2022 Meeting

15^TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE HANNAH ARENDT CIRCLE

24-26th March

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Hosted by Loyola University Chicago

2022 Organizing Committee:

Lucy Benjamin, University of Melbourne

Jennifer Gaffney, Loyola University Chicago

Katherine Brichacek, Northwestern University, Chicago

All talks will be accessible via Zoom.

Each presenter will have a 30-minute session, followed by a 5 minute break between speakers, and a further 30-minute session for shared questions.

Thursday March 24th

4.30-5.30: Hannah Arendt and Political Theology: A conversation with Miguel Vatter

(Living Law: Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt, 2021)

In this session, we will be joined by Miguel Vatter to discuss Arendt's relationship with political theology and the way in which a Jewish political theology in particular gives rise to a form of politics or ‘divine democracy’ present in Arendt's argument of an-archic beginnings and earthly plurality.

5.45-6.45: Friendship and the Correspondence of Hannah Arendt: Forgiveness, Loyalty, and Authenticity

In this presentation, Joy Harris and Julia Wallace will discuss their project, “Friendship and the Correspondence of Hannah Arendt: Forgiveness, Loyalty, and Authenticity.” Commissioned by Goethe Pop-up Houston, a branch of the Goethe Institute, this project is a 6-month, creative residency that gives four artists the opportunity to critically engage with the work of Hannah Arendt and create a collaborative, immersive performance. Relying primarily on the correspondence, instead of philosophical texts, Harris and Wallace aim to open up Arendt’s thinking to a broader audience and focus on the crucial role that friend making has on public life. Harris and Wallace will: (1) provide an overview of the project; (2) share examples of their curated content; and (3) open up a group discussion on friendship in the work of Arendt.

Friday March 25th

8:30-8.45am: Meet at the Hampton Hotel to walk to campus together

7am PST / 9am CST / 10am EST / 4pm CET

Session 1: Origins (9:00-10:45am CST)

Tal Correm: Race, Guilt, and Political Responsibility: Hannah Arendt in the United States

Thomas Wittendorf - Hannah Arendt’s Notion of Trespassing – a Political Concept of Guilt?

9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST / 6pm CET

Session 2: Care for the World (11:00am-12:45pm), Moderator: Aliosha Bielenberg

Katy Fulfer and Rita A. Gardiner - Caring for the World and Caring for Community

Rebeccah Leiby - Political Compassion

LUNCH @ 12:45-2:15pm

12.15pm PST / 2.15pm CST / 3.15pm EST / 9.15pm CET

Session 3: Action (2:15-4pm)

Benjamin P Davis - The Right to Have Rights in the Americas: Arendt, Mariátegui, and the Problem of the State

Adi Burton - An-archical Ethics: Responsibility Before and After Politics

2.15pm PST / 4.15pm CST / 5.15pm EST / 11.15pm CET

Session 4: Nature and Poetics (4:15-6pm)

Lydia Winn - Action’s Poetic Nature: Reading Arendt’s Human Condition in Light of Aristotle’s Poetics

Taylor Kloha - The Transformation of Nature: Arendt’s Political Ecology

Saturday, March 26th

7am PST / 9am CST / 10am EST / 4pm CET

Session 1: Arendt’s Moral Affects (9:00-10:45am) Moderator: Yasemin Sari

Micah Trautman - Arendtian Trust: The Recognitive Structure of Political Action

Maria Robaszkiewicz and Marieke Borren - The Spontaneity of Collective Action: Hannah Arendt Meets Rosa Luxemburg

9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST / 6pm CET

Session 2: Historical Encounters (11:00am-12:45pm)

Hanno Berger & Christian Pischel - Crystallizations of Understanding: Reconstructing Arendt’s “Totalitarianism” from Archival

Material

Eli B. Lichtenstein - Arendt, Hobbes, and the Concept of Sovereignty

LUNCH @ 12:45-2:15pm

12pm PST / 1pm CST / 2pm EST / 8pm CET

BUSINESS MEETING

12.15pm PST / 2.15pm CST / 3.15pm EST / 9.15pm CET

Session 3: Action: Beginning and Decay (2:15-4pm)

James Barry - Hannah Arendt and the Winds of Progress: Writing the History of the Ruined World via Expropriation and Waste Economy

Hans Teerds - The Politics of New Beginnings: Architectural Design, Political Action, and the Notion of Care for the World

2.15pm PST / 4.15pm CST / 5.15pm EST / 11.15pm CET

Session 4: Encountering the World (4:15-6pm)

Dana F Miranda - Wretched Spaces: Manichean Divisions in the Arendtian Republic

Magnus Ferguson - Wonder, Horror and Political Emotion in Arendt