Guest lecture by Prof. Nikolas Kompridis, on 2 July

On Monday 2 July, 10.00 – 11.00, Professor Kompridis will give a guest lecture on ‘Beginning and Belonging: The Contemporary Refugee Crisis and the Right to the Human Condition’. Nikolas Kompridis is professor in Philosophy and Political Thought at the Australian Catholic University. The lecture will take place in the Turnzaal, Grote Gracht 90-92. 

Abstract

I take up Hannah Arendt’s reflections on statelessness and refugees, normatively reconfiguring her understanding of the “right to have rights” as the right to the human condition, into which is built Arendt’s notion of freedom as the faculty of beginning and her analysis of the refugee as one who is systematically deprived of the conditions of belonging. European refugee and asylum policy involves a negation of the right to the human condition by depriving stateless peoples the possibility of appearing as “human beings who belong to the world.”

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