PM

PANEL U2
The Holodomor within the Context of the 1932-1933 Famine
in the Soviet Union
CHAIR

Myroslava Znayenko
(Rutgers U, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Douglas Irvin-Erickson
(George Mason U, US)
[email protected]
Empire, Colony, and Famine-Genocide before World War II
Sarah Cameron
(U of Maryland, College Park, US)
[email protected]
The Kazakh Famine of 1930-33 in Its Pan-Soviet Context
Oleh Wolowyna
(U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, US)
[email protected]
Monthly Excess Deaths in 1933:
Regional Comparisons between Ukraine and Russia
Nataliia Levchuk
(Ptoukha Institute of Demography, Kyv, Ukraine)
[email protected]
Regional Variations of the 1932-33 Famine Losses:
A Comparative Analysis of Ukraine and Russia
DISCUSSANT

Dominique Arel
(U of Ottawa, Canada)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION IV // 6:00 - 8:00 PM

PANEL BO11/U15
Book Panel on Lucan Way, Pluralism by Default:
Weak Autocrats and the Rise of Competitive Politics
(Johns Hopkins, 2015)
CHAIR

TBA
PARTICIPANTS

Dmitry Gorenburg
(Harvard U, US)
[email protected]
Henry Hale
(George Washington U, US)
[email protected]
Ioulia Shukan
(U Paris Ouest Nanterre La Dfense, France)
[email protected]
Lucan Way
(U of Toronto, Canada)
[email protected]

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THURSDAY APRIL 14TH // SESSION IV // 6:00 - 8:00 PM

PANEL N5
People and Places: New Perspectives on Sons of the Soil Conflicts
(Roundtable)
CHAIR

Monica Toft
(U of Oxford, UK/Princeton U, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Isabelle Ct
(Memorial U of Newfoundland, Canada)
[email protected]
Deciphering Sons of the Soil Conflicts: An Introduction
Pal Kolst
(U of Oslo, Norway)
[email protected]
The Concept of Rootedness in the Struggle for Political Power
in the Former Soviet Union in the 1990s
Oded Haklai
(Queens U, Canada)
[email protected]
The Flip Side of Sons-of-the-Soil:
Settlers, Disputed Territories, and Ethnic Conflict
Ruxi Zhang
(Stanford U, US)
[email protected]
Sons-of-the-Soil: A Model of Repression, Assimilation, and Population Control

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION V // 9:00 - 11:00 AM

PANEL BK8/BO3
Book Panel on Adam Fagan and Indraneel Sircar,
Europeanization of the Western Balkans: Environmental Governance in
Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia (Palgrave, 2015)
CHAIR

Jelena Dzankic
(European U Institute, Italy)
[email protected]
PARTICIPANTS

Florian Bieber
(U of Graz, Austria)
[email protected]
Paula Pickering
(College of William and Mary, US)
[email protected]
Peter Vermeersch
(U of Leuven, Belgium)
[email protected]
Adam Fagan
(Queen Mary U of London, UK)
[email protected]
Indraneel Sircar
(Queen Mary U of London, UK)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION V // 9:00 - 11:00 AM

PANEL BK22
Yugoslavia 25 Years Later
CHAIR

Susan Woodward
(CUNY, The Graduate Center, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Michael Rossi
(Rutgers U, US)
[email protected]
Too Much History Per Square Mile: Competing Narratives, Contested Memories,
and Controversial Commemorations in Yugoslavias Successor States since 2000
Anja Vojvodi
(Rutgers U, US)
[email protected]
Where Are They Now? The Feminist Movement of Yugoslavia
Tibor Purger
(Rutgers U, US)
[email protected]
(Re-)Constructed Identities: Transborder Allegiance of Unhappy Ethnic Groups
DISCUSSANT

John Kraljic
(Garfunkel Wild Solicitors, US)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION V // 9:00 - 11:00 AM

PANEL CE14
Dealing with Shadowed Pasts in Central Europe
CHAIR

Roland Spickermann
(U of Texas Permian Basin, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Natalia Khanenko-Friesen
(U of Saskatchewan, Canada)
[email protected]
Reclaiming the Personal: Oral History in Post-Socialist Europe
Dana Dolghin
(U of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
[email protected]
Unsettling Identifications:
Competing Narratives of Belonging in Eastern Europe
Alexandru Gussi
(Bucharest U, Romania)
[email protected]
Political Memory, State Continuity and the Quest for Democratic Legitimacy
in Post-Communist Romania
Maaris Raudsepp
[email protected]
Marianna Makarova
[email protected]
(Tallinn U, Estonia)
Identity and Intergroup Positioning in Relation to the Common Past
DISCUSSANT

Peter Gross
(U of Tennessee, US)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION V // 9:00 - 11:00 AM

PANEL CE18
The Hungarian North American Diaspora
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Agnes Vass
(U of Alberta, Canada)
[email protected]
Reconnecting the Nation: Effects of Hungarian Diaspora Policy
from the Perspective of Hungarians Living in Canada
Stefano Bottoni
(Institute of History, Budapest, Hungary)
[email protected]
Tweaking the Nose of Ceauescu. The Committee for Human Rights in Romania and the
Reversal of Sonnenfeldt Doctrine, 1976-1978
Tibor Glant
(U of Debrecen, Hungary/Texas Christian U, US)
[email protected]
A Case of Failed Ethnic Lobbying: Why The Last Battle for St. Stephens Crown Failed in 1977
Eszter Herner-Kovcs
(Institute for Minority Studies, Budapest, Hungary)
[email protected]
A Case of Successful Ethnic Lobbying: The Hungarian Human Rights Foundations Route
to the Suspension of Romanias Most Favored Nation Status in the US Congress
DISCUSSANT

Lszl Hmos
(Hungarian Human Rights Foundation, NY, US)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION V // 9:00 - 11:00 AM

PANEL EU8
Normative Orders and Kazakhstani Practices:
Outcomes of Contestation in a Post-Soviet Field
CHAIR

Gulnar Kendirbai
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Zhaniya Turlubekova
(Nazarbayev U, Kazakhstan)
[email protected]
Political Institutions in the Fight against Drug-trafficking:
How Kazakhstani Law Enforcement Fights Transnational Crime
Aslan Sataibekov
(Nazarbayev U, Kazakhstan)
[email protected]
Gay and Religious: The Contexts of Post-Soviet Kazakhstan
Raikhan Satymbekova
(Nazarbayev U, Kazakhstan)
[email protected]
Female Political Representation and Barriers that Women Face in Politics
Ainur Jyekyei
(Nazarbayev U, Kazakhstan)
[email protected]
Why Kazakhstan Increased Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions,
While Poland Decreased under the Kyoto Protocol from 2005-2012
DISCUSSANT

John Schoeberlein
(Nazarbayev U, Kazakhstan)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION V // 9:00 - 11:00 AM

PANEL K4
Conflicts in the South Caucasus
CHAIR

Laurence Broers
(SOAS, U of London, UK)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Scott Radnitz
(U of Washington, US)
[email protected]
Beyond the Binary of Intractable Conflicts:
War and Geopolitical Imagination in Azerbaijan
Nina Caspersen
(U of York, UK)
[email protected]
An Interim Agreement for Nagorno Karabakh: A Realistic Solution?
Magdalena Dembinska
(U of Montreal, Canada)
[email protected]
Defining Us - with Them?
Reframing the Other Within Transnistria and Abkhazia
DISCUSSANT

Cory Welt
(George Washington U, US)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION V // 9:00 - 11:00 AM

PANEL TK1
Mobile Geographies of Otherness:
Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity in the Late and Post-Ottoman Space
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Vladimir Boskovic
(Princeton U, US)
[email protected]
Cosmopolitan Nationalisms:
Reevaluating the Early Feminist Travel Writers of Southeastern Europe
Elektra Kostopoulou
(Rutgers U, US)
[email protected]
Twin Peaks: Old and Recent Tales of Exchange between Turkey and Greece
Martha Papaspiliou
(Kings College London, UK)
[email protected]
Cultural Politics of Memory in Greece (1830-1870): The Role of Literature
in the Monumentalization of the Heroes of the Greek War of Independence
Nikos Michailidis
(Princeton U, US)
[email protected]
Music, Nation, and Ethnicity in Turkey
Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
Ottomania: Televised Histories and Otherness Revisited
DISCUSSANT

Elena Frangakis-Syrett
(CUNY Graduate Center, US)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION V // 9:00 - 11:00 AM

PANEL R10
Nationalism through the Lens of Film and Literature
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Dvora Yanow
(Wageningen U, Netherlands)
[email protected]
Branding National Identity through Film:
Mutual Constructions of Foreignness and Dutchness
Victoria Vygodskaia-Rust
(Southeast Missouri State U, US)
[email protected]
Putins Russia through Film: The Case of Orphans
Anna Ronell
(Independent Scholar, MA, US)
[email protected]
World War II, Evacuation to Central Asia and Supra-Soviet Identity Formation
in Grigorii Kanovichs Novella Faces in The Dark
DISCUSSANT

Rebecca Stanton
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION V // 9:00 - 11:00 AM

PANEL U12
Ukraine in the First World War and the Interwar Period
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Mikhail Akulov
(Kazakh-British Technical U, Kazakhstan)
[email protected]
Ukrainians, Austrians or the Turks?: Galicians in Ukraine and the Struggle over Ukrainian-ness
Olha Voznyuk
(U of Vienna, Austria)
[email protected]
The Galician Cultural Identity in Post-Galician time
Larysa Bilous
(U of Alberta, Canada)
[email protected]
Practices of Urban Life in Kyiv during the First World War:
The Politics of Public Space
Oksana Vynnyk
(U of Alberta, Canada)
[email protected]
Welfare State and National Minorities: Disabled Veterans in Interwar Lviv
John Holian
[email protected]
(Independent Scholar, OH, US)
Polish and Ukrainian Mortality in a Small Galician Town, 1900-1938
DISCUSSANT

Zenon Wasyliw
(Ithaca College, US)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION V // 9:00 - 11:00 AM

PANEL N6
Doing Research on Conflict and Security
CHAIR

Costantino Pischedda
(Princeton U, US)
[email protected]
PANELISTS

Jesse Driscoll
(U California San Diego, US)
[email protected]
Asking High-Stakes Questions in Semi-Authoritarian Settings
Jean-Franois Ratelle
(U of Ottawa, Canada)
[email protected]
Political Ethnography in Conflict Zones:
How Immersion can Contribute to the Study of Islamic Radicalization
John Heathershaw
(U of Exeter, UK)
[email protected]
The Politics and Ethics of Fieldwork in Post-Conflict Environments
Authoritarian Conflict Management as State Formation in Tajikistan
DISCUSSANT

David Lewis
(U of Exeter, UK)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION V // 9:00 - 11:00 AM

PANEL N9
The Past as a Productive Political Resource in (Post-)Transition Societies
CHAIR

Lee Ann Fujii

(U of Toronto, Canada)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Dubi Kanengisser
(U of Toronto, Canada)
[email protected]
Post-Traumatic State Disorder: The Holocaust in Israeli State-Building
Kate Korycki
(U of Toronto, Canada)
[email protected]
Memory as Strategy and Substance of Party Politics
Melissa Levin
(U of Toronto, Canada)
[email protected]
Bureaucratizing the Past:
The Blunted Weapon of Memorial Practice in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Izabela Steflja
(Tulane U, US)
[email protected]
Ridicule and Exoticization of the International Tribunal:
The War Criminal Cult
DISCUSSANT

Mark Beissinger
(Princeton, US)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION V // 9:00 - 11:00 AM

PANEL SE3/N18
The Contribution of Benedict Anderson and Fredrik Barth
to the Study of Nationalism (Roundtable)

CHAIR

Zsuzsa Cserg
(Queens U, Canada)
[email protected]
PARTICIPANTS

Andreas Wimmer
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
Peter Rutland
(Wesleyan U, US)
[email protected]
Sherrill Stroschein
(U College London, UK)
[email protected]
Kanchan Chandra
(NYU, US)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VI // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM

PANEL BK12
Between Class and Nation: Labour and Identity in Late Socialism

CHAIR

Larisa Kurtovic
(U of Ottawa, Canada)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Rory Archer
(U of Graz, Austria)
[email protected]
Us and Them: Discontent in the Yugoslav Factory of the 1980s
Mladen Lazic
(U of Belgrade, Serbia)
[email protected]
Value Orientations of Yugoslav Working Class in Late Socialism
Goran Musi
(U of Graz, Austria)
[email protected]
The Anti-Bureaucratic Revolution in Multinational Settings:
Labour Movements and Serbian Nationalism in Sandak and Vojvodina, 1988-1989
Marko Grdesic
(U of Wisconsin Madison, US)
[email protected]
Legacies of Populism:
How Focus Groups Discuss Milosevics Hybrid of Class and Nation
DISCUSSANT

Ana Devic
(U of Jena, Germany)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VI // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM

PANEL BK23/M9
Mediated Discourses of Othering in the Shadow of the Refugee Crisis:
Perspectives from the Balkan Region (Roundtable)
CHAIR

Maria Stoilkova
(U of Florida, US)
[email protected]
PARTICIPANTS

Nadia Kaneva
(U of Denver, US)
[email protected]
European Hierarchies of Othering and the Balkan Crisis of Identity
Martin Marinos
(U of Pittsburgh, US)
[email protected]
The Liberal Past of Far-Right Media Discourse
Elza Ibroscheva
(U of Illinois, Edwardsville, US)
[email protected]
Hitting the Hate Button: Othering in Social Media Discourses in Bulgaria

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VI // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM

PANEL CE1
Formulas for Betrayal: Traitors, Collaborators and Deserters
in Contemporary European Politics of Memory
CHAIR

Eleonora Narvselius
(Lund U, Sweden)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Johannes Kramer
[email protected]
Peter Pirker
[email protected]
(U of Vienna, Austria)
From Traitors to Role Models?
Rehabilitation and Memorialization of Wehrmacht Deserters in Austria
Gelinada Grinchenko
Karazin Kharkiv National U
[email protected]
The Ostarbeiter of Nazi Germany as Both Traitors and Betrayed
in the Memory of Postwar Ukraine
Yuliya Yurchuk
(Sdertrn U, Sweden)
[email protected]
Heroes, Traitors, and Villains in Ukrainian Intellectuals Discourses during Euromaidan
Piotr Toczyski
(Maria Grzegorzewska U, Poland)
[email protected]
Post-War and Post-Communist Poland at the Crossroad of National
and European Knightly Myths of Loyalty and Betrayal
DISCUSSANT

TBA

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VI // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM

PANEL CE12
Central European Political Dynamics andChoices
CHAIR

Matthew Ciscel
(Central Connecticut State U, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Ionas Rus
(U of Cincinnati Blue Ash College, US)
[email protected]
Moldovan Nationalism and Self-Determination Preferences in Bessarabia (1917-1918)
Marius Calu
(U of London, UK)
[email protected]
States Without Nations: The Case of Moldova
Ecaterina Locoman
(Rutgers U, US)
[email protected]
Foreign Policy Choice and the East-West Dilemma:
Ukraine, Moldova, and the Struggles to Policy Consistency
Elise Giuliano
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
bel Ravasz
(Independent Scholar, Slovakia)
[email protected]
Why do Interethnic Parties Emerge in Ethnically Divided Party Systems?
Explaining the Success of the Most-Hid Party in Slovakia
DISCUSSANT

Igor Lukes
(Boston U, US)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VI // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM

PANEL BO6/EU9
Book Panel on Jesse Driscoll, Warlords and Coalition Politics
in Post-Soviet States (Cambridge, 2015)
CHAIR

Laia Balcells
(Duke U, US)
[email protected]
PARTICIPANTS

Chris Blattman
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
Mark Beissinger
(Princeton, US)
[email protected]
David D. Laitin
(Stanford U, US)
[email protected]
Jesse Driscoll
(U California San Diego, US)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VI // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM

PANEL TK8
Kurds and the Peace Process
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Mehmet Celil Celebi

(U of Oregon, US)
[email protected]
The Ambiguities of the Justice and Development Partys Discourse and the Collapse
of the Negotiations between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers Party
Salim Cevik
(Ipek U, Turkey)
[email protected]
Different Approaches to the Definition of the Kurdish Problem and the Failure of Peace Process
Faruk Ekmekci
(Ipek U, Turkey)
[email protected]
The Specter of History, the Arab Spring, and the Prospect of a Turkish-Kurdish Peace
Alperen Ozkan
(U of Maryland at College Park, US)
[email protected]
Nil Satana
(Bilkent U, Turkey/U of Maryland, US)
[email protected]
Transnational Attacks by Domestic Terrorist Organizations: A Substitute Tactic
Huseyin Alpetkin
[email protected]
Talha Kose
[email protected]
(Istanbul Sehir U, Turkey)
Back to the Future of Kurdish Ethnic Mobilization in Turkey:
How Does an Electoral Victory Lead to the Revitalization of Violent Methods?
DISCUSSANT

Mcahit Bilici
(John Jay College, CUNY, US)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VI // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM

PANEL R12
Energy and Oligarchy
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Isabelle Fortin
(U of Ottawa, Canada)
[email protected]
The Energy Union:
A New European Project or a Way to Put Pressure on Russians?
Kinga Niemczyk
(LSE, UK)
[email protected]
Energy Relations as a Soft Coercion Tool for Promoting Russias Influence Abroad:
Poland as a Case Study
Olga Kesarchuk
(Independent Scholar, Toronto, Canada)
[email protected]
The Power and Powerlessness of the Post-Soviet Business
Iryna Solonenko
(European U Viadrina, Germany)
[email protected]
Ukrainian Oligarchs between de-Oligarchisation and War:
Diversity of Responses to post-Maidan Developments
DISCUSSANT

Dinissa Duvanova
(Lehigh U, US)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VI // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM

PANEL N8
Domestic Ethnic Politics
CHAIR

Izabela Steflja
(Simon Fraser U, Canada)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Katharine Aha
(U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US)
[email protected]
Interethnic Domestic Coalitions
Adam Harris
(U of Gothenburg, Sweden)
[email protected]
Ethnicity, Language, and Race:
Minority Inclusion and Intra-Group Cohesion
Monir Morad
(U of Haifa, Israel)
[email protected]
The Israeli Druze:A Regime-Supportive Minority
Meghan Camilla Laws
(Queens U, US)
[email protected]
Muddying Rwandas Political Landscape: Projections of Unity
and Integration amid Experiences of Political Control in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Sanjay Jeram
(Brock U, Canada)
[email protected]
Striking a Balance?
Multiculturalism in the Battle for Euskara in a Diversifying Basque Country
DISCUSSANT

Scott Weiner
(George Washington U, US)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VI // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM

PANEL N11
Teaching, Branding, Remembering
CHAIR

Robin Ostow
(Wilfrid Laurier U, Canada)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Leah Haus
(Vassar College, US)
[email protected]
Ideas, Institutions, and School Curricula: A Comparative Perspective
Hannah Moscovitz
(Ben-Gurion U of the Negev, Israel)
[email protected]
Nation-Branding Through International Education:
Exploring the Sub-National Context
Anna Kyriazi
(European U Institute, Italy)
[email protected]
The Education of National Minorities:
A Thematic Analysis of Claims, Arguments, and Justifications
Sabrina Sotiriu
(U of Ottawa, Canada)
[email protected]
Online/Offline Scottishness: Strategies, Values, Norms and Procedures
DISCUSSANT

Melissa Levin
(U of Toronto, Canada)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VI // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM

PANEL U13
The Rise of the Nationalist (Far) Right
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Lenka Bustikova
(Arizona State U, US)
[email protected]
Who Supports the Ukrainian Svoboda Party?
Sofia Tipaldou
(Independent Researcher, Spain)
[email protected]
The Russian Spring and the War in Donbass:
The Role of the Russian Nationalist-Patriotic Opposition
Eva Sobotka
(Lancaster U, US)
[email protected]
Peter Vermeersch
(U of Leuven, Belgium)
[email protected]
Nationalism, Electoral Democracy, and the Creation of New National Outsiders
in Poland and Hungary
DISCUSSANT

Andr Liebich
(Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VII // 2:50 - 4:50 PM

PANEL BK1
The Business of State Capture in the Western Balkans 1
CHAIR

Valery Perry
(Democratization Policy Council, Bosnia)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Soeren Keil
(Canterbury Christ Church U, UK)
[email protected]
Explaining the Rise of Authoritarianism in Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia
David Kanin
(Johns Hopkins U, US)
[email protected]
The State is Captured Before It Exists:
Observations on Power, Resources, and Trust Networks in the Balkans
Jelena Dzankic
(European U Institute, Italy)
[email protected]
Capturing Contested States: Structural Mechanisms of Power Reproduction
in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Montenegro
Keiichi Kubo
(Waseda U, Japan)
[email protected]
State Capture and the Weakening of Accountability:
A Comparative Analysis of Serbia and Macedonia
Lijana Cvetanoska
(U of Sussex, UK)
[email protected]
The Nature of State Capture in Macedonia and its Effects
on the Countrys Accession Process in the EU
DISCUSSANT

John Hulsey
(James Madison U, US)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VII // 2:50 - 4:50 PM

PANEL BK9
Party Politics Between Contestation, Consensus and Competition
CHAIR

Jared Manasek
(Pace U, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Benjamin McClelland
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
Asymmetric Advantages:
Ethnic Coordination and Political Party Systems in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Aleksandra Zdeb
(Jagiellonian U, Poland)
[email protected]
Evolution of the Power-Sharing Model in Brko District:
A Model to Follow and the Role of Informal Institutions
Tamara Pavasovic Trost
(Princeton U, US)
[email protected]
Bringing Class Back In:
The Influence of Education and Income on Ethnic Attitudes in Serbia and Croatia
DISCUSSANT

Michael Rossi
(Rutgers U, US)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VII // 2:50 - 4:50 PM

PANEL CE16/M11
Challenges of Immigration in Central Europe
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Andrea Masini
(U of Antwerp, Belgium)
[email protected]
Laura Trimajova
(European Parliament, Belgium)
[email protected]
Iron Curtain 2.0? Political Messages of Central Europe to the Western Balkans
Margarita Safronova
(U of California Santa Barbara, US)
[email protected]
Indra Ekmanis
[email protected]
(U of Washington, US)
Refugees, Migrants or just Foreigners?
Student Perceptions of Europes Migrant Crisis in Latvia
Peter Horvth
[email protected]
Richard Brix
[email protected]
(U of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovakia)
The Social Impact of Migrants in the Visegrad Countries
Annika Lindberg
(U of Bern, Switzerland)
[email protected]
Managing the European Refugee Crisis:
Compliance, Coping and Resistance Among European Border Agencies
Marco Mogiani
(SOAS, U of London, UK)
[email protected]
Refugees Welcome? Re-Bordering Practices Behind the New European Discourses and Policies
DISCUSSANT

TBA

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VII // 2:50 - 4:50 PM

PANEL EU2
Chinese and Post-Soviet Development in Central Asia:
Conceptualizations, Assessments, Comparisons
CHAIR

Heather deHaan
(Binghamton U, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Morgan Liu
(Ohio State U, US)
[email protected]
Conceptualizing Petroleum-Fueled Development in Post-Soviet Central Asia and Azerbaijan
Nikolaos Olma
(U of Copenhagen, Denmark)
[email protected]
Uzbek Strokes on a Soviet Canvas: Identity-Building Architecture
and its Effect on the Memoryscape and Urban Identity of Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Adrien Fauve
(Sciences Po, Paris, France)
[email protected]
Neo-Liberal Development in Astana: Politics of the Future
Sean Roberts
(George Washington U, US)
[email protected]
Modernization with Chinese Characteristics:
Implications of the PRCs Retro-Development Model in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
DISCUSSANT

Amanda Wooden
(Bucknell U, US)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VII // 2:50 - 4:50 PM

PANLE K1
Opposition 2.0 Challenging Authoritarianism
CHAIR

Scott Radnitz
(U of Washington, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Katy Pearce
(U of Washington, US)
[email protected]
Digital Knives are Still Knives: The Affordances of Social Media for a Repressed Opposition
against an Entrenched Authoritarian Regime in Azerbaijan
Sofie Bedford
(Uppsala U, Sweden)
[email protected]
Opposition without Revolution? A New Look at Failed Opposition in Azerbaijan and Belarus
Jody LaPorte
(U of Oxford, UK)
[email protected]
Bribes versus Rents: Explaining Treatment of Opposition in Azerbaijan
Jeremy Teigen
(Ramapo College of New Jersey, US)
[email protected]
Julie George
(CUNY Queens College, US)
[email protected]
Detecting Defections: The Causes of Party Breakdown in Georgia, 1999-2004
DISCUSSANT

Murad Nasibov
(Khazar U, Azerbaijan)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VII // 2:50 - 4:50 PM

PANEL TK7
Insurgency, Self-Determination, and Shifting Identities in the Middle East
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Minoo Koefoed
(Gothenburg U, Sweden)
[email protected]
The Art of Undermining the State: The Kurdish Movement in Turkey
and its Recent Experiments with Local Self-Rule
Isabel Kaser
(U of London, UK)
[email protected]
The Rojava Revolution: A New Kurdish Nationalism? A Gendered Analysis
Rosa Burc
(U of Bonn, Germany)
[email protected]
Going Beyond the Nation-State:
Postnationalism and Democratic Confederalism in Rojava
Gne Murat Tezcr
(U of Central Florida, US)
[email protected]
Homegrown Radicalization: Jihadist Recruitment in Turkey
Besim Can Zirh
(Middle East Technical U, Turkey)
[email protected]
Ceren Lord
(LSE, UK)
[email protected]
A New Minority of the Middle East?
The Alevis of Turkey in the Wake of the Syrian Conflict
DISCUSSANT

Costantino Pischedda
(Princeton U, US)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VII // 2:50 - 4:50 PM

PANEL R7
Binding State & Nation in Russia
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Nathaniel Knight
(Seton Hall U, US)
[email protected]
The Three Circles of Russianness:
Ethnic, Imperial and Cultural Identities in Historical Perspective
Geir Flikke
(U of Oslo, Norway)
[email protected]
The Primordialization of the Russian State: Popular Mobilization and Putinism
Elena Rakhimova-Sommers
(Rochester Institute of Technology, US)
[email protected]
Seeking Fertile, Patriotic Woman:
Public Awareness Advertising and Russian Identity Construction
Jardar Nuland stb
(U of Oslo, Norway)
[email protected]
Double Fear: Securitizing Russian National Identity
Nuray Aridici
(U of Sheffield, UK)
[email protected]
The Russian Idea: The New Form of Civilisational Nationalism
in the Construction of State Identity
DISCUSSANT

Anne ODonnell
(NYU, US)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VII // 2:50 - 4:50 PM

PANEL U9
Fighting Corruption in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan:
New Approaches to an Old Problem
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Oksana Nesterenko
(U Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Ukraine)
[email protected]
Anti-Corruption Sweeping Reform in Ukraine: Successes and Challenges
Nikola Milicic
(U of Toronto, Canada)
[email protected]
Green Politics:
Climate Change, Corruption and Authoritarian Politics in Kazakhstan
Elizabeth Teague
(Independent Scholar, Oxford, UK)
[email protected]
The All-Russia Popular Front and the Monitoring of Corruption in the Regions
DISCUSANT

Sergiy Kudelia
(Baylor U, US)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VII // 2:50 - 4:50 PM

PANEL M2
Migrants in the Economy
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Robin A. Harper
(CUNY York College, US)
[email protected]
Whats the Time?
In Search of the Meaning(s) of Time for Temporary Labor Migrants
Sarah Garding
[email protected]
Gwendolyn Sasse
[email protected]
(U of Oxford, UK)
Agents of Change? The Impact of Return Migrants from the West
on Economic Change in Postcommunist Europe
JakhongirKakhkharov
(Griffith U, US)
[email protected]
Remittances and Financial Development in Transition Economies of the Former Communist Bloc
Katalin Kovaly
(Institute of Geography, Budapest, Hungary)
[email protected]
The Role of Social Capital in Economic Performance of Ukrainian Migrant Entrepreneurs
in the Czech Republic
Meltem Yilmaz Sener
(Istanbul Bilgi U, Turkey) [email protected]
Secil Pacaci Elitok
(Koc U, Turkey) [email protected]
Getting Adapted? A Comparative Study of Qualified Turkish Return Migrants
from Germany and the US
DISCUSSANT

Cynthia Buckley
(U of Illinois, Urbana, US)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VII // 2:50 - 4:50 PM

PANEL N15
Clash of Memories: World War II and Communism
CHAIR

Klas-Gran Karlsson
(Lund U, Sweden)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Ulf Zander
(Lund U, Sweden)
[email protected]
Whats in a Date?
The Politics of Memory and the End of the Second World War in Europe
Daina S. Eglitis
(George Washington U, US)
[email protected]
Mortal Threat: Latvian Jews at the Dawn of Nazi Occupation
Alana Holland
(U of Kansas, US)
[email protected]
Between Wartime Atrocity and the Genocide of the Jews: Early Soviet Representations
of the Nazi Death Camps and Polish Responses, 1944-1945
Amy Sodaro
(Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY, US)
[email protected]
The Ordinary and Extraordinary Politics of Memory of Communism
DISCUSSANT

Roland Spickermann
(U of Texas Permian Basin, US)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VII // 2:50 - 4:50 PM

PANEL BO8/N20
Book Panel on David Laitin et al.,
Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies
(Harvard, 2016)
CHAIR

Dominique Arel
(U of Ottawa, Canada)
[email protected]
PARTICIPANTS

Abdulkader Sinno
(Indiana U, US)
[email protected]
Ali Valenzuela
(Princeton U, US)
[email protected]
Christel Kesler
(Barnard College, Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
David D. Laitin
(Stanford U, US)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VIII // 5:10 - 7:10 PM

PANEL BK15
Breaking Down or Re-building Walls?
The EU and the Balkans Facing New Challenges (Roundtable)
CHAIR

Francine Friedman
(Ball State U, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Julie Mostov
(Drexel U, US)
[email protected]
The EU and the Balkans:Walls and Borders
Stefano Bianchini
(U of Bologna, Italy)
[email protected]
EU and the Balkans in Troubles: Between Solidarity and Nationalism
Craig Nation
(Dickinson College, US)
[email protected]
Russian and American Influence on EU-Balkan Border Dynamics
Francesco Privitera
(U of Bologna, Italy)
[email protected]
The Effect of Immigration Flows on the European Union-Balkans Dynamics
James Gow
(Kings College, UK)
[email protected]
Waving Them on vs. the New Krajina: More Legal Innovation in the Balkans?

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VIII // 5:10 - 7:10 PM

PANEL BK25
How We See Us, and How The Others See Us:
The Slavic Speaking Muslim Communities in Macedonia and Kosovo
CHAIR

David L. Phillips
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Vjollca Krasniqi
(U of Pristina, Kosovo)
[email protected]
Borderlands and Crossroads:
Identity Negotiations and Everyday Life of Gorani in Kosovo
Ivan Damjanovski and Zoran Ilievski
(U of Ss.Cyril and Methodius-Skopje, Macedonia)
[email protected], [email protected]
Explaining Variation of Self-Identification of
the Slavic Speaking Muslim Communities in Macedonia and Kosovo
Nenad Markovikj
(U of Ss.Cyril and Methodius-Skopje, Macedonia)
[email protected]
Ascriptive Factors of Identity Formation among the Gorani
and Torbeshi/Macedonian Muslim Communities on the Balkans
DISCUSSANT

Marco Steenbergen
(U of Zurich, Switzerland)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VIII // 5:10 - 7:10 PM

PANEL CE9
Complexities of Nationhood in the Post-Soviet States:
Nation, Identity and Tactics
CHAIR

Sally Cummings
(U of St Andrews, UK)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Egle Kesylyte-Alliks
(U of Oslo, Norway)
[email protected]
The National Flag and the Nationhood in the Post-Soviet Lithuania:
Institutional and Societal Discourses Compared
Selbi Hanova
(U of St. Andrews, UK)
[email protected]
Looking for a States Self:
Practices of Creating State Identities in Foreign Policies in Central Asia
Maryia Rohava
(U of Oslo, Norway)
[email protected]
Identity in an Autocratic State or What Belarusians Talk
about When They Talk about National Identity
Elena Zhirukhina
(U of St Andrews, UK)
[email protected]
Protecting the State: Russian Repressive Tactics in the North Caucasus
DISCUSSANT

Helge Blakkisrud
(Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VIII // 5:10 - 7:10 PM

PANEL K3
Exploring the Security-Democracy Nexus in the Caucasus
CHAIR

Jean-Franois Ratelle
(U of Ottawa, Canada)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Tamar Khutsishvili
(U of Jena, Germany)
[email protected]
Microcredit and Solidarity groups in an Armenian Border
Jean Radvanyi
(INALCO, Paris, France)
[email protected]
The Caucasian Reality through the Prism of Statistics:
When the Numbers Become Subject to Political and National Issues
Weronika Zmiejewski
(U of Jena, Germany)
[email protected]
The Ideal Georgia
Ekatrina Sokirianskaya
(International Crisis Group, Turkey)
[email protected]
North Caucasus Insurgency and Syria: A Hijacked Jihad?
DISCUSSANT

Anne Le Hurou
(U Paris Ouest Nanterre, France)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VIII // 5:10 - 7:10 PM

PANEL R4
Russian-Western Tensions
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Robin Brooks
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
Reactors, Russia-Centrism, and the Subversion of US Interests in Eastern Europe
Kiril Avramov
(U of Texas, US)
[email protected]
Reconquering Hearts and Minds:
Russian Propaganda Offensive in Eastern and Central Europe
Yulia Nikitina
(Moscow State U of International Relations, Russia)
[email protected]
World Order a la Russe: What Role for State-Building and Nation-Building?
Matthew Crosston
(Bellevue U, US)
[email protected]
Nemesis: Keeping Russia an Enemy through Cold War Pathologies
DISCUSSANT

William Hill
(National War College, US)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VIII // 5:10 - 7:10 PM

PANEL R14
Post-Communist Authoritarian Regimes and Protests
CHAIR

TBA
Ana Maria Albulescu
(Kings College London, UK)
[email protected]
Escalation and Internationalization of Conflicts in the Post-Soviet Space:
Exploring Continuity and Change
Jane Leftwich Curry
(Santa Clara U, US)
[email protected]
Rethinking Americas Role in the Electoral Revolutions of Serbia, Georgia,
and Ukraine and the Failed Ones
Burcu Degirmen
(U of Oklahoma, US)
[email protected]
Nationalist Narratives, Political Uprising and Authoritarian Regimes
Martin Marinos
(U of Pittsburgh, US)
[email protected]
Short Film: Plamen (2014)
[On Self-Immolation during the 2013 Mass Protests in Bulgaria]
DISCUSSANT

Robert Person
(US Military Academy West Point)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VIII // 5:10 - 7:10 PM

PANEL M3
The Refugee Crisis and the EU
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Albana Shehaj
[email protected]
Ronald F. Inglehart
[email protected]
(U of Michigan, US)
Immigration and Electoral Support for Right Wing Populist Parties:
Evidence from Immigrant-Hosting European States
Henry Carey
(Georgia State U, US)
[email protected]
European Multi-Level Governance of Refugee and Asylee Laws
Katharina Crepaz
(Technische U Mnchen, Germany)
[email protected]
A Common Commitment:
Civil Society and European Solidarity in the Refugee Crisis
Rebekah Dowd
(Georgia State U, US)
[email protected]
Balancing Foreign Policy Decisions:
Why do EU Policy-Makers Differ in Their Refugee Policy Commitments?
Nina Michalikova
(U of Central Oklahoma, US)
[email protected]
Explaining Naturalization of New Eastern European Immigrants in the United States
DISCUSSANT

Iuliia Kononenko
(Rutgers U, US)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VIII // 5:10 - 7:10 PM

PANEL U6
Post-Maidan Governance, Society and Law
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Jennifer Carroll
(Brown U, US)
[email protected]
Power Struggles: Addiction, War, and Other Forms of Conflict in Ukraine
Nazar Boyko
(Monitoring-Analytical Group CIFRA, Ukraine)
[email protected]
Masters, Servants and Talents:
Patterns of Local Executives Appointments in Post-Revolutionary Ukraine
Klaus Bachmann
(U of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland)
[email protected]
Transitional Justice in Ukraine 2014-2015
Igor Lyubashenko
(SWPS U of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland)
[email protected]
Transitional Justice Instruments in the Donbas Conflict
DISCUSSANT

Paul dAnieri
(U of California Riverside, US)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VIII // 5:10 - 7:10 PM

PANEL U10/BO1
Book Panel on George Libers Total Wars and the Making of Modern Ukraine,
1914-1954 (Toronto, 2016)
CHAIR

Bohdan Vitvitsky
(Independent Scholar, NY, US)
[email protected]
PARTICIPANTS

Alexandra Hrycak
(Reed College, US)
[email protected]
Olga Bertelsen
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
Serhy Yekelchyk
(U of Victoria, Canada)
[email protected]
George Liber
(U of Alabama at Birmingham, US)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VIII // 5:10 - 7:10 PM

PANEL N10
Politics of Citizenship and Belonging
CHAIR

Gne Murat Tezcr

(U of Central Florida, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Aghil Daghagheleh
(Rutgers U, US)
[email protected]
The Configuration of Citizenship:
Study of the Linkage Between National Identity and Citizenship in Iran
Lillian Frost
(George Washington U, US)
[email protected]
Unequal Citizens: Variations in States Citizenship Policies toward Women
Hadas Aron
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
Reaching Across the Border:
Internationalizing Citizenship as Domestic Strategy
Jacek Raciborski
(U of Warsaw, Poland)
[email protected]
State Identity in Europe Today: Some Determinants
DISCUSSANT

Kate Korycki
(U of Toronto, Canada)
[email protected]

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FRIDAY APRIL 15TH // SESSION VIII // 5:10 - 7:10 PM

PANEL BO13
Book Panel on Veljko Vujacic, Nationalism, Myth, and the State
in Russia and Serbia (Cambridge, 2015)
CHAIR

TBA
PARTICIPANTS

Gerald Easter
(Boston College, US)
[email protected]
Chip Gagnon
(Ithaca College, US)
[email protected]
Susan Woodward
(CUNY, The Graduate Center, US)
[email protected]
Veljko Vujacic
(Oberlin College, US/European U at St. Petersburg, Russia)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION IX // 9:00 - 11:00 AM

PANEL BK20
Legacies of the Balkans and the Regions European Perspective
CHAIR

Jessie Hrosenova
(U of Oxford, UK)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Assia Nakova
(Princeton U, US)
[email protected]
Memory and Nation-Building: The Case of Bulgaria in the Nineteenth Century
Sevan Pearson
(U of Lausanne, Switzerland)
[email protected]
Muslim Nation-Building Process in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1960s
Isabel Stroehle
(Independent Scholar, Munich, Germany)
[email protected]
The Brioni Plenum (July 1966) and its Aftermath in Kosovo:
Uncovering Deformations and Physical Violence in the State Security Agencies
Adis Merdzanovic
(U of Oxford, UK)
[email protected]
European Union Accession and the Challenges of Liberalism in Croatia, Serbia,
and Bosnia and Herzegovina
DISCUSSANT

Nenad Stojanovi
[email protected]
(U of Lucerne, Switzerland)

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION IX // 9:00 - 11:00 AM

PANEL BK26
Nationalism, National Identity, and Public Opinion in Greece and Macedonia
CHAIR

David L. Phillips
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Ioannis Armakolas
(U of Macedonia, Greece)
[email protected]
Surveying Greek Public Opinion about Disputes with Neighbors:
The Case of the Name Dispute with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Vladimir Bozinovski
(U of Ss.Cyril and Methodius-Skopje, Macedonia)
[email protected]
Perceptions of Identities on the Name Dispute with Greece
Veton Latifi
(South East European U, Macedonia)
[email protected]
The Populism of National Discourses:
Nationalism vs. Multiculturalism in Inter-State Disputes
DISCUSSANT

Zoran Ilievski
(U of Ss.Cyril and Methodius-Skopje, Macedonia)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION IX // 9:00 - 11:00 AM

PANEL CE8
History and Memory in Central EuropesPublic Space
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Peter Dan
(Long Island U, US)
[email protected]
The Fight to Control the Past: Psychosociology and the Case of Romania
Monica Grigore
(U of Ottawa, Canada)
[email protected]
The Aiud Prison Saints: History, Memory and Lived Religion
Hope M. Harrison
(George Washington U, US)
[email protected]
German Historical Memory of the Berlin Wall and National Identity
Alina Urs
(Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes, Romania)
[email protected]
The Role of the Sacred in Interpreting the Memory of the Recent Past:
The Case Piteti Communist Prison in Romania
DISCUSSANT

Jennifer L Allen
(Yale U, US)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION IX // 9:00 - 11:00 AM

PANEL CE10
Ethnicity, Autonomy and Political Community in Central
and Eastern Europe and Beyond
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

David J. Smith
(U of Glasgow, UK)
[email protected]
National-Cultural Autonomy Today: To What End and for Whom?
Marina Germane
(U of London, UK)
[email protected]
Ethnic Minority Activism in Europe from a Transnational Perspective
Judit Molnar Sansum
(U of Glasgow, UK)
[email protected]
Ethnic Diversity, Autonomy and Political Community in Central and Eastern Europe:
The Case of Hungary
Federica Prina
(U of Glasgow, UK)
[email protected]
Russia, National Cultural Autonomy and (A)Political Community
Filiz Tuktu Aydin
(U of Ankara, Turkey)
[email protected]
Comparing the Condition of Minority Rights in the Cases of Tatarstan, Chechnya,
and Crimea before the Russian Occupation
DISCUSSANT

TBA

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION IX // 9:00 - 11:00 AM

PANEL K6
Civil Society & Democratization in the Caucasus
CHAIR

Noah Buckley
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Molly Inman
(Georgetown U, US)
[email protected]
Can Civic Education Programs close the Democratic Capacity Gap in Transitioning Democracies?
Evidence from Georgia
Zarina Burkadze
(U of Zurich, Switzerland)
[email protected]
Influences of Domestic and External Actors on the Consolidation of Democracy
Bidzina Lebanidze
(Free U Berlin, Germany)
[email protected]
The EU as a Democracy-Promoting Actor in the Neighborhood:
Inconsistent or Machiavellian?
Natia Mestvirishvili
(CRRC, Georgia)
[email protected]
Value Change in Georgia between 2009-2015:
A Shift towards a More Western Way of Thinking?
Maia Mestvirishvili
(Tbilisi State U, Georgia)
[email protected]
Compositional Modalities of Citizenship Representation Styles in Georgia
DISCUSSANT

TBA

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION IX // 9:00 - 11:00 AM

PANEL TK2
Nationalism and Identities on the Margins
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Betul Cihan-Artun
(U of Massachusetts-Amherst, US)
[email protected]
Turkish Humanists and the Incorporation of Western Classics into the National Canon
Guldeniz Kibris
(Leiden U, Turkey)
[email protected]
Political Crimes and Turkishness of Ordinary People in 1945-1960s Istanbul
Nikos Christofis
(Fatih U, Turkey)
[email protected]
The Politics of Memory and the Appropriation the Nationalist Past:
The Greek and Turkish Left over the Cyprus Question, 1951-1971
Dogu Durgun
(Sabanc U, Turkey)
[email protected]
Conscientious Objection and Ethnicity in Turkey and Israel:
A Comparative-Historical Perspective
DISCUSSANT

Howard Eissenstat
(St. Lawrence U, US)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION IX // 9:00 - 11:00 AM

PANEL R2
Role-Model, Hegemon or Spoiler?
Mapping Russias Regional Influence
CHAIR

Li Bennich-Bjrkman
(Uppsala U, Sweden)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Laurent Vinatier
(Uppsala U, Sweden)
[email protected]
The Costs of Influence: Russia in Belarus
Ryhor Nizhnikau
(U of Tartu, Estonia)
[email protected]
EU-Russia Competition in their Shared Neighbourhood:
Mapping the External Agencys Impact on Democratic Reforms in Ukraine and Moldova
Murad Nasibov
(Khazar U, Azerbaijan)
[email protected]
Russia as a Role Model Hybrid Regime for the Neighboring Countries in the Post-Soviet Space:
The Case of Azerbaijan
Oktay Tanrisever
(Middle East Technical U, Turkey)
[email protected]
Russias Problematic Relations with Turkey:
Energy Diplomacy and Regional Politics
DISCUSSANT

Sofie Bedford
(Uppsala U, Sweden)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION IX // 9:00 - 11:00 AM

PANEL U7
Measuring Identity Changes and Continuities in Ukraine
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Ammon Cheskin
(U of Glasgow, UK)
[email protected]
The Soft Balance of Power: Measuring EU and Russian Soft Power in Ukraine
Maureen Flaherty
(U of Manitoba, Canada)
[email protected]
Banderists or Nationalists? Terrorists or Separatists?
Exploring Dreams of Democracy with Men in Ukraine
Karina Korostelina
(George Mason U, US)
[email protected]
Reconciliation in Ukraine: Within and Across the Boundary
Oksana Malanchuk
(U of Michigan, US)
[email protected]
Nationality as a Social Identity in Ukraine: 2010 Survey Data
Stephen Shulman
(Southern Illinois U, US)
[email protected]
The Foundations of Support for Cultural Cosmopolitanism in Ukraine
DISCUSSANT

Hugo Lane
(Independent Scholar, NY, US)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION IX // 9:00 - 11:00 AM

PANEL N7
Economic Aspects of Nationalism
CHAIR

Kristin Fabbe
(Harvard Business School, US)
[email protected]
PANELISTS

Tristan Mabry
(Naval Postgraduate School, US)
[email protected]
Ethnolinguistic Fractionalization and Economic Growth
Scott Weiner
(George Washington U, US)
[email protected]
Enduring Authority:
Resource Distribution, Kinship, and State Formation in the Arab Gulf
David Siroky
Michael Hechter
(Arizona State U, US)
[email protected]
[email protected]
The Limits of Indirect Rule:
Internal Colonialism, Non-State Revenue and Nationalism in Corsica
Dunja Apostolov-Dimitrijevic
(Carleton U, Canada)
[email protected]
Mapping the Global Balkans:
Emerging Economy Networks and Global Connections in Serbia
DISCUSSANT

Karlo Basta
(Memorial U of Newfoundland, Canada)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION IX // 9:00 - 11:00 AM

PANEL N16
Sports and Nationalism
CHAIR

Delia Dumitrica
(Erasmus U, Netherlands)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Stefan Metzger
(Mnster U, Germany)
[email protected]
Ozgur Ozvatan
(Humboldt U of Berlin, Germany)
[email protected]
Games of Belonging: Negotiating National Identity in Football
Loic Tregoures
(U of Lille 2, France)
[email protected]
Football National Teams and Conflicting Identities in the Post-Yugoslav Space
Lukas Aubin
(U Paris Ouest Nanterre La Dfense, France)
[email protected]
Sochi 2014, Which National Narrative? Olympic Games and Memorial Policies
DISCUSSANT

TBA

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION X // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM

PANEL BK11
Between Disempowerment and Politicization:
Exploring Nongovernmental Agency in Bosnian Politics
CHAIR

Deneta Karabegovi
(U of Warwick, UK)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Caterina Bonora
(U of Bremen, Germany)
[email protected]
Transformative Potentials of Nongovernmental Justice-Seeking Initiatives
in Bosnia: REKOM and the Womens Court for the Balkans
Jasmin Hasic
(U Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
[email protected]
A Comparative Analysis of Diaspora Contribution to the Post-Dayton Interethnic Political
Cooperation within Local Governmental Institutions in Bosnia
Jessie Hrosenova
(U of Oxford, UK)
[email protected]
The Politics of Suffering:
Victims and Political Parties in Bosnia
Daniela Lai
(U of London, UK)
[email protected]
Between Dissolution and Institutionalization?
Bosnian Grassroots Movements in the Aftermath of the 2014 Protests
DISCUSSANT

Adis Merdzanovic
(U of Oxford, UK)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION X // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM

PANEL BK14
Culture Politics in Southeastern Europe
CHAIR

Anastasiia Kudlenko
(Canterbury Christ Church U, UK)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Marija Djokic
(Ludwig-Maximilians U, Germany)
[email protected]
French Repertoire, German Education and Slavic Guests:
Cultural Transfers of the National Theatre in Belgrade
James Robertson
(Woodbury U, US)
[email protected]
National Pasts, International Futures:
Urban Space and the Temporality of Yugoslav Socialism
Elisa Satjukow
(Leipzig U, Germany)
[email protected]
Children of the 90s: Growing Up in Serbia under Milosevic
Veronica Aplenc
(U of Pennsylvania, US)
[email protected]
Early Socialism and the Politics of Domestic Alignment:
The Introduction of Provincial Yugoslav Socialism in a District in Ljubljana, Slovenia
DISCUSSANT

Koen Slootmaeckers
(Queen Mary U of London, UK)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION X // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM

PANEL BK18
Macedonian Politics between Shifting Identities and Continued Crisis
CHAIR

Arolda Elbasani
(European U Institute, Italy)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Spyridon Kotsovilis
(U of Toronto, Canada)
[email protected]
The Macedonian Question: Navigating Multiple Labyrinths
Stefan Papaionnaou
(Framingham State U, US)
[email protected]
Beyond Identity:
National Indifference and the Balance of Priorities in Macedonia, 1870-1918
Naum Trajanovski
(Central European U, Hungary)
[email protected]
Right Turn on Red: The Museum of Macedonian Struggle
and the Shifting Post-Socialist Historical Discourses in Macedonia
Ognen Vangelov
(Queens U, US)
[email protected]
Macedonias Antiquization and the Construction of a Duel Ethnic Identity
DISCUSSANT

Craig Nation
(Dickinson College, US)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION X // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM

PANEL CE15/M10
Central European Diasporas
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Irina Culic
(Babes-Bolyai U, Romania)
[email protected]
Intraethnic Unmixing, Neoliberalism, and the Fate of Diaspora:
Hungarian Higher Education in Romania
Aiste Mickonyte
(U of Graz, Austria)
[email protected]
The European Unions Role in Transforming the Post-Soviet Ethnocentrism in Eastern Europe:
The Case of the Polish Minority in Lithuania
Gintare Venzlauskaite
(U of Glasgow, UK)
[email protected]
The Narratives of Displacement in Post-Soviet Diasporas:
A Case Study of Lithuanians in Karelia
Erick Zen
(Independent Scholar, Brazil/Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
A Baltic Identity in South America?
Lithuanian Diaspora in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay
DISCUSSANT

Rita Peters
(UMass Boston, US)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION X // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM

PANEL BO4/CE19
A Conversation with Timothy Snyder on Black Earth (Tim Duggan, 2015)
MODERATORS

Dominique Arel
(U of Ottawa, Canada)
[email protected]
Evgeny Finkel
(George Washington U, US)
[email protected]
AUTHOR

Timothy Snyder
(Yale U, US)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION X // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM

PANEL EU5
Political Institutions and Political Order under Authoritarianism
CHAIR

Michael Rywkin
(City College, NY, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Katharina Buck
(U of Bremen, Germany)
[email protected]
Reflections on the Roles and Functions of Parliaments in post-Soviet Eurasia
Emilbek Dzhuraev
(American U of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan)
[email protected]
Getting Consent: Limited Access Orders of Central Asia
Franziska Keller
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
Adele Del Sordi
(U of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
[email protected]
Degrees of Separation: How Many Hands Must a Kazakh Citizen Shake
Until she Reaches the President?
Rico Isaacs
(Oxford Brookes U, UK)
[email protected]
Exit, Voice, Loyaltyand Sanctions:
Options and Strategies for Opposition Movements in Kazakhstan
DISCUSSANT

Regine Spector
(UMass Amherst, US)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION X // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM

PANEL K7
History in the Caucasus
CHAIR

Stephen Jones
(Mt Holyoke U, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Isabelle Kaplan
(Georgetown U, US)
[email protected]
Stages of Nation-Building: The 1938 Dekada of Azerbaijani Art
Angela Wheeler
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
New Look for Old Tbilisi:
Preservation and Identity in the Tbilisi Historic District
Devi Dumbadze
(School of Visual Arts, NY, US)
[email protected]
Gertsel Baazov: A Telling Witness to Anti-Semitism in Soviet Georgia
Mikail Mamedov
(George Mason U, US)
[email protected]
Evgenii Voiskusnski and his Maiden Dreams:
The Karabakh Conflict and the Fate of Baku
Erin Hutchinson
(Harvard U, US)
[email protected]
The Village Strikes Back:
Hrant Matevosyan and the Redefinition of the Nation in the Postwar Soviet Union
DISCUSSANT

Bruce Grant
(NYU, US)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION X // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM

PANEL R8
History & Rationality in Russias Wars
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Gerard Toal
(Virginia Tech, US)
[email protected]
Rescue Fantasies: Russian Invasions as Affective Geopolitical Storylines
Pierre Jolicoeur
(Royal Military College, Canada)
[email protected]
Russian Military Intervention in Syria:
Lessons from the Ukrainian Battlefield and their Implications for NATO
Ohannes Geukjian
(American U of Beirut)
[email protected]
The Multiple Goals of Russias Military Intervention in Syria
Louis Ptiniaud
(U Paris VIII, France)
[email protected]
The Impact of Competing Soft Powers in the Post-Soviet Era on Crimeas Way Home
Angela Kachuyevski
(Arcadia U, US)
[email protected]
Ronnie Olesker
(St. Lawrence U, US)
[email protected]
Securitization of Identity Borders: The Case of Ukraine
DISCUSSANT

Joseph MacKay
(Harriman Institute, Columbia U, US)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION X // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM

PANEL U8
Ukrainian Literature and Politics
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Iulia Kysla
(U of Alberta, Canada)
[email protected]
The Ideological Slaughter of 1947:
Literary Purges in Ukraine Under Kaganovich
Natalia Kovaliova
(Independent Scholar, Edmonton, Canada)
[email protected]
Punishment by Madness: the Story of Leonid Plyushch in Historys Carnival:
A Dissidents Autobiography
Oleksandra Wallo
(U of Kansas, US)
[email protected]
Plotting the Nation:
Representations of Ukraine in the Prose by Contemporary Ukrainian Women Writers
Olga Pressitch
(U of Victoria, Canada)
[email protected]
Teaching the Ukrainian Internment through Novel:
The Literary Construction of a Ukrainian Canadian Identity
DISCUSSANT

Myroslav Shkandrij
(U of Manitoba, Canada)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION X // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM

PANEL M1
Public Resistance to Refugees and Migrants
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Donna Bahry
(Penn State U, US)
[email protected]
Public Opposition to Immigration in Western and Central/Eastern Europe
Gyorgy Csepeli
[email protected]
Antal Orkeny
[email protected]
(ELTE, Faculty of Social Sciences, Hungary)
Patterns of Sociological and Social-Psychological Determinants of Islamophobia in Europe
Andreas Siegert
(FOM U of Applied Sciences, Germany)
[email protected]
Social Integration of Refugees in Germanys Rural Regions:
A Strategy of Coping Demographic Changes
Peter Polak-Springer
(Qatar U, Qatar)
[email protected]
Arab Media Views of Central Europe in Light of the Refugee Crisis
MaayanRavid
(U of Oxford, UK)
[email protected]
Understanding Rights in Ethno-National States:
A Socio-Legal Case Study of African Asylum Seekers Rights in Israel
DISCUSANT

Marketa Rulikova
(Williams College, US)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION X // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM

PANEL N14
Performative and Discursive Constructions:
Science, Technology and the Nation
CHAIR

Kristin Hissong
(Kings College London, UK)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Delia Dumitrica
(Erasmus U, Netherlands)
[email protected]
Imagining the Canadian Internet:
A Case of Discursive Nationalization of Technology
Filippo Menga
(U of Manchester, UK)
[email protected]
Dam-Nations? An Analysis of the Interplay between Dams, Nation-Building,
and Transboundary Water Relations
Michael Wachutka
(U of Tuebingen, Germany)
[email protected]
Tangible Enlightenment: Technological Innovation
and Ethno-National Interpretation in late 19th Century Japan
DISCUSSANT

Daniel Klingensmith
(Maryville College, US)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION X // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM

PANEL BO9/N21
Book Panel on Margaret Moore, A Political Theory of Territory
(Oxford, 2015)
CHAIR

Zsuzsa Cserg
(Queens U, Canada)
[email protected]
PARTICIPANTS

Bernard Yack
(Brandeis U, US)
[email protected]
Caleb Yong
(Harvard U, US)
[email protected]
Margaret Moore
(Queens U, Canada)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION X // 11:20 AM - 1:20 PM

PANEL SE1
Nation-Building in the Post-Soviet States, 25 Years After Independence:
Russia, Central Asia, Baltics

CHAIR

Peter Rutland
(Wesleyan U, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Helge Blakkisrud
(Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Norway)
[email protected]
Pl Kolst
(U of Oslo, Norway)
[email protected]
Russia
John Heathershaw
(U of Exeter, UK)
[email protected]
Tajikistan
Vello Pettai
(U of Tartu, Estonia)
[email protected]
Estonia
DISCUSSANTS

Lowell Barrington
(Marquette U, US)
[email protected]
Kate Graney
(Skidmore College, US)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION XI // 2:50 - 4:50 PM

PANEL BK3
EU Enlargement Policy in the Western Balkans
CHAIR

Sreca Perunovic
(LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Adam Fagan
(Queen Mary U of London, UK)
[email protected]
Evaluating the EUs New Approach to Judicial Reform in the Western Balkans:
Unintended Consequences or Unrealised Goals?
Ervin Kallfa
(CUNY Graduate Center, US)
[email protected]
Unfaithful Allies: Local Resistance and the Failure of Statebuilding in the Western Balkans
Marko Kmezic
(U of Graz, Austria)
[email protected]
Civil Society and EU Integrations:
How to Empower Democratic Forces in the Western Balkans
Sean Parramore
(Queen Mary U of London, UK)
[email protected]
Olympic Land Grabbing and the EU: From Strategic Sponsor to Spectator?
DISCUSSANT

Chip Gagnon
(Ithaca College, US)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION XI // 2:50 - 4:50 PM

PANEL BK4
Local Perspectives on Peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina
CHAIR

Tina Mavrikos-Adamou
(Hofstra U, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Sarah Correia
(LSE, UK)
[email protected]
Not Dealing with the Past in Bosnia-Herzegovina:
The Case of the Failure of Bijeljinas Local Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Joscelyn Jurich
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
Commemorations in Srebrenica
Stephen Deets
(Babson College, US)
[email protected]
Nationalism, Europeanization, and Bosnian Agricultural Policy
DISCUSSANT

Joseph Coehlo
(Framingham State U, US)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION XI // 2:50 - 4:50 PM

PANEL CE2
Roma at Critical Junctures: Migration, Citizenship, and Media
CHAIR

Agathe Manikowski
(YMCA of Greater Toronto, Canada)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Ethel Brooks
(Rutgers U, US)
[email protected]
Encampments and the City: Romani Histories, Refugee Futures
Julija Sardelic
(European U Institute, Italy/U of Rijeka, Croatia)
[email protected]
In and out from the European Margins: Reshuffling Mobilities and Legal Statuses of
Romani Minorities between the Post-Yugoslav Space and the European Union
Carol Silverman
(U of Oregon, US)
[email protected]
Muslim Romani Refugees from Kosovo in Germany:
Gendered and Cultural Responses to Trauma

Shayna Plaut
(Simon Fraser U, Canada)
[email protected]
Media Mirrors? Framing Hungarian Romani Migration to Canada
in Hungarian and Canadian press
DISCUSSANT
Jud Nirenberg
(Independent Scholar, DC, US)
[email protected]

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PANEL EU7
Nation-Building in Central Asia
CHAIR

Rune Steenberg
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Emma Sabzalieva
(U of Toronto, Canada)
[email protected]
Nation Building and Higher Education in Kazakhstan
Nari Shelekpayev
(U of Montreal, Canada)
[email protected]
Urban Planning, Architecture, and National Identity in a Post-Soviet Capital City,
1994-2014: The Case of Astana
Benjamin Sutcliffe
(Miami U Ohio, US)
[email protected]
Trifonovs Thaw: The Karakum Canal and the Thirst for Sincerity
DISCUSSANT

Don Van Atta

(U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION XI // 2:50 - 4:50 PM

PANEL K8
Religion in the Caucasus

CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Tornike Metreveli
(U of Bern, Switzerland)
[email protected]
Church and Public Education in Contemporary Serbia and Georgia:
Secularization or De-Secularization?
Ketevan Gurchiani
(Ilia State U, Georgia)
[email protected]
The Creative Presence of Religion in Georgian Public Schools
Inga Popavaite
(U of Iowa, US)
[email protected]
Georgian Muslim Women: Strangers in their Own Country

DISCUSSANT

TBA

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION XI // 2:50 - 4:50 PM

PANEL TK5/M14
Borders and Migration
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Shoshana Fine
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
Making Migration and Refugee Governance in Turkey
Bilal Gorentas
(Southampton U, UK)
[email protected]
Nation, Bordering and Identity at the Turkey/Iraq Border
Eugene Michail
(U of Brighton, UK)
[email protected]
Welcome to Greece, F**k the Police:
The Syrian Refugee Crisis and the Breaching of the Aegean Border
Meagan McManus
(Office of Refugee Resettlement, NY, US)
[email protected]
Short Documentary: Learning to Swim (2014)
[On Syrian Refugees in Lebanon]
DISCUSSANT

Tuba Baaran
(Princeton U, US)
[email protected]

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PANEL R5
Ethnicity, Religion, and Homeland Construction
CHAIR

Allan Kagedan
(Carleton U, Canada)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Dina Zisserman-Brodsky
(Ben Gurion U on the Negev, Israel)
[email protected]
The Rise of Post-Secular Fundamentalism in Russia
Kelsey Davis
(Brandeis U, US)
[email protected]
Sacred Memorialization: The Russian Orthodox Churchs Role
in Commemorating Victims of Soviet Repression
Meagan Todd
(U of Colorado at Boulder, US)
[email protected]
Moscows Cathedral Mosque and the Critical Geopolitics Politics of Islam in Moscow and Russia
Eleonora Narvselius
(Lund U, Sweden)
[email protected]
Collective Memories, Historical Narration and Virtualisation
of the Dissonant German Heritage in Kaliningrad, Russian Federation
Petia Mankova
(Arctic U of Norway, Troms)
[email protected]
The Komi on the Kola Peninsula:
The Historical Constructions of Home and Homeland
DISCUSSANT

Michael Rywkin
(City College, NY, US)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION XI // 2:50 - 4:50 PM

PANEL BO7/R16
Book Panel on Lauren McCarthy, Trafficking Justice: How Russian Police
Enforce New Laws, from Crime to Courtroom (Cornell, 2015)
CHAIR

Yitzhak Brudny
(Hebrew U Jerusalem, Israel)
[email protected]
PARTICIPANTS

Lauren McCarthy
(UMass Amherst, US)
[email protected]
Matthew Light
(U of Toronto, Canada)
[email protected]
Donna Hughes
(U of Rhode Island, US)
[email protected]
Maria (Maki) Haberfeld
(CUNY John Jay College, US)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION XI // 2:50 - 4:50 PM

PANEL U5
Actors in the Donbas War
CHAIR

Evgeny Finkel
(George Washington U, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Philippe Roseberry
(Queens U, Canada)
[email protected]
Fragmentation and Cohesion in Combatant Organizations:
Comparing Post-Communist Conflicts in the Former Yugoslavia and Southeastern Ukraine
Serhiy Kudelia
(Baylor U, US)
[email protected]
Opolchentsy or Terrorists? Local Views of the Donbas Insurgents
Artem Remizov
(LUISS Guido Carli U, Italy/U libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
[email protected]
Foreign Fighters in the Ukraine-Russia Conflict:
Origins, Motivations, and Impact
DISCUSSANT

Ralph Clem
(Florida International U, US)
[email protected]

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PANEL M6
Diasporas and Homelands
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Daniel Naujoks
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
Affinity Diasporas: Shedding Blood for Love
Zachary Adamz
(U of Texas, US)
[email protected]
(Re-)Membering the Korean Nation:
Territory, Identity, and the Korean Diaspora
Cathy Wilcock
(U of Manchester, UK)
[email protected]
The Importance of Shared Political Imagination in Diasporic Identity Formation
among UK-based Sudanese Activists
DISCUSSANT

Lisa Koryushkina
(MCLA, US)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION XI // 2:50 - 4:50 PM

PANEL BO10/M7
Book Panel on David Miller, Strangers in our Midst:
The Political Philosophy of Immigration
(Harvard, 2016)
CHAIR

Bernard Yack
(Brandeis U, US)
[email protected]
PARTICIPANTS

Linda Bosniak
(Rutgers U, US)
[email protected]
Matthew Lister
(UPenn, US)
[email protected]
Stephen Macedo
(Princeton U, US)
[email protected]
David Miller
(Oxford U, US)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION XI // 2:50 - 4:50 PM

PANEL N1
Nationalist Insurgencies and the State
CHAIR

Kristin Fabbe
(Harvard Business School, US)
[email protected]
PANELISTS

Peter Krause
(Boston College, US)
[email protected]
To the Victor Go the Spoils?
Hierarchy and the Impact of Group Strength on Regime Capture
Jacqueline L. Hazelton
(US Naval War College)
[email protected]
Getting It Right: Good Governance Counterinsurgency Warfare
and the U.S. Military Advisory Mission in South Vietnam, 1954-1965
Austin Long
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
Andrew Radin
(RAND Corporation, US)
[email protected]
Hybrid Hype: The Mislessons of Insurgency in Ukraine
DISCUSSANT

Pellumb Kelmendi
(Harvard U, US)
[email protected]

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PANEL N13
Nationalism, Symbols, and Culture
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Zbigniew Wojnowski
(Nazarbayev U, Kazakhstan)
[email protected]
Building Capitalism in the Socialist Bloc:
The Music Industry in Soviet Eurasia (1976-1991)
Kristin Hissong
(Kings College London, UK)
[email protected]
Rethinking Well-Being: Nationalism, Memory, and the Capability Approach
Jonathan Blake
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
The Politics and Anti-Politics of Culture in Post-Conflict Societies
Yemima Cohen-Aharoni
(Hebrew U of Jerusalem, Israel/The New School, NY, US)
[email protected]
The Temple of Jerusalem:
The Memory of the Future and the Politics of the Present
DISCUSSANT

Sophia Dawkins
(Tufts U, US)
[email protected]

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PANEL SE2
Nation-Building in the Post-Soviet States, 25 Years After Independence:
Caucasus

CHAIR

Lowell Barrington
(Marquette U, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Laurence Broers
(SOAS, U of London, UK)
[email protected]
Azerbaijan
Arman Grigoryan
(Lehigh U, US)
[email protected]
Armenia
Julie George
(CUNY Queens College, US)
[email protected]
Georgia
DISCUSSANT

Stephen Jones
(Mt Holyoke U, US)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION XII // 5:10 - 7:10 PM

PANEL BK5
Violence and State-Building Processes
CHAIR

Sreca Perunovic
(LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Vujo Ilic
(Central European U, Hungary/Yale U, US)
[email protected]
Civil War Mobilization in Tribal Society:
Evidence from 1941-1942 Montenegro
Vladimir Unkovski-Korica
(U of Glasgow, UK)
[email protected]
World War II and the National Question:
The Ethnic Cleansing of Germans from the Vojvodina and post-war Yugoslav Federalism
Mila Dragojevic
(The U of the South, US)
[email protected]
Violence, Borders, and Political Ethnicities in Croatia
Gordana Bozic
(U of Ottawa, Canada)
[email protected]
Violence Against Women and Women Against Violence During the War:
Field Results from Ten Bosnian Villages
Pellumb Kelmendi
(Harvard U, US)
[email protected]
When and Why Nonviolent Movements Give Way to Armed Insurrection: Evidence from Kosovo
DISCUSSANT

Dijana Jelaa
(St. Johns U, US)
[email protected]

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PANEL BK16
Historical Perspectives on Nationalism and State-Building
CHAIR

Marko Kmezic
(U of Graz, Austria)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Ali Zeren
(McGill U, Canada)
[email protected]
From Independence to War:
The Origins of Post-Ottoman Irredentism in the Balkans
Stefan Peychev
(U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US)
[email protected]
One Plan, Two Cities: Imagining Ottoman Sofia in the Twentieth Century
Jelena Dureinovic
(Justus Liebig U, Germany)
[email protected]
The Turns in the Memory Politics and Diplomatic Relations Intertwined:
The Commemorations of the Day of the Liberation of Belgrade in Contemporary Serbia
Maria Falina
(U College Dublin, Ireland)
[email protected]
Making Yugoslavia: Religious Diversity as a Challenge and Opportunity, 1918-1929
Alina Zubkovych
(Independent Scholar, UK)
[email protected]
Memory Politics of the former Yugoslav Countries:
Representation of the Past for Construction of the National Future
DISCUSSANT

Luka Lisjak Gabrijeli

(Central European U, Hungary)
[email protected]

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PANEL BK24
Negotiating Islam in Plural Societies:
Institutional Choices, Local Traditions and Religious Practices
CHAIR

Ned Schneier
(City College, US)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Berfu Aygenc
(New School U, US)
[email protected]
Post-Kemalism in Turkey
Arolda Elbasani
(European U Institute, Italy)
[email protected]
Managing Islam in Plural Societies:
Intellectual Ideals, Political Projects and Historical Memories
Laura J. Olson
(U of Colorado Boulder, US)
[email protected]
Pomak Womens Narratives of Muslim Piety in Post-Socialist Bulgaria
Nora Repo
(Independent Scholar, Serbia)
[email protected]
Everyday Religiosity and Identities of the Muslim Women
in the Republic of Macedonia
DISCUSSANT

Murat Somer
(Ko U, Turkey)
[email protected]

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PANEL CE5
Roma in Romania and Hungary
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Lidia Balogh
(Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)
[email protected]
Allusions to Ethnicity and Social Status in the Crime News Released by the Hungarian Police
Andras Pap
(Central European U, Hungary)
[email protected]
Racial, Ethnic, or National Minority?
Legal Discourses and Policy Frameworks on the Roma in Hungary and Beyond
Zsuzsa Plainer
(Romanian Institute for Researching National Minorities, Cluj)
[email protected]
All Gypsies Were Living There Like Sound as a Roach:
Memories of a Roma Colony in Romania Through Roma and Non-Roma Representations
Ljiljana Radoni
(Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History, Austria)
[email protected]
People of Freedom and Unlimited Movement:
Representations of Roma in Post-Communist Memorial Museums
Stefania-Adriana Toma
[email protected]
Lszl Foszt
[email protected]
(Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, Cluj)
Roma Migration vs. the migration of Roma within Europe.
The Role of Ethnic Networks and Inter-Ethnic Ties in the European Mobility of the Roma
DISCUSSANT

TBA

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PANEL K5
Identity & Memory Politics in Georgia
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Minna Lundgren
(Mid Sweden U, Sweden)
[email protected]
Borders as Spaces of Risk:
Otherness and Illegal Border Crossings along the Georgian-Abkhazian Boundary Line
Peter Kabachnik
(College of Staten Island, CUNY, US)
[email protected]
The Soviet Past Today: Understanding Stalin and the Soviet Era in Georgia
Ana Kirvalidze
(Ilia State U Tbilisi, Georgia)
[email protected]
National Identity and Collective Memory Formation Processes in Post-Soviet Georgia
Nutsa Batiashvili
(Free University Tbilisi, Georgia)
[email protected]
Georgian Alter-nation: Counter Elites and Counter Idioms of the Nationhood
DISCUSSANT

TBA

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PANEL R1
Memory, Politics, Affect: Rethinking Generational Transmission
in Russia and Eastern Europe
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Olga Shevchenko
(Williams College, US)
[email protected]
The Sound of One Hand Clapping:
Second Thoughts on the Transmission of Memory in Russia
Elena Omelchenko
Guzel Sabirova
(Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, Russia)
[email protected]
[email protected]
Images of the Soviet Past in Intergenerational Perspective
and Construction of Youth Identities in Contemporary Russia
Alexandra Hrycak
(Reed College, US)
[email protected]
Emma Williams-Baron
(Institute for Women's Policy Research, US)
[email protected]
Masculinity, Aggression and Soviet Ukrainian Selves:
An Exploration of the Reception of Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex by Oksana Zabuzhko
Anton Popov
(Aston University, UK)
[email protected]
Flags, Churches and Other Dysfunctional Places:
Memory of (post)Socialism in a Georgian Town
DISCUSSANT

Gulnaz Sharafutdinova
(Kings College London, UK)
[email protected]

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PANEL R11
Media and Nationalism in the Digital Age
CHAIR

TBA
Kevin Limonier
(U of Paris VIII, France)
[email protected]
How Internet Became an Object of Identity: The Case of Runet
Erle Rikmann
(U of Jyvskyl, Finland)
[email protected]
Transnational Civic Activity Online and Offline:
Young Russian-Speakers in North-East Europe
Stefan Stankovic
(Rutgers U, US)
[email protected]
Globalizing the Past and Visualizing the Future:
The Circassian Internet Campaign for Recognition in the Context of Sochi 2014
Natalia Ishchenko
(Taurida National V.I. Vernadsky U, Ukraine)
[email protected]
War Myths Creating and a Role of Mass Media
DISCUSSANT

Sarah Oates
(U of Maryland, US)
[email protected]

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PANEL TK4
Syrian Refugees and the Transnational Implications of the War
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Tina Mavrikos-Adamou
(Hofstra U, US)
[email protected]
The Politics of Immigration and Asylum in Greece
Deniz Pelek
(Bogazici U, Turkey/U Paris VIII, France)
[email protected]
Syrian Refugees in Turkish Agriculture
Hande Szer
(Middle East Technical U, Northern Cyprus Campus)
[email protected]
Syrian Refugees In Turkey:
Being Stranded in an Uncertain Present, In Between a Deadly Past and a Precarious Future
Adil Camur
(Dokuz Eylul U, Turkey)
[email protected]
Elif Gozler
[email protected]
(Yalova U, Turkey)
Reaching Out to Syrian Refugees in zmir:
Society for Building Solidarity Bridge between Peoples
DISCUSSANT

Mostafa Minawi
(Cornell U, US)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION XII // 5:10 - 7:10 PM

PANEL U11
EU, NATO and Ukraine
CHAIR

Rainer Ruge
(EU, Brussels, Belgium)
[email protected]
PAPERS

Artan Kotro
(U Paris Ouest Nanterre La Dfense, France)
[email protected]
The Administrators of the Sovereignty:
The Crisis in Ukraine and European Constitutional Interventionism
Hillary Appel
(Claremont McKenna College, US)
[email protected]
The Roadblocks on Ukraines Westward Path:
NATO and the European Union Membership Prospects
George Soroka
(Harvard U, US)
[email protected]
Tomasz Stpniewski
(Catholic U of Lublin, Poland)
[email protected]
The Russian-Ukrainian Conflict in Relation to the EU's Eastern Partnership
and the Way Forward
DISCUSSANT

Adrian Karatnycky
(Atlantic Council, US)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION XII // 5:10 - 7:10 PM

PANEL BO5/U14
Book Panel on Tarik Cyril Amar, The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv
(Cornell, 2015)
CHAIR

Jared McBride
(US Holocaust Memorial Museum, DC)
[email protected]
PARTICIPANTS

Mayhill Fowler
(Stetson U, US)
[email protected]
Malgorzata Mazurek
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]
John Paul Himka
(U of Alberta, Canada)
[email protected]
Tarik Cyril Amar
(Columbia U, US)
[email protected]

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SATURDAY APRIL 16TH // SESSION XII // 5:10 - 7:10 PM

PANEL M5
Impact of Diaspora Mobilization:
Bridging Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives
CHAIR

TBA
PAPERS

Maria Koinova
(U of Warwick, UK)
[email protected]
Politically Relevant Environment for Transnational Diaspora Mobilization
Natasha De Silva
(City U London, UK)
[email protected]
The Engagement of Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora in Post-War Reconciliation
Klavdia Tatar
(U of Ottawa, Canada)
[email protected]
Still Wedded to the cause?: Ethnic-based Political Activism of Ukrainian Canadians
and Canadas Ukrainian policies (1991-2014)
Deneta Karabegovi
(U of Warwick, UK)
[email protected]
Sustaining Peace from Afar? Diaspora Translocal Engagement
DISCUSSANT

Jasmin Hasic
(U Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium/LUISS, Italy)
[email protected]

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PANEL N2
Nationalism and History
CHAIR
TBA
PAPERS
Yu Sasaki
(U of Washington, US)
[email protected]
Ethnic Autonomy
Valery Dzutsati
(Arizona State U, US)
[email protected]
A Theory of Identity Choice: Religion, Ethnicity and the State
Luyang Zhou
(McGill U, Canada)
[email protected]
Communism as an Imagined Substitute for Unworkable Nationalism:
Comparing the Making of Russian and Chinese Revolutionary Elites
Jessica Valisa
(U of Bologna, Italy)
[email protected]
Neo-Turanism and Neo-Eurasianism:
Two Emerging Ideologies in a Post-Modern World
Meirav Jones
(Yale U, US)
[email protected]
Yossi Shain
(Tel Aviv U, Israel/Georgetown U, US)
[email protected]
Jewish Sovereignty and the Foundations of the Modern State
DISCUSSANT

Kyle Marquardt
(U of Gothenburg, Sweden)
[email protected]

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