Roundtable Who constitutes the people? Southeastern Europe between narratives and laws Add to calendar 2022-06-01 12:00 2022-06-01 13:00 Europe/Rome Who constitutes the people? Sala Triaria Villa Schifanoia YYYY-MM-DD Print Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Send by email When 01 June 2022 12:00 - 13:00 CEST Where Sala Triaria Villa Schifanoia Organised by Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies GGP: Global Governance Programme Drawing on examples and experiences of the post-Yugoslav states and Albania, this seminar establishes an interdisciplinary dialogue on how narratives and laws are used to create 'the people'. Who constitutes the people, how and why are questions that have shaped the scholarship on Southeastern Europe across the disciplines of legal studies, political science, anthropology and history. Historical narratives and their contemporary iterations create the – often contested - frames of nationhood that set the discursive boundaries of who 'the people' are, vindicating why some groups are left outside of the parameters of the nation. In a similar vein, constitutions and citizenship laws delimit who are those who are formally accepted as 'the people' and what rights they have, excluding those who – for a range of reasons – do not conform to the political vision of the national community. Drawing on examples and experiences of the post-Yugoslav states and Albania, this seminar establishes an interdisciplinary dialogue on how narratives and laws are used to create 'the people'. Links: Jo Shaw Jelena Vasiljević Contact(s): Valentina Gorgoni Scientific Organiser(s): Jelena Džankić (EUI - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies) Moderator(s): Jelena Džankić (EUI - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies) Speaker(s): Jelena Vasiljevic (University of Belgrade) Jo Shaw (University of Edinburgh)