The First Symposium: Citizenship after Orientalism
Monday, 6 February 2012, 10:00 - Saturday, 11 February 2012, 13:00
Milton Keynes
The Open University held its first six-day Symposium 'Citizenship after Orientalism' in February 2012. The Symposium included the Conference 'Opening the Boundaries of Citizenship', an International PhD School 'Tracing Colonialism and Orientalism in Social and Political Thought', and a series of workshops addressing specific topics on critical new ways of conceptualising citizenship.
Keynote speakers:
- Bryan Turner (CUNY) 'City, Nation, Globe: Three Movements in the History of Citizenship'
- Paul Gilroy (LSE) 'Subjects in the kettle: Notes on citizenship, dissent, and securitocracy'
- Judith Butler (University of California) 'Self-Determination, Palestinian Statehood, and the Anarchist Impasse' (Open University intranet only)
- Engin Isin (The Open University) Inaugural Lecture 'Citizens Without Frontiers?' (A script of the lecture is also available)
The Symposium was organised by the European Research Council funded project Oecumene: Citizenship after Orientalism based at The Open University. The project will offer further symposiums, the next one of which will take place 12 - 13 November 2012 in London. Each symposium will focus on specific aspects connected with reconsidering citizenship beyond Eurocentrism.
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Upcoming events
Muslim family law as a site of citizenship
24 May 2013
Citizenship in the European Union: Twenty years after Maastricht
27 June 2013 (All day) - 28 June 2013 (All day)
Past events
Screening of 'Mia' (2001)
16 May 2013
"Acts of angry writing: ethics, subjectivity and agency"
9 May 2013 (All day)
Sovereignty after Orientalism: devotee-citizens in a guru's court in south India
9 May 2013 (All day) - 10 May 2013 (All day)
Oecumene: Citizenship after Orientalism is funded by an European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant (Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour ERC-AG-SH2).
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