Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights (11/14/22)
The Center for the Study of Europe presents a Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights—A Lecture by Lindsey Kingston
Monday, November 14, 2022
4 to 5:30 PM
Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road (1st floor)
Citizenship within our current international system signifies being fully human, or being worthy of fundamental human rights. Yet for some vulnerable groups, this form of political membership is limited or missing entirely. These protection gaps are central to the creation of hierarchies of personhood, or inequalities that render some people more “worthy” than others for protections and belonging.
Lindsey Kingston is an Associate Professor of International Human Rights at Webster University in Saint Louis, Missouri. She directs Webster’s Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies and recently co-edited Statelessness, Governance, and the Problem of Citizenship (Manchester University Press, 2021). Her book Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights (Oxford University Press, 2019) won the International Studies Association’s 2020 Human Rights Best Book Award.
