The talk will be based Yasemin Soysal’s ongoing project Reconceptualizing the "Good Citizen" and "Good Society": A Longitudinal and Comparative Analysis of European and Asian Curricula and Textbooks (funded by the Economic and Social Research Council of the UK and the Research Grant Council of Hong Kong). For the talk, Yasemin Soysal will focus on some of the main findings and arguments on the European cases.

Yasemin Soysal, Professor of Sociology. University of Essex

Before arriving in Europe, Soysal studied and worked in the US. She has published extensively on the historical development and contemporary reconfigurations of the nation‐state and citizenship in Europe; cultural and political implications of international migrations; and international discourses and regimes of human rights. Her current research projects include a comparative and longitudinal study of the changing concepts of ‘good citizen’ and ‘good society’ in Europe and Asia (particularly China, Japan and Korea) and a comparative survey of the ‘life course and self projections’ of the immigrant origin youth in European cities. Soysal has held several fellowships and guest professorships, including Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, National Endowment of Humanities, National Academy of Education, German Marshall Fund, Max Planck Institute, European University Institute, Juan March Institute, and Hitotsubashi University. She is past president of the European Sociological Association.