Workshop ‘De-territorialized Diversity: Global and Transnational Dimensions’

This workshop is part of the project RECODE - Responding to Complex Diversity in Europe and Canada, which is sponsored by the European Science Foundation (ESF).

Time and place: – , Room 201, Harriet Holter's building (The Social Sciences Faculty), University of Oslo Main Campus (Blindern)

Programme of the workshop

Workshop Day 1

Session 1: Conceptualising transnational communities

09.00-09.15 Opening remarks
Riva Kastoryano, John Erik Fossum and Peter Kraus

09.15-10.15 Norway and reflections on July 22
Thomas Hylland Eriksen

10.15-11.15 Cosmopolitanism and the question of borders
Chris Rumford

11.15-11.30 Coffee

11.30-12.30 A transnational nationalism
Riva Kastoryano

12.30-13.30 Lunch

13.30-14.30 Diversity, transnational practices and intercultural policies
Ricard Zapata

14.30-15.30 Challenging Nationalisms --Long Distance, Methodological, and State: The Agency of Migrants and Cities
Nina Glick Schiller

15.30-16.00 Coffee

16.00-17.00 Transnationalism and immigrant integration
Christian Joppke

17.00-18.00 Discussants and general discussion:
Keith Banting, João Manuel Cardoso Rosas and Alexandra Ålund

Workshop Day 2

Session 2: A new power relationship between minorities and states?

09.00-10.00 The Roots of Diversity in Contemporary Liberal-Democratic States: A Global Normative Account
Phil Triadafilopoulos

10.00-11.00 What are the distinguishing marks of complex diversity in the EU and Canada?
John Erik Fossum

11.00-11.15 Coffee

11.15-12.15 Minority political participation
Jon Rogstad

12.15-13.00 Discussants and discussion
Veit Bader and Birte Siim

13.00-14.00 Lunch

Session 3: The New Nationalism

14.00-15.00 Reflections on the new nationalism in the EU
Hans-Jörg Trenz

15.00-16.00 The new nationalism and its relationship to Islam
Sindre Bangstad

16.00-16.15 Coffee

16.15-17.15 Wither the Canadian model? Evaluating the new Canadian nationalism
Patti Lenard

17.15-18.00 Discussants and discussion
Francisco Colom and Peter Kraus

Organizer

John Erik Fossum, ARENA and Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Department of Social Anthropology
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Abstract

The workshop will explore a central issue of RECODE, namely the role of diversity with particular emphasis on the notion of transnational communities. Politics has traditionally been conceptualized and organized along territorial lines but the confluence of globalization, cosmopolitanisation and Europeanisation have given new impetus to the development of transnational communities. The workshop seeks to understand the nature of this phenomenon; how prevalent it is in the EU and Canada; what the implications are on minorities and systems of governing; and the nature and strength of nationalist reactions. The workshop is thematically organized to address these themes.