The Fares Center at the Fletcher School is hosting a workshop at NIAS July 14th-15th in partnership with UCLA, NIAS, and Queen Mary University of London. This workshop is an important milestone in a year-long research project exploring the interrelated categories of home and homeland, belonging, and equal citizenship in societies riven by various forms of conflict.
About the workshop
Our group of scholars comes from a variety of different location and backgrounds and has been meeting remotely each month since January; this workshop will bring these scholars together in person for the first time to examine a number of theoretical questions around home, citizenship, and equality, with reference to specific case studies. The workshop format will consist in a series of six sessions, with each participant presenting a short paper of their own that contributes to generating unique knowledge that can be used in numerous fields of study. Each session pairs two or three scholars whose papers inspire rich conversation when combined. This workshop serves as an important step towards publishing a special issue or journal and determining future directions for the research project as a whole.
Attendance
This is an invite only event for members of the Homeland Group:
Nadim N. Rouhana is Professor of International Affairs and Conflict Studies, and Director of the Fares Center for Eastern for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
David N. Myers is the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Professor of Jewish History at UCLA, where he serves as the Director of the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy.
Jan Willem Duyvendak is the Director of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study and Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).
Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is the Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law at the Faculty of Law-Institute of Criminology and the School of Social Work and Public Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Global Chair in Law- Queen Mary University of London.
Salen Andrews is a graduate research assistant at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, where she graduated this spring with her M.A. in Law and Diplomacy.
Paolo Boccagni is professor in Sociology and PI of ERC HOMInG (University of Trento).
Julie E. Cooper is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Political Science Department at Tel Aviv University.
Ido de Haan received his PhD in Social Sciences (1993) and his B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science (1988) from the University of Amsterdam. He is Professor of Political History at Utrecht University, visiting professor at the UCLA Department of History in 2006-2007 and 2017, and the 2019 Queen Wilhelmina Visiting Professor of the History, Language and Literature of the Dutch Speaking People at Columbia University.
Shahla Hussain is an Assistant Professor of South Asian History at St. John’s University, New York.
Ayesha Jalal is the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University where she teaches at both the History Department and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
Kamran Rastegar is Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies with a joint appointment in the Department for Studies in Race, Colonialism and Diaspora, and is also the Director of the Center for Humanities at Tufts University.
Yaacov Yadgar engages in research revolving around issues of Jewish identity, religion, politics, and secularism.
Dr. Raef Zreik is a jurist and a scholar, with expertise in political philosophy and the philosophy of law. He is a lecturer on property law and the theory of law at Ono Academic College, academic co-director of the Minerva Humanities Center at Tel Aviv University, and a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
Programme
DAY ONE – Thursday July 14, 2022
Session One – 9:00-10:45 AM
Presenters
• Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
• Jan Willem Duyvendak & Paolo Boccagni
Chair
• Nadim Rouhana
Break – 10:45-11:00 AM
Session Two – 11:00 AM-12:45 PM
Presenters
• Kamran Rastagar
• Raef Zreik
• Yaacov Yadgar (attendance TBD)
Chair
• Jan Willem Duyvendak
Lunch – 12:45-2:00 PM
Session Three – 2:00-3:45 PM
Presenters
• Ayesha Jalal
• Shahla Hussain
Chair
• Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
DAY TWO – Friday July 15, 2022
Session One – 9:00-10:45 AM
Presenters
• Julie Cooper
• Nadim Rouhana
Chair
• David Myers
Break – 10:45-11:00 AM
Session Two – 11:00 AM-12:45 PM
• David Myers
Chair
• Ido de Haan
Lunch – 12:45-2:00 PM
Session Three – 2:00-3:45 PM
Summary and wrap-up
About the project
This research project will explore the interrelated categories of home and homeland, belonging, and equal citizenship in societies riven by various forms of conflict. In a fragile moment in the history of the 21st century, with growing ethnonationalism and illiberal nationalism in many parts of the world, we also witness some rise of social movements calling for equity, justice, equal participation and representation, and redefining decolonization globally. How are we to conceive and theorize a world after the age of illiberal democracy, where the ideals of home, citizenship, and equality need not be constructed as zero-sum propositions? How can a homeland become inclusive of more than one group, and how this concept can help disclose and provide intellectually guided political tools for fighting against unequal citizenship, inequality, and racial manifestations
These theoretical questions will be examined with reference to specific case studies, including Israel-Palestine, India, Northern Ireland, Turkey, Belgium, and South Africa.
About NIAS
The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study is an intellectual haven for international researchers, writers, journalists and artists to pursue their research or projects, to work in an interdisciplinary environment and to share their knowledge with society.
It offers a diverse year-group of about 50 NIAS Fellows the opportunity to devote themselves to an independent research project. NIAS is the oldest Institute for Advanced Study in Europe whose founding mission is to foster curiosity-driven research. It is an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and is located in Amsterdam.