The Late Ottoman and Russian Empires: Citizenship, Belonging, and Difference

FAIN: FS-50369-13

George Washington University (Washington, DC 20052-0001)
Dina R. Khoury (Project Director: March 2013 to May 2016)

A three-week seminar for sixteen college and university teachers to explore comparative dimensions of citizenship and related issues in the late Ottoman and Russian empires.

Three-week scholarly and cross-disciplinary summer seminar investigating the common understandings of citizenship, communal belonging and political activism, within the Ottoman and Russian historiographies.

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Citizenship and Subjecthood in Comparative Perspective: A Workshop (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Citizenship and Subjecthood in Comparative Perspective: A Workshop
Abstract: The Department of History at George Washington University is organizing a two-day workshop on citizenship and subjecthood in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa that will be held on March 2 and 3, 2017. The workshop is designed to foster conversations across areas connected by shared histories of colonial/imperial rule, migration and forms of knowledge production. The workshop is organized around three loosely defined themes: frontiers/borderlands and the making of subjects/citizens; law and the “right to have rights;” transnational/transimperial subjecthood/citizenship. There is no set statement or agenda for workshop. We have designed it around people that we thought could have a stimulating and productive discussion on the broad themes of the workshop. We will read each other’s papers (some of it work-in-progress), and hope to bring to our discussion a set of conceptual questions that inform our writing on citizenship and subjecthood. Professor Fredrick Cooper will deliver the keynote address and will participate in our discussions over the two days.
Author: Dina Khoury (convener)
Date: 3/2/2017
Location: Department of History, George Washington University

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