Citizenship Identities Governance

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, dozens of walls have been erected between and within nation-states. Why? What are these walls doing--materially, performatively, symbolically? What is their relationship to the erosion of state sovereignty? What is the nature of state and popular investments in them, especially when they don't 'work'?

This special keynote talk will be given by Professor Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley, and will include responses from Professor Stuart Elden, Department of Geography, Durham University, and Dr Raia Prokhovnik, Director of CCIG's new Bodies Research Programme and a Reader in the Department of Politics and International Studies at The Open University. A reception will follow this event from 4.30pm onwards. Attached below is a flyer for the event - please distribute widely.