ASEN Conference Programme

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

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