The Association for Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) would like to remind you to submit your abstract for its 22nd Annual Conference entitled:
Nationalism, Ethnicity and Boundaries
The conference will take place from the 27-29th March, 2012 at the London School of Economics.
Confirmed keynote speakers include: Rogers Brubaker, Miguel Centeno, Mary Fulbrook, Richard Jenkins, Michele Lamont and Wendy Pullan. There will also be workshops with Jon Fox, Michael Banton, Liam O'Dowd, James Anderson and Jennifer Todd.
Proposals are invited for papers focusing on the following themes:
Partition, secession and irredentism
The legality of boundaries and citizenship rules Boundary surveillance and enforcement Border controls, passports and identity documents Territorial and non-territorial sub-national claims Social and symbolic boundaries and everyday practices Symbolic boundaries and identity formation The mechanisms of boundary formation, transgression and change Interactions between physical and symbolic boundaries
Abstracts should be submitted online no later than November 6, 2011. To submit your 250 word abstract, please follow this link:
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/units/ASEN/Conference/Abstract.aspx
Successful submissions will be announced in December, 2011.
Please see that attached documents for the complete call for papers and the conference poster.
The ASEN conference team looks forward to reading your abstract!