Who Belongs? Global Citizenship and Gender in the 21st Century
The very meaning of citizenship at local, national, and global levels is in flux in most countries and continents. More than 65 million human beings are currently displaced from their homes, while even in countries where armed conflict is not prevalent, separatist and nationalist movements have reshaped policy. Gender—in all its forms—is essential to any analysis of these trends and to our understandings of citizenship around the world, although it is often overlooked in public debate.
Citizenship means more than just formal membership in nation-states; it means belonging in communities defined in part by gender. Our conference will explore these themes through three panels: In the first, policymakers and scholars will examine legal constructs and how laws and nations define and redefine gendered citizenship. The second panel will assemble human rights and immigration practitioners and activists to explore the balance and tension between the need for borders and security by individual nations and the gendered complexities of lives lived across those borders. A final panel will take stock of different expressions of gendered nationalism sweeping the globe.
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Event Videos
An Evening about Citizenship with Documentary Filmmakers
WELCOMING REMARKS
Lizabeth Cohen, dean, Radcliffe Institute, and Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Department of History, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
CITIZENSHIP, GENDER, AND FILM
Cynthia López, former commissioner, City of New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment; former executive vice president and co–executive producer, American Documentary and POV
Heather Courtney, documentary filmmaker
María Agui Carter, writer/director; assistant professor, Department of Visual and Media Arts, Emerson College
Moderated by Claudia Puig, president, Los Angeles Film Critics Association; former lead film critic, USA Today
Rights, Duties, and Responsibilities
WELCOMING REMARKS
Lizabeth Cohen, dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Department of History, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
RIGHTS, DUTIES, AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Kari E. Hong, assistant professor of law, Boston College Law School
Martha S. Jones, Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University
Tali Mendelberg, John Work Garrett Professor of Politics and director of the Program on Inequality at the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, Princeton University
Moderated by E.J. Dionne Jr., columnist, Washington Post; senior fellow in governance studies, Brookings Institution; and professor, Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy
Borders, Boundaries, and Belonging
Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director, Middle East and North Africa Division, Human Rights Watch
Nilüfer Göle, professor of sociology, L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France)
Moderated by Samantha Power, 2017–2018 Perrin Moorhead Grayson and Bruns Grayson Fellow, Radcliffe Institute; Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; professor of practice, Harvard Law School
Keynote Reading and Conversation
Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist, Interpreter of Maladies (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999), and professor of creative writing, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University
Celeste Ng, New York Times best-selling author of Everything I Never Told You (Penguin Books, 2014) and Little Fires Everywhere (Penguin Press, 2017)
The Gendered Politics of New Nationalisms
Joan C. Williams, distinguished professor of law, UC Hastings Foundation Chair, and director of the Center for WorkLife Law, UC Hastings College of the Law
Jan Willem Duyvendak, distinguished research professor of sociology, University of Amsterdam
Fatma Müge Göçek, professor of sociology and women’s studies, University of Michigan
Rina Verma Williams, associate professor of political science and affiliate faculty in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and Asian studies, University of Cincinnati
Moderated by David Gergen, faculty director of the Center for Public Leadership and public service professor of public leadership, Harvard Kennedy School
CLOSING REMARKS
Daniel Carpenter, faculty director of the social sciences program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Allie S. Freed Professor of Government, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
