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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">FYI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Greg noble<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Everyday Nationhood: A One-Day Symposium to Examine the Contribution of Michael Billig’s Study of Banal Nationalism</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Monday 8th September 2014, London School of Economics & Political Science</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Organised by the Association for the Study of Ethnicity & Nationalism (ASEN) and the School of Political, Social & International Studies,
University of East Anglia</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Published in 1995, Michael Billig’s Banal Nationalism is the fourth most cited text on nationalism and arguably the most influential book
on the topic in the last two decades. Focusing on contemporary and everyday expressions of nationhood, the study marked a profound shift away from previous attempts to map the transformation to an era of nations and the association of nationalism with political
violence, civil conflict and extremist movements.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Billig’s arguments have been picked up by scholars working in an impressive range of disciplines as part of the recent turn to the ‘everyday’,
and the term ‘banal’ has come to form a short hand for the study of the ways in which particular representations, forms of social organisation and cultural practice become normalised and taken-for-granted.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">This one-day symposium will look to assess the contribution of the Banal Nationalism thesis, examine its application across disciplines
and settings, and ask where studies of nations, social identities and everyday life might be headed over the next two decades. The event will feature a keynote address by Professor Craig Calhoun (Director of the LSE) one of the leading theorists of nationalism,
cosmopolitanism and social identity in the contemporary era.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">We welcome proposals for 20 minute papers from both established scholars and PGR students, in any discipline, addressing: theoretical and
methodological approaches to the study of everyday nationhood / social identities, empirical studies of the phenomenon, the application of Billig’s arguments to non-national frameworks as well as critiques of the Banal Nationalism thesis.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Please send a 250-300 words proposal to Michael Skey (</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><a href="mailto:m.skey@uea.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#003FA0">m.skey@uea.ac.uk</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">)
by Friday 13<sup>th</sup> June 2014.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Those applying can expect written confirmation by Friday 4<sup>th</sup> July 2014. It is anticipated that a selection of papers relating
to the symposium will form part of a special edition of a peer-reviewed scholarly journal. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">The cost of attending the symposium, which will cover lunch and refreshments on the day, will be £15.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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