{"id":11633,"date":"2022-11-15T15:39:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T20:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/?p=11633"},"modified":"2022-11-15T16:12:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T21:12:35","slug":"event-highlights-fully-human-personhood-citizenship-and-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/2022\/11\/15\/event-highlights-fully-human-personhood-citizenship-and-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Event Highlights &#8211; Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This lecture, by Lindsey Kingston, took place at Boston University&#8217;s Center for the Study of Europe on Monday, November 14, 2022. The topic of discussion was Kingston&#8217;s book, <em>Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2019), winner the International Studies Association\u2019s 2020 Human Rights Best Book Award.<\/p>\n<p>As Kingston describes it, 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 \u201cprotection gaps\u201d are central to the creation of hierarchies of personhood, or inequalities that render some people more \u201cworthy\u201d than others for protections and belonging.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lindsey Kingston is an Associate Professor of International Human Rights at Webster University in Saint Louis, Missouri. She directs Webster\u2019s Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies and recently co-edited Statelessness, Governance, and the Problem of Citizenship (Manchester University Press, 2021).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k1vykxRdolo\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This lecture, by Lindsey Kingston, took place at Boston University&#8217;s Center for the Study of Europe on Monday, November 14, 2022. The topic of discussion was Kingston&#8217;s book, Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights (Oxford University Press, 2019), winner the International Studies Association\u2019s 2020 Human Rights Best Book Award. As Kingston describes it, citizenship within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8908,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11633"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11648,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11633\/revisions\/11648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}