Nationalism Studies Public Lecture: Christian Joppke: Rebirth of a Christian Identity in Europe?
Date:
January 16, 2012 - 17:30 - 19:30
Building:
Nador u. 9, Monument Building Room:
Gellner Room (103) Event type:
Lecture Event audience:
Open to the Public CEU presenter(s):
Christian Joppke CEU host unit(s):
Nationalism Studies Program
The Central European University
Nationalism Studies Program
cordially invites you to a lecture by
Christian Joppke
University of Bern
Rebirth of a Christian Identity in Europe?
Monday, January 16 at 5.30 P.M.
Gellner Room (103) Monument Building
This lecture takes the recent Lautsi v. Italy decision of the European Court of Justice (2011) as hub for a reflection whether we are witnessing the rebirth of a Christian identity in Europe.
Christian Joppke holds a chair in sociology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989. Previously he taught at the University of Southern California, European University Institute, University of British Columbia, International University Bremen, and American University of Paris. He has also held research fellowships at Georgetown University and the Russell Sage Foundation, New York. Among his recent books are Citizenship and Immigration (Cambridge: Polity, 2010), Veil: Mirror of Identity (Cambridge: Polity, 2009), and Selecting by Origin: Ethnic Migration in the Liberal State (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005).
CJ is a comparative political sociologist. His past and present research interests cover social movements and the state, citizenship and immigration, most recently religion and politics, especially Islam in Western societies.
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