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Prague, November 19-20, 2019Venue: Villa Lanna (V Sadech 1, 160 00 Prague 6) Organized by:Claire Zalc, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, ParisMichal Frankl, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague Statelessness has been recognized as one of the major maladies of the 20th century. Historians, lawyers, political philosophers and others took a critical aim at the the exclusionary power of the nation state and decried the position of those stripped of their passport and rights. A stateless refugee, without state protection and possibly relying on a “Nansen passport”, become the symbol of exclusion from polity. The revocation of citizenship was no inconsequential step and could equal to decision about life and death.Yet the processes and decision making behind becoming stateless were mostly studied on a national level, for instance for refugees from Nazi Germany or the denaturalizations by Vichy France. Moreover, the scholarship leaned towards European and – with the troubled exceptions of the Soviet or Romanian denationalization – mostly “Western” nation states with only a limited amount of comparative research exploring the phenomenon globally, in its colonial dimensions, and over a longer temporal span. The workshop will bring together scholars to discuss mass denationalization in the 20th century from a comparative and transnational perspective, combining macro- as well as microhistorical approaches.Programme Citizenship_until_further_notice_programNovember 19, 20199:30 – 10:00IntroductionClaire ZALC (Paris) / Michal FRANKL (Prague)10:00 – 11:20Revocation – a companion of modern citizenship?Chair: Rudolf KUČERA (Prague)Eric LOHR (Washington, DC): The Soviet Great Denaturalization in Historical ContextYaron JEAN (Beersheba): A System without Order: Travel Documents and Mass Statelessness in Europe after World War ICoffee break 11:20 – 11:4011:40-13:00Categories of exclusion IChair: Ágnes KELEMEN (Prague/Budapest)Alina BOTHE (Berlin): „Staatenlos durch Ausbürgerung“ – The de-naturalization of naturalized Jews with Eastern European heritage in Germany from 1933 onwardsClaire ZALC (Paris): How to denaturalize Jews under the Vichy France (1940-1944)? The administrative routinization of everyday anti-SemitismLunch 13:00 – 14:0014:00 – 16:00Categories of exclusion IIChair: Věra HONUSKOVÁ (Prague)Elif BECAN (Paris): “Although he is of Christian religion…”. Deprivation of citizenship in post-Ottoman Turkey and the case of Sabri Mahir BeyIon POPA (Manchester): Churches and the Revocation of Nationality for Jews: The Case of the Romanian Orthodox Church and Its Patriarch/Prime Minister Miron CristeaMaggie PAUL (Adelaide): Insecurization and the Citizenship regime: Politics of insecurity around Bangladeshi Migrants in IndiaCoffee break 16:00 – 16:2016:20 – 17:40(Dis)Loyalty and citizenshipKateřina KRÁLOVÁ (Prague)Ibrahim KAYA (Istanbul): Denaturalization of ‘Escapees’ in Times of Coup D’Etat in TurkeyNikola KARASOVÁ (Prague): The Revocation of Greek Citizenship of Greek Civil War Refugees: The Case of CzechoslovakiaNovember 20, 20199:30 – 10:50Stateless trajectories 1Chair: Thomas CHOPARD (Paris)Nathalie MOINE (Paris): Successful emigrant entrepreneurs, siblings’ trajectories and the impact of the denaturalization policy in Vichy FranceVincent ARTUSO (Luxembourg), Jakub BRONEC (Luxembourg), Georges BÜCHLER (Luxembourg), Marc GLODEN (Luxembourg), Denis SCUTO (Luxembourg): Six Jewish stateless families between the millstones of the Luxembourg authoritiesCoffee break 10:50 – 11:1011:10 – 12:30Stateless trajectories 2Chair: Dieter HECHT (Vienna)Marie BOSSAERT (Rome): “I would like to get my true nationality – the Italian one – back: applications for Italian citizenship and protection during the occupation of Istanbul (1919-1923)”Sima VELKOVICH (Jerusalem): Polish citizenship as a way to freedom: changing personal story in the documents of Jewish refugees from the USSR right after WWIILunch 12:30 – 13:3013:30 – 15:30Contesting denaturalizationChair: Claire ZALCSégolène PLYER (Strasbourg): Ascribing Czechoslovakian citizenship to ex-Wehrmacht soldiers? Practices regarding the repatriation of prisoners of war after 1945 at the Ministry of Interior in PragueLaure BLÉVIS (Paris): Nationality revocations and Immigrants judicial appeals in post WWII FranceMichal FRANKL (Prague): “Appalling moral blow.” Polish Jews appeal the 1938 revocation of citizenshipCoffee break 15:30 – 15:5015:50 – 17:10Colonial and post-colonial dimensionsChair: Wolfgang SCHELLENBACHERLaura Maria FREY (Basel): Disputed Citizenship. Black families in Germany, 1918-1933Luan STAPHORST (Port Elizabeth): Between Revoking and Invoking Citizenship: the problematic intersection of Apartheid South Africa, Pass Laws and the Post-Colonial Condition17:10 – 17:50Conclusion and final discussionThe workshop is supported by the Czech Science Foundation, project “Citizens of the No Man’s Land”, no 18-16793S, and the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France) TREMPLIN project, no 18-ERC1-0003-01. It is organized in cooperation with the ERC Consolidator project “Unlikely refuge?” (https://www.unlikely-refuge.eu/) and the ERC Consolidator project “LUBARTWORLD”.To participate, please register via email at bartakova@mua.cas.cz.