Keynote lecture 1 by Prof Engin Isin, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL)
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Abstract: Citizenship as an institution of domination and emancipation is performative in the sense that it is an outcome of power. Since the 1980s a new form of power has been gathering force that became briefly visible (and articulable) during the early months of the pandemic in 2020. This is an important moment to revisit different forms of power and their relations to citizenship as political subjectivity and articulate the question on how to understand the relationship between this new form of power – sensory power – and performative citizenship.
Following the lecture, there will be time for Q&A with the speaker.
About the speaker: Engin Isin is Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). His research and teaching focus on doing international politics: the ways in which people constitute themselves as actors or subjects of international politics through performances, movements, and struggles. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Middle East Technical University (Turkey) and graduate degrees from the Universities of Waterloo (MA) and Toronto (PhD). He developed an early interest in continental philosophy and was educated as an historical sociologist and political sociologist. Engin is a chief editor of the journal Citizenship Studies and is the editor of a book series Frontiers of the Political with Rowman & Littlefield International. He is the author of many books and articles, including: Being Political: Genealogies of Citizenship, 2002; Citizens Without Frontiers, 2012; and Being Digital Citizens (with Evelyn S. Ruppert), 2015.
Keynote lecture 2 by Dr. Jean Beaman, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
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Abstract: Based on past and current ethnographic research in the Parisian metropolitan region, I discuss how racial and ethnic minorities understand and respond to their racialization in a context in which race and ethnicity are not legitimate or acknowledged, and how a suspect citizenship is created. I will discuss how racial and ethnic minorities are “citizen outsiders” as evident of France’s “racial project” (Omi and Winant 1994), which marks distinctions outside of explicit categorization. I explore not only how race marks individuals outside of formal categories, but also how people respond to these distinctions in terms of a racism-related issue, here, police violence and brutality against racial and ethnic minorities. I ultimately demonstrate how the problem of state violence illustrates the construction of a suspect citizenship, in which non-white individuals are denied full societal belonging.
Following the lecture, there will be time for Q&A with the speaker.
About the speaker: Jean Beaman is Associate Professor of Sociology, with affiliations with Black Studies, Political Science, Feminist Studies, Global Studies, and the Center for Black Studies Research, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Previously, she was faculty at Purdue University and held visiting fellowships at Duke University and the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). Her research is ethnographic in nature and focuses on race/ethnicity, racism, international migration, and state-sponsored violence in both France and the United States. She is author of Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France (University of California Press, 2017), as well as numerous articles and book chapters. Her current book project is on suspect citizenship and belonging, anti-racist mobilization, and activism against police violence in France. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University. She is also an Editor of H-Net Black Europe, an Associate Editor of the journal, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, Deputy Editor of the journal City & Community, and a Corresponding Editor for the journal Metropolitics/Metropolitiques.