Citizenship and the Politics of Contention
This Summer School aims to deepen students' knowledge about citizenship and the politics of contention and to strengthen their engagement with research questions and their capacity to deliver fully-fledged papers and presentations.
The course is structured around five more specific issues relating to the general topic of the Summer School and their implications for citizenship:
- Contention in democracies vs autocracies
- Individual vs collective forms of contention
- Particularistic vs universalist contention
- Online vs offline contention
- Organized vs spontaneous contention
Each topic will be addressed on a different weekday. Teaching is based on lectures, assigned readings, group work, presentations, and discussions. Students will be assessed based on a written assignment and the related presentation.
Please note that it is the student’s own responsibility to validate this course for credit at their home university prior to the summer school, as specified in our Terms & Conditions.
4EU+ European University Alliance members*: CHF 100
Others: CHF 250
*Charles University in Prague, Heidelberg University, Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, Sorbonne University in Paris, the University of Copenhagen, the University of Geneva, the University of Milan, and the University of Warsaw
Course directors:
Prof. Marco Giugni, University of Geneva
Prof. Manlio Cinalli, University of Milan
Teaching faculty:
- Prof. Philip Balsiger (University of Neuchâtel)
- Prof. Jennifer Earl (University of Delaware)
- Prof. Maria Grasso (Queen Mary University of London)
- Nathalie Lorrain (Panthéon-Assas University, Paris)
- Dr Tim Peace (University of Glasgow)
- Prof. Katrin Uba (Uppsala University)
Schedule & classes
May 27
9:00 – 10.30: Lecture on contention in democracies vs autocracies
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30: Discussion
12:30 – 14:00: Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30: Keynote talk (Nathalie Lorrain)
15:30 – 16:00: Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30: Paper presentations
May 28
9:00 – 10.30: Lecture on individual vs collective forms of contention
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30: Discussion
12:30 – 14:00: Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30: Paper presentations
15:30 – 16:00: Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30: Paper presentations
May 29
9:00 – 10.30: Lecture on particularistic vs universalist contention
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30: Discussion
12:30 – 14:00: Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30: Paper presentations
15:30 – 16:00: Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30: Paper presentations
May 30
9:00 – 10.30: Lecture on online vs offline contention
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30: Discussion
12:30 – 14:00: Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30: Paper presentations
15:30 – 16:00: Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30: Paper presentations
May 31
9:00 – 10.30: Lecture on organized vs spontaneous contention
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30: Discussion
12:30 – 14:00: Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30: Paper presentations
15:30 – 16:00: Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30: Paper presentations
June 1st
9:00 – 12:00: Visit to a social movement organization