Message from the Organizers:

The University of Belgrade – Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory (IFDT), in cooperation with the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), invites proposals for the conference “Reconfiguring National Identities amid Multiple Crises” to be held 18–20 September 2026 in Belgrade, Serbia.

The ASN European Conference welcomes individual papers and panel proposals, as well as roundtables and book panels, on ethnicity, ethnic conflict, nationalism, national identity, and related topics, with a regional focus on Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, Russia, Ukraine, the Caucasus, and Eurasia.

As an interdisciplinary event, the conference welcomes contributions from anthropology, cultural studies, economics, geography, history, law, literature, political science, gender studies, psychology, sociology, and related fields, as well as interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies employing diverse methodologies.

We particularly encourage proposals engaging with one or more of the following conference themes:
1. Contesting national narratives in Southeastern Europe and beyond
2. Wars and the transformation of European national identities
3. The future of populism and responses to democratic, economic, and climate crises

Keynote Speakers: Ruth Wodak, Lancaster University/University of Vienna, and Siniša Malešević, University College Dublin

Conference details and policies: https://ifdt.bg.ac.rs/jp7p

Please submit proposals via the Proposal Submission Form: https://forms.office.com/e/B8H0Hhdjuq

Important dates:
Submission deadline: 1 March 2026
Notifications: 1 April 2026
Registration deadline: 15 May 2026
Draft program: 1 July 2026

For more information, please contact: [email protected]

We look forward to receiving your proposals

Potential applicants can review the thematic scope of ASN conference papers by
consulting programs from past
Conventions
and
European Conferences.