2010 Meeting
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
6:00-8:00
Evening Social Gathering (Note Change: Duke of Perth, 2913 N Clark Street, at the corner of Surf)
Saturday April 17
8:30-9:00
Welcome (Coffee/Tea and Light Refreshment)
9:00-10:45
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
10:55-12:05
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
12:05-1:40
Lunch (Enjoy Local Restaurants)
1:40-2:50
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
3:00-4:10
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
5:00-6:30
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
7:30
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
8:45-9:15
(Coffee/Tea and Light Refreshment)
9:15-10:20
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
10:30-11:40
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
11:50-1:00
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.