This conference will explore those aspects of nationalism that most often make headlines, generating a popular impression of nationalism as an overwhelmingly negative force in world history. This compels us, as scholars in the field of nationalism studies, to confront certain questions addressing the extent to which such an impression may or may not be justified: Are violence and exclusion the inevitable consequences of nationalism? To what extent is the discourse of the nation implicated in the violent ideologies of the last century? What is the relationship between nationalism and ideologies such as fascism, racism and religious fundamentalism? The conference will address these questions and others, in the course of examining the various manifestations of violent and extreme nationalism, both historical and current, around the globe.
The conference will include keynote addresses from leading scholars in the field, including Paul Bew, Roger Eatwell, Montserrat Guibernau, Mark Juergensmeyer, Carolyn Marvin and Peter Van Der Veer, along with opportunities for scholars from various disciplines to examine the violent aspects of nationalism in a series of panel sessions.
Back to Basics: Is Violence Necessary? - Prof. Carolyn Marvin, University of Pennsylvania
National identity and the New Radical Right - Prof. Montserrat Guibernau, Queen Mary, University of London
Panel Session 1
Race and Purity
Ms. Georgia Shiells - The White Face of Australian Nationalism: Fantasy and Racially-Based Exclusion in 'White Australia,' 1901 and 2001
Ms. Sarah Stillman - Whitewashing the National family
Mr. Serge Azidé Lorougnon - The Next Pattern of Internal Conflict in Africa: The Idea Of Pure Citizen
Nationalism, Violence and the Rule of Law
Dr. Catriona Drew - Population Transfer: The Untold Story of the International Law of Self-determination
Mr. Iavor Rangelov - Nationalism, Legitimacy and the Rule of Law
Ms. Kerstin Carlson - Shaping Collective Identity Through Individual Prosecutions: The ICTY's Impact in the Former Yugoslavia
Violence and National Memory
Ms. Mira Jovanovic - Remembering a Difficult Past - Croatia and World War II
Dr. José Sobral - Memory and the shaping of national identity: revisiting the massacre of 1953 in São Tomé e Príncipe
Mr. Narendran Kumarakulasingam - Remembering Violence, Producing the Nation: Discourses of Tamil Nationalism
Framing Nationalist Violence
Dr. Sinisa Malesevic - Collective Violence, Nationalism and Power: A Sociological Assessment
Ms. Muriel Rambour - A beam of philosophical light on the darkness of nationalism. Is post nationalism a way to avoid violent confrontations between nations?
Dr. Neophytos Loizides - The Interactive Face of Nationalism: Framing Wars and the Making of Crisis
National identity confronting violence
Ms. Atalia Omer - Religious Radicalism: a Symbolic Reinterpretation of the Nation
Ms. Anne-Sophie Bentz - Tibetan Nationalism: Guerrilla Fighters Caught in the Whirlpool of the Dalai Lama’s Discourse on Non-Violence
Mr. Daniel Esparza - Imagining The 30´S In Spain Today: The revival of the Two Spains´ myth after the terrorist attacks in Madrid 3/11
Panel Session 2
Is Nationalism Intrinsically Violent?
Professor Andreas Pickel - Are the mechanisms of banal nationalism the mechanisms of violent nationalism?
Dr. John Etherington - Is violence an intrinsic feature of nationalism?
Ms. Eva-Maria Asari and Violent and non-violent nationalisms in the former USSR
Ms. Daphne Halikiopoulou
Divisions within Nationalist Movements
Mr. Victor Seow - Dividing the Conquered: Chinese Muslims and Japanese Pan-Islamic Propaganda in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
Ms. Wendy Pearlman - The Nation in Fragments: Internal Unity and Conflict Processes in Three Palestinian Uprisings
Mr. Theo McLauchlin State and Interest in the Politics of Iraqi Kurdistan, 1976-2003
Symbolic Representations of Violence
Mr. Andrej Kurillo - Real and Symbolic Violence in a Habsburg Province: September Events of 1908
Mr. Tuomas Tepora - Redirecting Violence: The Finnish Flag as a Sacrificial Symbol, 1917-1945
Mr. Ren-Hung Wu - Burning Nationalism: the Image of Martyr in the Nationalist Movements in Taiwan
The role of Paramilitaries in Nationalist Conflict
Dr. Anastasia Filippidou - Negotiating tactics with paramilitary organisations in low intensity conflicts.
Professor James Frusetta - Paramilitary for the Nation - VMRO, Revolutionary Violence and the Macedonian Cause, 1919-1934
Ms. Cecilie Endresen The World according to the Legion of Michael the Archangel
Nationalism and Intolerance in North-East Asia
Mr. Leif-Eric Easley - Mounting Dangers of Nationalism in Northeast Asia
Mr. Yan Kit Kwong - The Political Use of Nationalism - A Study of the Recent Anti-Japanese Sentiment in South Korea
Panel Session 3
Diaspora, Conflict and Violence
Mr. Arnav Manchanda - Diasporas and Ethnic Conflict
Ms. Jessica Wattman - The Passion of Politics: Diaspora Extremism and Ethnic Violence
Prof. Kavita Khory - Political Violence in South Asia and Diaspora
Xenophobia and Exclusion
Ms. Saltanat Berdikeeva - Russian, Nationalism, Racism and Xenophobia: A Threat Assessment
Dr. Alberto Spektorowski - Nationalism, Exclusionism and Multiculturalism of the Right.
Ethnic Conflict and Resolution
Mr. Keiichi Kubo - Toward A Dynamic Model of Ethnic Rebellion: Large-N Analysis of MAR dataset and Case Study of Kosovo Conflict
Mr. Aasim Sajjad - Ethno-nationalism within the composite nation-state
Ms. Pascaline Gaborit - Nationalism, hate and scapegoat during and following ethnic conflicts
Citizenship, Gender and Equality
Prof. Jil Vickers - Fascist and Proto-Fascist Nationalisms and Women's Struggles for Equality and Ms. Judit Fabian - Citizenship
Prof. Catherine Raissiguier - Confronting "New" French Nationalisms: Lessons from the Sans-Papier(e)s
Dr. Nicola Nixon - Nationalism, gender & violence in Albania
Wednesday 18 April
Morning Plenary Session
Prof. Paul Bew, Queen’s University, Belfast - Exclusion or Inclusion? The Ambiguities of Irish Nationalism, 1789-2006
Prof. Roger Eatwell, University of Bath - Fascism and Neo-Fascism
Panel Session 4
Non-German perpetrators of the Holocaust
Ms. Olga Baranova - Collaboration of Belarusian nationalists with the Nazi authorities during the occupation of 1941-1944
Dr. Anton Weiss - Wendt Murder Without Hatred: Estonians and the Holocaust
Dr. Aristotle Kallis The 'licence to kill': how 'ordinary people' became 'willing executioners' in the wake of Operation Barbarossa (1941)
The Making of Modern Turkey Revisited
Prof. Ayhan Aktar Conversion of 'Country' into 'Fatherland': The Case of Turkification Examined, 1923-1950
Dr. Kerem Oktem The discursive appropriation of mass violence in nation-building and identity-formation: Turkey and 1915
Prof. Nergis Canefe How to say it all at once: Taboo Subjects of Turkish Nationalism and Limits of Revisionist Scholarship
Right- wing Extremism in Britain
Dr. Ulrike Ehret - Facing the Fascists. Nationalism, Street Violence and Pub Brawls in Germany and England, 1931-1933/38
Ms. Catherine Boylan - Heroes And Extremism In Britain After 1918, With A Particular Focus On Admiral Sir Barry Domvile, An Unlikely Follower Of Fascism
Mr. Matthew Goodwin - “So I decided to contact the British National Party…”: Examining the motivational characteristics of contemporary extreme right activists in twenty-first century Britain
Culture and Violence in the Basque Conflict
Dr. Jan Mansvelt Beck and Dr. Jan Markusse Basque - Violence: a Reappraisal of Culturalist Explanations
Dr. Daniele Conversi - 'From Violence to Peace? Cultural revival and the peace process in the and Adriano Cirulli Basque Country (1980-2006)'
Panel Session 5
Islamic Fundamentalism and Ethnicity
Professor Norulhuda Othman - Religion, Conflict and the Nation in Southeast Asia
Dr. Irina Kouznetsova-Morenko - Islam and ethnicity in Russia: the case of Tatars
Mr. Shota Khinchagashvili - Islamic Revolutionarism and the Rise of Ethnic Nationalism in Muslim Societies of North Caucasus (Post-Soviet Period)
End of Empires: Secession and Irredentism
Dr. Ohannes Geukjian - The Resurgence of Armenian Nationalism in the South Caucasus: Ethnic War in Nagorno-Karabakh, 1988-1994
Mr. Zvi Hartman - Central and Eastern Europe after 1918 : The New Nation-State -A Fertile Ground for Violent Nationalism?
- Nationalism and Ethnic Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire
Violence, Identity and Nation-Building
Dr. Michael Fleming The geo-politics of Polish nationality policy and the struggle for ‘socialism’ 1944-1950
Ms. Katherine Reyes - Interfacing Institutionalized Religious Extremism and Nation Building
Mr. Ugur Ungor - Burn, Destroy, Kill: Mass violence in Turkey, 1915-1955
Division, Conflict and Exclusion in Ireland
Mr. John Poulter - Forgetting and remembering Remembrance: Constructing and Deconstructing Discourses of Division in Ireland
Mr. Tim Wilson - Conflict and Coexistence: Upper Silesia and Ulster compared, 1918-1922
Dr. Niall O Dochartaigh - Between nation and neighbourhood: conflict, territory and scale in the north of Ireland
Panel Session 6
Violence in the Former Yugoslavia
Dr. Janine Natalya Clark Serbian Nationalism; Not just a “Dark Face”
Mr. Ulas Doga Eralp A psychoanalytic perspective on the impact of violence on national identities in Bosnia Herzegovina, Kosovo and Cyprus
Dr. Jelka Zorn Bloody Nationalism without Bloodshed, the Case of Slovenia
Anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe
Ms. Irina Isaakyan Blood and soil of the Soviet academy: Anti-Semitism and national purification
Mr. Ulrich Herbeck Nationalism and Antisemitism in Russia during the Years of Crisis 1914-1922
Mr. Adam Ostolski Antisemitism, Homophobia, and the Construction of Polish Identity
The Role of the Military in the Nation
Prof. Manuel Domingos Neto - The militaries and the Brazilian nation
Ms. Hanne Eggen Roislien - Religiosity, military power and nationalism: The case of the Israel Defense Force (IDF)
Dr. Esra Bulut - The Projection of Militarised Nationhood in and beyond Turkey
Maintaining Contested National Identities
Mr. Razaak Mohamed Ghani - Ethnic Nationalism and Emergence of Religious Fundamentalism in Sri Lanka
Mr. Robert Person Resisting Hegemony: Transformations in Estonian National Identity During Soviet Rule
Mr. Moses Duruji Pervse - Polity and Resurgent Nationalism:The Case of Biafra in Nigeria
Right Wing Extremism in Western Europe Today
Mr. Bernhard Dietz Merely “crybabies” or an effective link between Conservatism and Neo-Nazism? – The intellectual “New Right” and its idea of the German nation since the reunification 1989/90
Ms. Aude Bicquelet -The rhetoric of right-wing Nationalism
Mr. Andrea Mammone -Ultra-nationalism, xenophobic prejudice and cross-national political extremism:
Mr. Timothy Peace - The extreme right in contemporary Britain and Italy
Thursday 19 April
Morning Plenary Session
Prof. Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara - The Global Violence of Religious Nationalism
Prof. Peter Van Der Veer, Utrecht University - Violence and Transcendence in Asia
Panel Session 7
American NationalismProfessor Don Doyle - American Nationalism and the Dark Side of Idealism
Professor Carlos Yordan - Converting Nationalism into a Revisionist Foreign Policy: An Examination of the Bush Administration’s Case for War against Iraq
Mr. Eric Taubel - Religion, Slavery, and Nationalism, in the Antebellum South
The Marginalisation of Religious Minorities
Mr. Ulrik Gad - Something is rotten... Or: Why was the Cartoon Wars sparked off by Danish identity politics? And do they mean anything to the development of a European identity?
Ms. Sadia Saeed - Pakistani Nationalism and the State Marginalization of Ahmadiyya Community
Ms. Renu Bhagat - Hindu Nationalism in India: A Study of Christian Minority Struggle
Dominant Ethnies and Racist Nationalisms
Dr. Eric Kaufmann - Dominant Ethnicity: A Normative Exploration
Prof. Phillip Resnick - Hubris and Melancholy in Multinational States
Prof. David Brown - Why and how might a benign ‘ethnic core’ turn into a malign ‘dominant ethnie’?
Terrorism and Secession: The Basque Case
Ms. Asta Maskaliunaite Role of (ETA) violence in the construction of nationalism in Spain and Basque Country
Ms. Evan Jean Wilson The Effects of Peace Organizations on Terrorism in the Basque Region of Spain
Mr. Julen Zabalo Revolution and nationalism: the Basque case
and Mr. Inaki Soto
Panel Session 8
The Dark Face of Nationalism: Terrorism
Ms. Victoria Newquist - Terrorism in the Middle East
Dr. Akil N Awan - Nationalism and Global Jihadism
Ms. Nicola Rooney - Violent Nationalism in Catholic Communities: The I.R.A. and E.T.A.
Violence and Hindu Nationalism
Mr. Jayaraj Sundaresan - Violent territories of the local and national: Can local planning help national integration? A case of City of Ahmedabad and Hindu nationalism in India.
Ms. Nandini Deo - Re-Interpreting the Success of Hindu Nationalism
Dr. Nicolas Jaoul - The exemplary ending of an institutionalised riot system. Dalits and the disavowal of Hindu nationalism in the city of Kanpur.
Discourses of Turkish National Identity
Mr. Hakki Tas - Crazy Turks on Stage: The Secular Nationalist Trend in Contemporary Turkey
Dr. Umut Uzer - Racism in Turkey: The civic and ethnic elements of Turkish national identity
Mr. Emre Arslan - The Myth of Nation in Transnational Space: Turkish Ultranationalists in Germany
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