Program for the
Fourth annual meeting of the
Hannah Arendt Circle
Hosted by the Department of
Philosophy DePaul University
Chicago, IL
April 16-18, 2010
Friday April 16
Evening Social Gathering (Note Change: Duke of Perth, 2913 N Clark Street, at the corner of Surf)
Saturday April 17
Welcome (Coffee/Tea and Light Refreshment)
Responsibility and Accountability
·
"Arendt’s Perspective Change: Exploring the
Impact of Adolf Eichmann’s Trial on Hannah Arendt’s View of
Responsibility"
Steven Bloch-Schulman, Elon University
·
"Arendt in Jerusalem: Moral Agency and the
Victim"
Diane Enns, McMaster University
·
"Freedom, Responsibility and Judgment"
Antonia Grunenberg, Director, Hannah Arendt Center,
University of Oldenburg
Moderator: Annika Thiem, Villanova University
Visions of the Self
·
"Telling Stories: Story and History in
Arendt’s Thought"
Julia Urabayen, University of Navarra and Visiting
Professor, Fordham University
·
"Rahel Varnhagen: The Role of the Lie in
Self-Interpretation"
Kristina Lebedeva, DePaul University
Moderator: Robin Weiss, DePaul University
Lunch (Enjoy Local Restaurants)
Thinking With Friends
·
"Why Return to
Augustine? Arendt’s Love and Saint Augustine in the Context of the
Mid-20th Century New York Intellectual Life"
Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott, Eastern Michigan University
·
"Thinking Beyond Philosophy: The Discursive
Contexts of Hannah Arendt’s Early Work"
Liisi Keedus, European University Institute
Moderator: Ulrike Björk
Arendt, Politics and Being Human
·
"The Ambiguity of “The Right to have
Rights”: Hannah Arendt’s Critique of Human Rights
Discourse"
Julia Honkasalo, The New School
·
"Given Life: Arendt, Butler and the Politics of
Non-Violence"
Julia Ireland, Whitman College
Moderator: Karin Fry, University of Wisconsin, Stevens
Point
Business Meeting immediately following panel
Book Panel
·
Peg Birmingham’s Hannah Arendt and Human Rights:
The Predicament of Common Responsibility
Dianna Taylor, John Carroll University
Kevin Thompson, DePaul University
Dana Villa, University of Notre Dame
Response by Peg Birmingham, DePaul
University
Moderator: tba
Dinner arrangements have been made for Saturday night at Pars Cove. Please RSVP by March 21st to Tama Weisman at tweisman@dom.edu.
Place: Pars Cove
Time: 7:30
Dinner will include:
Appetizers
Set dinner menu with three options: vegetarian; Lamb; seafood
Table Wine
Cost: faculty $20; Students $10 (to be collected at conference)
Sunday April 18
(Coffee/Tea and Light Refreshment)
Thinking, Judgment and Responsibility
·
"Trying to Fill the Gap: Between the
Kantian Ideal and Eichmann’s Actions"
Gisele
Velarde, A.
Ruiz de Montoya University, Lima, Peru, and Visiting Scholar, Loyola University
Chicago
·
"Preparing Thought for Politics: Arendt’s
Rehabilitation of the Activity of Thinking"
Wout Cornelissen, VU University Amsterdam
Moderator: James Manos, DePaul University
Action Today
"What It Takes to Go Visiting: An Arendtian Ethos of
Critical Self-Doubt"
Simona Goi, Calvin College
"Reading Arendt in Iran/Reading Iran Through Arendt: Speech,
Action, and the Question of Street Politics"
Norma C. Morruzzi, University of Illinois at Chicago
Moderator: Lou Agosta, Independent Scholar
Politics Philosophy and Religion
·
"The Time of Forgiveness: Messianic Strains
in Arendt's Theory of Action"
Daniel Brandes, Dalhousie University
·
"The Memory of a Common World: Arendt,
Schmitt and Politics After Totalitarianism"
John Ackerman, Northwestern University
Moderator: Sam Galloway
We would like to thank DePaul's University Research Council
and Department of Philosophy for their generous support.