The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) is holding its 20th Anniversary Conference entitled “Nation and Charisma”, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 13 – 15 April 2010 at the London School of Economics and Political Science.





The conference will include keynote addresses from leading scholars in the field:



Lord Desai: “Gandhi and Nehru: Reason and Charisma in Narratives of Nationhood”

Prof. MacGregor Knox: “Mussolini and Hitler: Charisma, Regime and Nationalism”

Prof. Erik Zurcher: “The Ataturk Cult in Turkey”

Prof. Lucy Riall: “Mazzini and Garibaldi”

Prof. David Martin: “Theory and Charisma: Examining Max Weber”

Prof. Elleke Boehmer: “Madiba Magic: Mandela’s Outlier Charisma”





The conference will offer opportunities for young and established scholars from various disciplines to examine the relationship between nationalism and charisma in a series of panel sessions. Please see Call for Papers attached for more information. Further enquires are welcome at asen.conference@lse.ac.uk



Please see the ASEN website http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ASEN/ for more information and to submit your proposal.