Citizenship and Citoyenneté were a promise of the emerging revolutionary and democrat-ic nation states. How can such ideas and values be kept alive today under the conditions of globalization, migration and cultural difference? In the present debates feelings of uncertainty and anxiety arise in the attempt to defend the consent of citizenship against the dynamics of migration and the aspirations of cultural and ethnic minorities. A grey area has developed between citizenship granted by the constitution and the process of socialization beyond the limits of ethnic, religious, social, and political communities. State power and civilian violence – on the Indian subcontinent under the BJP government, but also within the European community – endanger civil society and its rights of the constitution. Facing these realities, what measures are necessary to make the general public aware of the rights and wrongs of granting citizenship, balancing the commitment of equality, religious freedom, political participation and cultural diversity on the one hand, and the different claims of identity from a world not conforming with western standards on the other? How should we conceive of a European citizenship and its rights, and imagine a »citizenship of the world«?
Philip D. Murphy
Embassador of the United States of America, Berlin
Still True: Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You. Ask What You Can Do For Your Country
Thursday, October 27, 2011, 07:15 pm, Senatssaal, Unter den Linden 6, 1st floor
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Dieter Gosewinkel
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin / University of Oxford
Staatsbürgerschaft. Kämpfe um Zugehörigkeit in der europäischen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts.
Thursday, November 10, 2011, 07:15 pm, Senatssaal, Unter den Linden 6, 1st floor
Moderation:
Jürgen Kocka (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin)
Yaron Ezrahi
Hebrew University Jerusalem
Radical Nationalism against Democratic Citizenship in Israel
Thursday, November 24, 2011, 07:15 pm, Senatssaal, Unter den Linden 6, 1st floor
Moderation:
Moshe Zimmermann
Ayelet Shachar
University of Toronto
The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality
Thursday, December 01, 2011, 07:15 pm, Senatssaal, Unter den Linden 6, 1st floor
Respondenz:
Samantha Besson, z.Zt. Fellow am Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Shalini Randeria
Universität Zürich
Enteignen und Entrechten. Verarmung und Staatsbürgerschaftsrechte im neoliberalen Indien
Thursday, December 08, 2011, 07:15 pm, Room 1.101, Dorotheenstr. 24, Access via Hegelplatz
Okwui Enwezor
New York, Direktor Haus der Kunst München
Civitas, Citizenship, Civility: Art and the Civic Imagination
Thursday, January 12, 2012, 06:00 pm, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
Norbert Lammert
Präsident des Deutschen Bundestages
Demokratischer Rechtsstaat und multikulturelle Bürgergesellschaft
Tuesday, February 07, 2012, 07:15 pm, Senatssaal, Unter den Linden 6, 1st floor
