This event was jointly organised with European Alternatives
7.00-8.30pm | Thursday 18 March 2010
Institut Français, 17 Queensberry Place, South Kensington, SW7

The status of citizenship may be undergoing a historic transformation, perhaps nowhere more than in Europe. With the increased mobility of peoples, and numerous social and economic developments beyond the level of the nation state, Europe faces a series of new challenges.

Do we need a new form of transnational civic membership? Do we need to rethink civic rights and responsibilities beyond those rooted in the nation state? Do we need to imagine forms of post-national political participation? Can there be a genuinely transnational demos?

These questions do not only affect European citizens. The relations between Europe and the rest of the world and the question of the status of the migrant to Europe, are at the heart of these challenges too.