CONFERENCE
PROGRAM
9TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE
HANNAH ARENDT CIRCLE
WITH ADDITIONAL EVENTS ORGANIZED BY TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
Host: Department of Philosophy, Texas
A&M University.
Conference Committee: Daniel Conway (Texas A&M); Tal Correm (Temple
University); Kei Hiruta (University of Oxford).
Internal support provided
by the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, the Women’s
& Gender Studies
Program, the European
Union Center, the Social, Cultural, and Political Theory Working Group, the Department of Philosophy, and the Department of International Studies.
External support
provided by the Consulate General
of the Federal Republic of Germany in Houston and the Consulate General
of Israel to the Southwest.
12pm: Registration begins
Thursday, April 23, 2015
311 GLASSCOCK BUILDING
1pm
– 1:15pm
·
Welcome by Daniel
Conway
1:30pm – 2:30pm:
Workshop [organized by Texas A&M]
Moderator: Theodore
George, Texas A&M
University
·
Jennifer Gaffney, Texas
A&M University, ‘Loneliness, Totalitarianism, and Exile
in Modern Political Life: Re-examining Arendt’s
Critique of Liberalism in a Post-Colonial Context’
2:45pm – 4:30pm:
Workshop [organized by Texas A&M]
Moderator: Karen Davis, Texas A&M University
·
Tal Correm,
Temple University, ‘Constitution of Freedom: Hannah
Arendt on Constitution- Making and the Renewal of Politics’
·
Kei Hiruta, University of Oxford, ‘“Miss
Arendt’s Dream Is Not For Me”: On Isaiah Berlin’s Critique of Arendtian Politics’
4:45pm – 6pm: Public Lecture
[organized by Texas A&M]
Moderator: Claire Katz, Texas A&M University
·
Annabel Herzog, University of Haifa, ‘On Violence and the Foundations of Power: Arendt’s Answer to Benjamin (and Derrida) on the Nature
of Politics’
6:00pm: Arendt Circle
Reception at University Club
Friday, April 24, 2015
Arendt Circle Conference Day 1
311 GLASSCOCK BUILDING
9:00am – 9:30:
Registration and Refreshments: 9:30am – 10:50am: Identity
and Life-stories
Moderator: James Barry, Indiana
University Southeast
·
Samuel Gault, Pennsylvania State University, ‘Hannah
Arendt on the Formation of Jewish
Identity Through and Against Antisemitism: A Comparative Analysis
of “Antisemitism” and The Origins of Totalitarianism’
·
Ian Storey, Harvard
University, ‘Biography as Political Thought:
Arendt on Preserving Particulars’
11:00am – 11:10am:
Recognition of Consular
Guests
11:10 – 12:30pm: Arendt
and Contemporary Politics
Moderator: Kei Hiruta, University of Oxford
·
Amanda Kearns, Pacific
Northwest College of Art, ‘Transparency Advocacy and the Arendtian Spirit
of American Law: A Study
of Chelsea Manning
and Edward Snowden’
·
Michal Braier, Ben Gurion University of the Negev,
‘The Right to Light: On Public Streetlights and Political Visibility’
12:30pm –1:45pm: Lunch
1:50pm – 3:50pm: Freedom,
Action and Institutions
Moderator: Patrick
Anderson, Texas A&M
University
·
Guido Parietti, Columbia
University, ‘Arendt on Democratic Power
and Republican Law’
·
Shmuel Lederman, Open University of Israel, ‘Hannah
Arendt’s Council System
and The Human Condition’
·
David Munson and Nathan Crick, Texas A&M
University, ‘The Art of Revolutionary Rhetoric: Hannah
Arendt, Zionism and Revolutionary Spirit’
4pm – 5:20pm:
Arendtian Judgment
Moderator: Brittany
Leckey, Texas A&M
University
·
Marielle Sundiang, University of the Philippines, ‘The Li(f)e of the Mind: Hannah Arendt on
Political Judgment and Human Plurality’
·
Matthew Wester, Texas A&M University, ‘Before Adolf Eichmann: A Kafkian Analysis
of the Banality of Evil’
Saturday, April 25, 2015 Arendt
Circle Conference Day 2
311 GLASSCOCK BUILDING
9:30am – 10:50am: Little
Rock and Beyond
Moderator: Tal Correm,
Temple University
·
Lisa Stenmark, San Jose State University, ‘If “All Lives Matter” do “Black Lives Matter”?: Solidarity, Privilege and Particularity in #BerkeleyProtests’
·
Katy Fulfer, Hood College, ‘Reflections on Carlotta Wall’s
LaNier’s Little Rock’
11am – 12:20pm: The Life of the Mind
Moderator: Jonathan
Bibeau, Texas A&M
University
·
Kazue Koishikawa, Independent Scholar, ‘Hannah Arendt:
from Thinking to Judgment’
·
Martin Shuster, Avila University, ‘Storytelling, Worldhood, and New Television: Arendt
and Cavell’
12:20pm –1:45pm: Lunch
1:50pm – 3:50pm: Arendtian Politics Reconsidered
Moderator: Wendy Bustamante, Texas A&M University
·
Matthew Shields, Georgetown University, ‘Making Sense of Who We Are: Reassessing
Arendt’s Account of the Revelatory Quality of Action’
·
Leroy Cooper, Colorado
State University, ‘Hannah
Arendt: Monist or Pluralist with Respect to the Good Life?’
·
Yasemin Sari, University of Alberta, ‘An Arendtian Principle of “Epistemic Responsibility”’
4:15pm – 5:00pm: Business Meeting,
300 Glasscock Building
EVANS LIBRARY
ROOM 204E
5:30pm – 7:00pm: Public
Lecture [organized by Texas A&M]
Moderator: Daniel
Conway
·
Christian Emden, Rice University, ‘Hannah
Arendt’s Ambivalent Political
Realism’