Pre 2025 seminars

Past seminars, some with links to the video presentations.

2024

11 December - . Presented by Jan Willem Duyvendak, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
21 November - . Presented by Dr Amy Clarke
23 October - . Presented by Kristina Bakkær Simonsen (Aarhus University, Denmark).
24 April- . Presented by Professor Zsuzsanna Millei (Tampere University, Finland).
7 February - Presented by Chenchen Zhang (Durham University, UK).
18 January - . Presented by Melissa Aronczyk (Rutgers University, USA).

18 October - . Presented by Maya Tudor (Oxford University, UK) and Harris Mylonas (George Washington University, USA).
15 May - . Presented by Professor Ghassan Hage from University of Melbourne, Australia.
27 April - . Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen from University of Oslo, Norway.
3-5 April - . Presented by Tariq Modood and Sivamohan Valluvan.
20 February - . Presented by Dr Chiara Bonacchi from the University of Edinburgh.

16 December - . Presented by Ruth Kinna (木瓜视频), José A Gutiérrez (Dublin City University), Kenyon Zimmer (University of Texas at Arlington), Matthew S Adams (木瓜视频), Tom Goyens (Salisbury University), Constance Bantman (University of Surrey), Pietro Di Paola (University of Lincoln), and Ivanna Margarucci (Universidad de Buenos Aires).
23 June - . Presented by Jon Fox (University of Bristol).
18 May - . Presented by Angharad Closs Stephens (Swansea University).
16 February - . Presented by Zsuzsa Cserg艖 (Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada), Siniša Maleševi膰 (University College, Dublin, Ireland) and Umut Özkirimli (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, Spain).

17 June - . Presented by Daniel Chernilo (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile - 木瓜视频).
28 May - Presented by Marta Bivand Erdal (PRIO, Oslo).
27 May - . Presented by Michael Billig (木瓜视频).
20 May - . Presented by Edoardo Marcello Barsotti (University of Pisa, Italy).

Helen F. Wilson (Durham University): Brexit: immigration, race, and shock as denial (6 February). Part of the CRCC ‘MigNation’ seminar series.
Adrian Favell (University of Leeds): Crossing the Race Line: Brexit, Citizenship and “Immigrants” in the Referendum (13 March). Part of the CRCC ‘MigNation’ seminar series
Jon Fox (Bristol University): From everyday nationhood to everyday nationalism (8 May). Part of the CRCC ‘MigNation’ seminar series.
Ali Bilgic (木瓜视频): Doomed to extinct like American Indians”: Nationalism, Modernity, and Kurds in Turkey (30 October)
Dyvia Tolia-Kelly (Sussex University): Decolonising institutional racisms: being and feeling in the spaces of museums and academia (31 October). Part of the CRCC ‘MigNation’ seminar series

Joost Jansen and Gijs van Campenhout (Erasmus University, Rotterdam): ‘Plastic Brits’ and other immigrant athletes. Who can represent the country? (14 November)
Gaia Giuliani (Coimbra University, Portugal): Race, Nation and Gender in Modern Italy: Intersectional Representations in Visual Culture (30 May). Part of the CRCC seminar series.
James D. Sidaway (National University Singapore): Securing urbanization’s multiple frontiers: a view from Yangon, Myanmar (17 May). In collaboration with The Centre for the 木瓜视频 of International Governance (CSIG)
Andrea Ballatore (Birkbeck College, University of London) Digital Hegemonies: Towards A Geography of Web Content (18 April). Part of the CRCC seminar series
Dmitry Chernobrov (University of Sheffield) Idealised national self-concepts in public perception of international crises(31 January). Part of the CRCC seminar series.

Sabrina Vitting-Seerup (University of Copenhagen) National narrative and diversity in Danish cultural institutions (25 October). Part of the CRCC seminar series. .
Taku Tamaki (PHIR, 木瓜视频) Japanese national identity representation in nation branding and the Cool Japan initiative (18 October). Part of the CRCC seminar series.
Eunice Romero Rivera (Open University of Catalonia) and Paolo Cossarini (PHIR, 木瓜视频) Catalonia’s independence: When nationalism and democracy clash (17 October). .
Helen Drake (PHIR, 木瓜视频) The 2017 French presidential election: first thoughts (11 May)
Martin Lundsteen (Open University of Catalonia): An impure nation? Towards an ethnography of ethnic and cultural diversity in the Catalan nation and state-building (29 March)
Stijn van Kessel (PHIR, 木瓜视频): The Dutch election of March 15th: a fragmented field and a prominent role for the populist radical right (16 March)
Sarah Mills (Geography, 木瓜视频): From Big Society to Shared Society? Geographies of social cohesion and citizenship in the UK’s National Citizen Service (1 March)
Giulia Piccolino (PHIR, 木瓜视频): Populist nationalism in Africa: the Laurent Gbagbo regime in Côte d’Ivoire and its aftermath (9 February)

Richard Bramwell (Social Sciences, 木瓜视频): Performing Hip-Hop Englishness: Place, race, masculinity and the role of rap in the performance of Alternative British identities (7 December)
Andreas Forø Tollefsen (FFI, PRIO, Oslo): Civil wars: looking beyond the nation (13 October)
Ruth Kinna (PHIR, 木瓜视频): Internationalism, anti-militarism and revolutionary violence in anarchism (1 June)
Marco Antonsich (Geography, 木瓜视频): International migration and the neoliberal culturalist nation (25 May)
Guzel Yusupova (Russian Academy of Sciences and Kazan Federal University): Performing and consuming ethnicity in the Islamic context: the case of the Tatars in contemporary Russia (16 March)
Line Nyhagen (Social Sciences, 木瓜视频): Religion and Citizenship: The Limits of Rights-based Approaches (jointly organized with CulCom and CAMARG) (2 March)
Sophie Hyde (English and Drama, 木瓜视频): Narrating Levels of Nationalism: Layering Voices in Verbatim (17 February)

Jon Fox (University of Bristol): The edges of the nation: breaching everyday nationhood (4 December). .
Robert Knight (PHIR, 木瓜视频): From Himmler to Herder? Constructed and organic nations (11 November)
Dan Sage (Business and Economics, 木瓜视频): How Outer Space Made America (28 October)
Mariann Vaczi (College of Dunaujvaros, Hungary; University of Nevada, Reno): Football, the Beast, and the Sovereign: Sport and Politics in Spain (July 1) – co-hosted with the LU Sociology of Sport Research Group
Sabina Mihelj (Social Sciences, 木瓜视频) and Enric Castello (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain): Promoting and consuming the nation: Nations in the world of global capitalism (June 3)
Michael Skey (University of East Anglia): Why do nations matter? The struggle for belonging and security in an uncertain world (April 23)
Alexandre Christoyannopoulos (PHIR, 木瓜视频): Nationalism and the Politics of Religion in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attacks (March 19)
Catherine Armstrong (PHIR, 木瓜视频): Clio’s contribution? Historical perspectives on social science research (March 4)
Alan Bairner (Sport, 木瓜视频): Playing for the nation? Taiwan’s indigenous peoples and baseball (February 25)

Marco Antonsich (Geography, 木瓜视频): New Italians: The Re-Making of the Nation in the Age of Migration (November 19)