Second Annual Meeting of the Hannah Arendt Circle

Hosted by

The Departments of Philosophy and Comparative Literature, Emory University

March 28-30, 2008

Friday, March 28

6:00-8:00 pm: Opening Reception at Holiday Inn Decatur

Saturday, March 29

Location: Emory's campus, Dobbs University Center, Room 362E;

9:00-10:45 am: Arendt and the Ancients

Chair: Stephen Schulman, Philosophy, Elon University

Adriel M. Trott

Villanova University

• “Aristotle's Politics after Arendt: Action and the Appearance of Political Community”

Annelies Degryse

KULeuven

Centre for Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

• “Hannah Arendt’s Conceptions of Law: Lex versus Nomos”

Fanny Söderbäck

The New School for Social Research

• ”Impossible Mourning: Sophocles Reversed”

11:00 am-12:10 pm:  Disruptions and Discords

Chair: Adrian Switzer, Philosophy, Emory University

Naïma Hachad

Emory University

• ”Hannah Arendt and Jacques Derrida: On Notions of Beginning, Foundation and Violence”

Vasti Roodt

University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

• "Nietzsche versus Arendt: Furor Philosophicus or Furor Politicus?”

1:30- 3:15 pm: Arendt Applied

Chair: Karin Fry, Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Steven's Point

Michal Biletzki

Boston University

• "OCTOBER 2000 – THE MEANING OF BEING A NATIONAL MINORITY IN ISRAEL"

V.Denise James

Emory University

• "In Search of Creative Councils: Beyond Arendt and Toward Possible Practice"

Annika Thiem

Villanova University

• "Putting Politics Back Into Social Issues: Arendt's Critique of the Social and Political Ethics"

3:30-4:40 pm: Arendt and the Public Realm

Chair: Scott Branson, Comp Lit, Emory University

David Marshall

Kettering University

• "The Origins of Hannah Arendt's Theory of Judgment"

Irene McMullin

University of Arkansas

• "The Amnesia of the Modern: Arendt on the Role of Memory in the Constitution of the Political”

4:50-5:30 pm: Business Meeting

Sunday, March 30

Location: Swanton Room at the Holiday Inn Decatur

9:30-10:40 am: On Natality

Chair: Anne O'Byrne, Philosophy, Stony Brook University

Samir Haddad

Fordham University

• "The Time of Natality"

Matthew Burch

Rice University

• "Heidegger and Arendt on Natality"

10:50 am-12:00 pm: Democracy and Pluralism

Chair: Kathryn Gines, Philosophy, Vanderbilt University

Joshua A. Miller

Pennsylvania State University

• “Democracy and Distinction: Arendt, Rancière, and Education"

Michael Harbour

Vanderbilt University

• "Arendt, Pluralism, and the Politics of the Human Condition"