Up-Coming Conferences and Calls for Papers

The Nationalism Project is pleased to offer this section as a forum for journal editors and others to solicit journal articles, conference papers, and book chapters from scholars around the world, as well as to announce up-coming conferences.

Those interested in having their announcement posted here should send it via email to: webmaster@nationalismproject.org. Please paste the announcement into an email. Do not use "smart quotes" or other characters not commonly recognized by email software.

Up-Coming Conferences

Conference: EUROPEAN SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY CONFERENCE

27 February - 1 March 2008

University of Lisbon, Portugal

The aim of the ESSHC is bringing together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. The conference is characterized by a lively exchange in many small groups, rather than by formal plenary sessions. The conference welcomes papers and sessions on any historical topic and any historical period. It is organized in 28 networks, which cover a certain topic. There are two new networks: Material and Consumer Culture and Politics, Nations, Nationalism (a merger of the Politics and Nations networks). The conference language is English.

Website: http://www.iisg.nl/esshc/callforpapers.php

Deadline: 16 April 2007 (Extended from 1 April)

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Conference: Nations, Diasporas, Identities

Victoria University of Wellington

27 - 30 March 2008

International Conference: Call for Papers

Political and economic events over the last decade have begun radically to reshape the cultural identities of Ireland and Scotland. In Ireland, the dynamism of the 'Celtic Tiger' economy has catapulted the nation from being one of Europe's poorest to one of its most advanced. In Northern Ireland, the 'peace process' has reshaped not only future relations between religious communities, but the cultural landscape of those communities by giving equal status to Gaelic and to Ulster Scots. And in Scotland, devolution has been accompanied by what has been described as a cultural renaissance that makes the past twenty years one of the richest in the country's history.

At the same time, many people around the world have become increasingly conscious of, and assertive of, their Irish or Scottish identities - as evidenced, for instance, in the Tartan Day celebrations in the United States and St. Patrick’s Day commemorations in Australia or New Zealand. Do these diasporic identities, however, have any continuing relationship with the identities of the nations to which they are attached? Or are national identities themselves being transformed by feedback from their diaporas? Or are alternative 'national' identities developing which may claim to express the same national past but in fact envisage it very different ways? Should the notion of the 'nation' be extended to encompass its diasporas or should it be narrowed down so that it does not exclude those who are themselves immigrants within its boundaries? What is a national history or a national culture in this world of mobile populations.

These are some of the general issues which it is hoped will be addressed in this international conference to be held in Wellington 27 - 30 March 2008. It is being jointly organised by Victoria University’s Irish-Scottish Studies Programme and the University of Aberdeen’s AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies.

Proposals for papers and requests for further information should be addressed to:

Dr Brad Patterson
Irish-Scottish Studies Programme
Victoria University of Wellington
PO Box 600
Wellington
New Zealand
Email: brad.patterson@vuw.ac.nz
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/stout-centre/research-units/issp/conferences/conf-nations.aspx

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Professor R Cairns Craig
AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies
University of Aberdeen
Old Aberdeen
AB24 3UG
Scotland
Email: cairns.craig@abdn.ac.uk

 

 

Conference: National identification from below. Europe from the late 18th century to the end of the First World War

International Conference Ghent (Belgium), 7-8 March 2008

CFP deadline 15 July 2007

The last three decades, the discourse, myths, symbols and rites of the most diverse nations and national(ist) movements, have been amply studied. Much of this research, however, is informed by a limited conception of the constructivist paradigm, interpreting national identity as a middle and upper class concern brought to the masses through a whole range of nationalising media (schools, army, press, monarchy, church, etc.) overemphasizing the idea of elite construction ex nihilo (as if dominant groups can randomly choose which myth they want to 'feed' to the masses). This conference wants to study not only the production of national discourse, but also its appropriation by 'ordinary people' and the masses' creativity in forging new national symbols from below. The temporal framework of the conference is the late 18th century to the end of the First World War, the geographic limit is Europe. The intended audience includes historians, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, ethnographers, ... Publication of the proceedings is planned.

More specifically, this conference is concerned with the following themes.

  1. Describing national identification processes of ordinary people. Were non-elite national feelings politicised into a concrete programme or did they remain rather vague? Were they linked to social, economic, cultural and/or political demands? To what extent did they adopt elite definitions of the nation (the question of appropriation and Alf Lüdtke's concept of Eigen-Sinn)? Was it a case of identity construction against the upper classes, inverting elite notions (e.g. self-mockery, ironic versions of the national anthem)?
  2. Explaining which variables account for diachronic or spatial divergences in national identification within the lower classes and for synchronic differences between lower, middle and upper class strata. In this context the comparative framework of Miroslav Hroch and especially his phase C (the massification of the national movement) may be revalued.
  3. Taking stock of the transnational context. There are very few studies about transfers and transnational influences in popular nationalism. How did popular national symbols, rituals and practices circulate from one country to another? How were they absorbed and transformed by the specific political/social contexts in which they were transferred? What influence did the colonial experiences of the different societies have on popular nationalism?

All of these themes can be dealt with in two types of papers:

1) individual case studies; e.g. based on well-preserved sources of a particular worker, pauper, peasant, ..., based on letters by a group of ordinary people from a particular town, province, ...

2) survey papers within or across European countries (other than Great Britain, Germany, France, the Low Countries, Spain and Imperial Austria)

Programme committee

Key-note speakers

Plenary speakers

Organising committee

This conference is organised by the Department of Modern and Contemporary history at Ghent University and the Department of history at Antwerp University, in collaboration with the ADVN - Archival and documentation center of Flemish nationalism.

Please submit a title, a 500 word abstract and a short CV to frombelow@ugent.be before 15 July 2007. For more information on the CFP visit our website http://www.frombelow.ugent.be

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Conference: A Changing Cuba in a Changing World

12-14 March 2008
City University of New York

This international, inter-disciplinary forum will gather scholars and other specialists to probe changes currently underway in economics, politics and policy models, civil society, art and literature, race relations, national identity and culture, as well as Cuba’s role in world affairs.

Deadline for receipt of paper proposals or sessions is October 16, 2007. Early submissions and inquiries are encouraged.

Deadline for final papers is January 29, 2008.

Send your proposals to Cuba Project, The Bildner Center, 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10016-4309 or via email to cubaproject@gc.cuny.edu or via fax to 212-817-1540.

Paper proposals should consist of: 1- 2 page abstract with a cover letter indicating the author’s professional affiliation, biographical sketch and contact information.

Scott Larson
The Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies
The Graduate Center/City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5209
New York, NY

Telephone: 212-817-2096
Email: cubaproject@gc.cuny.edu
http://www.bildner.org

Deadline: 16 October 2007

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Conference: FOREIGN RELATIONS IN THE PROTAGONISTS' PERSPECTIVE: NETWORKS – INTERCULTURAL RELATIONS - GENDER

13 - 15 March 2008


Historical Institute of the University of Berne, Switzerland

Until recently, the historiography of foreign relations was reputed for its methodological backwardness. In the last years, however, new approaches have changed the state of research in this field fundamentally. For this reason it is time to survey what has been accomplished so far and to discuss further perspectives of research. The conference will concentrate on a number of particularly fruitful approaches that take a close look at the strategies of the protagonists in foreign relations. Protagonists may be individuals or groups.

Up to today, the history of foreign relations is interpreted by many as inter-state relations in the first instance. From this perspective, international relations are subject to the timeless rules of power politics, executed by government elites. In opposition to this view, the concept of transnational relations is focusing on non-state-actors. The conference, however, will not follow the division between governmental and non-governmental actors because the concept of a public sphere in contrast to the private sphere was just about to emerge in the course of the early modern period. The sections of the conference will focus on the impact of the performance of individuals as well as groups in relations between different political units. The actors may be office-holders in service of a prince or a republic, traders, regular clerics, missionaries or members of a transnational kinship network. The analysis is to concentrate on their personal networks, their intercultural performance and the impact of gender in foreign relations.

The view on personal networks of the protagonists offers insight into their relationships and ties of friendship or patronage that generated their actions. This perspective is of particular interest for the analysis of medieval and early modern foreign relations. Personal rule generated personal relationships as there was no such thing as an abstract ethos of civil service in premodern and early modern political culture. As a consequence, envoys acted in the places where they were sent to in different and competing roles at the same time: They were not only servants of their respective prince, but also acted as members of a kinship network, represented the interests of their fellow countrymen and supported matters of concern of their patrons or clients. To investigate the changing impact of these networks in the course of diplomatic professionalization and, more general, the growth of the state, is a challenge for studies in the history of modern foreign relations yet to be taken up. Acting in a foreign cultural environment was an everyday situation for protagonists in foreign relations. A micro-history of their everyday life offers a great heuristic potential. Was networking a means for envoys or tradesmen to overcome cultural boundaries? Did the emergence of nationalism impede the protagonists' capacity of acculturation? If so, does this mean that there was a shift in cross-cultural diplomatic practice around 1800, the so-called ”Sattelzeit”?
Gender is an exotic topic in foreign relations up to the present. Gender studies themselves regard it a matter of fact that it was men who made foreign policy up to the 20th century. Therefore the participation of women in foreign relations is a very marginal research topic indeed. However, we have to take into account that women played a core role within family networks, and should consider that ties of kinship are a category that generated the actions of the protagonists to a large degree. Hence the political culture of the ancien régime indeed allowed the political participation of women; women's impact on foreign relations is a field worth of investigation. This may for example be done by taking a close look on women (princesses, female protagonists of noble families, princes' mistresses) in the configuration of the princes' courts.

The main concern of the conference is to take a long-term view on foreign relations. Was there a slow development or even intended progress in the history of diplomatic practice? Is diplomacy therefore an indicator of the progress of the state building process? Or is the history of foreign relations to be characterized as an intermittent development, in which short periods of fundamental change were followed by long periods of relative stability? Did therefore periods of diplomatic Sattelzeiten exist? The period of time the conference is dealing with will be from the late medieval times up to the end of the "long" 19th century. This long-term perspective allows us to take a look on slow developments and phenomena of longue durée as well as to identify shifts in the history of foreign relations. The installation of permanent embassies in the late 15th century, the "Westphalian System", the time around 1800, characterized by the growth of the state and the breakthrough of nationalism or the period of colonialism and imperialism may be discussed as such periods of shift. In geographical perspective, presentations at the conference may deal with foreign relations within Europe as well as with relations between European political and social entities and those outside Europe.

The conference is to consist of both lectures, which offer a broad overview, and presentations of case studies. Keynote speeches will be given by Dr. Marc Belissa (Université Paris X-Nanterre), Prof. Dr. Heinz Duchhardt (Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz), Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kaiser (Université de Paris I – Sorbonne), Univ. Doz. Dr. Katrin Keller (Universität Wien), Prof. Dr. Johannes Paulmann (Universität Mannheim), Prof. em. Dr. Wolfgang Reinhard (Universität Freiburg im Breisgau), Dr. Marie-Karine Schaub (Université Paris XII-Val de Marne), Prof. Dr. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Universität Münster) and Prof. Dr. Jean-Claude Waquet (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris).

Junior researchers are specially invited to enrich the conference with presentations regarding their research.

Conference languages will be German, English and French.

Proposals should be handed in by 10th of March 2007 and consist of the title of the presentation and of a short summary (about 2500 signs). They should be sent to the following address by email (or letter):

Prof. Dr. Christian Windler
Direktor der Abteilung für Neuere Geschichte
Historisches Institut der Universität Bern
Länggassstrasse 49
CH-3000 Bern 9
Email: Christian.Windler@hist.unibe.ch

Deadline: 10 March 2007

 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS: Conference on "Garibaldi Abroad"

April 3, 4, 5, 2008

The University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina, USA

The second of three international conferences honoring the 200th anniversary of Giuseppe Garibaldi?s birth, this conference will emphasize the international influence of Garibaldi and the Italian Risorgimento. The first conference was held in in Urbino, Italy (November, 2007) and the third will take place in Porto Alegre, Brazil, September 11-13, 2008. Participants in one conference are welcome to participate in the others.

This conference will open Thursday evening April 3 with a public lecture by Lucy Riall, author of Garibaldi: The Invention of a Hero¸followed by the opening of a public exhibit on Garibaldi and the Risorgimento drawn from the rich archives of the Anthony P. Campanella Collection, at the University of South Carolina?s Thomas Cooper Library.

April 4 and 5 will feature scholarly presentations on a variety of topics dealing with Garibaldi Abroad.

Proposals are especially welcome on topics relating to the international influence of Garibaldi and the Risorgimento. The following themes are of special interest:

· nationalism and internationalism

· national unification and independence/secession

· radicalism and the radical tradition

· liberty and emancipation

· war, dictatorship and volunteer armies

· Garibaldi?s influence in the Americas

Proposals and presentations may be in English or Italian.

Please send a 300 word proposal and curriculum vitae to:
Professor Don H. Doyle: don.doyle@sc.edu by January 15, 2008.

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Proposals and presentations may be in English or Italian.

Participants will be expected to cover the expense of their travel to Columbia, South Carolina. Hotel rooms and most meals will be provided by the conference, thanks to the generosity of our sponsors:

· The University of South Carolina , College of Arts and Sciences

· The Department of History, University of South Carolina

· The Richard Walker Institute of International and Area Studies, USC

· The Humanities Council of South Carolina

· The National Italian American Foundation

This conference is a project of ARENA, the Association for Research on Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Americas.

 

 

Conference: Prophetstown Revisited: Pan-Indianism in Early America

3-5 April 2008

Purdue University

PROPHETSTOWN REVISITED: A SUMMIT ON EARLY NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES


On the occasion of the bicentennial of the founding of Prophetstown by Tecumseh and his brother Tenskatawa (The Shawnee Prophet) in 1808, the Society of Early Americanists and the Purdue University College of Liberal Arts will host an interdisciplinary scholarly summit on early Native American Studies that will feature panel presentations, workshops, and sessions open to the public, including the keynote addresses and other exhibits, and performances. Since Purdue is only a few minutes drive from the place where the brothers brought their followers together, we plan to have off-campus events linked to the sites associated with Prophetstown.

The founding of Prophetstown was an important historical moment, marking the first significant peaceful gesture on the part of indigenous North Americans to appropriate and utilize an “Indian” identity as a singular racial force of community and resistance. Pan-racial identification had been imagined and imposed by a series of European conquerors and colonizers for centuries, and pan-Indian identity would become the driving force behind the Jacksonian Policy of Indian Removal, enacted as law in 1830. The Shawnee Brothers’ efforts were the first to coalesce and mobilize “Indians” on a continental level to oppose such efforts. Its brief efflorescence notwithstanding, it effectively marked the end of the era when tribes were set against one another by whites for their own selfish purposes.

CALL FOR PAPERS and PANELS

While the themes and topics of the conference include Pan-Indianisms and Native/Indian history and culture in the Mississippi Valley, we welcome proposals on all aspects of Native American Studies up to 1840.

Possible topics might include but are not limited to:

1-page abstracts and short C.V.s due by September 14, 2007 to Kristina Bross (kbross@purdue.edu)

Kristina Bross
Association Professor
English and American Studies
Purdue University
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2038

Telephone: (765) 494-3745
Email: wattse@msu.edu
http://dev1.matrix.msu.edu/steen/Prophetstown/design.html

Deadline: 14 September 2007

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CALL FOR PAPERS: THE RISORGIMENTO REVISITED. NEW YORK 11-12 APRIL 2008

Over the last fifteen years, scholarly interest in Italy’s ‘Risorgimento’ (c.1790-c.1870) has undergone a considerable revival. Informed by the approach to 19th-century nationalism pioneered by Anderson, Hobsbawm and others, as well as by the methodologies of the ‘new cultural history’, this renewed interest in the Risorgimento has been constrained by neither. Instead, historians of the Risorgimento have sought to ask new questions about the formation of Italian national identity, and have reached new conclusions about its origins, its discursive and political expressions, and its appeal, limitations and long-term impact.

This international conference will be the first time that the leading protagonists of the new research have been brought together outside Italy. Its aim is to raise the profile of debates on the Risorgimento among a broader public and to encourage the development of a comparative and/or trans-national perspective on the formation of Italian national identity. By considering the issue of how modern Italian identity was first conceived and constructed politically, we would also expect to make a timely contribution to current discussions about the role of patriotism and the nature of nationalism in present-day Italy.

The conference will be held in New York at the Italian Academy of Columbia University on 11-12 April 2008. We would especially welcome papers which address the following themes:

Gender, family and sexuality
Exile and diaspora
War, militarism and Italy’s ‘enemies’
Religions and religious identity
Political emotions and the role of romanticism
The use of history

Those wishing to contribute to the conference are asked to submit a title, a brief abstract of their proposed paper, and a statement of academic/professional affiliation by April 30 2007 to Silvana Patriarca (patriarca@fordham.edu) and Lucy Riall (l.riall@history.bbk.ac.uk).

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Conference: Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism 18th Annual Conference
"Nationalism, East and West: Civic and Ethnic Conceptions of Nationhood"

April 15-17, 2008

The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) is holding its 18th Annual Conference, entitled “Nationalism, East and West: Civic and Ethnic Conceptions of Nationhood”, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, April 15-17, 2008, at the London School of Economics.

It has long been standard in the field of nationalism studies to classify nations according to which principle serves to unify the nation. The distinction between the Western, political type of nationalism, and Eastern, genealogical nationalism as systematised by Hans Kohn in 1945 has been used, extended and adjusted by scholars of nationalism to conceptualise a framework of “inclusive” nationalism based on citizenship and territory and “exclusive” nationalism based on common ethnic ties and descent. This conference seeks to assess the continuing relevance of this dichotomy in its various forms: its contribution to theoretical work on nationalism, its usefulness for historical interpretation and its value for contemporary policy-making.

The conference will include keynote addresses from leading scholars in the field, along with opportunities for scholars from various disciplines to examine the relevance of ethnic and civic conceptions of nationhood in a series of panel sessions. Suggested themes include:

The first day will explore the use of the classical dichotomy in theoretical works on nationalism, national identity and nation formation. By considering historical case studies, the development, interaction and conflict of ethnic and civic types of nationalism will be analyzed on the second day. Historical critiques of and alternatives to dichotomous types like the civic/ethnic and East/West will also be considered. On the third day, the framework of civic and ethnic nationalism will be explored by focussing on contemporary nationalism and approaches to citizenship and immigration.

The 2008 Conference Committee is now calling for papers to be presented on the conference. The application is open to any researcher who is interested in the study of nationalism and/or ethnicity, and PhD students and young scholars are particularly encouraged to apply. The abstracts of the proposed papers should not exceed 500 words and are expected by November 1, 2007. The Committee will notify applicants by November 30, 2007. Please see the ASEN website (www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ASEN/) for more information and to submit your proposal.

Suggestions for panels and additional themes are also welcome. Papers submitted to the conference will be considered for publication in a special issue of Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (SEN).

Please note that ASEN cannot cover travel and accommodation costs. Presenters are expected to register for the conference. Further enquiries are welcome at asen@lse.ac.uk.

 

CALL FOR PAPERS: INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE: HUMAN RIGHTS, INDIVIDUALISM & GLOBALIZATION

10-12 April 2008, Bethany College, West Virginia

Sponsored by the Center for Spirituality, Ethics & Global Awareness and the Bethany College School of Arts & Sciences. 

Extensive list of suggested topics includes: nationalism and ethnicity.

Selected papers from the conference will be published.  There will also be an undergraduate research paper competition. Please encourage your students to join the competition; there will be an aware for the best undergraduate paper.

Please send a 150-word abstract to:
HumanRightsProposal@ideologiesofwar.com

For additional information about the conference go to:
http://www.bethanywv.edu/internationalconferences
Or, contact the conference organizer:
Dr. Chandana Chakrabarti
Professor of Philosophy
Director, Center for Spirituality, Ethics & Global Awareness
Tel.: 304-829-7525
E-mail: cchakrabarti@bethanywv.edu
Fax: 304-829-7926

Deadline: 29 February 2008

 

 

Workshop/Call for Papers - ‘ Nationalism and Communism’
Eastern European History and Eastern European Studies,
University of Amsterdam, 25 April 2008

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 nationalism suddenly resurfaced in Eastern Europe, or so the common wisdom goes. This implies communism and nationalism have little to do with each other.  In reality, the communist regimes of Europe all flew the national flag in order to gain popular legitimacy.  After 1948, the People’s Republics of Central and Eastern Europe constructed the state ideology of ‘Socialist Patriotism’, a conscious blend of national and socialist imagery. Parties presented themselves as heirs to national traditions, and as guardians of national interests. They appropriated national symbols and heroes, and pursued ‘national’ policies whenever possible.

This was not just the case in Europe. From Cuba to Korea, communist parties and states presented themselves as patriots. A national communist self-image was not the exception, but the rule. It is surprising that the communist “invention of tradition” and the socialist “imagined community” have been studied relatively little. Though there is an extensive body of literature on the relationship between communism and nationalism, the national element in communist ideology has on the whole remained from view.

This has changed in recent years. Independent of one another, several excellent studies have been published on attempts by communists in individual countries to gain national legitimacy. This informal workshop aims to be a first step towards a more comprehensive view. Students of nationalism, historians of communism, specialists on Cold War history, as well as country or regional experts, are invited to give their opinion.

Presenters of papers are welcome to concentrate on an individual state, party, national symbol or policy, but are asked to place these in a broader context. To what extent does ‘Socialist Patriotism’ fit into existing theories of nationalism? Could communists actually be called ‘nationalistic’ or even ‘nationalists’? Was the communist use of national propaganda instrumental and exploitative, or was it founded on progressive traditions of nationalism? How were national credentials of local parties squared with proletarian internationalism and the alliance with other communist countries? To what extent did communist parties construct ethnic “ enemies of the people”? In what way did anti-Semitism influence the national credentials of communist parties? Was communist national propaganda ultimately successful?

These and other questions will be central to the discussions at the meeting.

A practical goal is take first steps towards the organization of a larger workshop on this topic in 2009. This is to culminate in an edited volume on nationalism and communism.

Please send proposals for papers (max 400 words) to dr. Martin Mevius before 15 February 2008 (m.mevius@uva.nl , Eastern European History and Eastern European Studies, Postbus 134, 1012 VB Amsterdam, tel +31205252269, Fax: +31 20 5252086).   
Organizing Committee:


Balázs Apor (EUI, Florence)
Jan C Behrends (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin)
Ragnheidur Kristjánsdóttir (University of Iceland)
Árpád von Klimo (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Berlin)
Martin Mevius (University of Amsterdam)

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Neale Lecture and Conference in British History: Race, nation and empire: the writing of modern British histories

24-26 April 2008
University College London

This conference will explore the different ways in which ideas about race, nation and empire have informed the writing of British history from the late C18th to the present and the ways in which the writing of history is one of the practices that constitutes British people’s ideas of the relation between nation and empire. Thursday 24th April 2008: The Neale Lecture: Geoff Eley (Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA), ‘What is the imperial imaginary? Britain in Europe and the World, 1815-2003’
The Neale Conference (25-26 April 2008):
Sessions and speakers:

Enlightenment histories: Karen O’Brien/Kathleen Wilson/Brian Young
C19th liberal historians: Theodore Koditschek/Marilyn Lake/Catherine Hall
Pre-1945 historiography: Saul Dubow/Bill Schwarz/Stephen Howe
Reconfiguring nation and empire: the 4 nations: John Mackenzie/Sonya Rose/Mary Hickman
Transnational work now – what place for the national?: Antoinette Burton/Chris Bayly/Mrinalini Sinha

Venue: University College London
For further details/registration see the website
Conference organisers: Professor Catherine Hall & Keith McClelland
Department of History
UCL
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT
UK
Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 3616
Email: k.mcclelland@ucl.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/conferences/neale2008/neale08.htm

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Conference: Beyond Imagined Uniqueness: Nationalisms in Comparative Perspective

An International Conference Organized by
American Studies Center, University of Warsaw
May 19-21, 2008

The aim of the conference is to provide a space for an interdisciplinary and international conversation about nationalism. Theoretical perspectives, as well as case studies from various locations and fields – including sociology, politics, media studies, literature and the arts – are welcome. We invite original papers concerning both the history of nationalism(s) and its various present manifestations. Comparative perspectives are encouraged.

Examples of themes include:

Theories of nationalism and ethnicity
Religious contexts of nationalism
Hybrid identities
Colonialism and postcolonialism
Gender, sexuality and the nation
Collective memory and the politics of history
The idea of the chosen nation
Nationalism and civil religion
Nationalisms after 1989
Nationalisms and the European Union
Anti-Americanism and European identity
Minority rights in multi-cultural contexts
The visual culture of nationalism
Nationalism in an age of globalization
Transnationalism and nationalism

Presentations should be limited to 15 – 20 minutes to allow time for discussion.

Deadline for submission of abstracts (up to 500 words): February 29, 2008. Proposals will be considered as they arrive with final notification of acceptance by 15 March. Proposals should be sent to William R. Glass, conference co-ordinator, at nationalisms.conference@gmail.com
William R. Glass
American Studies Center, University of Warsaw
al. Niepodleglosci 22
02-653 Warszawa Poland
Email: w.glass@uw.edu.pl

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CONFERENCE: BRITISHNESS WITHIN GLOBAL CONTEXTS
University of Huddersfield
June 5th & 6th, 2008

The Centre for Constructions and Identity at the University of Huddersfield is organizing a two day conference to be held on 5th-6th June 2008. The main theme of the conference is 'Britishness' within global contexts, addressing such issues as transnationality of identity, British diasporas and the implications of dual citizenship across the former Empire and beyond.

We seek papers from a range of contributors across disciplinary boundaries to build a coherent and cogent assessment of the importance of Britishness beyond the current borders of the UK state. The conference will include the following themes:

Keynote speakers and plenary participants already confirmed include Professor Sir Bernard Crick (University of Edinburgh), Professor Krishan Kumar (University of Virginia), Shahid Mailk MP, Professor Christopher G. A. Bryant (University of Salford), and Professor Paul Ward (University of Huddersfield). Further details of keynote participants to be confirmed.

The conference will provide an integrated programme of presentations from invited keynote speakers, plenary sessions, and a number of themed invitational panels addressing the core themes (including a dedicated post-graduate poster presentation session). We are currently in negotiation with Palgrave with a view to producing an edited volume of selected papers from the conference.

We would invite abstract submissions of 300 words from those interested in presenting papers to the organizers by November 1st 2007.

For further enquiries, please contact:

Dr. Andrew Mycock, Division of Criminology, Politics and Sociology,
University of Huddersfield, HUDDERSFIELD. HD1 3DH
Email: a.j.mycock@hud.ac.uk

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Prof. Jim McAuley, Division of Criminology, Politics and Sociology,
University of Huddersfield, HUDDERSFIELD. HD1 3DH
Email: j.w.mcauley@hud.ac.uk

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Conference: MIGRATION, DIASPORA, ETHNICITY, AND NATIONALISM IN HISTORY

June 2008

The Historical Society, Boston Massachusetts (Sponsor)

The relentless thrust of globalization and the unexpected termination of the Cold War have increased rather than reduced global tensions. These developments force us to reconsider some themes once thought to be exhausted. Migrations, the formation of Diaspora communities, and the resurgence of ethnicities, both old and new, have transformed nationalisms and conventional conceptions of the nation-state. The 2008 conference will consider the above themes. 

With such considerations in mind, the Historical Society is pleased to announce that the organizing theme for 6th conference, scheduled for early June 2008, will be “Migration, Diaspora, Ethnicity, and Nationalism in History.” The conference will be held in Baltimore, Maryland. We envision a meeting in which historians across fields come together to deepen and enrich the state of knowledge about these vital concerns. 

Franklin W. Knight will chair the 2008 conference program committee.

Please send 6 copies of your proposal—no more than 2 pages—accompanied by a brief curriculum vitae to

2008 Conference, The Historical Society, 656 Beacon Street, Mezzanine,
Boston, MA 02215

Proposals will not be accepted via e-mail. Questions? Email us at: historic@bu.edu or call (617) 358-0260.

Website: http://www.bu.edu/historic/conf_ev.html

Deadline: 1 May 2007

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Seventeenth Annual World History Association Conference

University of London, Queen Mary College, Mile End Campus

25-29 June 2008

Themes: Global Cities and The Sea: Highway of Change

Queen Mary College will host the Seventeenth Annual World History Association Conference at its Mile End campus in London, June 25 through 29, 2008.

The conference begins with registration and a reception on June 26. Panel sessions and other conference-related activities will commence June 27 and continue to midday on the 29th. The WHA will also offer optional activities for conferees who arrive on June 25.

Reasonably priced accommodations, including daily breakfast and lunch, will be available at Queen Mary. Plans include five- or four-night packages, 25-29 June and 26-29 June, departing in both instances on the 30th. Information regarding housing, registration, the keynote speakers, and related issues will begin appearing on the WHA website http://thewha.org in September 2007.

The World History Association invites proposals from scholars and teachers around the world for full panels, single papers, and roundtables on topics related to the scholarly and/or pedagogical aspects of the conference's themes, “Global Cities” and “The Sea: Highway of Change.” Proposals must be submitted using the forms and guidelines available at http://thewha.org.

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: 15 January 2008

Due to the need for early notification and travel planning, no proposal will be accepted after the deadline. Presenters must register for the conference by 1 May 2008 to be included in the printed program.

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Conference: Nationalism, Ethnicity and Citizenship: Whose Citizens? Whose Rights?

30 June-1 July 2008
University of Surrey, United Kingdom

The Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism’s 2008 conference will address issues bound up with nationalism, ethnicity and citizenship from a multi-disciplinary perspective.
As in previous CRONEM conferences, there will be ample opportunities for papers to be presented in parallel panel sessions and for poster presentations. Panel proposals (including a general introduction panel of about 300 words, plus 300-word abstracts of each of the papers) and proposals for individual papers and posters (300-word abstracts) are invited on any aspect of nationalism, ethnicity or citizenship, particularly those addressing the following themes:
·         Conceptualizing citizenship in ethnically diverse societies
·         Comparisons of old and new forms of citizenship
·         Political versus civic engagement and participation
·         Incorporating marginalized groups into democratic processes
·         The concepts of intercultural, multicultural and cosmopolitan citizenship
·         Citizenship and religion
·         Citizenship and migrants
·         The role of civic/citizenship education in multicultural societies
·         National citizenship and universal human rights
·         Ethnic conflict regulation and the roles of international actors

Please send your submissions to Mirela Dumic (m.dumic@surrey.ac.uk).  For more information: http://www.surrey.ac.uk/Arts/CRONEM/cronem2008.htm.

Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2008

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Conference: 16th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
Kunming, China
July 15-23, 2008

The 16th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences will be held in Kunming, China, July 15-23, 2008 (http://www.icaes2008.org/enindex.htm). We are organizing an academic session focusing on institutional change and ethnic relations in transitional societies, which aims to initiate a dialogue between scholars of this field from East European countries and China (Please scroll down to read the details.) Funding for the conference participation is possible, particularly for scholars  from East European countries. Should you be any interested in this, please contact the following quickly. The deadline is July 12, 2007.

Ms. Wei Xing
Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, 725 Spadina Ave.
Toronto,M5S 2J4, Canada.
Phone: 10 416 978 3227
Fax: 10  416 925 9431
Email: wei.xing@utoronto.ca

Session theme:
Institutional Change and Ethnic Relations in Transitional Societies

This panel addresses the effect of rapid institutional transition on ethnic relations. Social, economic, and political institutional changes and their effects on ethnic boundaries in transitional societies, in fields such as daily interaction, identification, citizenship, language, dwelling, economic activities, and marriage are the topic of this session. Studies could be either theoretical or empirical.

The geographic focus is on the dynamics of ethnic relations in many East European countries, China and Vietnam. These countries, despite the similarities in their long-lasting socialist arrangements, took divergent paths of reform since the early 1980s. The social, economic and  political restructuring, particularly the input of market forces, have created a number of challenges to ethnic relations in these countries. The central challenge has been to improve economic efficiency and the living  standard of the population, while avoiding the unintended and negative consequence of market forces and preserving harmonious ethnic relations. Studies about the ethnic issues in these countries are numerous, but there has been surprisingly little exchange of research findings across the divergent institutional contexts, especially between East European countries and China. Nor is there much comparative analysis available. This panel addresses this issue, looking at evidence from East European countries, China and Vietnam.

 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS: SECOND GLOBAL CONFERENCE: MULTICULTURALISM, CONFLICT AND BELONGING

3-6 September 2008, Mansfield College, University of Oxford, UK

This multi-disciplinary project seeks to explore the new and prominent place that the idea of culture has for the construction of identity and the implications of this for social membership in contemporary societies. In particular the project will assess the larger context of major world transformations, for example, new forms of migration and the massive movements of people across the globe, as well as the impact and contribution of globalization on tensions, conflicts and the sense of rootedness and belonging. Looking to encourage innovative trans-disciplinary dialogues, we warmly welcome papers from all disciplines, professions and vocations which struggle to understand what it means for people, the world over, to forge identities in rapidly changing national, social and cultural contexts.

Papers, workshops and presentations are invited on any of the following themes:


1. Challenging Old Concepts of Self and Other
2. Nations, Nationhood and Nationalisms

--What does it mean, today, to belong to a nation?
--New migrants, new migratory flows and massive movements from peripheral to central countries
--Resurgence of the local and the diminishing importance of the national
--Are we living post-national realities?
--What is the place of cultural claims in today’s forms of social membership?
--Assimilation, integration, adaptation and other forms of placing the responsibility of change on the Other

3. Institutions, Organizations and Social Movements
4. Persons, Personhood and the Inter-Personal
5. Media and Artistic Representations
6. Transnational Cultural Interlacing of Contemporary Life
7. New Concepts, New Forms of Inclusion

Papers will be considered on any related theme.  300-word abstracts should be submitted to both Organizing Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order: author(s), affiliation, email address, title of abstract, body of abstract. Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

The conference is part of the ‘Diversity and Recognition’ research projects, which in turn belong to the ‘At the Interface ’ programs of ID.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions that are innovative and challenging. All papers accepted for and presented at this conference are eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers will be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume.

For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/diversity/multiculturalism/mcb.html

For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/diversity/multiculturalism/mcb2/cfp.html


Joint Organizing Chairs:
Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
Director of Research,
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
E-Mail: acc@inter-disciplinary.net

Rob Fisher
Network Founder & Network Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
E-mail: mcb2@inter-disciplinary.ne

 


Deadline: 18 April 2008 (Abstract)
Deadline: 8 August 2008 (Paper draft)

 

 

 

Call for Papers: “New Nationalisms and Conservatism in Germanophone Countries: Realities, Representations and Responses”
German Studies Association
October 2 - 5, 2008
St. Paul, Minnesota Session sponsored by the Coalition of Women in German (WIG)

This panel encourages critical, interdisciplinary, and feminist responses to the Rechtsrutsch (shift towards the right) and new nationalisms in Germanophone and other western European countries in recent years (with this emphasis on Western Europe we acknowledge that a discussion of new nationalism in post-socialist Eastern Europe would require a panel of its own). The main idea is that political conservatism, along with the various right wing, anti-Islamic extremisms on the one hand, and the drastic loss of power of the social democratic parties throughout Europe on the other hand, have become so prominent that we need to take this phenomenon more seriously as a transnational phenomenon in German studies. We invite papers that deal with the realities and representations of – and critical and artistic responses to -- the nationalist and xenophobic (anti-semitic and anti-Islamic) ideology and propaganda of right wing populism since the late 1990s (e.g. Jörg Haider, Jen-Marie Le Pen, and Christoph Blocher), as well as papers that deal with the weakness of the left parties and their past and future strategies to regain votes. We welcome transnational approaches.

Questions to be addressed in papers may include:
• What is the place in European history of the right wing politicians’ ideology, tactics and propaganda, e.g. their
- evocation of the solidarity within the nation and Volk,
- scapegoating of immigrants and asylum seekers for complex economic and social problems
- appeal to latent resentments,
- use of abusive language, and conscious breaking of taboos (e.g. bluntly anti-semitic and xenophobic remarks), and their
- contrivance of conspiracies (Haider and Blocher) in order to win sympathy, and what kind of theories and vocabulary are best fit to discuss these?
• How do nationalist movements borrow from, and adapt each others’ propaganda strategies? E.g. the Swiss Peoples’ Party’s controversial sheep poster (that promotes the peoples’ initiative for the expulsion of criminal foreigners in order to ‘create security’ by showing three white sheep kick out a black sheep) has been adapted practically one-to-one by neo-national movements in Spain (democracia national) and in Germany (the nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands in Hessen).
• How does the neo-national anti-globalization ideology compare to arguments by anti-globalization groups on the left, e.g. Attac?
• What kind of counter-representations are created by oppositional camps and what is the place and impact of new media such as YouTube?
• What are the main characteristics of the ‘good, diligent and decent’ white Christian European people that right wing populist parties are appealing to? How do national and international media respond?
• How do contemporary writers and directors respond to new nationalisms? What kind of style and genres do they use?
• How have immigrant writers and filmmakers reacted to new nationalisms and right wing violence – in their texts and through personal activities?
• What kinds of resistance have popular nationalist leaders, parties and movements met? What old forms of resistance are still used (e.g. demonstrations, critical journalism, documentary filmmaking, comedy and satire, and not least the law) and what new (e.g. computer-based) forms have emerged (e.g. counter-propaganda on YouTube)?
• How do the leftist parties respond to, and explain their weakness and lack of unity?
• How has the left’s loss of power been depicted and/or referenced in film (e.g. documentary film) and literature?

Please send abstracts of 250-500 words by 13 January 2008 to Karin Baumgartner (karin.Baumgartner@utah.edu) and Andrea Reimann (areimann@miami.edu).

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Radical History Review

The Radical History Review seeks submissions for an issue that will explore the intellectual, historical and political implications of the "Irish Question" over the past eight centuries.

We depart from the premise that the national question and its resolution (or not) in Ireland is not only a major topic in Irish and British Imperial history, but one with fundamental implications for the evolution of the modern world, and the histories of colonialism and postcolonialism. We envision contributions focused on Ireland, first as a colony and then partitioned into two states after 1922, and the attendant "Irish diaspora" in England, Canada, the United States, and beyond. However, the editors do not assume that the Irish Question is restricted to people of Irish descent or the countries they inhabit: we are equally interested in the relationship of Ireland's national struggle to Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

The issue will seek to explore a series of interlocking questions, including but not limited to:

  • Is Ireland a founding site of European imperialism and anti-imperial resistance, as well as post-colonialism? What are the implications for European or world history of moving the Third back into the First World?
  • How has the rise of a Revisionist historiography challenging the nationalist narrative paralleled Ireland's move away from postcolonial dependency since the 1970s? What is its significance for historians outside of Ireland? What does it mean to deny the existence of a national revolution in Ireland?
  • What are the implications of the process beginning in the mid-nineteenth century whereby Ireland and Irishness was configured as exclusively Catholic? How has that identity played out on the world stage-is it equally relevant in all cases?
  • Why is "race" so rarely mentioned inside Irish history when the Irish as immigrants are so emphatically raced once they leave Ireland, whether as "becoming white" or not-quite-white? Does Ireland occupy a distinctive place in whiteness studies, or should it?
  • Is it useful or accurate to assert an "Irish Diaspora?" What are the implications of this particular form of diasporic studies?
  • How have the Irish, whether in Ireland or abroad, appropriated transnational forms of popular culture like soul and later hip-hop?
  • How influential has the Irish version of cultural nationalism been in the larger world? Can we link De Valera with Garvey and Ben Gurion, or is the Ireland sui generis, given the role of the Catholic Church?
  • How has Irish Republicanism been represented in popular and mass culture, in different parts of the world? Are these tropes and images similar to those assigned to other movements committed to armed struggle by any means necessary, or distinctively different?
  • What is the Irish Left, alongside or outside of Irish republicanism? Are its problems relevant to the problem of class politics in other national liberation struggles?
  • How has Irish women's history and Irish feminism recast the National Question?
  • Are there distinctive Irish and/or Irish American discourses of sexuality and queerness-are they similar or different, and what role does demography play in Ireland's distinctive history of sexual repression?

Though the RHR continues to publish monographic articles, we also invite Reflections, Interventions, roundtables, interviews, and reviews that go beyond books to look at popular historical representations, whether visual, cinematic, or textual. Potential contributors are encouraged to look at recent issues for examples of these non-traditional forms of scholarship.

Submissions are due by March 15, 2008 and should be submitted electronically, as an attachment, to rhr@igc.org with "Issue 104 submission" in the subject line. For artwork, please send images as high resolution digital files (each image as a separate file). For preliminary e-mail inquiries, please include "Issue 104" in the subject line. Those articles selected for publication after the peer review process will be included in issue 104 of the Radical History Review, scheduled to appear in Spring 2009.

Radical History Review
Tamiment Library, 10th Floor
New York University
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012

Email: rhr@igc.org
http://chnm.gmu.edu/rhr/rhr.htm

Deadline: 15 May 2008

Sprawy Narodowosciowe / Nationalities Affairs (est. 1928)

Sprawy Narodowosciowe / Nationalities Affairs is a premiere European half-annual devoted to the interdisciplinary study of nationalism and ethnicity, published by the Polish Academy of Sciences.

The journal, initially published between 1928 and 1939, was revived in 1992. Since 2000, English-language contributions have regularly appeared in Sprawy Narodowosciowe / Nationalities Affairs. The inflow of submissions from all over the world was so intensive that it necessitated the publication of the collection, Nationalisms Across the Globe (2005-2006). The collection consists of two volumes (over 500 pages each), titled Europe and The World. (The collection can be ordered from the Amazon-style e-bookshop www.merlin.com.pl.)

We accept submissions on various aspects of the national and the ethnic, written from various disciplinary and methodological standpoints, and pertaining to all the geographical regions. We especially encourage contributions novel in approach as well as in form. Apart from the traditional academic-style articles, we are ready to consider biographical, opinion, and participatory observation essays.

Articles should be in English. The world limit is 10,000 except in special cases to be discussed with the Editors. Depending on the nature of a study, references can be given in footnotes or in parentheses with, in the latter case, the list of literature attached at the end of the contribution. Titles of quoted books and articles should be Romanized, if not in the Latin script, and appended, in brackets, with English translations unless these titles are in English, German, or French.

With your contribution, please, include the following:

  • abstract (up to 200 words);
  • key words (up to 7);
  • information on the Author (up to 150 words);
  • institutional affiliation of the Author;
  • email or postal address to be included with the contribution.

The deadline: This is an ongoing call, though the journal's two annual issues are published in Spring and Fall.

Sprawy Narodowosciowe / Nationalities Affairs
Unit for the Study of Nationalities
Institute of Slavonic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
Stary Rynek 78/79
61-771 Poznan, Poland
Tel/Fax (+48) (61) 8520950

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Wojciech J Burszta (wojciech.burszta@swps.edu.pl)

Coordinator of English-Language Submissions
Dr Tomasz Kamusella (tomek672@poczta.onet.pl)

Website with the text of the journal:
http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/publicationdetails.aspx?publicationid=9f647565-30f6-11da-9827-0080ad781d9c

The journal can also be purchased in hard copies from: sekret@ispan.waw.pl or zbnpan@rose.man.poznan.pl

Nations and Nationalism
This journal is published for the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism by Blackwell Publisher. It began publication in 1995 and is a multidisciplinary, scholarly journal specifically designed to respond to the growing research interest in nationalism that has been stimulated by the increasing proliferation of nationalist movements throughout the world. In addition to publishing original articles, the journal includes commissioned book reviews and review articles. Special issues highlight subjects and areas of current interest. Articles are drawn from a wide variety of disciplines including political science and theory, international relations, sociology, history, geography, anthropology, law, linguistics, cultural studies, area studies, economics, social policy, social psychology, art history, archaeology and philosophy. Articles address all aspects of nationalism, theoretically, empirically, comparatively, and historically. It is peer reviewed.

Nationalism and Ethnic Politics
This journal explores the varied political aspects of nationalism and ethnicity in order to develop more constructive intergroup relations. It contains both case studies and comparative and theoretical analyses. It deals with pluralism, ethno-nationalism, irredentism, separatism, and related phenomena, and it examines processes and theories of ethnic identity formation, mobilization, conflict and accommodation in the context of political development and 'nation-building'. This journal is peer reviewed.

National Identities
This journal began publication in 1999. It explores the formation and expression of national identity from antiquity to the present day. It will examine the role in forging identity of cultural (language, architecture, music, gender, religion, the media, sport, encounters with ‘the other’, etc.) and political (state forms, wars, boundaries) factors, by examining the ways in which these have been shaped and changed over time. And the historical significance of ‘nation’ in political and cultural terms will be considered in relationship to other important and in some cases countervailing forms of identity such as religion, region, tribe or class. The focus will be on identity, rather than the contingent political forms which may express it. The proposed journal will not be prescriptive or proscriptive in its approach. Instead, it will act as a forum within which the growing number of scholars working in this field can explore this important subject. Comparative perspectives will be encouraged, and the journal will feature regular review essays as well as book reviews. This journal is peer reviewed.

Nationalities Papers
Nationalities Papers is the only journal in the world which deals exclusively with all non-Russian nationalities of the former USSR and national minorities in Eastern and Central European countries. The problems and importance of over 160 million people are treated within the disciplinary and methodological contexts of post-Soviet and Europe-Asia studies. Of central concern is the fate of the Balts, Ukrainians, Jews, Gypsies, Croats, Muslims etc., and the peoples of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Nationalities Papers is an international and multidisciplinary journal with contributors and readers throughout North America, Western and Eastern Europe, the Far East, Japan and the People's Republic of China. Included in each issue are in-depth updates on the latest developments, some original documents, lists of the most recent publications from throughout the world and book reviews. Nationalities Papers is a publication of the Association for the Study of Nationalities. This journal is peer reviewed.

Revista Mexicana de Sociología
The editors would like you to consider Revista Mexicana de Sociología as an alternative to disseminate your academic work to a Spanish speaking audience. The Editorial Committee would like to consider your contribution for likely publication, all submissions are peer reviewed.

Revista Mexicana de Sociología was founded in 1939 and housed at the Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, it has been published without interruption since and reaches and estimated academic audience comprising over 600 universities and libraries all over the world, it also appears in the main information index. Finally, it covers contemporary Sociological issues both theoretical and empirical regardless of geographical and cultural frontiers. The language of publication is Spanish but the Editorial committee is able to receive contributions written in English of French. For more information, contact: Dr Natividad Gutiérrez Chong, Revista Mexicana de SociologíaDirector, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Circuito Mario de la Cueva s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, México DF 04510. Tel: 56 22 73 96, 56 22 74 00 ext 280 / 281. Fax 56 22 75 08.