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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 09:23:37 +0100
Subject: [balkans] CfP: Statehood and Ethnicity Conference, Stockholm,
13-15.6.2003
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. Call for Papers Statehood and Ethnicity Conference
Call for Papers
Statehood Beyond Ethnicity: From the Early Modern to the Present
State
A Comparative Study of Smaller States in Northern and Eastern
Europe
International conference for junior scholars in the humanities
Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS), University
College of Southern Stockholm,
in collaboration with Northern European Historical Research
Network (NEHRN), 13-15 June, 2003
Proposals due: 15 February 2003
Final Submissions due: 1 May 2003
Address for Submissions: Statehood Beyond Ethnicity, BEEGS,
University College of Southern Stockholm, Box 4101, S-14104
Huddinge, Sweden; or by email: linas.eriksonas at sh.se
Keynote Speakers:
Dr Eric Kaufmann (University of Southampton), 'National
Ethnicity' and the Modern State
Dr Torbjörn Eng (Uppsala University), On Concepts of Early Modern
Statehood in Sweden

Aims and Objectives
The conference will tackle the issue of statehood and nationhood
in the case of the smaller European countries. According to the
prevailing political theory, a modern state came into
being through the merging of two principles ­ the idea of state
and the concept of nation ­
which took place in the nineteenth century. Political theorists
call this fusion nationalism.
Accordingly, the modern nation is viewed as a political body with
ethnic characteristics.
Hence it is a dominant nationality, not a nation as a whole,
which is assigned to the state.
This view stands and falls on the very notion of liberal
nationalism which still prevails today. Ethnic interpretation of
statehood has further repercussions in the sphere of international
politics, where new emerging nation states are recognized on the
basis of dominant ethnie.
The international debate about nationalism usually boils down to
the calls for ensuring the
rights of ethnic minorities, viewed as subdivisions within the
national organism of the state.
In order to challenge this view this conference will attempt to
analyse non-ethnic statehood
in two renditions in two different periods of history: as a
historical phenomenon at the time
of the emergence of the early modern state and as a historical
tradition upon which the nation-builders from the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries called. The conference thus suggests to take
into consideration both the historical facts and
historiographical constructs about statehood.
While examining the arguments put forward for the existence of a
state in the early modern age,
the conference will seek to describe those essential elements
which found their later appropriation in explicitly ethnic
cultural and historical thinking about the older new nations.
Yet, in parallel,
it will also look at the arguments of the modern nationalists
which echoed the non-ethnic past.
Thus, the main task will be to detect that middle-ground where a
historical existence of the
early modern state met the demands and requirements of the
modern, latter-day nationalists.
The hypothesis is that non-ethnic traditions of statehood had
been subverted yet never lost.
Preliminary Themes
Introduction to the subject: an early modern state compared to a
modern nation state
Exploring the states with continuing traditions of statehood
(e.g. Sweden, Holland)
Exploring the states with disrupted traditions of statehood (e.g.
Norway, Bohemia, Lithuania)
Exploring the states with transformed traditions of statehood
(e.g. Scotland, Brandenburg)
Reflections on political theory and current debates in relation
to nationalism
Main Issues
A paper on an early modern or modern nation state should address
one of the following questions:
· How is statehood defined in contrast to national
identity, nationhood, if at all?
· Which civic virtues are viewed as having a binding power
for political community?
· How are the rights for national sovereignty argued within
the realm of natural law?
· Which social and ethnic groups if any have a vested
interest in national statehood?
· What is the relation between a myth of the origins of a
people and state ideology?
· Which historical events and themes are identified with
state and/or nationality?
· How is a legitimacy of political power established in
national historiography?
· What are the main political reasons behind the demands
for national statehood?
· How is a smaller state shaped by its links to a dominant
neighbour or an existing union?
· How is the future of the nation state ideologically
projected and explained to a people?

Practical Information
This invitation is extended to advanced doctoral students,
postdocs and other junior scholars.
The proposals should consist of an abstract (ca. 300 words) and
CV with contact information.
The best papers will be published in a collection of articles by
an international academic publisher.
BEEGS will meet travel costs and provide accommodation for
conference speakers from abroad.
Conference Coordinator:
Conference Convener:
Dr Linas Eriksonas
Dr Leos Müller
BEEGS Visiting Research Fellow
BEEGS Research Fellow
linas.eriksonas at sh.se
leos.muller at sh.se
International Academic Advisory Panel:
Professor Miroslav Hroch, Charles University Prague
Professor Allan Macinnes, University of Aberdeen/NEHRN
Professor Rolf Torstendahl, Uppsala University/University College
of Southern Stockholm
Professor Michael North, University of Greifswald




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