Conference

Citizenship became recently a major issue in the Greek political and intellectual agenda; the legislative reform of 2010 signified a major shift for the Greek nationality code. The study of citizenship is a constantly open intellectual and political challenge in Europe of our days. Issues related to citizenship are directly linked to the core of a critical social theory and political science and may potentially contribute to the formation of various communication channels among different disciplines in humanities and history. An interdisciplinary approach of citizenship on the basis of different historical experiences and studies of political participation, social integration and/or exclusion as well as actual perceptions of nationality aiming at the migrants’ inclusion are the topics of an international conference which will take place in Athens at the Goethe Institute in 15-16 October 2010.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15th 2010


16.00: Introductory remarks

Dimitris Christopoulos, Panteion University

Gerasimos Kouzelis, University of Athens


16.15 – 18.30: 1st Session:

Individuality and communalism within modern citizenship

Chair: Prof. Grigoris Ananiadis (Panteion University)


Citizenship in America and France during the 19th century: Tocquville’s view

Prof. Stavros Konstantakopoulos (Panteion University)

Between ‘millet’ and communalism: An “imperial” answer to the citizenship’s problem, 19th-20th c.

Prof. Sia Anagnostopoulou (Panteion University)

Aspects of legal communitarianism: between Millet and citizenship

Prof. Konstantinos Tsitselikis (University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki)

Discussion


18:30-19:00: Coffee break


19:00 – 20:45: 2nd Session

Citizenship and ethnicity in a comparative context (Part I)

Chair: Prof. Stefanos Pesmazoglou (Panteion University)


Citizenship rights to expatriates: the Greek and German experience

Dr. Mihalis Tsapogas (Office of the Greek Ombudsman)

Citizenship in a Post-ottoman context: the Greek, Turkish and Bulgarian case in a comparative perspective.

Dr Lambros Baltsiotis (Panteion University)

Citizenship between de- and re-nationalization.

Prof. Christian Joppke (American University of Paris)

Discussion


SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16th 2010

10:00 – 11:45: 1st Session

Citizenship and ethnicity in a comparative context (Part II)

Chair: Prof. Lina Ventura (University of Peloponnese)


Citizenship loss in a European comparative perspective: how emigration affects nationality status

Prof. Maarten Vink (Maastricht University)

“The citizen is the state within the individual”. Portions of ethnicity and civility within (Greek) citizenship

Prof. Dimitris Christopoulos (Panteion University)

Multiple Belonging-Multiple Citizenship: Does loyalty matter?

Dr. Rainer Ohliger (Network migration in Europe, Berlin)

Discussion


11:45-12:15: Coffee break


12:15 – 14:00: 2nd Session

Citizenship and migration integration in Europe

Chair: Prof. Nikos Alivizatos (University of Athens)


European citizenship: what may migrants expect from a regime of imperfect sovereignty

Dr. Christos Papastylianos (Office of the Greek Ombudsman)

Citizenship in a post-colonial context: comparing the Dutch and the Portuguese case

Prof. Patricia Jeronimo (University of Minho, Portugal)

Integration requirements and tests in Europe: a comparative perspective

Prof. Sara Wallace Goodman (University of California - IIrvine)

Implementing the Greek nationality reform

Prof. Andreas Takis (Secretary General for Migration Policy)

Discussion


14:00-15:30: Buffet Lunch


15:30 – 17:15: 3rd Session

Citizenship, rights, claims and expectations (Part I)

Chair: Prof. Kalliopi Spanou, (University of Athens, Greek Deputy Ombudsman)


Gender claims and democracy

Prof,. Maro Pantelidou-Malouta (University of Athens)

Politics “for life” and re-definition of citizenship

Prof. Dimitra Makryniotis (University of Athens)

Citizenship and the mass media

Prof. Kyrkos Doxiadis (University of Athens)

Discussion


17:15-17:45: Coffee break


17:45- 19:30: 4th Session

Citizenship, rights, claims and expectations (Part II)

Chair: Prof. Antonis Manitakis (Aristotelion University of Thessaloniki)


Remains of citizenship: Biopolitical humanism and exceptions that matter

Prof. Athena Athanasiou (Panteion University)

Citizenship as pluriform exclusion. National experiences

Prof. Dimitri Dimoulis (Law Faculty Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo, Brazil)
Prof. Soraya Lunardi (Law Faculty, Instituição Toledo de Ensino, Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil)

The citizen as a subject: rights’ or chances claim?

Prof. Gerasimos Kouzelis (University of Athens)

Discussion

Concluding remarks – end of works

Τρίτη 28 Σεπτεμβρίου 2010

Dimitris Christopoulos: The citizen is the state within the individual»: portions of ethnicity and civility within (greek) citizenship


Rather indifferent to the current research on citizenship, the French philosopher, L. Althusser, has argued in his early writings that «the citizen is the state within the individual».   
In my understanding, this phrase capitalizes the hard core of the ongoing debates on citizenship. The state means participation, but also reproduces exclusion, the state needs the nation and the nation presupposes the state and the body politic cannot be but founded, apart from its constituent myths to a common sense of belonging and devotion to certain principles of co-existence. Every citizenship legislation and relevant administrative practice reflects the above-mentioned attributes. Despite the generally acknowledged theory of certain «civic» and certain «ethnic» citizenship national experiences, I subscribe to the argument that there is no citizenship tradition which does not use both elements of ethnicity and civility either for macro-political historical projections of continuity or for short term administrative objectives and circumstantial manoeuvres. The paper addresses the Greek citizenship experience for the validation of this position.

Dimitris Christopoulos was born in Athens (1969). After having studied law in Greece, political science in France and legal theory in Belgium, he completed his Phd in public at the University of Picardie in France. After a two years period of work in the OSCE missions in Albania and Bosnia-Herzegovina he returned to Greece where he started teaching at the Department of Political Science and History of Panteion University in Athens where he still teaches. His research field is mainly related to human and minority rights, migration and citizenship whereas from 1996 he is the founding member of the Minority Groups Research Centre (www.kemo.gr) and since 2003 the chairperson of the Hellenic League for Human Rights (www.hlhr.gr). His books and articles are published and/or translated mainly in Greek, French and English. For extended bibliography: dimitrischristopoulos.blogspot.com.
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