'Affective Citizenship’ reading group, led by Dr Joseph Twist
Date: Friday, 16 January 2026
Time: 10-11.30AM
Venue: 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 second 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 16 January at 10am in the Humanities Institute Seminar Room/H204/top floor.
The second text we will discuss is Dimitry Kochenov, ‘Key Elements of the Concept’ in Citizenship(MIT Press, 2019), pp. 10-28. The session will be facilitated by Dr Isabel Arce Zelada (ERC Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of History).
If you would like to join but are unable to attend the session, email Megan (megan.kuster@ucd.ie) to be added to the mailing list so that you receive all future updates on the reading group.
The first meeting of the reading group took place on Friday 28 November, facilitated by Dr Joseph Twist. The group discussed Bilgin Ayata’s ‘Affective Citizenship’ in Affective Societies, ed. by Jan Slaby and Christian von Scheve (Routledge, 2019), pp. 330-339.
All welcome. Please share this announcement with PhD students and postdocs.