Terror and the Loss of Citizenship - Christian Joppke - Public Lecture

Type: 
Lecture
Audience: 
Open to the Public
Building: 
Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Room: 
Popper
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 6:00pm
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Date: 
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm

The Central European University

Nationalism Studies Program

cordially invites you to a lecture by

Christian Joppke

University of Bern, Switzerland

 

 

 

Terror and the Loss of Citizenship

 

Terror in the name of God and the specter of returning fighters for the so-called “Islamic State” have recently moved some Western states, including Britain and Canada, to revoke the citizenship of terrorists. To critics, this constitutes a “return to banishment”, a “fate universally decried by civilized people”, as an American Supreme Court Chief Justice put it over 50 years ago. In a double reflection on the changing nature of terror and citizenship, this lecture defends denationalization as, in principle, the adequate response to terror, which is no ordinary crime but attack on the fundaments of citizenship. But what is right in principle may not be the prudent thing to do, because denationalization raises serious practicality problems.

Tuesday, 20 January at 6.00 p.m.
Monument Building Popper Room

 

 

 

Christian Joppke holds the chair in general sociology at the University of Bern, Switzerland.  He is also an Honorary Professor in the Department of Political Science and Government, University of Aarhus, Denmark. He received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989. He previously taught at the University of Southern California; European University Institute; University of British Columbia, Vancouver; International University Bremen, and The American University of Paris. He also held research fellowships at Georgetown University and the Russell Sage Foundation, New York. His recent books are Legal Integration of Islam: A Transatlantic Comparison (with John Torpey) (Harvard University Press 2013), Citizenship and Immigration (Polity 2010), Veil: Mirror of Identity (Polity 2009), and The Secular State Under Siege: Religion and Politics in Europe and America (Polity 2015).