Thursday April 19th (Boston College, Newton Campus)

5.00: Introduction to the Dean: David Hollenbach

Welcome Remarks: Vincent Rougeau, Dean, Law School, Boston College

5.45 Introductions: Benjamin Lawrance, Jackie Stevens, Rogers Smith, Dan Kanstroom, Rachel Rosenbloom

6.00 Address: Jacqueline Stevens (Northwestern), “We Citizens”

6.30 Plenary Session: Citizenship Struggles

Friday April 20th (Connors Center, Dover MA)

8.45-10.30: Panel One: Documenting Citizenship Claims

Sarah Friedman (Indiana), “Documenting Contested Borders and Citizenship Claims: Affect, Materiality, and Sovereignty Struggles across the Taiwan Strait”

Rachel Rosenbloom (Northeastern), “In the Borderlands of Citizenship: Proving Membership Along the U.S.-Mexico Divide”

Kamal Sadiq (UC Irvine), “The Limits of Legal Citizenship: Narratives from South and South-East Asia”

Discussant: Rogers Smith (Pennsylvania)

10.30-10.45: Break

10.45-12.30: Panel Two: U.S. Patterns of Exclusion

Margaret Stock (Alaska), “American Birthright Citizenship Rules and the Exclusion of ‘Outsiders’”

Jacqueline Hagan (UNC-Chapel Hill) and David Leal (Univ. of Texas-Austin), “Social consequences of Mass Deportations by the U.S. Government, 2000-2010”

Mark C. Weber (DePaul University) "Citizenship and Physical and Mental Disability in the United States"

Elizabeth Cohen (Syracuse), “On Borrowed Time: The Proliferation of Temporary Immigration Statuses in U.S. Citizenship Law”

Discussant: Dan Kanstroom (Boston College)

12.30-1.15: Break

1.15-3.00: Panel Three: Gambling With Citizenship Rules

Siobhán Mullally (University College Cork), “Reflecting on the claims to citizenship of the European Union: beyond territorial belonging”

Jennifer Chacón (UC Irvine), “Constructing Citizenship: What the Immigration Debate Reveals (and Conceals) about Citizenship”

Alexandra Filindra (William Patterson) and Barbara Buckinx (Goethe), “DREAMers: Claims to Citizenship of a New Generation of Undocumented Youth”

Alfred Babo, (Smith/Amherst/Univ. of Bouaké), "Ivoirité and citizenship in Côte d’Ivoire: Law, evidence and the short-lived Ivorian experiment with authenticité"

Discussant: Jackie Stevens (Northwestern)

3.00-3.15: Break

3.15-5.00: Panel Four: “Real” Citizens or Frauds?

Kim Rubenstein (ANU), “What is a ‘real’ Australian citizen? Insights from Papua New Guinea and Mr. Amos Ame”

Benjamin Lawrance (RIT), “Stateless for All Intents and Purposes: Navigating U.K. Withholding From Removal Petitions and Togolese Citizenship Requirements”

Susan Lape (USC), “Citizenship Matters in Fourth-Century Athens: The Curious Case of Demosthenes”

Discussant: Erik Owens (Boston College)

Saturday April 21st (Connors Center, Dover, MA)

8.45-10.30: Panel Five: “Second-Class” Citizenship Claims

Rose Cuison Villazor (Hofstra), “Negotiating Citizenship and Property Rights in the U.S. Territories”

Jacqueline Bhabha (Harvard), "Reclaiming Citizenship within Europe: Roma youth and the right to adolescence"

Darshan Vigneswaran (Max Planck Institute), “Keys to the City: Urban Autochthony in the Global South”

Haiming Lui (Caly Poly Pomona), “Unequal Citizenship and Fragmented Identity of Chinese Intellectual Immigrants in Late 19th Century America”

Discussant: Peter Spiro (Temple)

10.30-10.45: Break

10.45-12.30: Panel Six: Becoming a Citizen & Affirmative Claims

Rhacel Parreñas (USC) “Mimicking Heteronormativity: The Sexual Citizenship of Filipina Transgender Hostesses in Japan”

Polly Price (Emory), “Jus Soli and Statelessness: A Comparative Perspective in the Americas”

Alexandra Margalith, (Independent Scholar) & Dani Kranz (University of Erfurt), “Views of autochthony, ius solis, and authenticity from legal, anthropological, and autobiographical perspectives in Germany and Israel”

Discussant: David Hollenbach (Boston College)

12.30-1.30: Final Discussion/Future Directions

The conference organizers wish to thank the very generous contributions of our co-sponsors: Northeastern University School of Law; the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology; The Center for Human Rights and International Justice of Boston College; Boston College Law School; The Institute for the Liberal Arts at Boston College; the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism at the University of Pennsylvania; and the Conable Endowment for International Studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Academic queries may be directed to: Benjamin N. Lawrance, Conable Chair in International Studies, RIT [BNL AT RIT.EDU]

Attendance queries may be directed to Timothy Karcz at the Center for Human Rights and International Justice, Boston College [timothy.karcz AT bc.edu]