The Arendt Circle
The 17th Annual Arendt Circle Conference (2024)
The Arendt Circle meets annually to share and discuss research related to Arendt’s life and writing. This year’s conference will be held in New York City from April 4th – 6th with presentations in English.
Registration is required to enter NYU’s campus, so all participants in the spring conference will need to register on the (new) Arendt Circle website. (Click here to register.) Please be sure to bring a photo ID on the day of the conference.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
April 4–6, 2024
New York University
This event is co-sponsored by NYU Liberal Studies, NYU Center for the Humanities, the NYU Department of German, the NYU Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, the Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History, the NYU Program in International Relations, and the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics & Humanities at Bard College.
2024 Organizing Committee:
Magnus Ferguson (University of Chicago)
Tal Correm (New York University)
Valentina Moro (University of Verona)
Sanjana Rajagopal (Fordham University)
Thursday, April 4th
Address: NYU Center for the Humanities
20 Cooper Square, Fifth Floor
COMMENCEMENT PANEL (3:00pm – 4:30pm)
Seyla Benhabib, Yale University
Jean Cohen, Columbia University
Ayten Gündogdu, Barnard College
Ulrich Baer, New York University
With closing remarks from Julie Mostov, Dean and Professor of Liberal Studies, New York University
RECEPTION (5:00pm)
Friday, April 5th
Address: NYU Center for the Humanities
20 Cooper Square, Fifth Floor
Panel 1 (9:00am – 10:30am): DURABILITY AND LABOR
Chair: Joyce Apsel, New York University
Erik Bormanis, New York University
“The Political Structures of Durability”
Evanne Subia, Stony Brook University
“Art as Caring Action: The Role of the Acting Artist in Laboring Society”
Panel 2 (10:45am – 12:15pm): SUFFERING AND CREATION
Chair: Peter Diamond, New York University
Katie Howard, California State University, Los Angeles
“The Faculty of Suffering”
James Josefson, Bridgewater College
“The Conspicuous Messianism of Hannah Arendt’s Poetics”
LUNCH (12:15pm–1:45pm)
Lunchtime Working Group: Arendt and Antisemitism
Led by: Roger Berkowitz, Bard College
Click here to access the pre-reading (The Origins of Totalitarianism Part I, Chapter 1)
Panel 3 (1:50pm – 3:20pm): RESISTANCE AND RELIANCE
Chair: Amy Schiller, Dartmouth University
Sasha Simon, The University of Western Ontario
“Hannah Arendt: On Self-Reliance”
Sophie Cloutier, Université Saint-Paul
“Epistemic Injustice and Resistance: A Reading of The Jew as Pariah: A Hidden Tradition”
Panel 4 (3:35–5:05): LIMITS OF SPACE AND TIME
Chair: Arie Dubnov, George Washington University
Nitzan Lebovic, Lehigh University
“Hannah Arendt: Homo Temporalis”
Hans Teerds, Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
“On Borders and Boundaries”
Saturday, April 6th
Address: 14A Washington Mews
Panel 5 (9:00am – 10:30am): ARENDT IN THE PRESENT
Chair: Jonathan Laskovsky, The University of Melbourne
Katherine Brichacek, University of Southern California
“Arendt on Effective Altruism and AI: Totalitarian Echoes and the Neglected Present”
Jennifer Gaffney, Loyola University Chicago
“A Praxis of Facticity for Critical Phenomenology: Arendt on Guenther, Ortega, and Critical
Criticality”
Panel 6 (10:45am – 12:15pm): THE RES PUBLICA
Chair: Nalei Chen, New York University
Gabriele Parrino, Scuola Normale Superiore
“Founding a Res Publica: Hannah Arendt’s Roman Constitutionalism”
Martin Baesler, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
“Facing the Unprecedented: Applying Hannah Arendt’s Concept of Constituent Power to a
Digital Democracy””
LUNCH & BUSINESS MEETING (12:15pm–2:00pm)
Panel 7 (2:00pm – 3:30pm): ARENDT AND KARL JASPERS
Chair: Tal Correm, New York University
Dana Villa, University of Notre Dame
“Arendt and Jaspers”
Karin Fry, Georgia Southern University
“Thinking and Politics in Arendt and Jaspers”
Panel 8 (3:45pm–5:15pm): DEMOCRACY AND BELONGING
Chair: Brendan Hogan, New York University
Yasemin Sari, Seattle University
“W. E. B. Du Bois and Hannah Arendt: From Opinion to Action: A ‘Democratic We’”
Florian Grosser, University of Chicago
“Rethinking Democratic Membership: Arendt on ‘Residency’ and ‘Real Democracy’ under
Conditions of Migration”