Seminar on rights, citizenship and identity in the new Europe

Presented by: The Legal Intersections Research Centre

10 am – 12 pm on Tuesday 9^th December 2008
Moot Court (67.202)
level 2, Mackinnon Building
University of Wollongong

Steven Greer, Human Rights in Europe: Achievements, Problems and Prospects, focuses on the European Convention on Human Rights, while also looking at the national and EU dimensions of human rights.

Carl Stychin, 'Flying the Flag (for You)': The Politics of Citizenship and the Eurovision Song Contest, uses the Eurovision Song Contest as a way of thinking about European citizenship and belonging, and the different ways in which sexuality and race seem to be incorporated into a European legal and cultural imaginary.

Discussants: Luke McNamara and Elisa Arcioni

The title is from the 1989 English translation of Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s insightful book originally published in German (1987) as Ach Europa!
Illustration Peter Sis, Design Nancy Brescia, Pantheon edition (1990)