2014 Meeting
21-22nd March, 2014
Stony Brook University,
Manhattan Campus
101-113 East 27th Street
New York City
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Graduate School
at Stony Brook University
Thursday, March 20
9 pm Informal gathering for drinks at The Black Duck, the bar/restaurant attached to the Park South Hotel, 124 East 28th Street, New York, NY 10016
Friday, March 21
9:30 am bagels, coffee
10 - 12:00: Anger, Action and Revolution
Moderator: Eduardo Mendieta
Passion, Principle, and the Arendtian Politics of Anger
Juman Kim
“I Will and I Can:” Arendt on the Role of the Will in Political Action
Wout Cornelissen
Contested Sovereignty: Revolution and Freedom in Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon
Tal Correm
Lunch
1:30 - 2:50 Science and Technology
Moderator: Anne O’Byrne
How did the telescope lead us to Earth Alienation? An account from Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition
Daniel Ucko
An Oblique Complement: Hannah Arendt’s Scientific Engagement
Alexis Turner
3:00 - 4:20: Beyond identity
Moderator: Cara O’Connor
Unfinishedness, Natality, and Student Democracy: Paulo Freire and Hannah Arendt on Education and Politics
Caitlin Hewitt-White
The Reluctant Feminism of Hannah Arendt
Julia Honkasalo
4:30 - 5:50: International Issues I
Moderator: Philip Nelson
Becoming Enfranchised: Hannah Arendt, Historical Memory, and the Haitian Revolution
Jennifer Gaffney
The New Statelessness: Hannah Arendt on Palestine and “The Price of the Jewish Homeland”
Katherine Howard
6.30 Conference Dinner sponsored by Stony Brook University at The Copper Chimney, 126 E. 28th Street.
Saturday, March 22
9:30 am bagels and coffee
10 - 12:00: Foundations for Politics
Moderator: Kei Hiruta
Confined by society: The Economic Necessity of Arendt’s Social Sphere
Alexendra Shoichet
Arendt, Feminism and Work-Life Balance
Cassie Striblen
The Materiality of Power: Some Thoughts on Arendt
Matthew Lambert
Lunch
1:00 - 2:20: Political Ontology and the Right to have Rights
Moderator: Karen Robertson
Arendt, Wollstonecraft, and the Rights of Man
Angela Maione
The Right to have Rights: Hannah Arendt, Political Ontology, and Blackness
Calvin Warren
2:30 - 4:30 International Issues II
Moderator: Lisa Stenmark
Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and China After the Cold War
Jennifer Ruth
The Secret of Domination: Arendt's Phenomenology and Genealogy of Secrecy
Seth Binsted
4:30-5:15 pm business meeting
Informal drinks:
Time: 5.45
Location: Desmond’s Tavern, 433 Park Ave South, New York, NY 10016
Entry to Stony Brook Manhattan
Stony Brook Manhattan is located at 387 Park Avenue South on the third floor, between 27th and 28th Streets. The classroom/conference entrance that all students, faculty, and meeting attendees should use is around the corner at 101-113 East 27th Street, just beyond The Devon Shops furniture store. At present, the 387 Park Avenue South lobby is under complete renovation, so all visitors must enter through the classroom/conference entrance. The main phone number for the facility is 646-472-2000.
Getting there
From JFK:
For information on public transportation, see:
http://www.panynj.gov/airports/jfk-airtrain.html
From LaGuardia:
For information on public transportation, see:
http://www.panynj.gov/airports/lga-public-transportation.html
From Newark Airport:
For information on public transportation, see:
http://www.panynj.gov/airports/ewr-public-transportation.html
Amtrak: Penn Station, 34th and 7th Avenue
Subway:
#6 (Lexington Local) @ Park Ave S. & 28th St.
Bus:
#34 (34th St. Crosstown)
#23 (23rd St. Crosstown)
M1, M2, M3, M4, M101, M102, M103 (North-South)
Accommodation
A block of rooms have been reserved at Park South Hotel, 124 East 28th Street, New York, NY 10016 Tel: 212.448.0888
Mention “Stony Brook University” or “Anne O’Byrne”
Reservations should be made by calling the Toll-free Number 1-800-315-4642. Reservations must be received by February 05, 2014.
It may be possible for Stony Brook graduate students to host graduate student presenters. If you are interested in this, please contact Anne at anne.obyrne@stonybrook.edu.
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A laptop, screen and projector are available in the conference room.