14TH
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE HANNAH ARENDT CIRCLE
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
HOSTED BY
Loyola University, Chicago
2020 Organizing Committee:
Katy Fulfer, University of Waterloo
Lucy Benjamin, University of London
Jennifer Gaffney, Loyola University, Chicago
with
Katherine Brichacek, Loyola University, Chicago
***Due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, we will now be hosting this conference virtually on April 16–18 and April 30–May 1, 2021.
Changes to the schedule are forthcoming and not yet reflected on the schedule below***
***Due to COVID 19 travel restrictions, we will now be hosting this
conference virtually.
12:00pm: Conference Registration Opens
12:30-2:00pm:
Arendt and Her Contemporaries
Working Group
Organized by David Antonini, Clemson University
2:15-3:45pm:
Arendt Unbound
Working Group: Child Protestors in Climate Change Activism
Organized by Lucy Benjamin, University of London
4:00-5:30pm:
Symposium on the BloomsburyCompanion to Arendt
Coordinated by Yasemin Sari, University of Northern Iowa, and Peter Gratton, Memorial University
Reception to follow
Friday, April 17, 2020
8:30-9:00am: Conference Registration Opens
Session 1: Appearance and Action (9:00-10:45am)
“The Ugly Psyche: Arendt and the Right to Opacity,” Anne O’Byrne, Stony Brook University
“Hannah and Rahel’s Parallel Stories of Racial Identity, Privilege, and Epistemic Injustice: Embracing the Nonideal Political Action of
Rahel Varnhagen,”
Katherine Brichacek, Loyola University, Chicago
Moderated by:
Session 2: Thinking (11:00am-12:45pm)
“King Lear’s “Nothingness” and Arendtian Solitude,” Rivkah Grieg, Independent Scholar
“Metaphor, Image, Time: On the Internal Coherence of Arendt’s The Life of the Mind,”
Wout Cornelissen, Vanderbilt
University
Moderated by:
LUNCH
@ 12:45-2:15pm
Session 3: Reading
On Revolution alongside Literature (2:15-4pm)
“Intoxicating Pity: Hannah Arendt of [sic] the Perils of Appeals to Suffering,” Allysa Lake, Fordham University
“Suspending Judgment, Sinking Feeling: Melville, Arendt, and the Lost Treasure of Revolution,” Samuel Galloway,
Purchase College (SUNY)
Moderated
by:
Session 4: Reading Arendt alongside
Heidegger (4:15-6pm)
“The Arendt/Baldwin Exchange,” Robert Crease, Stony Brook University
“Heidegger and Arendt on Human Existence in the Public Realm,” Jo-Jo Koo, College of William & Mary
Moderated by:
Saturday, April 18, 2020
Location:
Session 5:
The Human Condition in Conversation (9:00-10:45am)
“Arendt on Natality: Between Gadamer and Habermas,” Magnus Ferguson, Boston College
“Labor v. Work: Arendt’s Distinction in Hegel’s Phenomenology,”
Clark Wolf, University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Moderated by:
Session 6: Arendt and Contemporary Political Questions
(11:00am-12:45pm)
“Climate Change and Totalitarian Logic,” Larry Alan Busk, California
State University, Stanislaus
“It’s a Smart World. An Architectural Reading of ‘Toronto Tomorrow’ Through Hannah Arendt’s
Concept of the World,” Hans Teerds, ETH Zürich
Moderated by
Lucy Benjamin, The University of London
LUNCH @ 12:45-2:15pm
Hannah Arendt
Circle Business Meeting (1:00-2:00 pm)
Session 7: Arendt in Conversation with Luxemburg (2:15-4pm)
“Luxemburg and Arendt on Revolution and the Council System,” Camila Vergara, Columbia University
“Arendt and Luxemburg: Democratic Possibilities and the Limits of Populist Politics,” Angela Maione, Harvard University
Moderated
by Karin Fry, Georgia Southern University
Session 8: New Directions for Arendt’s
Political Thought (4:15-6pm)
“Distinguishing between Formation and Articulation of Speech in Hannah Arendt’s Political Thought,” David Antonini, Clemson University
“The Grey Zones of Violence in Political Resistance,” Tal Correm, New York University
Moderated
by Chiara Ricciardone, Bard College