2023 Meeting
Hannah Arendt Center
for Political Studies
Department of Human Sciences
University of Verona
16TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE HANNAH ARENDT CIRCLE
June 26-29th, 2023
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Hosted by Università degli Studi di Verona
Verona, Italy
2023 Organizing Committee:
Katherine Brichacek, Northwestern University
Olivia Guaraldo, University of Verona
Valentina Moro, DePaul University and University of Verona
Magnus Ferguson, The University of Chicago
Monday, June 26th
Events and panels will take place at the University of Verona, Santa Marta pole, room SMT.01. Address: Via Cantarane 24, Verona.
On Revolution at 60 Panel (11.00-13.00)
Panelists:
James Barry, Jr., Indiana University Southeast
Roger Berkowitz, Bard College
Tal Correm, New York University
Jennifer Gaffney, Loyola University Chicago
Olivia Guaraldo, University of Verona
Yasemin Sari, Seattle University
LUNCH BREAK
University of Verona’s Arendt Center Invited Speakers (15.30-18.00)
Fanny Söderbäck, Södertörns högskola, Sweden
“The Aesthetics and Politics of Narration: Arendt, Cavarero, Hartman”
Peg Birmingham, DePaul University, U.S.A.
"On Revolution and the Social Question: Arendt's Disavowal of Superfluousness"
Moderated by: Simona Forti, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
Welcome reception (18.30-19.30)
Tuesday, June 27th
Each presenter will have 20 minutes to present, followed by 30 minutes for discussion. We will take a five minute break between each speaker. Events and panels will take place at the University of Verona, Santa Marta pole, room SMT.01. Address: Via Cantarane 24, Verona.
Session 1 (10.00 - 11.45): Care
Marieke Borren, Open Universiteit Nederland, the Netherlands
“Why would we care at all? Care for the world as proto-normative commitment to political action”
Maria Robaszkiewicz, Universität Paderborn, Germany
“‘So many ways of singing the world.’ Reflections on common speech and care for the world with Arendt and Merleau-Ponty.”
Invited Correspondent: Elvira Roncalli, Carroll College, U.S.A.
LUNCH BREAK
Session 2 (13.30 - 15.15): Affect, Forgiveness, and Power
Ka-yu Hui, Boston College, U.S.A.
“Violence, promise, and forgiveness: Arendt and Benjamin on the nature of the political”
Sanjana Rajagopal, Fordham University, U.S.A.
“The Role of Emotions in Arendt’s Report on the Eichmann Trial”
Invited Correspondent: Daniele Bassi, University of Cambridge, England
Session 3 (15.45 - 17.30): The Common World
Kate Bermingham, Bucknell University, U.S.A.
“Plurality and Reality: Gaslighting, Epistemic Injustice, and Loss of the Common World”
Giuseppe Aprile, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
“A queer reparative reading of Arendt’s theory of judgement: Desiring common things for the ecstatic pleasure of realness”
Invited Correspondent: Magnus Ferguson, The University of Chicago, U.S.A.
Wednesday, June 28th
Each presenter will have 20 minutes to present, followed by 30 minutes for discussion. We will take a five minute break between each speaker. Events and panels will take place at the University of Verona, Santa Marta pole, room SMT.01. Address: Via Cantarane 24, Verona.
Session 4 (10.00 - 11.45): Foundations of Politics
Dana Villa, University of Notre Dame, U.S.A.
“Thoughts on Arendt's 'Foundationalism'”
Yasemin Sari, Seattle University, U.S.A.
“Arendt and Transformative Politics”
Invited Correspondent: Valentina Moro, DePaul University and Verona University, Italy
LUNCH BREAK
Session 5 (13.30 - 15.15): Belonging
Jennifer Gaffney, Loyola University Chicago, U.S.A.
“Archipelagic Citizenship: Arendt, Glissant, and the Politics of Belonging”
Val King, DePaul University, U.S.A.
“Towards a Decolonial Multilingualism: Arendt and Anzaldua on Language, National Identity, and the Possibility of Politics”
Invited Correspondent: Lucy Benjamin, University of Melbourne, Australia
Session 6 (15.45 - 17.30): Luxemburg and Reification
Angela Maione, Harvard University, U.S.A.
“Arendt, Luxemburg and ‘the republican question’”
Ziyi Amanda Fu, Northwestern University, U.S.A.
“Against the Social as Mere Catastrophe: Common Sense, Reification and Potential for the Political”
Invited Correspondent: Olivia Guaraldo, University of Verona, Italy
Thursday, June 29th
Each presenter will have 20 minutes to present, followed by 30 minutes for discussion. We will take a five minute break between each speaker. Events and panels will take place at the University of Verona, Santa Marta pole, room SMT.01. Address: Via Cantarane 24, Verona.
Session 7 (10.00-11.45): Aesthetics
Joris Roelofs, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“The Promise of Improvisation”
Paul Dahlgren, Georgia Southwestern State University, U.S.A.
“Arendt's Hamlet and the Rhetorical Power of Genre”
Invited Correspondent: Gabriele Parrino, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
LUNCH BREAK
BUSINESS MEETING (12.15-13.15)
Session 8 (13.30-15.15): Architecture and Revolution
Giacomo Mormino, Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy
“A view of the world: Arendt and architecture”
Lucy Benjamin, University of Melbourne, Australia
“Revolution in Repair: Reorganising Arendt’s planetary toolbox”
Invited Correspondent: Katherine Brichacek, Northwestern University, U.S.A.
University of Verona’s Arendt Center presents a panel discussion on the forthcoming edited collection, Political Bodies: Writings on Adriana Cavarero’s Political Thought (15.45 - 17.30)
Panelists:
Paula Landerreche Cardillo, DePaul University, U.S.A.
Olivia Guaraldo, University of Verona, Italy
Julian Honkasalo, University of Helsinki, Finland
Rachel Silverbloom, Vassar College, U.S.A.
With honored guest, Adriana Cavarero, Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy
This conference has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101029336.
