HANNAH ARENDT : A ONE-DAY SYMPOSIUM 11:30-17:30 WEDNESDAY 13 MARCH 2013, UNIVERSITY OF YORK BOWLAND AUDITORIUM, BERRICK SAUL BUILDING Unlike many other twentieth-century thinkers and theorists, Hannah Arendt has not enjoyed a particularly strong institutional reputation in the UK. Even in the US, where she lived, taught and worked after leaving Europe, her work is pressed into service to fit agendas and debates that do not do justice the complex wealth of her ideas. This symposium aims at changing all that. Through a series of short, sharp interventions, it will address the critical neglect that with which Arendt’s legacy has been met hitherto, and start the process of restitution and engagement with her oeuvre , from the early dissertation on Love and Saint Augustine , through her “Jewish writings”, all the way up to the monumental - and often controversial - work on totalitarianism, freedom, revolution, thinking and judgment. PROGRAMME 11:30 Welcome 11:35 Keynote 1 Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway, University of London), "Hannah Arendt at the Intersection of Disciplines" 12:15 Panel 1 Patrick Hayden (University of St Andrews), "Arendt, International Political Theory and the Spectre of Evil" Arthur Bradley (University of Lancaster), "Unbearable Life: Natality After Arendt" Isabelle Hesse (University of York), "Arendt's Jewish Writings" 13:30 Lunch 14:00 Panel 2 Amber Carpenter (University of York)," Creating the Place to Speak and Act for the Sake of the Fine" Kathleen Jones, "Queer(ying) Hannah" Michael Dillon (University of Lancaster), "Arendt and Factical Freedom" Alex Beaumont (University of York), "Experiments with Freedom: Arendt and Left Culturalism" 15:15 Break 15:30 Panel 3 Mihaela Mihai (University of York), "Curb Your Enthusiasm: Reflective Judgment and the Inertia of Political Habitus" Mathias Thaler (University of Edinburgh), "Flexible Banister? Hannah Arendt and the Pragmatist Ethos" Audra Mitchell (University of York), "Worldly Security: An Arendtian Approach" David Luban (Georgetown University), title tbc 16:45 Keynote 2 Norma Moruzzi (University of Illinois at Chicago), title tbc 17:30 Drinks 18:00 Dinner
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