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 info@playground-nomadicground.com