7th Independent Hannah Arendt
Circle Conference
University of Antwerp, Antwerp,
Belgium
May 20-22, 2013
Tuesday (May 21st)
8-9 AM Coffee and Welcome word, Vivian Liska,
Director Institute of Jewish Studies.
9-10:45 – Session
I: Judaism (I).
Session Chair: Cassie Striblen, West Chester
University
A.
The Controversy over Eichmann in
Jerusalem and Hannah Arendt’s “German-Jewish”
Identity
– Robert Kunath,
Illinois College
B.
Arendt
and the Role Of Exilic Language in Forming a Political Life
- Jules Simon, University
of Texas at El Paso
C.
Hannah Arendt: Judaism and the Other
– Olga Kirschbaum, New York
University
10:45-11
- Break
11-12:10 – Session
II: Identity and Selfhood.
Session Chair:
Nathan Van Camp, University of Antwerp.
A. Feminist Encounters with Hannah Arendt:
Between Social Identity and Political
Agency
– Emily Katzenstein, University of Oxford
B. Arendt on Selfhood, Intersubjectivity, and
Moral Integrity
– Tatjana Noemi Tömmel,
University of Frankfurt
12:10-2:10 PM – Lunch
2:10-3:15
– Session III: Comparing Arendt.
Session Chair:
x, University of Antwerp
A. On
Responsibility: Reading Hannah Arendt with Karl Jaspers and Jan Patocka
–
Ulrika Bjork, Uppsala University
B. Public Reason for a Common World: An
Encounter Between Arendt and Rawls
–
Vasti Roodt, University of Stellenbosch
3:15-3:30 - Break
3:30-4:40 – Session
IV: Arendt and Politics.
Session Chair: Melis Baş, University of Twente
A. The Aporias of Establishing the Right to Have
Rights
- Jan Maximilian Robitzsch, University of Pennsylvania
B. Peace and the Preservtion of Politics
– Diane Enns, McMaster University
5:00-5:45
-- Business Meeting
Wednesday (May 22nd )
8-9 AM - Coffee
9:30-10:40
– Session V: Judaism (II).
Session Chair: Richard I. Cohen, The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem
A. “When one is attacked as a Jew...one must
respond as an Oriental”: Hannah Arendt
and Edward Said in a Semitic Dialogue
– Anya Topolski, University of Leuven
B. “What’s Love Got to Do With It?”: Between the
Political and the Anti-political in the
Arendt/Scholem Exchange
– Kupfer Shira, University of Haifa
11-12:10
– Session VI: Education and Politics.
Session Chair: x , University of Antwerp
A. Religious Education out of Love for the
World? A Contemporary Discussion with
Hannah Arendt
– Pieter De Witte, Catholic
University of Leuven
B. Hannah Arendt’s Exercises in Political
Thinking and their Role as a Preparatory Political
Practice
– Maria Robaszkiewicz, University of
Paderborn
12:10-2:10 PM – Lunch
2:10-3:15
– Session VII: Speech and Action.
Session Chair:
Marinus Schoeman, University of Pretoria
A. “Talking
Back and Measuring Up”: The Judging Role of Speaking Together in Hannah Arendt’s
Thought
–
Karen McCarthy, Emory University
B. The
Moral Dimension of Action: Arendt’s Ethics of the World
–
Tal Correm, Temple University
3:30-4:40
– Session VIII: Forgiveness and Reconciliation.
Session Chair:
Kei Hiruta, University of Oxford
A. Hannah Arendt's Jesus: A Contextual Exploration of
Arendt's Depiction of Jesus in
Light of her Formative Years in Weimar Germany
– Thomas Wittendorff, European University Institute
B. Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Restoring the
Meaning of a Political Relation
- Els Van Peborgh,
University of Antwerp
7:30 – Conference Diner, Felixpakhuis
End of Conference.