Conference programme
Loughborough University Nationalism Network (LUNN) in collaboration with ASEN
Nations and Nationalisms 2.0: Theories, Practices and Methods International Postgraduate Conference
Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom, 5-6 June 2024
We are delighted to welcome you to the second international conference on nations and nationalism dedicated to postgraduate researchers, organised by Loughborough University Nationalism Network (LUNN) in collaboration with the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN). The conference aims to provide a space for exchange and debate on topics relating to the theme of nations and nationalism, cutting across a wide range of disciplines and contexts.
In the programme below you will find a detailed schedule for the two conference days, followed by a list of abstracts for all speakers. We look forward to stimulating discussions around the wide-ranging contributions of postgraduate speakers as well as reflections from senior scholars at the forefront of this evolving field.
The organising team
Marco Antonsich, Brigita Valantinaviciute, Olivia Zirui Chen, Johanna Kluit
Wednesday 5 June
Registration
Welcome
Dr Marco Antonsich (LUNN convenor) & Johanna Kluit (LUNN), Professor Liz Peel – Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities.
Session 1 and 2
Panel 1: Women and nationalism, Chair: Olivia Zirui Chen (Room SMB017)
- Ma Siqi (London School of Economics and Political Science): Understanding Chinese Extreme Feminists - Female Rebellions and Vulnerabilities under a Male-dominated Cyber Space
- Mária Gubán (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam): Warrior Princesses: An Ethnographic Study on Young Women in Hungarian Radical Nationalist Movements
- Manal Shqair (Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh): The Dialectic of Palestinian Women's Anti-Colonial Domestic Activities
- Tahira Mumtaz (University of Bradford, UK): Exploring Cultural Traditions in Maternity Care for Forced Migrant Women
Panel 2: Conflicting nationalisms, Chair: Alexandru Pirciu (Room SMB002)
- Anushka Chaudhuri (University of Bristol): Divided Diasporas: Interrogating Internal Divisions and the Memory-Nationalism Nexus Within Bengalis in Britain
- Katrina Gaber (Uppsala University): Swedish and Finnish National Polarization on Social Media during the Pandemic
- Jani Korhonen (University of Helsinki): Opinions Vary, as Can Be Expected: Media representations of Non-Ethnic Categories in Serbia and Socialist Yugoslavia
- Anastazie Toros (Loughborough University): Applied Theatre practices in Addressing Tensions and Conflicts
Coffee break
Workshops
- Marco Antonsich & Liz Mavroudi: Nation, migration and diaspora (Room: SMB008)
- Sabina Mihelj: Media and nationalism (Room: SMB002)
- Varun Uberoi: Nationalism and political theory (Room: SMB010)
Keynote address by Ellie Knott (LSE): Forging a Career in (Everyday) Nationalism
Coffee break
Session 3 and 4
Panel 3: Nationalism in Art, Literature, and Other Discourse, Chair: Arran Hicks (Room SMB017)
- Alys Roberts (University of Cambridge): Navigating spaces of nationalism: a case study of welsh youth movement 'Urdd Gobaith Cymru'
- Samanwita Sen (University of Oxford): The Ironies of Nationhood: The Chauvinist and Liberatory Dimensions of the Nation
- Vicky Panossian (University of Warwick): The Identity Politics of Dialect Nationalism Among Arab Migrants
- Johanna Kluit (Loughborough University): The Revival of Russian Anarchism: Post-Soviet Anarchism and the Struggle with the National Question
Panel 4: Institutional Nationalisms , Chair: Martin Lukk (Room SMB002)
- Natasha Lock (King's College London's Lau China Institute): Narrative Framing: Manifestations of Enmity in Jiang, Hu and Xi’s China
- Alexandru Pirciu (West University Timisoara): Hispaniola between Reality and Representation (Literary Discourses of Authority)
- Burak Uzunova (Bournemouth University): Euroscepticism and Nationalism: A Comparison between the United Kingdom and Turkey
- Dilek Celebi (The University of Manchester): Minority or National Identity? Analysis of Kurdish Identity within Iranian Identity
Social dinner
Thursday 6 June
Session 5 and 6
Panel 5: Theoretical Foundations of Nationalism (Studies), Chair: Johanna Kluit, (Room SMB017)
- Roni Kuppers (London School of Economics): On the Concept of Nativism: When Did Populism Studies Forget about Nationalism?
- Martin Lukk (University of Toronto): Cosmopolitans, Nationalists, and the Identity Component of Cleavage Politics
- Onur Isci (University of Edinburgh): Transfer of Power: From Center to Region in the Context of Symbolic Capital
- Petar Ćurčić (Institute of European Studies): Conservative Political Realism in Historical Practice: Leopold von Ranke’s Interpretation of Nation-Building in Serbian and Brandenburg-Prussian Case
Panel 6: Banal Nationalisms , Chair: Brigita Valantinaviciute, (Room SMB002)
- Arran Hicks (University of East Anglia): The Former Students of a British Soccer Have Caught Up: Football at the 1951 Festival of Britain and the (Re)-Construction of British National Identity
- Yanlin Li (Loughborough University): Altered Discourses on Sport Nationalism in China through the Victories of Chinese Women’s Volleyball
- Zirui Chen (Loughborough University): Fandom Nationalism in the Case of Chinese Virtual Idol
- Johnnie Anderson (University of Strathclyde): Moveable Feasts: Food, Migration and Glasgow (1960-1999)
Coffee break
Keynote by Micheal Billig (LUNN): Nationalism, statistics and some personal reflections
Lunch
Workshops
Michael Skey: Everyday nationalism: studying nationalism in practice (Room: SMB002)
Alexandre Christoyannopoulos and Yuval Katz: Nation, violence and peace (Room: SMB010)
Coffee break
Session 7 and 8
Panel 7: (Contemporary) nation-building and nationhood, Chair: Natasha Lock, (Room SMB002)
- Malcolm Lowe (University of East Anglia): Inclusive/Exclusive National Identity in a Yugoslav Youth Labour Mobilisation
- Tongzhou Ran (University of Leeds): Navigating Chineseness in Xi Jinping’s Era: the Representation of the Western Other and Chinese Self in Chinese State Media
- Laura Valeria Gheorghiu (Karl Franzens University): Current Nationalism as a Synonym of Avoided Modernization
- Sumit Kumar (Eotvos Lorand University): Decolonising justice in India: A solidarity -based approach to post-colonial justice
Panel 8: Ethnic Identity and Nationalisms, Chair: Katrina Gaber, (Room SMB107)
- Brigita Valantinaviciute (Loughborough University): Cultural policy, Publicly Funded Films and Nationalism in Lithuania
- Dinara Turagulova (Central European University): Accessory Nationalism: Consumers, Commodities, and Banality of Ethnic Branding
- Isaja Karadakovska (Central European University): Temporal Shifts in Perceptions of Ethnic Membership in North Macedonia at the Intersection of Knowledge, Collective Memory and Silencing
- Edina Allegra Zelenyánszky (Central European University): Who Are the Main Beneficiaries and Losers of Pro-Natalist (Ethno)Nationalist Policies of the Fourth Orban Regime?)