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Symposium on Citizenship [edit]

Thursday, April 24, 2008

409 Benson

9:30 to 4:30

Students from the seminar 'Practices of Citizenship' are hosting an all-day Symposium to discuss issues related to citizenship. Graduate and undergraduate students, scholars, community members, and interest groups will present and discuss the importance of the practices of citizenship at the local, national, and international levels.

We invite students, faculty, community members to attend this event, free and open to the public, to learn and discuss various issues related to citizenship.

The panels will address citizenship competence and voting, citizenship and music, citizenship outside of the US, and college students' participation in the elections.

See the complete program and list of participants.

Check out pictures from the Symposium.

About the Course [edit]

The purpose of this course is to explore the history and theory of citizenship as a deliberative practice linked to the rhetorical tradition of communication. Particular attention is given to the role of discourse, invention and imagination in the making of citizens, as citizenship has evolved from limited roles in ancient Greece to accepted norms and rules in modern national and international political arenas. The course emphasizes participatory and deliberative skills as part of the process in which communities are formed and citizens emerge as members, stressing unconventional examples of citizens who exist or struggle in unexplored geographical and metaphysical spaces, like beyond and in between regions, nations or organizations.