Reimagining Mobility and Membership

Workshop

The Transformations of Citizenship Leibniz Research Group will be discussing work-in-progress that deals with mobility, migration, and civic boundary-drawing from different disciplinary perspectives. The papers discussed comprise work by the Research Group’s members as well as by external guests.

Program

10.35
Welcome

10.45
“Immigration Politics in Times of Autocratization”
Katharina Natter (Leiden), chaired by Stefan Schlegel (Bern)

11.45
“Selecting Citizens: Boundary Making Through Nationality in the Case of Switzerland “Barbara von Rütte (Basel), chaired by De Coninck (Ghent/NYU)

12.30
“The Invention of Sporting Nationality: How Transnational Law Tamed ‘The Last Bastion of Sovereignty'”
Ayelet Shachar (Frankfurt/Berkeley), chaired by Hélène Thiollet (Sciences Po)

14.00
“Non-Citizen Rights and the Problem of Legal Vulnerability”
Eva-Maria Schäfferle (Frankfurt), chaired by Eszter Kollar (Leuven)

14.45
“Algorithmic Authority: The Perils of Computational Selection”
Lukas Schmid (Frankfurt), chaired by Christopher Kutz (Berkeley)

15.45
“Skilled Emigration: Free but Fair”
Eszter Kollar (Leuven), chaired by Ayelet Shachar (Frankfurt/Berkeley)

16.30
General Reflections & End