PSIA Seminar: Two Concepts of Nationalism

Mikayel Zolyan, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law, National Academy of Sciences, is a political analyst and historian, specializing in ethnic conflict, politics of nationalism and ethnicity, as well as issues of democratization and nation-building in the post-Soviet context. Zolyan holds a Ph.D. in history from the Yerevan State University and an MA in Nationalism Studies from the Central European University in Budapest. Zolyan currently serves as an Assistant Professor at the Brusov Yerevan State Linguistic University’s UNESCO Chair of Democracy, and a senior research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law, National Academy of Sciences. He has been a visiting scholar at the Institute of Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies at the University of California at Berkeley (February-June 2010) and at the University of California Los Angeles’ Department of Sociology (January-May 2008), as well as a visiting researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.