Prof. Claire Jean Kim, University of California: ‘Murder and Mattering in Harambe’s house’, is scheduled between 10.30 am – 12 noon on the 1st June 2018, venue: Old Library, Institute of Geography, Drummond Street, Edinburgh EH89XP
Claire Jean Kim is Professor of Political Science and Asian American Studies at University of California, Irvine, where she teaches classes on comparative race studies and human-animal studies. She is the author of Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City (Yale University Press 2000) and Dangerous Crossings: Race, Species, and Nature in a Multicultural Age (Cambridge University Press 2015), both of which won book awards from the American Political Science Association.
This lecture is part of a workshop on Social Difference and Nature, further details of which are available here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-difference-and-nature-contesting-narratives-of-elitism-tickets-45772161768