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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Deorientalizing Citizenship?
12-13 November 2012, London, UK
What images of citizenship are emerging in relation to the processes of decolonization and deorientalization? Keynote speakers Saba Mahmood and Walter Mignolo together with a selection of panellists will address this question from multi-disciplinary perspectives.
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Upcoming events
Book presentation: Shakespeare in India
31 May 2012 (All day)
The Second Symposium: Deorientalizing Citizenship?
12 November 2012 - 13 November 2012
Past events
Citizenship: within or beyond democracy?
27 April 2012 (All day)
The emergence of the sexual citizen
24 April 2012 (All day)
Citizens Without Frontiers
17 April 2012
Citizenship and new Orientalisms
12 April 2012 (All day)
Oecumene: Citizenship after Orientalism is funded by an European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant (Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour ERC-AG-SH2).
