Nations and Nationalisms: Theories, Practices and Methods International Postgraduate Conference Programme

Martin Tharp (Charles University, Czech Republic):
Kokoschka, Mondrian, Gellner: An Intellectual Sociology of the Post-
Habsburg Legacy in Nationalism Studies

William Kerr (University of Edinburgh, UK):
A Darwinian Social Evolutionary Understanding of Nationalism

Jaakko Heiskanen (University of Cambridge, UK):
The Janus-face of Nationalism

Joel Chong (SOAS University of London, UK):
Material Nationalism: Envisioning the Post-Cultural Nation

Claire Breniaux (University of Burgundy, France):
Young People, Nationalism and National Identity in Scotland

Jonathan Harris (University of Cambridge, UK):
The Making of an Amazigh Diaspora: Nation or Social Movement?

Leila Wilmers (Loughborough University, UK):
Narratives of Continuity in Times of Change: Individual Constructions
of the Nation in Two Russian Cities

Andrea Peinhopf (University College London, UK):
A small Nation in Protracted Conflict: Exploring 'Ethnic
Claustrophobia' in Abkhazia

Jin Dai (Loughborough University, UK):
A Cross-generational Analysis of Media and Identity among Han
Immigrants in Xinjiang since 1950s

Jina Lee (University of the Arts London, UK):
Drawing ‘New Maps’ of New Malden: Ethnographical Enquiry into the
Joseonjok People by Means of Drawing Practice

Thomas Stewart (University of Edinburgh, UK):
Catholics and Scottish Nationalism in Dundee since the 1970s

Andy Chiu (University of Warwick, UK):
Black and White Chinese on the Pitch: Chinese National Identity in Hong Kong’s Naturalized Football Players

Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy (University of Cambridge, UK):
Racing the Nation: Derrida’s Hospitality, Nationalism and Afrodescendants in France

Daniel Chukwuemeka (Godfrey Okoye University, Nigeria):
Afro-Pessimism and the Question of Biafran Nationalism

Maciej Troć (University of Warsaw, Poland):
Supraconstitutionalism as a Response to Re-nationalization and Collapse of Political Unions

Yi Xu (Loughborough University, UK):
Rule of Law and the Emergence of Chinese Identity

Lorenzo Canepari (University of Edinburgh, UK):
Yes/No: New Nationalisms, Referendums for Secession and Simplification of Identities

Ryan Nolan (University College Dublin, Ireland):
Reproducing the Rising: Politicized Narratives of Irish History in the
Centenary Commemorations of the 1916 Rising

Maike Dinger (University of Münster, Germany):
Writers in the Public Sphere: National Fiction(s) of the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum

Dmitrijs Andrejevs (University of Manchester, UK):
A stage for the Nation: Performance of National Territory during the Centenary of Independence in the Baltic States

Boeun Bethany Hong (Loughborough University London, UK):
The Role of Design in Ascribing Power in National Narratives: The Case of Nation Branding in South Korea

Chijioke Kizito Onah (Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany):
Postcolonial Fever? The Ambivalence of Anticolonial Rhetoric in Chielo Zona Eze’s The Trial of Robert Mugabe and Douglas Rogers’ The Last Resort

Daniel Joseph Schulte (Brown University, USA):
The Effect of Perceptions about the Nation’s Control on Susceptibility to Misinformation about Immigration

Vanessa Tautter (University of Graz, Austria):
Claiming Victimhood from the Right: Narratives of Victimisation in Victim-Oriented Societies

Martin Deakin (University of Reading, UK):
Regionalists and Clients: Why the Spanish Far-right Failed in Sharing the Fortunes of the Golden Dawn in Greece

Rebecca Tan (University of Bristol, UK):
Living as One United Peoples: A Study of Multiculturalism and Singaporean Nationhood

Karolis Dambrauskas (Lithuanian Social Research Centre,
Institute for Ethnic Studies, Lithuania):
Neo-liberal Governmentality and National Minorities in a Post-socialist State

Asantha Senevirathna (General Sir John Kotelawala Defence
University, Sri Lanka):
The Impact of British Colonial Rule on Ethnic Nationalism in South
Asia

Malena Müller (University of Edinburgh, UK):
Building Peru on Stage. Musical Performance and National Narrative

Arzuu Sheranova (Corvinus University of Budapest,
Hungary):
Virtual Democracies and Nationalisms: Making Parallels between Illiberal Democracies and Nationalisms in Post-communist
Turkmenistan and Tajikistan

Ashwati C.K. (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India):
The Project of Flag Making in South Asia: Symbolic Interpretations of Nationalism and Separatism.

Nicholas James (London School of Economics, UK):
Cognitive Schemas of the Nation in Post-Soviet Europe: Popular Conceptions of the Nation and their Political Importance

Philip Luther-Davies (University of Cambridge, UK):
Municipal Politics, "Ethnic" Resentment and Nationalism in Israel: A Case Study

Kaixiao Jiang (Loughborough University, UK):
Unity and Division in Chinese Nationalism: The case of fans of Shanghai Shenhua Football Club and the 2016 AFC Champions' League

Talitha Ilacqua (King's College London, UK):
The Reinvention of Localism: The French State and the Basque Country (1789-1889)