International interdisciplinary conference "Empire, territorial states and local communities in ethnic and national dimension"

We are pleased to inform you that in February 3-4, 2022 Institute of History of Saint Petersburg State University together with the Department of History of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Saint Petersburg, will be holding an international interdisciplinary conference "Empire, territorial states and local communities in ethnic and national dimension." We invite you to join the conference sessions.

To participate as a listener, please fill in the registration form before 23:59 February 02.

Conference programme

The languages of the conference are Russian and English. The bilingual sessions will be:

• Protonational narratives and supreme authority. Part 1 (14.00-18.00, February,3);
• Construction of nations in modern nationalisms. Part 1 (14.00-17.00, February 3);
• Panel 3. National discourses and local communities within the 'Soviet and post-soviet nationalities policy: constructing and institutionalizating nationality in the situation of post-imperial diversity. Part 1' (17:50-19:20, February 3);
• The issues of nationality in the nationalizing states of the 20th – 21st centuries. Part 1 (14.00-18.00, February 3);
• Construction of nations in modern nationalisms. Part 2 (10.00-13.00, February 4);
• Colonial practices of management of the diversity: from early modern time to neocolonialism (10.00-16.00, February 4);
• The issues of nationality in the nationalizing states of the 20th – 21st centuries. Part 2 (10.00-14.00, February 4).