Date: Friday, 28th November 2025
Time: 10-11AM
Venue: HI Seminar Room H204
New Reading Group on the topic of ‘affective citizenship,’ led by Dr Joseph Twist
The first session of a new reading group on the topic of ‘affective citizenship’, led by Joseph Twist and based within the Transnationalising the Humanities (TNH) research strand, will be in-person on Friday 28 November at 10am in the Humanities Institute Seminar Room/H204/top floor.
The concept of affective citizenship provides a framework for considering how matters of inclusion and exclusion go beyond the rights afforded by citizenship status. How is citizenship tied to emotions and affects, and which ones are deemed appropriate and correct? Which members of society do not perform the appropriate affective responses and what are the consequences? The concept can provide a space for interdisciplinary dialogue: How have different manifestations of affective citizenship changed over time and why? How are affects transmitted and/or problematised in cultural texts?
The first text we will discuss is Bilgin Ayata, ‘Affective Citizenship’ in Affective Societies, ed. by Jan Slaby and Christian von Scheve (Routledge, 2019), pp. 330-339.
If you would like to join but are unable to attend the first session, email Megan (megan.kuster@ucd.ie) who will add you to the mailing list so that you will receive all future comms on the reading group.
All are very welcome to attend as and when schedules permit. Please share this announcement with PhD students and postdocs.