{"id":15843,"date":"2026-03-26T12:46:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=15843"},"modified":"2026-03-26T12:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:49:13","slug":"jmce-lecture-ancestral-citizenship-in-europe-from-national-roots-to-migratory-routes-with-dr-thales-speroni","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/event\/jmce-lecture-ancestral-citizenship-in-europe-from-national-roots-to-migratory-routes-with-dr-thales-speroni\/","title":{"rendered":"JMCE Lecture: &#8220;Ancestral Citizenship in Europe: From National Roots to Migratory Routes&#8221; with Dr. Thales Speroni"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n\n\n<p>The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence is very pleased to host a lecture, \u201cAncestral Citizenship in Europe: From National Roots to Migratory Routes\u201d, with Dr. Thales Speroni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the lecture<\/strong>: Several EU member states grant citizenship to descendants of emigrant populations abroad. While rooted in nation-building logics, these provisions raise questions about who gets to be a national and EU citizen, and on what terms. This talk analyzes how extraterritorial access to citizenship reshapes visions of Europe across generations in Italy, Germany, and Bulgaria. Focusing on the Italian case, it explores the frictions between normative expectations embedded in citizenship law and the actual migratory projects of recently recognized citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"291\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2026\/03\/Thales-Speroni-headshot-Picture1.png\" alt=\"Thales Speroni headshot\" class=\"wp-image-15844\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.9864421292992721;width:216px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the lecturer:\u00a0<\/strong>Dr.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/centrenorbertelias.cnrs.fr\/equipes-de-recherche\/thales-speroni\/\">Thales Speroni<\/a>\u00a0is a postdoctoral fellow in Sociology at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/centrenorbertelias.cnrs.fr\/language\/en\/\">Centre Norbert Elias<\/a>\u00a0(Marseille, France) and visiting lecturer at St. Joseph University (China). He is a member of the project on the Intergenerational analysis of ancestral citizenship in Europe, examining the implications of bloodline and co-ethnicity as routes to citizenship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please register at the Centre\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ces\/cu-events\/jmce-lecture-ancestral-citizenship-in-europe-from-national-roots-to-migratory-routes-with-dr-thales-speroni\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">event page here<\/a>\u00a0by Friday, April 10, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2026\/03\/image.png\" alt=\"European Union flag &quot;Co-funded by the European Union&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-15847\" style=\"width:341px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence activities are co-funded by the&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feuropean-union.europa.eu%2Findex_en&amp;data=05%7C02%7CSophieLeBoeuf%40cunet.carleton.ca%7C21d36e344f904274afc408de8a9f2024%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C639100613230648589%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=VxSegfml7tPziacOifMQZCIwC2cYV5iWD%2FAv4oywyn0%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">European Union<\/a><\/em><em>&nbsp;and by&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcarleton.ca%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CSophieLeBoeuf%40cunet.carleton.ca%7C21d36e344f904274afc408de8a9f2024%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C639100613230685310%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=onxtIAa7NyH4sdj%2Byn3Fw87VXZlK1%2BM21HQ6v8H%2BTjA%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Carleton University<\/a><\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-15843","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2026-04-14 15:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2026-04-14 16:30:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"RB","cu_event_meeting_room":"3228","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":"","cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/15843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/15843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15848,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/15843\/revisions\/15848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=15843"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=15843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}