Colonialism and its impact on political solidarity today

After the end of World War II, European nations promoted European unification as a “peace project”. What remained largely ignored was the obligation resulting from the colonial past of countries like Germany, France and Great Britain. What kind of solidarity can be expected from the descendants of the colonizers? Similar questions were raised in the context of Black Lives Matter in the US: Is there an obligation for white majority society to show solidarity to the descendants of enslaved people?
​​​​​​​Prof. Emily Marker (Rutgers University) and Dr. Monica van der Haagen-Wulff (University of Cologne) will address the question of the undiminished significance of past injustices for today's generations.

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What matters more: community or society?
Individual freedom or solidarity?
What constitutes a society based on solidarity?
These questions are of great urgency in these times. Polarization and division seem currently to be the tried and tested means of political discussion. Global migration is intensifying the discussion about who has what duties towards whom, who should show solidarity towards whom and who can be denied solidarity

DOUBLE EXPOSURE offers a series of events with philosophers and experts from Germany and the US, including Omri Boehm, Susannah Heschel, Jan-Werner Müller, and Susan Neiman, who will discuss what holds societies together, with all in-person events recorded and available as podcasts.

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