Practical information 

Thurday, June 9^th: Theatre of the Alliance Française, 101 boulevard Raspail

Friday, June 10^th and saturday, June 11th : CEVIPOF, 98 rue de l’Université & Sciences Po, 13 rue de l’Université – Amphithéâtre Jean Moulin

Programme 

Thurday, June 9^th

18:30-20:30

• Keynote Session 1: Opening Evening with Pierre Nora (Conference in French) 

• Welcome address by Martial Foucault (Director of CEVIPOF).
• Welcome address by the organizers (Vincent Martigny, Daphne Halikiopoulou, Gil Delannoi)
• Gil Delannoi : “The Left and Nationalism : a Theoretical Introduction”

10:00-10:30: Coffee break

10:30-12:30: Panels 1 & 2 (CEVIPOF, 98 rue de l’Université)

Panel 1: Radical left and Nationalism: Reconcilable Antagonisms?

(Table Chair: Rémi Lefebvre, Université Lille 2)

• Alejandro Barón (Johns Hopkins University) & Hugo Cuello (Hertie School of Governance): “Podemos and ‘la Patria’: assessing the comeback of the nation-state in Spain’s left”
• Yauheni Kryzhanouski (University of Strasbourg): “Nationalism and extreme left in authoritarian Belarus (1990s-2000s). Ethno-anarchism and anti-authoritarian protest”
• Ioannis Moutsis (Independent Researcher): “From Pasok to Syriza: Explaining the Greek Left's Nationalist Populism”
• Teresa Pullano (University of Basel): “The Nation and the Left Strategy in the Greek Case. Syriza’s Dilemmas and the Philosophy of Nicos Poulantzas”

Panel 2: Solidarity and National Independence : The Left and Regional Nationalist Parties

(Table Chair : Laurent Bouvet, Université Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines)

• Emmanuel Dalle Mulle (Catholic University of Leuven): “Rejecting Solidarity from the Left. Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya and the Rhetoric of the Expoli Fiscal”
• Nathalie Duclos (University of Toulouse): “Nationalism and the Left within the Scottish Pro-Independence Movement”
• Imanol Lizarralde (Independent Researcher) : “Local and global dimension of the Basque National Liberation Movement (1967-2015)”

12:30-14:30: Lunch break in the CEVIPOF garden

14:30-16:30: Panels 3 & 4 (CEVIPOF, 98 rue de l’Université)

Panel 3: Without or without state? Diaspora Nationalism and Regionalism

(Table Chair : Anne-Marie Thiesse, CNRS-Ecole Normale Supérieure)

• Astrig Atamian (Paris School for Advanced Studies - EHESS): “Two Left-wing Nationalisms facing the Common Programme: the Armenian Case in France”
• Adriano Cirulli (Uninettuno University, Italy) & Paolo Perri (Università della Calabria): “Leftist Welfare Stateless Nationalism in Western Europe in the age of the Crisis: between the Reactivation of a Social Democratic Agenda and the Reframing of the Socialist Revolutionary Project”
• Tudi Kernalegenn (Sciences Po Rennes) : “Political ecology and Regionalism: a Marriage made in Heaven?”

Panel 4: Which Nationalism for which Left? Theoretical Perspectives

(Table Chair: Gil Delannoi, Sciences Po-CEVIPOF)

• Laurent Bouvet (Université Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines): “Postnational Europe: a Dead End for Social democracy”
• Canan Şahin (Middle East Technical University of Ankara): “Shared Lexicon of Populist Right-Wing and Left-Wing Islamophobia in Europe: Re-articulation and Trans-articulation of Enlightenment Discourse by Contemporary Political Movements within a Nationalistic Frame”
• Daniele Conversi (University of the Basque Country): “Patriotism without sovereignty? Nationalist Rhetoric and Moral Panics in the Era of Mass Uncertainty”
• Ephraim Nimni (Queen’s University Belfast): “The European Left, Plurinational States and Nationalism: From Austro-Marxism to ‘Podemos’”

16:30-17:00: Coffee break

18:00-20:00: Keynote session 2: European perspectives on the Left and Nationalism (Sciences Po, 13 rue de l’Université, Amphithéâtre Jean Moulin)

9:00-11:00 : Panel 5

Panel 5: Marxism, Communism and Nationalism: historical perspectives

(Table Chair : Vincent Martigny, Ecole Polytechnique/CEVIPOF)

• Pierre Alayrac (Ecole Normale Supérieure – Paris): “Did ‘Workers of the World Unite’? Thoughts on Internationalism and ‘Banal Nationalism’ of European Left through a Study of the Second International Congress of London (1896)”
• Adrian Matus (Université Sorbonne Paris IV, France): “The Rebels with a Cause: Oddly Hybridizing Nationalism, Communism and Counterculture in the Romania of the 1960s”
• Selim Nadi (CHSP-Sciences Po Paris/Universität Bielefeld) “The National Making of the French Communist Party (1920-1962)”

11:00-11:30: Coffee Break

11:30-13:30: Panels 6 & 7

Panel 6: Left-wing state-buildings and nationalist claims: historical perspectives

(Table Chair : Anne Dulphy, Ecole Polytechnique - LinX)

• Jan Květina (Charles University): “Nationalist Discourses of the Polish Socialist Parties at the Beginning of the 20^th Century: Patriotism and Internationalism”
• Aurelio Martí Bataller (University of Valencia): “A Patriotic Internationalism: The Internationalist Discourse of the PSOE during the Second Republic”
• Bilgen Sütçüoglu (Yeditepe University): “Clash of Modernization Projects: Two Narratives of Kemalist Cultural Project articulated from within the Turkish Left”

Panel 7: French Perspectives on the Left and Nationalism

(Table Chair: Martial Foucault, CEVIPOF – Sciences Po)

• Gaël Brustier (Université Libre de Bruxelles – Cevipol / Fondation Jean Jaurès): “Keeping left: debating the Republic and the nation within the French Socialist Party”
• Vincent Martigny (LinX-Ecole Polytechnique / CEVIPOF-Sciences Po): “National Identity: a Socialist Idea?”
• Moreno Stambazzi (University of Florence) : “Understanding the Left-Wing Appeal to the Nation through the Lens of ‘Souverainisme’”
• Pavlos Vasilopoulos (CEVIPOF – Sciences Po) : “Authoritarianism and Political Choice in France”

13:30-15:00: Lunch break in the CEVIPOF garden

Panel 8: Party Politics: the changing landscapes of ideological struggle

(Table chair: Daphne Halikiopoulou, University of Reading)

• Ferran Archilés (University of Valencia): “Never Nationalists. But always Spanish. The Left and the Nation/s in Spain (1975-2016)”
• Maria Măgurean (University of Bucharest): “The Left Temptation of Balkan Nationalists. A Comparative Case-Study of the Serbian Radical Party and the Greater Romania Party”
• Yılmaz Topuz (Yeditepe University): “The Paradigm of Nationalist Left in Turkey”
• Davide Vittori (LUISS University): “Podemos and Five Star Movement. Populist, Nationalist or What?”

17:00-17:30: Coffee break

17:30: Concluding remarks.

Participants 

• Pierre Alayrac, Ecole Normale Supérieure - Paris
• Dr Ferran Archilés, University of Valencia
• Dr Astrig Atamian, Paris School for Advanced Studies – EHESS
• Alejandro Barón, Johns Hopkins University
• Prof. Laurent Bouvet, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
• Dr Gaël Brustier, Université Libre de Bruxelles – Cevipol / Fondation Jean Jaurès
• Dr Adriano Cirulli, Uninettuno University
• Prof. Daniele Conversi, University of the Basque Country
• Hugo Cuello, Hertie School of Governance
• Dr Emmanuel Dalle Mulle, Catholic University of Leuven
• Dr Nathalie Duclos, University of Toulouse
• Dr Tudi Kernalegenn, Sciences Po Rennes
• Dr Yauheni Kryzhanouski, University of Strasbourg
• Jan Květina, Charles University
• Dr Imanol Lizarralde, Independent Researcher
• Maria Măgurean, University of Bucharest
• Prof. Aurelio Martí Bataller, University of Valencia
• Adrian Matus, Université Sorbonne Paris IV
• Dr Ioannis Moutsis, Independent Researcher
• Selim Nadi, CHSP – Sciences Po / Universität Bielefeld
• Prof. Ephraim Nimni, Queen’s University Belfast
• Dr Paolo Perri, Università della Calabria
• Dr Teresa Pullano, University of Basel
• Canan Şahin, Middle East Technical University of Ankara
• Moreno Stambazzi, University of Florence
• Dr Bilgen Sütçüoglu,Yeditepe University
• Yılmaz Topuz, Yeditepe University
• Dr Pavlos Vasilopoulos, CEVIPOF – Sciences Po
• Davide Vittori, LUISS University

• Prof. Michael Collins, University College London
• Prof. Sudhir Hazareesingh, University of Oxford
• Prof. Ben Jackson, University College Oxford
• Prof. Jon Fox, University of Bristol
• Prof. Laurent Bouvet, Université Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
• Prof. Florence Faucher, CEE – Sciences Po
• Prof. Rémi Lefebvre, Université Lille 2
• Prof. Michaël Foessel, LinX – Ecole Polytechnique
• Prof. Martial Foucault, CEVIPOF – Sciences Po
• Prof. Anne-Marie Thiesse, ENS – Ulm

• Dr. Vincent Martigny, Ecole Polytechnique – LinX / CEVIPOF
• Prof. Gil Delannoi, CEVIPOF – Sciences Po
• Prof. Daphne Halikiopoulou, University of Reading

Assistant Chair

David Copello, CEVIPOF-Sciences Po