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Gathering with Nikita Dhawan on “(Im)Possible Solidarities” Wednesday 19th of June 2024 . 7-8:30pm
Playground Studio / Dachauer Straße 112d, München (Halle 6)
On a daily basis we are flooded with images of suffering and pain. While some respond to this with solidarity and empathy, others complain of “compassion fatigue”. In the talk Nikita Dhawan will address the role of art in pursuing post-imperial global ethics and politics.
Nikita Dhawan is Professor of Political Theory and History of Ideas at the Technical University Dresden, Germany. Her research and teaching focuses on global justice, human rights, democracy and decolonization. She received the Käthe Leichter Award in 2017 for outstanding achievements in the pursuit of women’s and gender studies and in support of the women’s movement and the achievement of gender equality. She has held visiting fellowships at Universidad de Costa Rica; Institute for International Law and the Humanities, The University of Melbourne, Australia; Program of Critical Theory, University of California, Berkeley, USA; University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain; Pusan National University, South Korea; Columbia University, New York, USA. Selected publications include: Impossible Speech: On the Politics of Silence and Violence (2007); Decolonizing Enlightenment: Transnational Justice, Human Rights and Democracy in a Postcolonial World (ed., 2014); Reimagining the State: Theoretical Challenges and Transformative Possibilities (ed., 2019); Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans: Critical Theories of Decolonization (forthcoming). In 2023, she has been awarded the Gerda-Henkel-Visiting Professorship at Stanford University and the Thomas Mann Fellowship.
This event is free, please register at [email protected]
Event in English)
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Playground Anna Konjetzky, Dachauer Straße 112D, 80636 München, Deutschland,Munich, Germany