Exciting politics events at Canterbury Christ Church University in autumn 2017

The Politics and International Relations Programme is excited to invite you to three events with exciting and distinguished speakers coming to Canterbury Christ Church University this autumn. All events are open to the public and free to attend (N.B.: booking is required for the lectures by Professor A.C. Grayling and The Rt Hon John Bercow).

If you cannot make it, both the lecture by Professor A.C. Grayling and the event with Rosie Duffield MP will be live-streamed via our Facebook Page facebook.com/PoliticsandIRatCCCU/ and later made available on our YouTube channel. You can also follow us for updates on Twitter @CCCUPoliticsIR and @CCCUCEFEUS.

Post-referendum England: The Challenge of Nation-Building

FREE PUBLIC EVENT – TOMORROW – THU 2 MARCH 6PM

We are please to invite you us for a public lecture + Q&A with Professor John Denham, former Cabinet Minister and Director of the Centre for English Identity and Politics at the University of Winchester. Professor Denham will talk about the challenges of nation-building in England after the Brexit-referendum in June 2016.

Date & time: Thursday, 2 March 2017, 6pm

Venue: Room Ng03 (CCCU North Holmes Road campus, Canterbury – campus map [pdf])

All Welcome – No Registration necessary!

Please direct any questions to Dr Demetris Tillyris (demetris.tillyris@canterbury.ac.uk)

Can Money buy (E)U citizenship? Presentation by Dr Jelena Dzankic, European University Institute – 9 November, 6PM

Public event on Wednesday 9th November at 6pm in LG16 (Laud) at Canterbury Christ Church University

The spread of the global economic crisis enticed many countries to consider attracting investors to become their citizens. The mushrooming of investor programs, which permit rich individuals to gain residence in the underlying countries and eventually access their citizenship, has become a mechanism of securing an infusion of capital into the struggling economies. The lecture will first look at the relationship between the notion of citizenship and the different types of preferential naturalization of investors: naturalization through residence, discretionary naturalization, and detailed investor citizenship programs. In order to examine whether the economic utility of the investment to the state can suffice to override some or all other criteria for naturalization, we will explore legal and normative dimensions of the notion of “genuine ties” questioning whether preferential treatment of investors can be justified as merit or talent. In the second part of the lecture, the focus will be on classifying investment-based citizenship and residence programs in all the 28 European Union (EU) Member States, and on discussing the implications of investor citizenship and residence programs on the notion of EU citizenship.

Dr Jelena Dzankic currently coordinates the European Citizenship Observatory (EUDO) at the European University Institute in Florence. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and before moving to Florence has worked as a research fellow in the CITSEE (Citizenship in the successor states of the former Yugoslavia) project at the University of Edinburgh. Her book titled “Citizenship in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Montenegro” was published with Ashgate in 2015. She is currently working on an edited volume titled “The Europeanization of the Western Balkans” forthcoming with Palgrave MacMillian in 2017 (with Marko Kmezic and Soeren Keil). She has worked as an adviser to the European Commission and numerous NGOs including Freedom House.