2017 Meeting
ELEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE HANNAH ARENDT CIRCLE
HOSTED BY THE HANNAH ARENDT CENTER FOR POLITICS AND HUMANITIES AT BARD COLLEGE
MARCH 30–APRIL 1, 2017
2017 Organizing Committee
Jennifer Gaffney, Gettysburg College
Anne O’Byrne, Stony Brook University
Roger Berkowitz, Bard College
Nora Coyne, Conference Assistant, Gettysburg College
THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2017
Location: Hannah Arendt Center Conference Room
1:00: Conference Registration Opens
1:15–3:00: Arendt and Her Contemporaries Working Group: Hannah Arendt and 20th Century Liberalism
Coordinator: Kei Hiruta, University of Oxford
Co-conveners: Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen, (University of Jyväskylä), Wout Cornelissen (Vanderbilt University), Kei Hiruta (University of Oxford), Yasemin Sari (University of Alberta), Ian Storey (Harvard University)
3:15–5:00: Gender, Race, Queer Theory Working Group: “Queer(y)ing Hannah Arendt, or what’s Hannah Arendt got to do with intersectionality?”
Coordinator: James Barry, Indiana University Southeast
Co-Conveners: Kathleen B. Jones (San Diego State University), Julia Honkasalo (The New School for Social Research), James Barry (Indiana University Southeast)
5:15–6:30: Special Event
Reception and Q&A with President Leon Botstein, Bard College
Hosted by the Hannah Arendt Center
FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2017
Location: Franklin W. Olin Humanities Building Room 201
8:30: Conference Registration Opens, Coffee and Pastries 8:50–9:00: Welcome
9:00–10:20: The People, Populism, and Collective Responsibility
1. “Arendt on Global Populism,” Angela Maione, Harvard University
2. “Political Responsibility and the ‘End’ of Power,” Phillip Nelson, Stony Brook University
Moderator: Matthew Wester, Texas A&M University
10:30–12:20: Arendt in Dialogue
1. “Natality or Birth? Arendt and Cavarero on the Human Condition of Being Born,” Fanny Söderbäck, DePaul University
2. “Arendt and Blücher: Reflections on Philosophy, Politics, and Democracy,” Shmuel Lederman, University College Dublin
Moderator: Lucy Benjamin, University of Amsterdam
12:00–1:00: Lunch
1:00–2:20: Historical Connections
1. “Hegel and Arendt on the Demands of Judgment and the Nature of Political Agency,” Karen Robertson, Trent University
2. “Athens vs. Sparta: Arendt and Rousseau on Pluralism,” Anandita Mukherji, Boston University
Moderator: Jennifer Gaffney, Gettysburg College
2:30–4:00: Forgiveness in Politics
1. ”The Renewal of the Common World: Hannah Arendt and Jacques Derrida on Forgiveness and the Politics of Reconciliation,” Tal Correm, Allegheny College
2. “From Opposing to Promoting Forgiveness: Forgiveness in Arendt’s Denktagebuch,” Thomas Wittendorff, The European University Institute
Moderator: Jana Schmidt, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities Fellow
4:15–6:15: Special Book Panel
Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt’s Denktagebuch
Roger Berkowitz, Bard College; Wout Cornelissen, Vanderbilt University; Anne O’Byrne, Stony Brook University;
Ian Storey, Harvard University; Thomas Wild, Bard College
7:00: Dinner hosted by the Hannah Arendt Center Location: Beekman Arms, Wayfarer Room
SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 2017
Location: Franklin W. Olin Humanities Building Room 201
8:00 Conference Registration, Coffee and Pastries
8:30–9:50: Politics in Dark Times
1. “Human Plurality as Object: Understanding the Rise of Trump through an Arendtian Framework,” David Antonini, Southern Illinois University-Carbondalle
2. “The Loss of a Common Reality in the Age of Trump and Putin,” Simas Celutka, Vilnius University
Moderator: Julian Shaw, Kings College, London
10:00–11:00: “Arendt and the Authority of Science in Politics”
Invited Speaker: Robert Crease, Stony Brook University
Moderator: Jennifer Gaffney, Gettysburg College
11:10–12:40: Rights, Place, Memory
1. “Refugees and a Right to Place,” Yasemin Sari, University of Alberta
2. “Zochrot’s Memory Activism: Bridging the Gap between Knowing and Understanding,” Norma Musih, Indiana University
Moderator: Anne O’Byrne, Stony Brook University
12:45–1:45: Lunch and Business Meeting
Boxed lunches provided; the business meeting will be conducted during the first hour of lunch
2:00–3:20: Disgust and Resentment in Politics
1. “The Failure of Judgment: Beauty and Disgust in Arendt’s Theory of Political Judgment” Vilde Lid Aavitsland, DePaul University
2. “Arendt’s Political Conception of Resentment,” Kevin Lower, Villanova University
Moderator: Samantha Hill, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities Fellow
3:30–4:50: Thinking through Eichmann
1. “The Janus Face of Autism: An Ontological Conversation between Hannah Arendt & Hans Asperger on Thinking” Glenn M. Hudak, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
2. “Holocaust Perpetrators and the Arendtian Interpretation: A Case Study,” Robert C. Kunath, Illinois College
Moderator: Stephen Haswell Todd, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities Fellow
5:00–6:20: Political Experience
1. “Thinking in Public: Hannah Arendt on Eichmann, Michel Foucault on Iran, and Political Theorizing as Ethical Commitment,” Norma Moruzzi, University of Illinois, Chicago
2. “Reflective Encounters with Visible: Explicating Arendt’s Understanding of Political Experience,”Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen, University of Jyväskylä
Moderator: Kathleen B. Jones, San Diego State University and University of California, Davis