Declaring the State: Constitution and Citizenship

International workshop, organized in cooperation between Sciences Po (Doctoral School) and Tel Aviv University, on the topic of constitutionalism, citizenship, and sovereignty.

Program:

JUNE 23
Location: CEVIPOF, 98 rue de l’université

16h: Opening remarks by Frédéric Gros and Assaf Sharon

16h30: Panel 1 – Citizenship beyond Sovereignty

With :

– Ronnen Ben-Arie (TAU) : “Decolonizing Citizenship”

– Louise Ganon (Sciences Po) : “Towards a Postnational Public Sphere? The Case of the Protest Movement against the Iraq War”

– Niklas Plaetzer (Sciences Po / University of Chicago) : “Insurgent Constitutionalism: Hannah Arendt and Radical Democracy”

18h30: Closing Remarks

 

JUNE 24
Location: Salle 11, 27 rue St. Guillaume

10h: Panel 2 – Moments of Foundation

With :
– Tom Theuns (Sciences Po / University of Amsterdam) : “Procedural Democracy and the Boundary Problem”
– Anat Ascher (TAU) : “On noble lies and shameless liars: Can society be founded on disenchanted grounds?”
– Yonathan Listik (TAU) : “Being-with and the Question of Community”

14h: Panel 3 – Citizenship and Its Margins

With :

– Yael Atia (TAU) : “‘Pilate and Jesus’- ‘Handing over’ as a form of the state of Exclusion”
– Adam Abulafia (TAU) : “The State of Least Repression: Deleuze & Guattari’s Theory of the State and its Strategic Implications”
– Uriel Abulof (TAU and Princeton)

16h: Keynote address by Yoav Peled (TAU)
Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Tel Aviv University and in 2016–2017 a Leverhulme Professorial Fellow in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex and affiliated with the London School of Economics Middle East Center

 

DETAILED PROGRAM HERE