2019 Meeting
13TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE HANNAH ARENDT CIRCLE
University of Alberta
2019 Organizing Committee:
Yasemin Sari, University of Northern Iowa
Katy Fulfer, University of Waterloo
Andreas Stuhlmann, University of Alberta
with the assistance of
Nicole Baxter, University of Northern Iowa and Lenny Cauich Maldonado, University of Alberta
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Thursday, April 11, 2019
1:00pm: Conference Registration Opens, Old Arts and Convocation Hall
1:15-3:00pm: Arendt and Her Contemporaries Working Group
Title: Philosophy and Responsibility: How to Judge Philosophers’ Influence on Political Agendas?
Text: Ronald Beiner, Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right
Coordinator: Leah Bradshaw, Brock University
Co-conveners: Leonard Halladay, Rivkah Greig, Katy Fulfer, J Barry, Yasemin Sari, Vincent LeFebve, Gent Carrabregu, Larry Busk, Leroy Cooper, Luke Sandle, Lucy Benjamin, Harshita Jaiprakash
3:15-5pm: Arendt Beyond Borders Working Group
Title: Arendt Scholarship in Southeast Asia; Arendt, Art, and Activism
Text:
Coordinator: Lisa Stenmark, San Jose State University
Co-conveners: Jana Lozanska (Arendt, Art, and Activism)
6pm: Opening Reception, Old Arts and Convocation Hall
6.30 pm Film Screening, “Unspittable” by Michel B. Macdonald, MacEwan University, Edmonton
Friday, April 12, 2019
Location: Senate Chamber, Old Arts and Convocation Hall
8:30-9:00am: Conference Registration Opens
Session 1: Arendt Today (9:00-10:45am)
Moderator:
➢ Arendt’s Idea of the University¸ Gent Carrabregu, Duke University
Commentator: Robert Burch, University of Alberta
➢ Organized Loneliness¸ Diane Enns, Ryerson University
Commentator: Leah Bradshaw, Brock University
Session 2: The World (11:00am-12:45pm)
Moderator:
➢ The Architecture of Appearance: An Arendtian Reading of Guatemala’s Private City¸ Katherine Davies, University of Texas at Dallas
Commentator: Júlia Diniz e Carvalho, University of Alberta
➢ Trials as a Way to Appear in the World: How Arendt and Rancière Help Us Think “Strategic Litigation” Politically?¸ Vincent Lefebve, Free University of Brussels
Commentator: Luke Sandle, University of Alberta
LUNCH @ 12:45-2:15pm
Session 3: Action (2:15-4pm)
Moderator:
➢ Hannah Arendt’s concept of power: Operationalizing the “grammar of action” and the “syntax of power” with social network analysis¸ Xavier Bériault, McGill University
Commentator: Leroy Cooper, Colorado State University
➢ Hannah Arendt, Existentialism, and the Narrative Structure of Action¸ Nathan Todd, McMaster University
Commentator: Andreas Stuhlmann, University of Alberta
Session 4: Poetry/Poetics (4:15-6pm)
Moderator:
➢ Toward a Poetic Reading of Arendt and Baldwin on Love¸ Peter Brown, Pomona College
Commentator: Amy Schiller, The Graduate Center, CUNY
➢ A Haunted House of Being: Arendt and Derrida on the Politics of Poetry¸ Jennifer Gaffney, Gettysburg College
Commentator: Catherine Kellogg, University of Alberta
7pm: Dinner (optional) and “Hope for Dark Times” - Billy-Ray Belcourt, Michael B. Macdonald, Martin Weinhold & Janice Williamson, The Almanac, 10351 82 Avenue
Saturday, April 13, 2019
Location: Old Arts and Convocation Hall
Session 5: Science (9:00-10:45am)
Moderator:
➢ Arendt and Climate Change: Limits and Promises¸ Lucy Benjamin, Royal Holloway, University of London & Larry Busk, California State University, Stanislaus
Commentator: Trevor Breen, Independent Scholar
➢ Science as Politics in Arendt’s Oeuvre¸ Eve Seguin, Université du Québec à Montréal
Commentator: Lisa Stenmark, San Jose State University
Session 6: The Social (11:00am-12:45pm)
Moderator:
➢ Local Affection and Worldly Love: Hannah Arendt and Wendell Berry on the Resistance of Belonging¸ James Barry, Indiana University Southeast
Commentator: Yasemin Sari, University of Northern Iowa
➢ The Space to Think: The Role of the Private in Hannah Arendt¸ Hannah LaGrand, McMaster University
Commentator: Katy Fulfer, University of Waterloo
LUNCH @ 12:45-2:15pm, Old Arts and Convocation Hall
Hannah Arendt Circle Business Meeting (1:00-2:00 pm)
[All are welcome to attend the business meeting]
Session 7: Civil Disobedience (2:15-4pm)
Moderator:
➢ Dismantling the Metaphysics of Civil Disobedience¸ Charles Snyder, The New School for Social Science and Research
Commentator: Jay Worthy, University of Alberta
➢ Arendtian Power and the United Democratic Front¸ Carlien Hillebrink, Independent Scholar
Commentator: Rivkah Greig, Independent Scholar
Session 8: Political Forgiveness (4:15-6pm)
Moderator:
➢ Power, Violence and Emancipation Security: Reading of Arendt’s On Violence to Israel’s Left¸ Sarit Larry, Sapir College, Israel and Ono Academic College
Commentator: Hanna Lipkind, Vanderbilt University
➢ Imagining political forgiveness in a post-dictatorial context: toward a story of collective responsibility ¸ Fiorella Rabuffetti, University of Ottawa
Commentator: Rachel Forgash, University of Illinois-Chicago
7pm: Conference Dinner at Cafe Mosaics, 10844 82 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T6E 2B3