2012 Meeting
Hosted by the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, the College of Liberal Arts, & the University Honors Program
Morgan State University
Baltimore, MD
Friday evening (March 9th)
8-10 Drinks – George’s (in Peabody Court Hotel)
Saturday (March 10th)
8-9 Breakfast and Dean’s Welcome
9-10:45 – Politics
Moderator: Stephen Bloch-Schulman, Elon University
Lee Cooper, Colorado State University: “So Much for the Famous Passion For Self-Preservation: Arendt vs. Birmingham on Hobbes and Glory”
Daniel Levine, University of Maryland: “Threat/Negotiation/Appeal and Protection of
Civilians in International Peacekeeping Operations”
Lisa Stenmark, San Jose State University: “Revolution’s Catch-22: The Limits of Politics and the Role of Religion in Public Life”
11-12:10 – Immortality and Embodiment
Moderator: Seth Vannatta, Morgan State
Sophie Cloutier, Université Saint-Paul: “The Phenomenology of the Body in Hannah Arendt”
John Keiss, Loyola University Maryland: “Arendt and the Politics of Immortality”
12:10-2:10 – Lunch
2:10-3:15 – Arendt and the Politics of Gender
Moderator: Marcos Bisticas-Cocoves, Morgan State University
Kyle Koeppe, Miami University: “Queering Arendt”
Katy Fulfer, University of Western Ontario: “Walking the Line: Why Feminist Politics Benefits
by Using Arendt’s Public/Private Distinction”
3:30-4:40 – Natality
Moderator: Martin Shuster, Hamilton College
Nathan Van Camp, University of Antwerp: ‘“Always too early, always too late”: Being Natal in the Age of Biotechnology’
Anne O’Byrne, Stony Brook University: “Natality and Miscegenation”
5:00-5:45 -- Business Meeting
6:45 – Dinner
Sunday (March 11th)
8-9 Breakfast
9-10:45 – Work and World
Moderator: TBA
Kim Maslin Wicks, Hendrix College: Arendt’s “Heidegger the Fox” Essay: Revealing the Trap
Ted Kaouk, University of Maryland: “Crafting the State: Homo Faber and the Antipolitical in Coriolanus”
Steven Maloney, University of St. Thomas: “Work and the Making of the World”
11-12:10 – Nature, Science, and Technology
Moderator: TBA
Tama Weisman, Dominican University: “We are in real trouble now: An Arendtian analysis of the environmental crisis”
Juliette Arico, SUNY Buffalo: ‘“To be sure, the man-made satellite was no moon or star”: Arendt, Surveillance, and the Destruction of Human Plurality’