Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Toronto
Thursday, October 24, 2024 | 4:10 – 6:00 p.m.
Senior Common Room, Brennan Hall
Solidarity is central to Hannah Arendt’s work. It impacts her views on Christian neighbourly love, friendship, Jewish assimilation, Zionism, National Socialism, the American Republic, Black Power, revolution, violence, and the human world. Yet, in many respects, this was a highly problematic concept. Her writings unfolded a complex and often contradictory concept of solidarity. In this talk, Dr. Kim will discuss how Arendt’s white Jewishness fed into the white immigrant narrative of the time, and to what extent that framework erased, or effaced, the experience of Native Americans. His talk derives from research for Arendt’s Solidarity: Anti-Semitism and Racism in the Atlantic World (Stanford University Press, 2024, 20% off at www.sup.org with code DKIM20)
David D. Kim is Professor in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies, Associate Vice Provost of the International Institute, and the Inaugural Community Engagement Advisor for the Division of Humanities at UCLA. He is the author of Arendt’s Solidarity: Anti-Semitism and Racism in the Atlantic World (Stanford University Press, 2024) and Cosmopolitan Parables (Northwestern University Press, 2017). His edited and coedited books include, among others, Globalgeschichten der deutschen Literatur (Metzler Verlag, 2022), Reframing Postcolonial Studies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), The Postcolonial World (Routledge, 2016), and Imagining Human Rights (De Gruyter, 2015).
Co-sponsored by:
English
Comparative Literature
Germanic Languages & Literatures
History
Political Science
Centre for European and Eurasian Studies / Joint Initiative in German & European Studies
Funded by the DAAD with funds from the German Federal Foreign Office (AA)
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