THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF NATIONALITIES 2008 WORLD CONVENTION PROGRAM SCHEDULE INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS BUILDING (IAB) th Registration (15 Floor, Central Space) 2008 Thursday (April 10): 11 AM - 6 PM Friday (April 11): 8 AM - 5 PM Saturday (April 12): 8 AM - 5 PM APRIL Book Exhibit (15th Floor, 1501) Thursday: 1 PM - 6 PM 10-12 Friday: 9 AM - 6 PM Saturday: 9 AM - 6 PM ASN Convention Café (15th Floor, 1501) serving bagels, sandwiches, coffee... ERSITY V located in the same room as the book exhibit! Thursday: 11 AM - 6 PM UNI Friday: 8 AM - 6 PM Saturday: 8 AM - 6 PM BIA Opening Reception (15th Floor, Central Space) M Thursday: 7:45 PM All are invited! COLU Sale of Convention Papers (15th Floor, 1501) located in the same room as the book exhibit and the cafe $1 per paper Friday: 11 AM - 6 PM Saturday: 9 AM - 6 PM Lunch Meetings Friday: 1:15 - 2:45 PM ASN Convention Program Committee, Room 1219 Saturday: 1:15 - 2:45 PM Nationalities Papers Editorial Board, Room 1219 American Association of Ukrainian Studies, Room 1512 Morning Meeting Saturday: 9-11 AM ASN Executive Committee, Room 1219 Closing Reception (15th Floor, Central Space) Saturday: 7:30 PM All are invited! 1 THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF NATIONALITIES 2008 WORLD CONVENTION 2008 THURSDAY APRIL 10th SESSION I 1:00 - 3:00 PM APRIL PANEL BK18 Historic Aspects of Identity Construction in the Balkans and Turkey 10-12 CHAIR Ana Antic (Columbia U, US) ERSITY < [email protected] > V UNI PAPERS Nikos Michailidis BIA (Princeton U, US) M < [email protected] > Cultural Identity and Collective Memory in the Eastern COLU Black Sea Communities of Turkey Marija Petrovic (Oxford U, UK) < [email protected] > When State Succeeds in Reshaping Religious Identity – The Habsburg Serbs and the Josephinist Reform of the Church Calendar Sabina Mihelj (Loughborough U, UK) < [email protected] > Imperial Myths between Nationalism and Communism: Appropriations of Imperial Legacies in the Julian Region during the Early Cold War James Frusetta (College of William and Mary, US) < [email protected] > Whose ‘Macedonianization?’: Identity in Pirin between Center and Periphery in the People’s Republic of Bulgaria DISCUSSANT Nadine Akhund (Columbia U, US) < [email protected] > l l l 2 THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF NATIONALITIES 2008 WORLD CONVENTION 2008 THURSDAY APRIL 10th SESSION I 1:00 - 3:00 PM PANEL BK15 APRIL Identity and Nation-building among Albanians CHAIR 10-12 Ines Murzaku (Seton Hall U, US) < [email protected] > ERSITY V PAPERS UNI Harris G. Mylonas (Yale U, US) BIA < [email protected] > M Assimilation and its Alternatives: Albanians in Serbian Kosovo, 1912-1940 COLU Adrian Brisku (European University Institute, Italy) < [email protected] > Representation of Islam and Muslim Albanians in some Albanians History Textbooks Bashkim Iseni (JFM Recherches et Analyses, Switzerland) < [email protected] > National identity, Islam and Politics among Albanians in Kosovo, Macedonia and Southern Serbia Domna Michail (U of Western Macedonia, Greece) < [email protected] > Constructing Identity among the Albanian Immigrant Students in Western Macedonia-Kastoria-Greece DISCUSSANT Elidor Mehilli (Princeton U, US) < [email protected] > l l l 3 THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF NATIONALITIES 2008 WORLD CONVENTION 2008 THURSDAY APRIL 10th SESSION I 1:00 - 3:00 PM PANEL CE6 APRIL Contemporary Romanian Issues CHAIR 10-12 Bülent Senay (Uludag U, Bursa, Turkey) < [email protected] > ERSITY V PAPERS UNI Adrian Cioflanca (Cuza U, Iasi, Romania) BIA < [email protected] > M Remembering “Good Communism”: Deresponsibilization in the Memoirs of Former Nomenklatura Members COLU Felicia Waldman (Bucharest U, Romania) < [email protected] > Public Policies Concerning the Holocaust in Romania Michael Shafir (Babes-Bolyai U, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) < [email protected] > Vox Populi, Vox Dei and the Master’s Voice: Mass and Intellectual Populism in Contemporary Romania DISCUSSANT Mihai Chioveanu (U of Bucharest, Romania) < [email protected] > l l l 4 THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF NATIONALITIES 2008 WORLD CONVENTION 2008 THURSDAY APRIL 10th SESSION I 1:00 - 3:00 PM PANEL CE15 APRIL Shaping Identities in the Baltic States CHAIR 10-12 Valdis Lumans (U of South Carolina Aiken, US) < [email protected] > ERSITY V PAPERS UNI Pascal Bonnard (Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, France) BIA < [email protected] > M Between Adaptation and Resistance to the State Policies of Control: Symbolic Struggle on the Qualification of the Russian Populations in Latvia COLU Olga Cara (U College London, UK) < [email protected] > Lives on the Border: Women of Ethnic Russian Origin in Baltinava Ilona Baumane (U of Latvia) < [email protected] > Russian Speaking Minority in the Baltic States: Emergence of a Generation with a New National Identity? DISCUSSANT Mara Lazda (Bryn Mawr College, US) < [email protected] > l l l 5 THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF NATIONALITIES 2008 WORLD CONVENTION 2008 THURSDAY APRIL 10th SESSION I 1:00 - 3:00 PM PANEL U6 APRIL Ukrainian and Russian Jews CHAIR 10-12 Martin Horwitz (AJWS, New York, US) < [email protected] > ERSITY V PAPERS UNI Aleksandr Burakovskiy (Independent Researcher, Clifton, NJ, US) BIA < [email protected] > M Transformation of Jewish-Ukrainian Relations during Ukraine’s Independence: 1991-2007 COLU Kerstin Zimmer (Marburg U, Germany) < [email protected] > Structural and Symbolic Transnationalism in the life of Ukrainian Jews Elena Nosenko (Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow, Russia/Washington, DC) < [email protected] > Judaism, Russian Orthodoxy or “Civil Religion”? A Choice of Russian Jews Today DISCUSSANT Zvi Gitelman (U of Michigan, US) < [email protected] > l l l 6 THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF NATIONALITIES 2008 WORLD CONVENTION 2008 THURSDAY APRIL 10th SESSION I 1:00 - 3:00 PM PANEL EU5 APRIL Ethnicity, Family, and Gender CHAIR 10-12 Shoshana Keller (Hamilton College, US) < [email protected] > ERSITY V PAPERS UNI Adrienne Edgar (U of California, Santa Barbara, US) BIA < [email protected] > M Interethnic Intimacy in Soviet Central Asia: A Comparative Approach COLU Saule Ualiyeva (East Kazakhstan Serickbayev State Technical U, Kazakhstan) < [email protected] > Inter-Ethnic Marriages in Kazakhstan Michele Commercio (U of Vermont, US) < [email protected] > Gender Equality in Communist and Post-Communist Societies: Kyrgyz and Tajik Women DISCUSSANT Dmitry Gorenburg (AAASS, Cambridge, MA, US) < [email protected] > l l l 7 THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF NATIONALITIES 2008 WORLD CONVENTION 2008 THURSDAY APRIL 10th SESSION I 1:00 - 3:00 PM PANEL N7 APRIL Conflict, Security, and Secession CHAIR 10-12 Scott D Orr (Emory & Henry College, US) < [email protected] > ERSITY V PAPERS UNI Dominika Koter (Yale U, US) BIA < [email protected] > M Group Structure and Ethnic Political Mobilization COLU Alan Kuperman (U of Texas at Austin, US) < [email protected] > Darfur: ‘Strategic Victimhood’ Strikes Again? David Siroky (Duke U, US) < [email protected] > Secession, Heterogeneity and Instability Aleksandar Pavkovic (U of Macao, China) < [email protected] > Violence in Nationalist Secessionist Conflict: A Normative Appraisal DISCUSSANT John McGarry (Queen’s U, Canada) < [email protected] > l l l 8 THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF NATIONALITIES 2008 WORLD CONVENTION 2008 THURSDAY APRIL 10th SESSION I 1:00 - 3:00 PM PANEL N9 APRIL Citizenship and Diasporas CHAIR 10-12 Olessia Vovina (Montclair State U, US) < [email protected] > ERSITY V PAPERS UNI Timothy Waters (U of Indiana School of Law, US) BIA < [email protected] > M Constructing the Home Front: War, Territory, and Citizenship COLU Tim Reeskens (KUL Leuven, Belgium) < [email protected] > Beyond the Civic-Ethnic Dichotomy: The Structure of Citizenship Concepts in 13 OECD Countries Shushanik Makaryan (Washington State U, US) < [email protected] > Citizenship Acquisition and Naturalization of Immigrants In the 15 Former Soviet Union Republics: Conforming the World Culture or Following National Identity? Mokhira Suyarkulova (U of St Andrews, UK) < [email protected] > The States of Statelessness in Central Asia DISCUSSANT Oxana Shevel (Tufts U, US) < [email protected] > l l l 9 THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF NATIONALITIES 2008 WORLD CONVENTION 2008 Thursday, ARIL 11TH SESSION II 3:20 - 5:20 PM PANEL BK7 APRIL Peace-Making and State-Building in the Western Balkans I CHAIR 10-12 James Hughes (LSE, UK) < [email protected] > ERSITY V PAPERS UNI Claire Gordon (LSE, UK) BIA < [email protected] > M The Making of the Power-Sharing Arrangements in the States of the Former Yugoslavia COLU Zoran Ilievski (U of Ss.Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Macedonia) < [email protected] > Between Consociational and Integrative Power-Sharing: The Case of Macedonia Sofia Sebastian (LSE, UK) < [email protected] > Conflict Management and the Stabilisation and Association Process: The Role of the EU in Inter-Ethnic Coexistence in the Western Balkans DISCUSSANT Bojan Djuric (Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, Serbia) < [email protected] > l l l 10 THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF NATIONALITIES 2008 WORLD CONVENTION 2008 Thursday, ARIL 11TH SESSION II 3:20 - 5:20 PM PANEL CE4 APRIL Rethinking Jewish Identities from Interwar to Post-Communist East Central Europe CHAIR 10-12 Bradley Abrams (Harriman Institute, Columbia U, US) < [email protected] > ERSITY V PAPERS UNI Rebekah Klein-Pejšová (John Jay CUNY, US) BIA < [email protected] >