Department of European Languages and Studies cordially invites you!
February 4, 2025
4-5:30 p.m. in Humanities Gateway 1010
Professor David D. Kim (University of California, Los Angeles)
"There Are No Natives Here":Hannah Arendt and the Erasure of Native American Citizenship"
Abstract:
At the height of the Cold War, Hannah Arendt mapped out America’s exceptionalism in a world of modern nation-states. She told a moving account of this country as a consent-based republic. At the same time, she drowned out the cognitive dissonance of fighting for political freedom without abolishing chattel slavery. The aim of this lecture is to examine how Arendt promulgates the notion that America is held together by consent and compliance as opposed to coercion and conformism. Based on Kim's latest book, Arendt's Solidarity: Anti-Semitism and Racism in the Atlantic World (Stanford University Press, 2024), the presentation offers a critical inquiry into her erasure of Native American citizenship.
David Kim’s latest book is available from Stanford University Press. Interested readers can purchase a copy with 20% discount with the code DKIM20: Arendt's Solidarity: Anti-Semitism and Racism in the Atlantic World (2024).