2009 Meeting
Program for the
Third annual meeting of the
Hannah Arendt Circle
Hosted by the departments of
Philosophy, Communications, and Foreign Languages
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
March 27-29, 2009
Friday, March 27
Location: West Dining Room, Carnell Hall
7:00-9:00 p.m. Informal Opening Reception
Saturday, March 28
Location: West Dining Room, Carnell Hall
9:00-9:30 Introduction and Welcome
9:30-10:40 Arendt and Space and Time
“The Space-Time of Solidarity: Being-With in Arendt and Sloterdijk”
Kristina Lebedeva
DePaul University
“When Are We When We Think: Arendt’s Temporal Interpretation of Thought and Thoughtlessness”
Heath Massey
Beloit College
11-12:10 The Social and the Social Sciences
“Arendt and Her Quarrel with Dewey”
Robin Weiss
DePaul University
“Biopolitics Secured: The Realization of Life Society in an Age of Industry”
J. Barry
Indiana University Southeast
12:10-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:10 Genocide and Evil
“Natality and Genocide”
Anne O’Byrne and David Pettigrew
Stony Brook University and Southern Connecticut State University
“Hannah Arendt on the Failure of Reason and Passive Evil”
Sarah L. MacMillen and John Fritz
Duquesne University
3:30-4:40 Arendt and Popular Media
“Photography as Action: Rethinking Arendtian Action through Diane Arbus’ Photography”
Joy Harris
“Rewalking the Public Square: Are Social Networking Sites Just Social?”
Sue Spaid
Temple University
4:40- 5:10 Business Meeting
Sunday, March 29
Location: West Dining Room, Carnell Hall
9:30-10:40 Action and Intersubjectivity
“Toward a Phenomenology of Political Action: Arendt and Husserl confront Derrida”
Peter Costello
Providence College
“Our Responsibility for the World: the Heartbeat of Arendtian Public Space”
Kathleen Vandeputte
Ghent University
11:00-12:10 Action and the Self
“Born Again (and again and again): Authenticity and Arendt’s Vita Activa”
Rebecca Seté Jacobson
Eckerd College and University of Hertfordshire
“Arendt, Bildung, and Education: the Search for a Theory of Formation”
James M. King
University of Texas at Dallas