https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/NATI5763?type=COREThe aim of this master class is to familiarize students with state of the art research in nationalism studies. The main objective of the course is to help students submitting their thesis this year to formulate a clear and relevant reserach question or hypothesis, identify key literature and theories relevant to the research and to find a research methodology that fits the purpose of the project. During the course, students will critically engage with cutting edge research and apply them to their own research proposal. In addition, students will have the opportunity to discuss their resarch ideas with Rogers Brubaker.This year, the course will focus on the legacy of Ernest Gellner. Students singing up for the course will attend a 3-day conference commemorating the centenary of Ernest Gellner's birth by bringing together leading scholars in the field to discuss the contemporary research agenda and challenges of nationalism studies.Ernest Gellner (1925-1995) was not only one of the pioneers of nationalism studies, but also the founder of Central European University's Center for the Study of Nationalism, the institutional predecessor of the Nationalism Studies Program. The establishment of the research center in 1993 was necessitated by the growing political relevance of nationalist politics and scholarly interest in violent nationalism. At the time of the revival of nationalist doctrines in the early 1990s, nationalism studies was dominated by historical and macrosociological approaches. The main concern for scholars in the field was to identify the historical roots and sociological foundations of resurgent nationalism in order to make policy recommendations in order to mitigate and or pre-empt nationalist conflicts.Since then, the field of nationalism studies has expanded significantly and became a genuine interdisciplinary field that focuses not only on violent nationalist conflicts but banal and everyday manifestations of nationalism, nationalist discourse, national feeling, prejudice, racism, ethnic mobilization, transnational diaspora engagement, multiculturalism, minority rights, and economic nationalism. In addition, nationalism studies left behind its original Eurocentrism and has incrementally become a global research agenda with a strong focus on nationalism in the Global South.The diversification of the disciplinary perspectives and the broadening of the thematic scope enriched nationalism studies significantly, but it also made dialogue more difficult. Contemporary scholars in the different subfields of nationalism studies often fail to follow developments in other subfields. To overcome the methodological and thematic compartmentalization, the presentations will try to draw together the various developments in schools of nationalism studies into a single, coherent picture. Ernest Gellner's centenary provides a unique opportunity to see the whole interdisciplinary field in the perspective of research in the past 30 years.