INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIP, STATE, AND IDENTITY IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD

Organizers

This conference deals, theoretically and empirically, with the changing nature of citizenship in a globalizing world. In doing so, it explores the ways in which the interactions between identity-based demands and citizenship rights are constructed and have generated impacts on state-society relations. In this sense, it provides a platform for theoretical and empirical discussion for scholars from different disciplines, different research orientations, and expertise on particular cases.

PROGRAM

1. SESSION (10.30 – 12.30) - Citizenship, State, and Identity: theoretical, philosophical and thematic discussions
   John Rex: The Basic Elements of Systematic Theory of Ethnic Relations Applied to Turkey
   Jan Nederveen Pieterse: Multiculturalism, Citizenship and Globalization
2. SESSION (14.00 – 17.00) - Citizenship, State, and Identity: Views from the “Western” Societies
   Thomas Faist: Social Citizenship in the European Union: Nested Membership
   Ayşe Çağlar: Citizenship Light: Paradoxical State Practice and Multiple Rules of Membership
   Bobby Sayyid: Citizenship, Identity and Religion
   Tomas Hammar: Citizenship in Nordic Countries

3. SESSION (9.30- 12.30) - Citizenship, State, and Identity: Views from a “non-Western” Setting
   Fuat Keyman: Post-National Citizenship and Democratisation in Turkey
   Hasan Bülent Kahraman: Citizenship and Identity: Rethinking Turkish Modernity in Relation to Europe.
   Engin F. Işın: Citizenship After Orientalism and Synoecism
   Banu Helvacıoğlu: Masculinity and Morality in the Constitution of Citizenship.
4. SESSION (14.00 – 17.00) - Citizenship, State, and Identity: the Turkish Experiences
   Nilüfer Göle: Homogenous Secular Public Sphere Challenged by Cutural Difference and Globalization in Turkey.
   Arus Yumul: Minorities and Citizenship in Turkey.
   Ahmet İçduygu: Citizenship Caught by Dichotomies – Citizen, Nation-State and International Migration.
   Kemal Kirişçi: Betraying a Civic Definition of Turkish Citizenship: The Case of Kurds in the Early Republican Era.

PARTICIPANTS

• Ayşe Çağlar – Free University, Germany
• Thomas Faist – University of Bremen, Germany
• Nilüfer Göle – Bogazici University, Turkey
• Thomas Hammar – University of Stockholm, Sweden
• Banu Helvacıoğlu – Bilkent University, Turkey
• Ahmet İçduygu – Bilkent University, Turkey
• Engin Işın – York University, Canada
• Ayşe Kadıoğlu – Sabancı University, Turkey
• Hasan Bülent Kahraman – Sabancı University, Turkey
• Fuat Keyman – Bilkent University, Turkey
• Kemal Kirişçi – Bogazici University, Turkey
• Jan Nederveen Pieterse – Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands
• John Rex – University of Warwick, UK
• Boby Sayyid – University of Manchester, UK
• Arus Yumul – Bilgi University, Turkey