Program for the Third annual meeting of the Hannah Arendt Circle Hosted by the departments of Philosophy, Communications, and Foreign Languages University of Arkansas, Fayetteville March 27-29, 2009 Friday, March 27Location: West Dining Room, Carnell Hall7:00-9:00 p.m. Informal Opening ReceptionSaturday, March 28Location: West Dining Room, Carnell Hall9:00-9:30 Introduction and Welcome9:30-10:40 Arendt and Space and Time “The Space-Time of Solidarity: Being-With in Arendt and Sloterdijk”Kristina Lebedeva DePaul University “When Are We When We Think: Arendt’s Temporal Interpretation of Thought and Thoughtlessness”Heath Massey Beloit College 11-12:10 The Social and the Social Sciences “Arendt and Her Quarrel with Dewey”Robin Weiss DePaul University “Biopolitics Secured: The Realization of Life Society in an Age of Industry”J. Barry Indiana University Southeast 12:10-2:00 Lunch2:00-3:10 Genocide and Evil “Natality and Genocide”Anne O’Byrne and David Pettigrew Stony Brook University and Southern Connecticut State University “Hannah Arendt on the Failure of Reason and Passive Evil”Sarah L. MacMillen and John Fritz Duquesne University 3:30-4:40 Arendt and Popular Media “Photography as Action: Rethinking Arendtian Action through Diane Arbus’ Photography”Joy Harris “Rewalking the Public Square: Are Social Networking Sites Just Social?”Sue Spaid Temple University 4:40- 5:10 Business MeetingSunday, March 29Location: West Dining Room, Carnell Hall9:30-10:40 Action and Intersubjectivity “Toward a Phenomenology of Political Action: Arendt and Husserl confront Derrida”Peter Costello Providence College “Our Responsibility for the World: the Heartbeat of Arendtian Public Space”Kathleen Vandeputte Ghent University 11:00-12:10 Action and the Self “Born Again (and again and again): Authenticity and Arendt’s Vita Activa”Rebecca Seté Jacobson Eckerd College and University of Hertfordshire “Arendt, Bildung, and Education: the Search for a Theory of Formation”James M. King University of Texas at Dallas |
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