Grateful Houseguests: Gratitude & Immigration(FREE)

When

Wednesday, November 4, 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM

Where

Richmond Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities, Richmond

Price

Not listed. Check with the venue.

"Grateful Houseguests: Gratitude & Immigration"Immigrants are often expected to be, and often are, grateful: grateful to be allowed in, grateful for the opportunities they now enjoy, grateful not to be elsewhere. Expressions of gratitude might perform useful social functions, and gratitude more widely is regarded as a virtuous attitude.In this talk, Ashwini Vasanthakumar will critically scrutinize prevailing expectations around immigration and gratitude but also rehabilitate gratitude and explore how immigrants ought to be grateful, for what, and with what implications. Ashwini Vasanthakumar is an associate professor and Queen’s National Scholar in Legal and Political Philosophy at Queen’s Law School. She holds an A.B. from Harvard; an M.A. from the University of Toronto; a J.D. from Yale Law School; and a DPhil from Oxford, where she studied as a Canadian Rhodes Scholar.Prior to Queen’s, she held positions at King’s College London, University of York, University of Oxford, and Jindal Global Law School. She has been a visiting fellow at the Hertie School (Berlin), the Institute for Futures Studies (Stockholm), and the University of Sydney.Vasanthakumar’s research explores political

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