ASN 2015 WORLD CONVENTION PROGRAM
The final program of the ASN 2015 World Convention can be downloaded at http://nationalities.org/uploads/documents/ASN_Final_Program_2015.pdf. The Convention, sponsored by the Harriman Institute, will be held at Columbia University, New York, on April 23-25, 2015.
159 PANELS, including 17 BOOK PANELS, 15 NEW FILMS, and 5 SPECIAL EVENTS
The final program of the ASN 2015 World Convention can be downloaded at聽. The Convention, sponsored by the Harriman Institute, will be held at Columbia University, New York, on聽April 23-25, 2015.
Since the preliminary program was announced last month, a number of special events were added to the lineup:
*Jose Manuel Barroso, former President of the European Commission (2004-2014), will deliver a keynote address, 鈥淭he European Union and the Challenge of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict鈥 (Saturday 5.10 PM, Room 1512).
*John Crosby and Ursula Froese, of the OSCE Vienna office, will speak on the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (Friday 2.50 PM, Room 1512).
*Five scholars will take part in a roundtable on 鈥淭he Greece-Europe Crisis: End of the Road or Turning Point?鈥 (Thursday 6.00 PM, Room 1027).
An exceptional lineup of 15 new international documentaries will be announced shortly. Three of the films, which have yet to premiere in New York, will be shown as sneak previews and can be revealed only during the Convention. This is in addition to a roundtable on the Oscar-nominated Russian feature film聽Leviathan聽(Saturday 2.50 PM, Harriman Institute Atrium, 12th聽Floor).
ASN 2015 will be held on the 100th Anniversary of the Ottoman Government's decision to deport the leadership of the Armenian community from Istanbul on April 24, 1915, the day on which the聽Medz Yeghern聽(鈥淕reat Crime鈥) is commemorated. To observe the centennial, Ron Suny鈥檚聽鈥淭hey Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else鈥: A History of the Armenian Genocide聽(Princeton 2015) and Tom de Waal鈥檚聽Great Catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide聽(Oxford 2015) were added to a distinguished roster of 17 book panels. Also added were Madeleine Reeves鈥櫬Border Work: Spatial Lives of the State in Rural Central Asia聽(Cornell 2014), a finalist for the ASN Harriman Book Prize, and Charles King鈥檚聽Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul聽(Norton 2014).
A dozen panels/events will touch on the extraordinary events that have engulfed Ukraine and Russia in the past year. In addition to the Barroso keynote and the OSCE roundtable, the Convention will screen Sergei Loznitsa鈥檚聽Maidan聽(Ukraine/Netherlands 2014) and Anthony Butts鈥櫬The Donetsk Peoples鈥 Republic or the Curious Tale of the Handmade Country聽(UK 2015) and feature up to eight scholarly panels on Maidan, the war in Donbas, NATO, the far right and political/economic reforms in Ukraine.
The Convention runs from Thursday, April 23, 11 AM to Saturday, April 25, 7.10 PM. All panels/events will be held on various floors of the International Affairs Building (IAB), 420 W. 118th聽St. (and in the adjacent Faculty House on Thursday). The opening reception, celebrating the Convention鈥檚 20th聽Anniversary, will be held on the IAB 15th聽Floor on Thursday April 23 at 8.00 PM. The closing reception, in the same location on Saturday April 25 at 7.15 PM, will feature the announcements of the ASN Harriman Book Prize, the Best Doctoral Students Papers Awards and the Award for Best Documentary.
Registration fees are $100 for ASN members, $130 for nonmembers, $60 for students (and a special rate of $30 for nonpanelist graduate students enrolled in New York area universities). For registration information, please contact Registration Manager Kelsey Davis (asnreg2015@gmail.com). During the Convention, the registration desk will be located on the IAB 15th聽floor, Central Space.
For general and practical Convention information, please contact ASN Executive Director Ryan Kreider聽(rk2780@columbia.edu, 212 854 2514).
For questions regarding the program, contact ASN Convention Academic Director Dominique Arel (darel@uottawa.ca).
We look forward to seeing you at the Convention!聽
Cordially,
Dominique Arel
On behalf of the Organizing Committee and Program Committee
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