PROGRAMME

9: 30 am Coffee

INTRODUCTION

10: 00 am Eric Kaufmann (Southampton) - 'Dominant Ethnicity: From Background to Foreground'

SESSION 1

DOMINANT ETHNICITY IN DECLINE?

10: 15 am Steve Bruce - (Aberdeen) - 'The Strange Death of Protestant Britain'

10: 45 am Coffee

11: 15 am Theodore Wright - (Professor Emeritus, SUNY Albany) - The Identity and Changing Status of Former Elite Minorities: the Contrasting Cases of North Indian Muslims and American WASPs '

11: 45 am Danielle Juteau (Université de Montréal) - 'Pure Laine' Ethnicity in Quebec

12: 15 pm Discussion

12: 45 pm Lunch

SESSION 2

DOMINANT ETHNICITY RESURGENT?

2: 00 pm Anthony Smith (LSE) - Ethnic Cores and the Dominant Ethnie

2: 30 pm Andreas Wimmer (UCLA) - The Rise and Consolidation of Dominant Ethnicity in Switzerland, Iraq and Mexico

3: 00 pm Chetan Bhatt (University of London, Goldsmith's College) - Hindu Nationalism in India: Ethnicity, Diaspora and Enclave Sensibilities

3: 30 pm Discussion

4: 00 pm Tea

SESSION 3

DOMINANT ETHNICITY IN ISRAEL: DECLINE OR RESURGENCE?

4: 30pm Oren Yiftachel (Ben Gurion) - The Rise (and Fall?) of Jewish 'Ethnocracy' in Israel/Palestine

5: 00pm Yaacov Yadgar (Bar-Ilan) - National Identity in Israel: From "the Chosen People" to "a Nation like all Nations"?

5: 30pm Discussion