In July 2023, Alexander Osipov participated in the European Conference of the Association for the Study
of Nationalities (ASN). The conference “Reframing Nationalism and Populism in the Context of
Securitization: Political Struggles and Scholarly Debates” was held on 6-8 July, 2023 in Cluj-Napoca,
Romania. It was co-organized by the Babeș-Bolyai University in cooperation with the ASN and the
Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities. The thematic emphasis was on the interlinkages
between the perceptions, representations, and realities of the semi-peripheral conditions related to
nationalism and populism. Alexander Osipov made a presentation entitled “Staging indigeneity in Eurasia:
moving in opposite directions.” His paper was devoted to the differences and similarities in public
policies and discourses targeting indigenous peoples in Russia and Ukraine.