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Hannah Arendt Center

for Political Studies

 

Department of Human Sciences

University of Verona

2023 Annual Meeting of the Hannah Arendt Circle



16TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE HANNAH ARENDT CIRCLE

June 26-29th, 2023

 

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Hosted by Università degli Studi di Verona

Verona, Italy

 

2023 Organizing Committee:

Katherine Brichacek, Northwestern University

Olivia Guaraldo, University of Verona

Valentina Moro, DePaul University and University of Verona

Magnus Ferguson, The University of Chicago 


Each presenter will have 20 minutes to present, followed by 30 minutes for discussion. We will take a five minute break between each speaker. Events and panels will take place at the University of Verona, Santa Marta pole, room SMT.01. Address: Via Cantarane 24, Verona.





Monday, June 26th 


Monday mid-morning (exact time TBD): On Revolution at 60 Panel

Panelists:


James Barry, Jr., Indiana University Southeast

Roger Berkowitz, Bard College

Tal Correm, New York University

Jennifer Gaffney, Loyola University Chicago

Olivia Guaraldo, University of Verona

Yasemin Sari, University of Northern Iowa


LUNCH BREAK


Monday mid-afternoon (exact time TBD): University of Verona’s Arendt Center Invited Speakers

Fanny Söderbäck, Södertörns högskola, Sweden

“The Aesthetics and Politics of Narration: Arendt, Cavarero, Hartman”


Peg Birmingham, DePaul University, U.S.A.

On Revolution and the Social Question: Arendt's Disavowal of Superfluousness


Moderated by: Simona Forti, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy


Monday evening (exact time TBD): Welcome reception


Tuesday, June 27th

NB: times for all panel sessions are TBD


Session 1: Care 


Marieke Borren, Open Universiteit Nederland, the Netherlands 

“Why would we care at all? Care for the world as proto-normative commitment to political action”


Maria Robaszkiewicz, Universität Paderborn, Germany 

“‘So many ways of singing the world.’ Reflections on common speech and care for the world with Arendt and Merleau-Ponty.”


Invited Correspondent: Elvira Roncalli, Carroll College, U.S.A.


LUNCH BREAK


Session 2: Affect, Forgiveness, and Power


Ka-yu Hui, Boston College, U.S.A.

“Violence, promise, and forgiveness: Arendt and Benjamin on the nature of the political”


Sanjana Rajagopal, Fordham University, U.S.A.

“The Role of Emotions in Arendt’s Report on the Eichmann Trial”


Invited Correspondent: Daniele Bassi, University of Cambridge, England


Session 3: The Common World


Kate Bermingham, Bucknell University, U.S.A.

“Plurality and Reality: Gaslighting, Epistemic Injustice, and Loss of the Common World”


Guiseppe Aprile, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy

“A queer reparative reading of Arendt’s theory of judgement: Desiring common things for the ecstatic pleasure of realness”


Invited Correspondent: Magnus Ferguson, The University of Chicago, U.S.A.



Wednesday, June 28th 


Session 4: Foundations of Politics


Dana Villa, University of Notre Dame, U.S.A.

“Thoughts on Arendt's 'Foundationalism'”


Yasemin Sari, University of Northern Iowa, U.S.A.

“Arendt and Transformative Politics”


Invited Correspondent: Valentina Moro, DePaul University and Verona University, Italy


LUNCH BREAK


Session 5: Belonging 


Jennifer Gaffney, Loyola University Chicago, U.S.A.

“Archipelagic Citizenship: Arendt, Glissant, and the Politics of Belonging”


Val King, DePaul University, U.S.A.

“Towards a Decolonial Multilingualism: Arendt and Anzaldua on Language, National Identity, and the Possibility of Politics”


Invited Correspondent: Paula Landerreche Cardillo, DePaul University, U.S.A.


Session 6: Luxemburg and Reification


Angela Maione, Harvard University, U.S.A.

“Arendt, Luxemburg and ‘the republican question’”


Ziyi Amanda Fu, Northwestern University, U.S.A.

“Against the Social as Mere Catastrophe: Common Sense, Reification and Potential for the Political”

Invited Correspondent: Olivia Guaraldo, University of Verona, Italy


Thursday, June 29th 


Session 7: Aesthetics 


Joris Roelofs, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

“The Promise of Improvisation”


Paul Dahlgren, Georgia Southwestern State University, U.S.A.

“Arendt's Hamlet and the Rhetorical Power of Genre”


Invited Correspondent: Gabriele Parrino, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy


Session 8: Architecture and Revolution


Giacomo Mormino, Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy

“A view of the world: Arendt and architecture”


Lucy Benjamin, University of Melbourne, Australia

“Revolution in Repair: Reorganising Arendt’s planetary toolbox”


Invited Correspondent: Katherine Brichacek, Northwestern University, U.S.A.



LATE LUNCH BREAK



BUSINESS MEETING



Thursday late-afternoon (exact time TBD): University of Verona’s Arendt Center presents a panel discussion on the forthcoming edited collection, Political Bodies: Writings on Adriana Cavarero’s Political Thought


Panelists:

Paula Landerreche Cardillo, DePaul University, U.S.A.

Olivia Guaraldo, University of Verona, Italy

Julian Honkasalo, University of Helsinki, Finland

Rachel Silverbloom, Vassar College, U.S.A.

With honored guest, Adriana Cavarero, Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy







This conference has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101029336.