The Institute for the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago presents 2013-2014 Faculty Fellow Lecture Ralph Cintron Departments of English and Latin American and Latino Studies “Citizenship versus Unauthorized Immigration / Personhood versus Presence November 14, 2013 at 3 PM UIC Institute for the Humanities, 701 South Morgan, lower level Stevenson Hall Among strong nation-states with wealthy economies and viable democracies, the distinction between citizenship and alienage is a foundational institution—indeed, the “institution of institutions” as Etienné Balibar names it. Of late both in the EU and the United States, the rights of unauthorized immigrants as persons, despite not being citizens, has been hotly argued. United States Supreme Court decisions have granted rights in some contexts, usually on the basis of personhood claims established in the Fourteenth Amendment, but denied them in other contexts. This paper is interested in the conceptual distinctions between citizenship and personhood, and will examine another conception, presence, that has remained latent in U.S. political and legal theory since at least 1790. Ralph Cintron holds a joint appointment in English and Latin American and Latino Studies at UIC. His research and teaching interests are in rhetorical studies; ethnography; urban theory; social theory; and transnationalism and immigration. He has been a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow. In 2007-2008 he was a Fulbright Scholar on the political science faculty at the University of Prishtina in Prishtina, Kosova. He was a former member of the Executive Board of the Rhetoric Society of America. Angels’ Town: Chero Ways, Gang Life, and Rhetorics of the Everyday won honourable mention for the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing from the American Anthropological Association. In addition, he is associated with the International Rhetoric Culture Project, which brings anthropologists and rhetoricians together, and is co-editing for Berghan Press its 5th volume: Power, Rhetoric, and Political Culture: The Texture of Political Life. A reception will follow. For additional information please contact 312-996-6352 or [email protected]. Institute for the Humanities/701 South Morgan, MC 206/University of Illinois at Chicago /Chicago, IL. 60607-7040 312-996-6352 // huminst.las.uic.edu/ifth
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