ASEN: The Ernest Gellner Nationalism Lecture

The Ernest Gellner Nationalism Lecture

Created: 25 February 1997

The Ernest Gellner Nationalism Lecture was established in 1996, in memory of Professor Gellner. The Lecture is sponsored by Nations and Nationalism, and was formally known as the Nations and Nationalism Lecture, which was established in 1995 along with the journal itself. The Lecture is held annually, on the evening before the ASEN Annual Conference.

The 1998 Lecture will be held on 26 March, and will be delivered by

Geoffrey Hosking
(School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London)

Title to be announced.

The speakers and topics of previous Lectures have been as follows:

April 1997
Roman Szporluk
(Harvard University)
Democracy after Communism

March 1996
Anthony Smith
(London School of Economics)
Memory and Modernity: Reflections on Ernest Gellner's Theory of Nationalism

March 1995
Michael Howard
(International Institute for Strategic Studies)
Ethnic Conflict and International Security