12.00 - 13.00

Registration

13.00 - 13.15

Opening address: Chris Moffat (History, University of Cambridge)

13.15 - 14.45

Panel I: Trajectories
Chair: Wendy Pullan (Architecture, University of Cambridge)

• Oliver Zimmer (History, University of Oxford): “’Journeys’ and ‘maps’: German townspeople and their national imaginations, 1850-1900”
  
• James Anderson (Geography, Queen’s University Belfast): “Nationalism, State/City Relations and Ethno-Nationally Divided Cities”
• Claire Sutherland (Politics, Durham University): “Nation and Citizen: Bringing the City Back In”

14.45 - 15.15

Coffee

15.15  - 16.45

Panel II: Representations
Chair: Caroline Knowles (Sociology, Goldsmiths)

• Aylin Kuryel (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis) and Bob Pannebaker (Independent Scholar and Artist): “Speaking Walls: (De)nationalising Istanbul”
• Nicolas Cambridge (Independent Scholar): “Savile Row to Sebiro: Fashioning Sartorial Imaginaries in the Contested Spaces of the Metropolis”
  
• G. Michal Murawski (Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge): “Imported Municipal Vernacular: The Palace of Culture in Warsaw”

16.45 - 17.00 

Break

17.00 - 18.30

Keynote address

Thomas Blom Hansen (Anthropology and South Asian Studies, Stanford University): “At Home With Strangers: Urban Life and the Moral Force of Nationalism”

Introduction and Discussion: Shruti Kapila (History, University of Cambridge)

18.30 - 19.30

Drinks reception

10.00 - 11.00

Panel III: Centres/Peripheries
Chair: George Carothers (Geography, University of Cambridge)

• James O’Connor (History of Art, University of Cambridge): “The Sulcus and the Sprawl: the Mythic Borders and Ephemeral Frontiers of Suburban Houston”
• Jihad Farah (Urban Planning, University of Liege): “Ask the Periphery: A Vantage Point for Understanding City and Nationalism Relations”
• Göran Therborn (Sociology, University of Cambridge): “Nationalisms and Urban Iconography”

11.00 - 11.30 

Coffee

11.30 - 13.00 

Panel IV: Imaginative Geographies
Chair: Mary-Ann Middelkoop (History, University of Cambridge)

• Stephen Legg (Geography, University of Nottingham): “Spatial Histories and Affective Geographies: Forms and Narratives of Nationalism in Colonial Delhi”
• Joshua Arthurs (History, West Virginia University): “After Mussolini: Roma capitale, the Fall of Fascism and the ‘Death of the Nation’”
• Jesus Chairez (History, University of Cambridge): “Locating Indian Nationalism and Untouchability: From the City and the Village”

13.00 - 14.00 

Lunch
Sponsored by the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN)

14.00 - 15.30

Panel V: Citizens and Communities
Chair: Michael Keith (COMPAS, University of Oxford)

• Angharad Closs Stephens (Geography, Durham University); “The Persistence of Nationalist Imaginaries”
• Sarah Jenkins (International Politics, University of Aberystwyth): “Dealing with Strangers: Space, Identity and Conflict in Urban Kenya”
• Joe Penny (New Economics Foundation): “Zionism, Security and the City: the Production of Insecure Spaces and Precarious Geographies in East Jerusalem”
  

15.30 - 16.00

Coffee

16.00 - 17.30

Roundtable Discussion on Nationalism and the City
Chair: Thomas Blom Hansen (Stanford University)

• C.A. Bayly (History, University of Cambridge)
• Caroline Knowles (Sociology, Goldsmiths University)
• Michael Keith (COMPAS, University of Oxford)