Seminar: Language, Religion and the Politics of Difference

'Language, religion, and the politics of difference' Professor Rogers Brubaker (UCLA) PLEASE NOTE: Due to a technical problem the video did not record the closing comments of the seminar or the Q&A section. Rogers Brubaker is Professor of Sociology and UCLA Foundation Chair at the University of California, Los Angeles. Brubaker is a world leading authority on ethnicity, nationalism, immigration, citizenship, and social theory. He is the author of many books and articles including Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town (Princeton UP, 2006), Ethnicity without Groups (Harvard UP,2004), Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe ( Cambridge UP 1996) and Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany (Harvard UP 1992). Brubaker is currently working on integrating the study of religion more closely with the study of ethnicity and nationalism, exploring the ambivalent consequences of newly popular genetic modes of explaining human differences for both the everyday experience and the politics of ethnicity, race, and nationhood, and analysing the relation between economic structures and processes and politicized ethnicity and nationalism. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009. Brubaker is a Senior Editor of Theory and Society and a member of the Editorial Board of numerous journals. He serves as a Recurring Visiting Professor in the Nationalism Studies Program of the Central European University in Budapest. May 2012