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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