David L. Eng

Mary (Kim) Brewster, clinical psychologist and director; Shinhee Han, senior psychotherapist and activist; David Eng, interdisciplinary scholar on race and reparations. They unpack Asian American invisibility, racial melancholia, model minority and yellow peril myths, intergenerational loss, institutional representation, and what repair and concern look like in clinical and political life.

David L. Eng, a scholar blending law, psychoanalysis, Asian American studies, and critical theory, explores reparations across the Transpacific. He traces how colonial and Enlightenment concepts shaped who counts as human. Topics include Locke and colonial reparations, Hiroshima’s contested recognition, uranium’s transnational harms, and rethinking the human through interdependence.

David L. Eng, Richard L. Fisher Professor at UPenn and author of Reparations and the Human, brings an interdisciplinary lens from law and psychoanalysis. He explores reparations across the Transpacific, the colonial roots of who counts as human, contrasts postwar reckonings, and traces material links from dispossession to the atomic bomb. Short, provocative, and wide-ranging.