Postgraduate Research

The Centre for Citizenship, Identity and Governance sees its postgraduate members as key to the continuing vitality and success of the centre. As a result, the CCIG postgraduate group came into being in October 2010 with the intent to make the postgraduate students more visible and active within the centre and to provide a platform for collaboration between students and members at large. We were awarded our own budget and the liberty to set up a group to our own liking and benefit.

What we do

Below you can see the exciting programme we carried out during 2010/2011. A few highlights worth emphasizing are our collaboration with the International Political Sociology Group at King’s College, London. We meet on a regular basis and discuss around the theme of Power and Resistance. In addition to this collaboration we work closely with the Oecumene Project and hosted for instance an ‘Act of Citizenship’ seminar together with Prof. Engin Isin in April, 2011. We also helped organize a joint workshop together with the CCIG Securities Programme on the theme of ‘Resisting (In)security, Securing Resistance’, in July, 2011. In between these collaborations, seminars and workshops we meet to discuss and focus in more closely on our own research which has proved to be an invaluable opportunity to give each other feedback and support.

For this academic year, we have decided to carry on with our discussions around Power and Resistance together with KCL. We meet monthly in the British Library. We have also set up a seminar with a Dutch PhD Candidate, Michiel Besters who we hope to keep working with. On Februrary 23, 2012, we are together with the CCIG Publics Programme organizing a CCIG Forum on the theme of the recent UK riots. Hopefully this will inspire to set off exciting and provocative debates. In addition, together with the CCIG Enactment Programme, we have set up yet another reading group on the theme of Enactment to explore this from a variety of perspectives. Dates and details for all these meetings can be found in the list below.

How to join

Meetings, seminars and events 2011/2012

16 September: 16.00-18.00, British Library Café, London

12 April: 17.00-19.00, British Library Café, London
‘Enactment’ reading group (Mol)

16 April: 16.00-18.00, British Library Café, London

Past meetings, seminars and events 2010/2011