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”