Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance

The Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) is a University designated Centre of Research Excellence

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Past events

To Make Live or Let Die? Emergent Assemblages for the Protection of Surplus Populations - Tania Li Lecture

2 February 2010, 15:30 - 17:00

Large numbers of people in the global south have no access to land or a living wage. They are 'surplus' to the needs of capital, and not plausibly described as a labour reserve. What are the social forces that might assemble to keep these people alive, and why would they do so?

CCIG Forum 10

2 February 2010, 10:30 - 18:00

February's forum includes two seminars -  Nando Sigona from the University of Oxford and Marja Kim Hutchings from the London School of Economics - and a CCIG Keynote Lecture by Tania Li from the University of Toronto.  In addition, Jane McCarthy and Rachel Thomson will be leading a session on Young People and Intergenerational Relationships.

CCIG Forum 9

10 December 2009, 10:30 - 17:00

This month's forum includes a range of very interesting seminars given by three visiting scholars: Jose Hernandez from Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) in Madrid, Spain; Marja Hannele Keranen from the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland; and Angharad Closs Stephens from Durham University.

CCIG/OpenSpace Seminar: Citizenship in the 'In-Between City'

3 December 2009, 12:00 - 16:30

The Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance and the OpenSpace Research Centre are hosting a joint seminar with Dr Patricia Wood from the Department of Geography at York University in Toronto, Canada. The seminar will also be preceded by a postgraduate workshop open to all research students affiliated to either Centre.

Walled States, Waning Sovereignty: Wendy Brown Keynote

25 November 2009, 14:00 - 16:30

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'?

Book Launch: Narratives of Identity and Place

24 November 2009, 17:00 - 18:30

This book launch celebrates the release of Dr Stephanie Taylor’s Narratives of Identity and Place (Routledge, 2009), which investigates the continuing importance of place for women’s identities, employing a theoretical and empirical approach based on previous work in narrative and discursive psychology.

A Caring Europe? Care, Migration and Gender

12 November 2009 (All day) - 13 November 2009 (All day)

The workshop is funded by the European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop programme. It brings together researchers from Europe whose work addresses issues of care, migration and gender from varying disciplinary and thematic perspectives, in particular including early career researchers.

BSA/CCIG Rethinking Concepts: Families, Intimacies and Personal Relationships

6 November 2009, 11:00 - 16:00

This colloquium, organized by the BSA Families and Relationships Study Group, aims to encourage critical dialogue on the value of prominent concepts used in the study of contemporary living, notably families, intimacies and personal relationships.

CCIG Forum 8

3 November 2009, 10:30 - 16:30

This Forum will open with an introduction to CCIG’s newest Research Programme on Bodies, led by its Director Raia Prokovnik.

Book Launch: Publics, Politics and Power

29 October 2009, 18:00 - 19:00

Publicness appears to be in decline or retreat in the face of markets, consumerism and individualism. Yet questions of public participation, public governance and the reform of public services are at the top of the political agenda in many countries.