Call for Proposals
Proposal deadline: 19 November 2025
CONTACT INFORMATION
Proposals must be submitted to:
darel@uottawa.ca AND asnconvention26@gmail.com in a single Word attachment.
Each applicant must also fill out a Fact Sheet online.
The ASN World Convention will be back IN PERSON at Columbia University, New York, on May 28-30, 2026.
Key Points
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The ASN World Convention was launched in 1996 will be celebrating its 30th anniversary edition on May 28-30, 2026
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The Convention is welcoming five different types of proposals: Individual Paper Proposal, Panel Proposal, Book Panel Proposal, Roundtable Proposal, Film Proposal. Paper and panel proposals are based on written papers
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The Convention has eight regional and three thematic sections (Nationalism, Populism, Migration),
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Registration fees will be waived for discussants, they are making a presentation on a different panel (through an individual proposal, panel proposal, or roundtable proposal)
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All presentations at the Convention are in person only. No presentation will be made on a remote platform, such as Zoom
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Applicants will be notified of the status of their proposal in January 2026.
The Convention
OVER 150 PANELS IN 4 GLOBAL SECTIONS
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Populism and the Far Right (incl. the Far Right or the Far Left)
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Balkans
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Belarus
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Caucasus
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Central Europe (incl. Baltics, Moldova)
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Eurasia (Central Asia and China)
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Russia
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Turkey and Greece
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Ukraine
The Scope of the Convention
The ASN World Convention, which brings together 750+ scholars from 50+ countries annually, welcomes proposals on a wide range of topics related to nationalism, national identity, ethnicity, indigenous and racialized groups, political memory, gender and migration in regional sections of Central, Southern and Eastern Europe and Eurasia, and cross-regional sections in nationalism studies, populism and the far right, migration/diaspora studies.
Popular themes include language, religion, EU integration/exit, security, energy politics, parties and elections, youth, media, political violence and civil society.
Disciplines represented include political science, history, anthropology, sociology, international studies, security studies, area studies, economics, geography, literature, and other fields of the humanities and social sciences.
Prospective applicants can get a sense of the large thematic scope of ASN Convention papers and presentations by looking at the 2025 Convention Program.
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