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 ReconsideredModerator:
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 204E5:30pm – 7:00pm: Public
Lecture [organized by Texas A&M]
Moderator: Daniel
Conway
·
Christian Emden, Rice University, ‘Hannah
Arendt’s Ambivalent Political
Realism’
7pm: Reception and meal at Katz/Conway residence in College Station