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Campus Weeks 2024 | Arendt’s Solidarity
November 8 @ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
This event is part of the 2024 Campus Weeks — Germany on Campus initiative sponsored by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Join us for a TAM Friday Lecture sponsored by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany! David Kim, UCLA, will join us to discuss his new book “Arendt’s Solidarity: Anti-Semitism and Racism in the Atlantic World.”
Hannah Arendt repeatedly called chattel slavery America’s “original sin.” At the same time, she was aware of America’s First Nations. So why was it that she erased Native American citizenship from her republican theorization of America? The aim of this lecture is to examine the disjunction between indigeneity and America in Arendt’s political theory.
Speakers
David Kim
Dr. David Kim teaches in the Department of Germanic Languages at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also a faculty affiliate in Global Studies at the UCLA International Institute. His scholarly interests range from the age of Enlightenment to the present day with emphases on postcolonial and translation studies, digital humanities, international human rights, and political and cultural theories. He is the author of Cosmopolitan Parables (Northwestern University Press, 2017) and the co-editor of The Postcolonial World (Routledge, 2016) and Imagining Human Rights (De Gruyter, 2015). His current book projects include a co-edited volume on global histories of German literature and an edited volume, titled Reframing Postcolonial Studies and forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan. His digital humanities project is WorldLiterature@UCLA.
This event is part of the “Campus Weeks 2024 – Germany on Campus“ initiative by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany. Co-sponsored by the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures.
