PRACTICES AND DISCOURSES OF NATIONAL IDENTITY IN LEFT-WING POLITICS
Organizers
- Manuela Caiani (Scuola Normale Superiore)
- Jacopo Custodi (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Keynotes
- Benjamin De Cleen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
- Daniel Keith (University of York)
Presenters
- Laura Chazel (Sciences Po Grenoble)
- Adriano Cirulli (La Sapienza University)
- Jacopo Custodi (Scuola Normale Superiore)
- Vincent Dain (University of Rennes)
- Maria Della Porta Rodiani (University of Exeter)
- Costas Eleftheriou (University of Athens)
- Nikos Folinas (University of Crete)
- Fani Giannousi (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
- Luigi Giorgi (LUISS Guido Carli University)
- Stephen Hopkins (University of Leicester)
- Giorgos Katsambekis (Loughborough University)
- Kriton Kuci (Mediterranean University of Albania)
- Josep Lobera (Autonomous University of Madrid)
- Jakob Meer (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt)
- Francis O’Connor (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt)
- Panos Panayotu (Loughborough University)
- Camilo Pérez-Bustillo (Stanford University)
- Paolo Perri (University of Calabria)
- Edon Qesari (Independent Researcher)
- Ihab Shabana (University of Peloponnese)
- Joe Shaughnessy (University of Cambridge)
- Panagiotis Sotiris (Hellenic Open University)
- Kei Takata (University of Duisburg-Essen)
- Rossana Tufaro (Scuola Normale Superiore)
- José Neves (NOVA University of Lisbon)
- Aimilia Vilou (Panteion University)
Discussants
- Giada Bonu (Scuola Normale Superiore)
- Manuela Caiani (Scuola Normale Superiore)
- Loris Caruso (Scuola Normale Superiore)
- Benoît Challand (The New School)
- Hakan Övünç Ongur (TOBB University of Economics and Technology)
- Yannis Stavrakakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Conference description
The conference aims to explore and evaluate the intricate relationship between national identity, nationality and nationalism on one side, and left-wing, emancipatory and radical politics on the other side. We welcome both theoretical and empirical papers on the following themes:
- Left-wing populism and nationalism
- The radical left and the nationalist-globalist cleavage
- The radical left and the nationalist revival
- Imagined communities and left-wing projects
- National identity and migrant solidarity activism
- Alter-Europeanism and Euroscepticism
- Radical left and nationality in post-colonial contexts
- Transnational leftist movements beyond the nation
- Patriotism and anti-imperialism
- Internationalism and cosmopolitanism
- Internationalism and popular sovereignty
The conference intends to cover cases from different areas of the world, as a necessary step in order to better grasp the complexity and the polymorphism of national identity within radical left politics. Consequently, we welcome papers assessing European as well as non-European cases.