Invited Lectures

  • ‘Why Humans Fight’ book debate, ULB, Brussels, Belgium, 15 March, 2024 (invited speaker);
  • ‘How War Victories and War Defeats Shape Nationalist Narratives’, ULB, Brussels, Belgium, 14 March, 2024 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Warrior Ethos and the Spirit of Nationalism’, Eastern Sociological Society conference,  Washington DC, USA, 1 March 2024.
  • ‘Why Soldiers Kill? The Emotional Dynamics of the Battlefield Experiences’, The Hamburg Institute for Social Research (HIS), Hamburg, Germany, 16 January, 2024 (invited speaker);
  •  ‘Nationalism and Cultural Diversity in Contemporary Europe’, Challenges of Monitoring in the European Multicultural Environment conference, Institute for Social Sciences, University of Belgrade, Serbia 6-9 December 2023 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Historical Sociology and the War in Ukraine’ Sociological Association of Ukraine annual conference, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine (via zoom), 1 December 2023 (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘The Emotional Dynamics of Fighting on the Battlefield’, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK (30 November, 2023) (invited speaker);
  • ‘Nationalism and Crimean War seminar debate’ University of Oslo, Norway (6-7 November 2023) (invited speaker);
  • ‘Wars, nationhood and the state formation in the Balkans’, Breaking the Silence workshop, Bethlehem, Palestine (10-11 September, 2023) (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘Why do Combatants Fight?: The Irish Republican Army and the Bosnian Serb Army Compared’ Breaking the Silence workshop, Bethlehem, Palestine (10-11 September, 2023) (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘Emotions on the Battlefield: The Experience of 1990s Wars in former Yugoslavia’ Breaking the Silence workshop, Bethlehem, Palestine (10-11 September, 2023) (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘Why Humans Fight book debate’ ASA PWSC conference, 17 August 2023, Philadelphia, USA (invited speaker);
  • ‘Nationalism and the Golden Age in the Balkans’, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Austria, Centre for South East European Studies Doctoral Colloquium Summer, 27 June, 2023 (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘Nationalism and the Micro-Group Solidarities’,  ASEN Summer School, University of Zadar, Croatia, 12-17 June, 2013;
  • “Nationalism, War and Deep Comradeship: The Dynamics of Solidarity on the Battlefield”, Nationalism, War and Defeat Conference, Copenhagen University, Denmark 24-15 May, 2023; (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘Nationalism, Organised Violence and Group Solidarity’ IUC Dubrovnik, Croatia ‘Divided Societies annual conference ‘Nationalism and Violence’, 7-12 May 2023;
  • ‘The Monopoly of Violence and Civil War’ ULB conference on sociology of control, Brussels, Belgium, 19-20 April, 2023; (invited speaker);
  • ‘The Experience of Killing on the Battlefield’ COSMOS talks, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Italy (21 March 2023) (invited speaker);
  • ‘Violence and the Apocalypse’ South East Technological University, Waterford, Ireland sociology conference (24 March, 2023) (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘Why Humans Fight’ book debate, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK (22 February, 2023) (invited speaker);
  • ‘Kultura sjecanja’ debate, Rekom forum for peace and reconciliation Zagreb, Croatia 12th December 2022 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Zašto se ljudi bore?’ debate, University of Zagreb, Department of Sociology, Zagreb, Croatia, 9th October 2022 (invited speaker);
  • ‘The Magnitude of Nationhood: Nationalist Ideologies in Ireland and Southeast Europe in the early 20th century’ Ireland and Croatia in a comparative historical perspective conference, Zagreb, Croatia, 8th October 2022 (invited speaker);
  • ‘What is nationalism?’ University of Zagreb, Croatia, 7th October 2022 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Why do Humans Fight?’, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 5th October 2022 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Nationalisms and Wars as the Current Global Threats’ Unknown Wars conference, European Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Odessa, Ukraine, 15th July 2022 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Ethnic Relations and Education in Ireland’, International Symposium on Educational Development and Rights Protection in China’s Ethnic Minority Areas, Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 2 July 2022 (invited speaker);
  • ‘The Future of Violence’ at ‘The Past, Present and Future of Mass Violence: Debates and Directions’ conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 28th and 29th 2022 (invited speaker);
  • ‘The Many Faces of Nationalism’ at the Festival of Reconciliation conference, Novi Sad, Serbia 27th June, 2022 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Sociology and War’ BSA event ‘Sociological Perspective on War and Peace, British Sociological Association London, UK, 9th June 2022 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Nationalism and the Golden Age’, ASEN Summer School, University of Zadar, Croatia, 6th June 2022;
  • ‘Between Deep Comradeship and Nationalism: The Social Dynamics of Solidarity on the Battlefield’, at ‘Theorising National Solidarity’ conference, Sde Boker, Ben-Gurion University, Israel, May 23-25, 2022 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Beyond Dialogue: The Rhetoric of Conspiracy Theories’ Ricca Edmondson-Wörner Memorial Colloquium, NUI, Galway, Ireland (invited speaker); 23 May, 2022.
  • Discussant at the ASN convention panel ‘Categorisations and Identifications: the Slovene Case’, New York, USA, 7th May 2022 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Covid 19 and Nationalist Conspiracies’, British Sociological Association, London, UK virtual conference, 22 April 2022.
  • ‘Organised Violence: The Sociological Reflections’ University of Sarajevo public lecture series, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 11 April 2022 (invited speaker);
  • ‘The Emotional Dynamics of Killing on the Battlefield’ at War and Emotions from the Perspective of Soldiers and Veterans workshop, University of Bergen, Norway 25 March 2022 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Nationalism Studies Today’ a round table on the state of art of nationalism studies, CEU, Vienna, University of Leiden and Loughborough University, 16 March 2022 invited speaker);
  • ‘Covid 19 and Nationalist Conspiracies’, University of Belgrade, Serbia workshop ‘Covid 19 and Nationalism’, 3-8 March 2022;
  • ‘Nationalism, National Past and Covid 19’ roundtable at the IFDT, Belgrade, University of Belgrade, 7 March, 2022 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Grounded Nationalisms: discussion with Prof Sinisa Malesevic’ University of Lund, Sweden, 25 February 2022 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Waging Wars and Making States’ Department of Sociology, Harvard University, US 24 February 2022 (invited speaker);
  • ‘The Symbolic State’ a book debate at Edinburgh University, UK, 27 January 2022. (invited speaker);
  • ‘Plotting against Our Country: Covid 19, Nationalisms, and Conspiracy Theories’ Nationalism and Covid 19 workshop, University College, Dublin, Ireland 13 January 2022;
  • ‘War, Violence and Ideologies: Balkans from 19th century until today’, 99 Association of Independent Intellectuals, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 5 December 2021 (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘Pride and Shame on the Battlefield’ Honour and Shame Conference, University College, Dublin, Ireland, 3rd December 2021;
  • ‘Thesis Eleven at 40 debate’ Melbourne, Australia, 18 November 2021 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Resurrecting National Greatness: The Role of Golden Age Myths in the Formation of Post-Yugoslav States’, War did not End: Ex-Yugoslavia Three Decades Later conference, Wirth Institute, University of Alberta, Canada 4-5 November 2021 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Darwinian Social Evolution and Social Change’ a book debate at ASEN events, London, UK 28 October 2021 (invited speaker);
  • ‘The Sociology of War and Violence’ Nanyang Technological University, Singapore September 27, 2021 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Nationalisms, Conspiracy Theories and Pandemics in the Longue Durée’, ASN/APSA roundtable ‘Nationalism, Populism and Covid 19’, 30 September 2021, APSA general conference Seattle, USA (invited speaker);
  • ‘State of Nationalism Studies’ Association for the Study of Nationalities, 16 September, New York, USA (invited speaker);
  • ‘Commentary on Power and Crime at ‘Political Power, Criminality and Conflict’ workshop, University Santo Tomas, Medellin & IEPRI, University of Colombia, Bogota, Colombia, 10 June 2021 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Nationalism in South-East Europe’ Debate, LSE, London, UK, 11 May 2021 (invited speaker);
  • ‘War and Group Solidarity: from Ibn Khaldun to Ernest Gellner and beyond’ Ernest Gellner Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 8-10 May 2021 (invited speaker);
  • Book Debate on ‘Paramilitarism’, 8 May 2021, ASN conference, New York (invited speaker);
  • Book Debate on ‘Gangsters and Other Statesmen’, 9 May 2021, ASN conference, New York (invited speaker);
  • ‘Living in a Nation-centric World’, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory Belgrade, Serbia, 22 April, 2021 (invited speaker);
  • ‘The Sociology of Genocide’, Holocaust and Genocide Studies: Looking Backward, Moving Forward conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 9 April, 2021 (invited key note speaker);
  • Book Debate on ‘The Past Will Not Heal Us’, 10 December 2020, Maynooth University, Dublin, Ireland (invited speaker);
  • ‘Nationalism and Cultural Diversity’ 9 December 2020, London Metropolitan University, UK (invited speaker);
  • Book Debate on ‘Grounded Nationalisms’, Max Weber book roundtable EUI, Florence, Italy, 18 November 2020 (invited speaker);
  • Book Debate on ‘Paramilitarism’, 16 November 2020, NIOD, Amsterdam, Netherlands (invited speaker);
  • ‘Nationalism, the State and Covid 19 in Europe and Asia’ roundtable discussion organised by the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, India and the Centre for Nationalism Studies, Sarajevo, BiH 18 August 2020 (online event, invited speaker);
  • ‘Small’ and ‘Greater’ Nations: Empire and Nationalism in the nineteenth century, Ireland and the Balkans’, New Approaches to the History of Nationalism, Leiden University, Netherlands  23 June 2020 (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘Grounded Nationalisms in Space and Time’, New Approaches to the History of Nationalism, Leiden University, Netherlands 22 June 2020 (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘Balkan Wars, State Formation and Nationalism’, Central and Eastern Europe: Past, Present and Future, University of Limerick, Ireland, 28 February 2020 (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘The Global Rise of Organised Brutality’ Doctors Without Borders Conference, Barcelona, Spain 13-14 February 2020 (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘Balkan Armies and Balkan Societies in the 19th and early 20th centuries’, at ‘The Development of Balkan Armies 1804-1912’ Workshop,  The Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Sofia, Bulgaria, 6 December 2019;
  • ‘The Revolutionary Violence’ Roundtable on G. Lawson’s new book ‘Anatomies of Revolution’, SSHA conference,  Chicago, USA,  22 November 2019 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Small’ and ‘Great’ Nations: Nationalist Movements in Ireland and the Balkans’, University of Ljubljana and the Embassy of Ireland in Slovenia, Ljubljana, 28 October, 2019 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Nacionalizam i drustvena moc’ Croatian Journalists Association, Zagreb, Croatia (27 October 2019); (invited speaker);
  • ‘Organizirano nasilje i historijska sociologija’ Department of Sociology, University of Zadar, Croatia 7 October 2019 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Nacionalizam i suvremeni svijet’ Department of Sociology, University of Zadar, Croatia, 8 October 2019 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Nationalisms  in the Longue Durée’, Nationalism and Citizenship conference, University of Portsmouth, UK 4-5 July, 2019 (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘Nationalisms and Multiculturalisms’ North Minzu University, Yinchuan, China , 27 June, 2019 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Why Nationalism is not going away?’ Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University, Sweden, 21 May (invited speaker);
  • ‘Why Combatants Fight? The Social Experiences of IRA and VRS’ Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, Sweden, 15 May (invited speaker);
  • ‘The Historical Dynamics of Organised Violence’, Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University, Sweden, 9 May (invited speaker);
  • Urban Violence Roundtable, British Academy, London, UK, 17 April (invited speaker);
  • ‘Beyond the Hot and the Banal: Grounding Nationalisms in Space and Time’, ‘Where is nationalism?’ Resilience and pervasiveness of nationalism in the 21st century globalised world conference, Graz, Austria, 10-11 April, 2019 (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘War, State Formation and the Capstone Empires’, Anthropology of War in the Roman Period conference, University College, London, UK, 9th February 2019 (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘In the Shadow of Organised Death: The Rise of Violence in History’, University of Athens, Greece, 4 December 2018 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Great Nations and Small Empires: Nationalist Movements in Ireland and the Balkans’ The Politics of Conflict and Transformation: Northern Ireland in Comparative Perspective conference, 23 November 2018, RIA, Dublin, Ireland (invited speaker);
  • ‘Was Total War an Exception? Organised Violence and the Legacy of 20th century’, 1918: Pathways to the Future conference, 7-8 November 2018, Stockholm, Sweden (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘War and the State Formation in the Balkans’,  ‘War and the Formation of the Greek State’ conference, Corfu, Greece 28-29 September 2018 (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘Grounded Nationalisms’ Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK, September 9-11, (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘Grounded Nationalisms and Cultural Diversities’, University of Berlin, Germany 6-8 September (invited speaker);
  • ‘Grounding Nationalism: Collins, Durkheim and Weber’, The Sociology of Randall Collins Conference, UCD, Dublin, Ireland 4 September 2018;
  • ‘War and peoplehood through time: Towards the sociological longue durée’, ‘Warfare and Peoplehood conference’, Vienna, Austria 17-19 June 2018 (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘The Rise of Organised Brutality’ Debate, Violence, Space and the Political Conference, NUI, Galway, Ireland, 7-9 June 2018 (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘Beyond the New and Old: Nationalism and the Corporate Military Power’ Divided Societies Seminar: New and Old Nationalisms. Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia (6-12 May, 2018) (invited speaker);
  • ‘The Rise of Organised Brutality: Historical Sociology and Violence’, Durham University, UK 1st May 2018 (invited speaker);
  • ‘The Transformation of Organised Violence through Time’, Peace and Conflict in the Balkans conference, University of Rijeka, Croatia 16-17 April 2018 (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘Corporate Warriors’ and Nationalism in the 21st Century’ TCD Department of Sociology, Dublin, Ireland, 13 December 2017 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Beyond War and Peace: Historical Sociology and Organised Violence’, Neither War, Nor Peace Conference, Ecole normale supérieure Paris, France, 12-13 October 2017 (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘Nationalism and Diversity: Past, Present and Future’, “Governing Diversity in the 21st Century. Quest for National Unity and Contested Accommodation of Minorities in Heterogeneous States’, Bratislava, Slovakia, 21-23 September, 2017 (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘Nationalism and Democracy’ European University of Tirana, Albania, 25 July, 2017 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Why do Combatants Fight? Irish Republican Army and the Bosnian Serb Army Compared, Oxford University, UK, 18 May (invited speaker);
  • ‘From Sacrifice to Prestige: Serbian and Croatian ‘National Memories’ in the Longue Durée’,  Divided Societies Seminar: Memory Wars. Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia (8-14 May, 2017) (invited speaker);
  • ‘Below Ethnicity: Cultural Difference and Solidarity on the Frontline’ Boundary Matters: Interdisciplinary Engagements with Ethnic Difference conference, Princeton University, USA, 21-22 April, 2017; (invited speaker);
  • ‘Nationalism and the Sociology of the Long Run’, Anthony D. Smith and the Future of Nationalism conference, LSE, London, 28-29 March, 2017 (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘Statehood and Civil Wars through Time: Coercion, Ideology and Micro-Solidarity’ Violence and Control in Civil Wars: Violent State Making conference, Hamburg Institute for Social Research.  University of Hamburg, Germany  (invited speaker) 7-9 December 2016;
  • ‘Globalisation and Nationalist Subjectivities’ workshop ‘Modern Subjectivities’ Copenhagen University, Denmark, 30 September, 2016 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Nationalism, Collective Trauma and Historical Sociology’ Trauma, Memory and Healing in the Balkans and Beyond’ conference , Sarajevo, BiH 12-14 July, 2016 (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘The Nation-State, War and Emotions’ Workshop ‘The Emotional State’, Queens University Belfast, UK 26th and 27th May, 2016 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Nationalism: Thick or Thin Ideology?’ European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 24 May, 2016 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Is Ideology a Useful Analytical Concept?’ European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 23 May, 2016 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Global Nationalisms and The Pluricultural Projects’ Plurality, Belonging, and the Nation-State conference, Edinburgh, UK, 19 May, 2016 (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘The Rise and Rise of Organised Violence? The Pinker Thesis and Historical Sociology, British Sociological Association Violence and Society Study Group Annual Symposium, Lancaster, UK, 18 May, 2016 (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Globalisation: Friends or Foes?’ Divided Societies Seminar: Is Multiculturalism Dead?. Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia (29 April, 2016) (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘How Old is Human Cruelty?: Towards Pre-Historical Sociology of Violence’ School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI, Galway, Ireland, 5 February 2016 (invited speaker);
  • ‘The Bosnian Serb Military and the Legacies of the 1992-1995 War’ Conference ‘Bosnia in the Aftermath of the Dayton Agreement, 1995-2015’ Maynooth University, Ireland, 18 December 2015 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Social Cohesion and Organised Violence: The Structural Origins of Micro-Solidarity? Swedish Defence University conference ‘Social Cohesion and War’, Stockholm Sweden,  3-4 December 2015 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Why Soldiers Fight? Vojska Republike Srpske and Irish Republican Army Compared’, Conference ‘Interpretation of Yugoslav conflicts and their Consequences’, University of Belgrade, Serbia (13-14 November 2015) (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘Civilisation and Brutality: Towards Historical Sociology of Violence’, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia, 13 November, 2015 (invited speaker):
  • ‘Nationalism and the Formation of Modern Subjectivities’ Workshop ‘World Society and Modern Subjectivities’, the Georg-von-Vollmar-Akademie e.V. in Kochel am See, Munich, Germany (6-8 November 2015) (invited speaker);
  • ‘Do National Identities exist?’, In Search of New Perspectives, Methods and Finer Factors of Identity Formation; From East Asia to the World Conference, Oxford University, St. Anthony’s College, 4-5 September, 2015 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Do Wars Have a Future?’ University of Rijeka, Department of Philosophy, Rijeka, Croatia (20 July 2015) (invited speaker);
  • ‘Sociology and the Decline of Violence Thesis’, The Decline in Violence Roundtable: What are the implications for IR? British International Studies Conference, London, 17-19 June (invited speaker);
  • ‘The Balkan Wars (1912-13) and Serbian Nationalism’, Nationalism in Rising Powers Conference, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (9 May 2015) (invited speaker);
  • ‘Violence before Civilisation: How old is Human Brutality?’ Divided Societies Seminar: The Clash of Civilisations Today. Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia (22 April, 2015) (invited speaker);
  • ‘Civilisations and Organised Violence’, Divided Societies: The Clash of Civilisations in 21st century?, Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia (24 April, 2015) (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘Historical Sociology and The Future of Warfare’, Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo 20 April 2015 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Organised Violence and Modernity’, School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI, Galway, 2 February 2015 (invited speaker);‘The Structure of Micro Level Violence’ Free University of Brussels, Belgium 5 December 2014 (invited speaker);
  • ‘The Structure of Macro Level Violence’ Free University of Brussels, Belgium 4 December 2014 (invited speaker);
  • ‘The Future of Organized Violence’ Free University of Brussels, Belgium 28 November 2014 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Nationalism, Conflict and Violence’ Free University of Brussels, Belgium 28 November 2014 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Theories of Organised Violence’ , Free University of Brussels, Belgium 27 November 2014(invited speaker);
  • ‘The Historical Origins of Organised Violence’, Free University of Brussels, Belgium 14 November 2014 (invited speaker);
  • ‘How Old is  Human Violence?’ University of Kent, UK, (9 October 2014) (invited speaker);
  • ‘The Organization of Military Violence in the 21st century’ University of Lancaster, UK  (15 September 2014) (invited keynote speaker) ;
  • ‘Organisational Foundations of Military Power: Irish Republican Army and the Army of the Serbian Republic in Bosnia Compared’ (with Niall O’Dochartaigh), ECPR Conference, Glasgow, UK; (3-6 September 2014);
  • ‘Historical Sociology and War’:  At the Conference ‘Sociology as History and History as Sociology’ UCD School of Sociology, Dublin (27th August, 2014);
  • ‘Nationalism and Military Power in 20th century and Beyond’ Oxford University, UK (2-3 May, 2014) (invited speaker);
  • ‘The Obsolescence of War in 21st Century? , Divided Societies: War and Peace in the 21st Century, Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia (22-25 April, 2014) (invited speaker);
  • ‘What Sociology can contribute to the Peace and Conflict Studies? Centre for Resolution of International Conflicts Seminar, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (10-11 April, 2014)  (invited speaker);
  • ‘Is Nationalism Inherently Violent? The Nation-States and Wars in the Balkans’: Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), Barcelona, Spain (14 March, 2014) (invited speaker);
  • ‘Nation-States and Nationalisms Today’ Department of Sociology, Graz University, Austria (3 December 2013) (invited speaker);
  • ‘War, Nationalism and State-Building in the Balkans’ Conflict and Political Violence Cycle, Olympia Summer Academy, Olympia, Greece (13th July 2013) (invited speaker);
  • ‘The Micro-Sociology of Violent Conflicts’ Conflict and Political Violence Cycle, Olympia Summer Academy, Olympia, Greece (9th July 2013) (invited speaker);
  • ‘Political Violence and Sociological Theory’ Terrorism and Counterterrorism Cycle, Olympia Summer Academy, Olympia, Greece (7th July 2013) (invited speaker);
  • ‘Ethnicity, Nationalism and Violence’ Conflict and Political Violence Cycle, Olympia Summer Academy, Olympia, Greece (6th July 2013) (invited speaker);
  • ‘Political Violence, Conflict and Sociological Theory’ Conflict and Political Violence Cycle, Olympia Summer Academy, Olympia, Greece (5th July 2013) (invited speaker);
  • ‘Urban Life and Organised Violence’ Urban Violence in the Middle East conference , SOAS, London, UK, (February 13-15, 2013) (invited speaker- could not attend due to illness);
  • ‘Ideology, War Propaganda, and Armed Conflict’, Tuebingen University, Germany (8 January 2013), (invited speaker, could not attend due to illness);
  • ‘Destroying Diversity through Peace’, Yale University, USA Department of Political Science (30 November 2012 ( invited speaker);
  • ‘Where in the World of Nationalisms?’ Are Irish Different? Conference, UCD, Dublin,  (20-21 September 2012) (invited speaker);
  • ‘Fighting a Non-Human Enemy: Modernity and the De-legitimisation of the Adversary’ The Faces of Enmity in International Relations, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium, 8-9 June 2012 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Religion, Violence and Cities’ International Symposium, School of Sociology, QUB, Belfast 28-29 May 2012 (invited speaker/discussant);
  • ‘Nationalisms and Armed Conflicts: The Macro Foundations of Micro Realities’, Armed Conflicts in Comparative Perspective  Conference, NUI Galway, Ireland, 18 May, 2012;
  • ‘Is War Becoming Obsolete?: Historical Sociology and Coercive Power’ Sociological Association of Ireland Keynote Address, NUI, Maynooth, 12 May, 2012 (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘The Mirage of Global Civility: Nationalism in Late Modernity’ Beyond the Island: Transnational Approaches to History Conference. NUI, Galway, Ireland 20-1 April, 2012 (invited speaker);
  • ‘Nationalism and Organised Violence’ Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 20 March, 2012 (invited speaker):
  • ‘Faces of Brutality: Towards a Historical Sociology of Violence’ Inaugural Lecture UCD School Of Sociology, Dublin, Ireland, 22 November, 2011;
  • ‘Organised Violence and Social Order: Towards Micro and Macro Sociology of War’ Invited Panel ‘Is Sociology of War Feasibly/Desirable?’ 106th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, USA 20-23 August 2011; (invited speaker);
  • ‘Can Sociology Explain War?’ Debater at Invited Panel ‘Engaging War: Sociologists Confront National Conflict’ 106th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, USA 20-23 August 2011; (invited speaker);
  • ‘Obliterating Diversity through Peace: Nationalisms and Wars in the Balkans’ Nations, States and Conflict Conference, NUI, Galway, Ireland 15-16 August 2011;
  • ‘Nationalism, War and Democracy’ Invited Panel at the 5th Meeting of the Brazilian National Association for the Studies of Defence ‘Democracy, Defence and the Armed Forces’, Fortaleza, Brazil 8-10 August 2011; (invited speaker);
  • ‘Nation-States without Cities?: Nationalism, War and State Formation in the 19th century Balkans’ 20-21 May 2011, Divided Cities Conference, QUB, Belfast, Northern Ireland (invited speaker);
  • ‘Wars That Make Nations and Wars that Make States: Nationalisms and Wars in the Balkans’ 25-27 March 2011, ‘Nationalisms and Wars’ Conference McGill University, Montreal, Canada;
  • ‘Sociological Theory and Organised Violence’ 5  February, 2011 Keynote speaker p/g SAI conference, NUI, Galway, Ireland (invited keynote speaker);
  • ‘War, Nation-States and Nationalism’ 19 January 2011, Centre for Justice, Violence and Rights, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK (invited speaker);
  • ‘Inter-State Wars and Nationalism’ 17 January 2011, Centre for Conflict Studies, Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK (invited speaker);
  • ‘State and Nation Formation in Denmark and Balkans Compared’ 13 December 2010 ‘State and Nation Formation in 19th century Europe workshop’ , University of Copenhagen, Denmark (invited speaker);
  • ‘Sociology and Warfare’ 10 December, 2010, Departments of War Studies and Leadership and Management, Swedish National Defence College, Stockholm, Sweden (invited speaker);
  • ‘Warfare, Nationalism and Sociology’ 24 November 2010, Department of Sociology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK (invited speaker);
  • ‘Nationalism, War and Solidarity’ 24 September 2010; ‘Nationalism and Organised Violence’ A Conference of the PSAI specialist group on Peace and Conflict, NUI, Galway, Ireland (invited speaker);
  • ‘To Kill and Die for the Nation: War, Nationalism and Group Homogeneity Theory’ 12-17 July 2010, XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, Sweden;
  • ‘Nationalism, War and State in the Balkans: Did Tilly Get It Wrong?’ 28 April 2010, Centre for the Study of Wider Europe, NUI, Maynooth, Ireland (invited speaker);
  • ‘National Identity’ And Popular Mobilisation in Europe: A Critique’, 11 November 2009, ‘National Identity in the Old and New Europe’ Nations and Nationalism 15Th anniversary conference, LSE, London, UK (invited speaker);
  • ‘What is ‘Ethnic’ in ‘Ethnic Conflict’?, 22 May 2009, ‘An Irish Model for Peace’ A Conference of the PSAI specialist group on Peace and Conflict, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (invited speaker);
  • ‘How Pacifist were the Founding Fathers? War and Violence in Classical Social Thought’, 16-18 April 2009 BSA Annual Conference, Cardiff, UK;
  • ‘Ethnicity in Time and Space’ , 15-17 April 2008, “Nationalism, East and West: Civic and Ethnic Conceptions of Nationhood”,, ASEN 17th Annual Conference, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK;
  • ‘The Two Faces of Ethnicity’ 13 December 2007, The Center for Ethnicity and Citizenship, Department of Sociology, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK (invited speaker);
  • ‘Is There Nationalism in Late Modernity: Gellner Revisited., 12-14 September 2007, Beyond the Nation Conference, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland;
  • ‘Ethnic Cleansing and Modernity: Lessons from Bosnia and Rwanda’ 25 May 2007, Comparative Ethnicity Workshop, UCD School of Politics and International Relations, UCD, Dublin, Ireland (invited speaker);
  • ‘Collective Violence, Nationalism and Power: A Sociological Assessment’ , 17-19 April 2007, The Dark Face of Nationalism, ASEN 16th Annual Conference, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK;
  • ‘From Coercion to Legitimacy: Towards Neo-Weberian Theory of Ideology?’ 9-13 July 2006, International Political Science Association XXth World Congress, Fukuoka, Japan.
  • ‘Ethnicity and Nationalism in Contemporary Sociology’ 5 June 2006,  EuroAsia Heritage Foundation and the Institute of Public Engineering, Moscow, Russia  (invited speaker)
  • ‘Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism’,  7 June 2006, Kuban State University, Krasnodar, Russia (invited speaker)
  • ‘Nationalism and the Dominant Ideology Thesis’, 2 June 2005, ASEN Seminar, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK (invited speaker)
  • ‘Between the Macro and Micro Sociology of Ethnic Cleansing’, 1 June 2005, The Dark Side of Democracy Debate, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK (invited speaker)
  • ‘Between the Book and the new Sword: Gellner, Violence and Ideology’ At the conference The Social and Political Relevance of Ernest Gellner’s Thought Today, 21-22 May 2005, NUI Galway, Ireland.
  • ‘Ethnic Cleansing as State-Building: Bosnia and Rwanda compared’ At the conference State Building: Theory and Practice, 16-17 April, 2005, University of Limerick,  Limerick, Ireland  (invited speaker);
  • ‘Sacred Ethnies’: Anthony D. Smith and the Neo-Durkhemian Theory of Nationalism, 23-24 April 2004, The Nationalism Debate, ASEN 14th Annual Conference, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK (invited speaker);
  • La Trahison des Clercs: Intelligentsia in Yugoslavia and its Successor States, 24 April 2003, Department of Political Science, Leiden University, Leiden,  the Netherlands (invited speaker);
  • Political Ideologies in Northern Ireland, 19 June 2003, Boston University Summer School for Post-Graduate Students ‘Communication, Conflict, and the Media’, Galway, Ireland (invited speaker);
  • Genes, Memes and Ethnicity: Can Sociobiology Explain Ethnic Phenomena? At the 29th Annual Sociological Association of Ireland conference ‘Transitions’, April, 2002, Galway, Ireland.
  • Measuring the Invisible: The Conceptual and Methodological Problems in Researching Ethnic Identity. Studying Collective Identity: A Conceptual and Methodological Inquiry Workshop. July 6-7, 2001, Rome, Italy (invited speaker);
  • From Organic Legislators to Organicist Interpreters: Intellectuals in Yugoslavia and Post-YugoslavStates. The workshop in Interpretative Social and Political Analysis, June 29 -30, 2001, Allihies, West   Cork, Ireland;
  • Dominant Ideology in post-Cold War Serbia. A Conference ‘Ethnic Identities and Political Action in Post-Cold War Europe’, September 1-3, 1999, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanti, Greece (invited speaker);
  • Rehabilitating Ideology after Post-Structuralism. A Conference ‘Ideology After Post-Structuralism’, July 1-2, 1999, Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  • Ideology and Legitimation in Serbia and Croatia. The workshop in Interpretative Social and Political Analysis, September 4 -6, 1998, Allihies, West Cork, Ireland.
  • Political Legitimacy in Three Societies: Weber in Yugoslavia, Serbia and Croatia. At the 25th Annual Sociological Association of Ireland conference ‘Political Sociology: The States We Are In’, May 7-10, 1998,Wexford,Ireland.
  • Ustashas and Chetniks: Delegitimisation of an Ethnic Enemy in Serbian and Croatian War-Time Cartoons.  At the conference ‘Freedom of Speech’, April 9-11, 1997,  New Hall College, Cambridge University, Cambridge,  UK.
  • Ethnic Distance and War: Croatia 1992-1993. (October, 1996)  Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria  (invited speaker);
  • Multi-functionality of Cultural Centres in Central and Eastern Europe. 3. Annual meeting of the European Network of Cultural Centres (ENCC, Bruxless), June 1996, Gastaig, Munich, Germany (invited speaker);
  • Koncepti ‘idealnog drustva’ kao odrednice misljenja o odljevu mozgova. (Conceptions of an ‘Ideal Society’ as  Determinants of the  Attitudes to the ‘Brain Drain’ Process). At the annual Croatian Sociological Association  conference ‘The Profession of Sociologist’, April 1994, University of Zagreb, Croatia.
  • Socijalne determinante nacionalne i religijske distance. (Social Determinants of Ethnic and Religious Distance). At the annual Croatian Sociological Association conference ‘The Profession of Sociologist’, April 1993, University of Zagreb, Croatia.
  • Situacijski i anticipacijski defetizam. (Situational and Anticipatory Defeatism). At the Croatian Sociological Association annual  conference ‘Sociology and War’, January 1992, University of Zagreb, Croatia.

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