 12th Annual Meeting of The Hannah Arendt Circle
Conference Program Hosted by The Humanities Institute University of California, Davis With support from Critical Theory, English, German & Russian, ISS, Ringelblum Chair, And Theatre and Dance
2018 Organizing Committee
Anne O’Byrne, Stony Brook University Yasemin Sari, University of Northern Iowa Kathleen B. Jones, UC Davis With the assistance of Adam Blair, Stony Brook University
Thursday, April 12 Arendt Circle Working Groups All are welcome
1:00pm | Voorhies 126 Conference Registration Opens
1:15–3:00pm | Voorhies 126 Arendt and Her Contemporaries Working Group: "Arendt and Contemporary Democratic and Liberal Political Theory." Text: Linda Zerilli, A Democratic Theory of Judgment. Coordinator: David Antonini, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Co-conveners: Anne O’Byrne, Aaron Darrisaw, Andreas Stuhlmann, Yasemin Sari?. 3:15–5:00pm | Voorhies 126 Gender, Race, Queer Theory Working Group: Coordinator: Lisa Stenmark, San José State University Texts: Joanne Faulkner, “White Women Elected Trump”: Feminism in ‘Dark Times,’ Its Present and Future,” Continental Thought and Theory: A Journal of Intellectual Freedom, 1 no 3. (2017)https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10092/13481/Faulkner-CTT-v1-3-2017.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Amy Allen, “Solidarity after identity politics: Hannah Arendt and the power of feminist theory,” Philosophy and Social Criticism 25 (1): 97-118 (1999)
5:15 -6:15pm | Upstairs in Voorhies 228 Wine and Cheese Reception
Friday, April 13 All Sessions in SSH Andrews Conference Room
Session 1 (9:00-10:45am) Politics of Doxa and Politics of Truth: Arendt’s Ambivalent Legacy in Radical Democratic Theory | Larry Busk, University of Oregon Commentator: J Barry, Indiana University Southeast
Making Truth Public: Science in a Post-Truth World | Lisa Stenmark, San José State University Commentator: David Antonini, SIU Carbondale
Session 2 (11:00am-12:45pm) Welcoming Refugees? Rootlessness, Assimilation, and In-Betweenness | Katy Fulfer, University of Waterloo Commentator: Theodore Lai, Hudson County Community College
Arendt on National Liberation and Federalism | Tal Correm, Allegheny College Commentator: Marielle Kristina Morales Sundiang, University of the Philippines
Lunch (12:45-2:15pm)
Session 3 (2:15-4:00pm) Settler Colonialism in The Origins of Totalitarianism and On Revolution | Sarah Tyson, University of Colorado Denver Commentator: Andreas Stuhlmann, University of Alberta
Amor Mundi: Reading Arendt alongside Native American Philosophy | Justin Pack, California State University, Stanislaus Commentator: Geoffrey Adelsberg, Edgewood College
Session 4 (4:15-6:00pm) How to Care? A Dialogue between Hannah Arendt and Joan Tronto | Sophie Cloutier, St. Paul University Commentator: Amy Schiller, CUNY Graduate Center
Hannah Arendt and the Political Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth Frederick M. Dolan, Professor of Humanities, California College of Art; Professor of Rhetoric, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley. Commentator: Anne O’Byrne, Stony Brook University
7:30- 9:00pm | Wyatt Pavillion Theatre on Campus Performance of “On Thinking,” an original play written and directed by Mike Levin 9pm Q & A with playwright
Saturday, April 14 All Sessions in Voorhies 126
Session 5 (9:00-10:45am) Arendtian Human Plurality as a Corrective to Liberal Pluralism | David Antonini, SIU Carbondale Commentator: Katrine Giaever, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
The Pregnant Body and the Birth of the Other: Arendt’s Contribution to Original Ethics | Jennifer Gaffney, Gettysburg College Commentator: Kathleen Jones, University of California, Davis; Emerita, San Diego State University
Session 6 (11:00am-12:45pm) Arendt and Kant's Third Critique | Matthew Wester, Texas A&M Commentator: Yasemin Sari, University of Northern Iowa
The Aesthetic Performance of Arendtian Isolation | Joy Harris, University of Tampa Mike Levin, Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy
Lunch (12:45-2:15pm) Hannah Arendt Circle Business meeting (1:00-2:00)
Session 7 (2:15-4:00pm) “I wrote it in part because of your article”: Arendt and Broch on Human Rights | Jan Maximilian Robitzsch, Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, Korea. Commentator: Jana Lozanoska, University for Peace
Arendt and Foucault on Racism: Lessons for the Genealogist | Hanna Lipkind, Vanderbilt University Commentator: Hans Teerds, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Session 8 (4:15-6:00pm) Productive Potential and the Romantic Lover: Arendt’s Other Political Scene | Lucy Benjamin, University of Amsterdam Commentator: Aaron Darrisaw, Southern Illinois University
Arendt and Biopolitics: affirming life’s surface | Ari-Elmeri Hyvonen, University of Tampere Commentator: Lee Cooper, Colorado State University
(No Host) CONFERENCE DINNER @ 6:30 PM. Village Pizza and Grill Upstairs Room, 403 G St, Davis, CA 95616 |
