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