Decolonial Culture and the Politics of Empathy
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Series
Association events, EDID, Reckonings & Re-Imaginings
Language
English
Speaker(s)
Katrin Sieg, Georgetown University
Empathy has been deemed key to an emergent planetary consciousness facilitated by world-spanning media infrastructures, and crucial to cross-cultural understanding and cooperation. These positive assessments, boosted by the discovery of mirror-neurons in primate brains in the 1990s, have persisted even when optimism regarding digital media has flagged. But empathy has also been criticized for its failure to advance social justice by a range of cultural theorists. This talk will investigate the politics of empathy through a look at recent museum exhibitions and plays that thematize the German colonial past.
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