Pre 2025 Seminars

2024

• 11 December - The Return of the Native. Presented by Jan Willem Duyvendak, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• 21 November - Constructions of National Belonging among White British Middle-Class. Presented by Dr Amy Clarke
• 23 October - National boundaries and their consequences for immigrant minorities. Presented by Kristina Bakkær Simonsen (Aarhus University, Denmark).
• 24 April- Childhood and Nation. Presented by Professor Zsuzsanna Millei (Tampere University, Finland).
• 7 February - Entangled colonialities. Postcolonial nationalism and global reactionary discourses: China as method Presented by Chenchen Zhang (Durham University, UK).
• 18 January - Branding the Nation in the Era of Climate Crisis. Presented by Melissa Aronczyk (Rutgers University, USA).

2023

• 18 October - Varieties of Nationalism. Presented by Maya Tudor (Oxford University, UK) and Harris Mylonas (George Washington University, USA).
• 15 May - White Nation and White Nationalism Today. Presented by Professor Ghassan Hage from University of Melbourne, Australia.
• 27 April - Nationalism and Climate Change. Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen from University of Oslo, Norway.
• 3-5 April - Nationalism and Multiculturalism. Presented by Tariq Modood and Sivamohan Valluvan. 
• 20 February - Heritage and Nationalism. Presented by Dr Chiara Bonacchi from the University of Edinburgh.

2022

• 16 December - Anarchism and the National Question. Presented by Ruth Kinna (Loughborough University), José A Gutiérrez (Dublin City University), Kenyon Zimmer (University of Texas at Arlington), Matthew S Adams (Loughborough University), Tom Goyens (Salisbury University), Constance Bantman (University of Surrey), Pietro Di Paola (University of Lincoln), and Ivanna Margarucci (Universidad de Buenos Aires).
• 23 June - Everyday Nationhood - The background of an idea. Presented by Jon Fox (University of Bristol).
• 18 May - National Affects - The Everyday Atmospheres of Being Political. Presented by Angharad Closs Stephens (Swansea University).
• 16 February -  Nationalism Studies – From the State of the Art to Future Challenges. Presented by Zsuzsa Csergő (Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada), Siniša Malešević (University College, Dublin, Ireland) and Umut Özkirimli (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, Spain).

2021

• 17 June - Beyond the Nation? Or Back to It? Current Trends in the Sociology of Nations and Nationalism. Presented by Daniel Chernilo (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile - Loughborough University).
• 28 May - The nation in migration studies? Presented by Marta Bivand Erdal (PRIO, Oslo).
• 27 May - Background to the idea of banal nationalism. Presented by Michael Billig (Loughborough University).
• 20 May - Race and Nation: Insights into European Racism from Italian Risorgimento. Presented by Edoardo Marcello Barsotti (University of Pisa, Italy).

2020

• 6 November - Right-wing Populism in the West: The New Nationalism Revisited. Presented by Daphne Halikiopoulou (University of Reading).
• 23 October - The Clamour of Nationalism: A conversation about nationalism, race and left complicities. Presented by Sivamohan Valluvan (Warwick University)

2019

• Helen F. Wilson (Durham University): Brexit: immigration, race, and shock as denial (6 February). Part of the CRCC ‘MigNation’ seminar series.
• Adrian Favell (University of Leeds): Crossing the Race Line: Brexit, Citizenship and “Immigrants” in the Referendum (13 March). Part of the CRCC ‘MigNation’ seminar series
• Jon Fox (Bristol University): From everyday nationhood to everyday nationalism (8 May). Part of the CRCC ‘MigNation’ seminar series.
• Ali Bilgic (Loughborough University): Doomed to extinct like American Indians”: Nationalism, Modernity, and Kurds in Turkey (30 October)
• Dyvia Tolia-Kelly (Sussex University): Decolonising institutional racisms: being and feeling in the spaces of museums and academia (31 October). Part of the CRCC ‘MigNation’ seminar series

2018

• Joost Jansen and Gijs van Campenhout (Erasmus University, Rotterdam): ‘Plastic Brits’ and other immigrant athletes. Who can represent the country? (14 November)
• Gaia Giuliani (Coimbra University, Portugal): Race, Nation and Gender in Modern Italy: Intersectional Representations in Visual Culture (30 May). Part of the CRCC seminar series.
• James D. Sidaway (National University Singapore): Securing urbanization’s multiple frontiers: a view from Yangon, Myanmar (17 May). In collaboration with The Centre for the Study of International Governance (CSIG)
• Andrea Ballatore (Birkbeck College, University of London) Digital Hegemonies: Towards A Geography of Web Content (18 April). Part of the CRCC seminar series
• Dmitry Chernobrov (University of Sheffield) Idealised national self-concepts in public perception of international crises(31 January). Part of the CRCC seminar series.

2017

• Sabrina Vitting-Seerup (University of Copenhagen) National narrative and diversity in Danish cultural institutions (25 October). Part of the CRCC seminar series. Video for Sabrina Vitting-Seerup's seminar available here.
• Taku Tamaki (PHIR, Loughborough University) Japanese national identity representation in nation branding and the Cool Japan initiative (18 October). Part of the CRCC seminar series.
• Eunice Romero Rivera (Open University of Catalonia) and Paolo Cossarini (PHIR, Loughborough University) Catalonia’s independence: When nationalism and democracy clash (17 October). Video for Eunice Romero Rivera's seminar available here.
• Helen Drake (PHIR, Loughborough University) The 2017 French presidential election: first thoughts (11 May)
• Martin Lundsteen (Open University of Catalonia): An impure nation? Towards an ethnography of ethnic and cultural diversity in the Catalan nation and state-building (29 March)
• Stijn van Kessel (PHIR, Loughborough University): The Dutch election of March 15th: a fragmented field and a prominent role for the populist radical right (16 March)
• Sarah Mills (Geography, Loughborough University): From Big Society to Shared Society? Geographies of social cohesion and citizenship in the UK’s National Citizen Service (1 March)
• Giulia Piccolino (PHIR, Loughborough University): Populist nationalism in Africa: the Laurent Gbagbo regime in Côte d’Ivoire and its aftermath (9 February)

2016

• Richard Bramwell (Social Sciences, Loughborough University): Performing Hip-Hop Englishness: Place, race, masculinity and the role of rap in the performance of Alternative British identities (7 December)
• Andreas Forø Tollefsen (FFI, PRIO, Oslo): Civil wars: looking beyond the nation (13 October)
• Ruth Kinna (PHIR, Loughborough University): Internationalism, anti-militarism and revolutionary violence in anarchism (1 June)
• Marco Antonsich (Geography, Loughborough University): International migration and the neoliberal culturalist nation (25 May)
• Guzel Yusupova (Russian Academy of Sciences and Kazan Federal University): Performing and consuming ethnicity in the Islamic context: the case of the Tatars in contemporary Russia (16 March)
• Line Nyhagen (Social Sciences, Loughborough University): Religion and Citizenship: The Limits of Rights-based Approaches (jointly organized with CulCom and CAMARG) (2 March)
• Sophie Hyde (English and Drama, Loughborough University): Narrating Levels of Nationalism: Layering Voices in Verbatim (17 February)

2015 

• Jon Fox (University of Bristol): The edges of the nation: breaching everyday nationhood (4 December). Video for Jon Fox's seminar available here.
• Robert Knight (PHIR, Loughborough University): From Himmler to Herder? Constructed and organic nations (11 November)
• Dan Sage (Business and Economics, Loughborough University): How Outer Space Made America (28 October)
• Mariann Vaczi (College of Dunaujvaros, Hungary; University of Nevada, Reno): Football, the Beast, and the Sovereign: Sport and Politics in Spain (July 1) – co-hosted with the LU Sociology of Sport Research Group
• Sabina Mihelj (Social Sciences, Loughborough University) and Enric Castello (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain): Promoting and consuming the nation: Nations in the world of global capitalism (June 3)
• Michael Skey (University of East Anglia): Why do nations matter? The struggle for belonging and security in an uncertain world (April 23)
• Alexandre Christoyannopoulos (PHIR, Loughborough University): Nationalism and the Politics of Religion in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attacks (March 19)
• Catherine Armstrong (PHIR, Loughborough University): Clio’s contribution?  Historical perspectives on social science research (March 4)
• Alan Bairner (Sport, Loughborough University): Playing for the nation? Taiwan’s indigenous peoples and baseball  (February 25)

2014

• Marco Antonsich (Geography, Loughborough University):  New Italians: The Re-Making of the Nation in the Age of Migration (November 19)