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Conference Announcement Theme: Hannah Arendt Subtitle: Challenges of Plurality Type: International and Interdisciplinary Conference Institution: Paderborn University Location: Paderborn (Germany) Date: 13.–15.12.2018 __________________________________________________ In her writings, Hannah Arendt strongly affirms the plurality of the world. From the very first moment, when she introduces the notion in The Human Condition, it becomes clear, that plurality is the cornerstone of condition humaine. For Arendt, plurality means that “men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the world”. This seemingly banal assumption affects her whole political theory considerably. Plurality entails two aspects: equality and difference – we are all humans, but everyone is exceptional in her or his uniqueness. But as such, it not only enriches the world, but also becomes a source of significant challenges: acting together in spite of our differences, thinking as an inner dialogue with a particularly demanding dialogue partner, judging politically with respect to an ever-changing spectrum of possible standpoints are all challenging practices we confront in the common world. This conference aims at exploring challenges posed by plurality, but also opportunities it offers. As an interdisciplinary endeavor, it opens up for different approaches to Arendt, inviting scholars from fields such as philosophy, politics, theology, media studies, sociology, gender studies, history, and others. It also prompts examination of interplay with other theorists (such as Agamben, Butler, Cavarero, Foucault, Habermas or Merlaeu-Ponty). We want to tackle currently relevant problems, such as migration politics and human rights, but also raise ever-present issues, such as the philosophical potential of the concept of plurality, possible foundations of normativity in our contingent world, or stimuli of political action. Programme Thursday, 13th December 2018 13.00 – 14.20 Welcome Address Prof. Dr. Tobias Matzner, Dr. Maria Robaszkiewicz, Prof. Dr. Jochen Schmidt Opening Lecture Prof. Dr. Annabel Herzog, University of Haifa: Plurality and Instrumentality 14.30 – 15.50 Track 1 Nils Baratella, Oldenburg University: Judging from the Distance. Hannah Arendt’s Concept of Political Subjectivity Track 2 Anya Topolski, Radbound University, Nijmegen: Race, Religion and Refugees : Arendt’s Ambiguous Analysis of Nation-States Judith Zinsmaier, University of Tübingen: When is an Opinion Justified? Hannah Arendt’s Normative Concept of Opinion as an Implicit Criticism of Liberal Concepts of Opinion 16.00 – 17.20 Track 1 Nicholas Dunn, McGill University, Montréal: "Whose Judgment? Which Rationality?": The Kantian Roots of Arendt's Theory of Judgment Antonio Gómez Ramos, Carlos III University, Madrid: Plurality and Alterity. Hannah Arendt and Critical Theory on Otherness Track 2 Florian Grosser, Santa Clara University, Berkley CA: Pluralizing Political Membership: Hannah Arendt on Citizens, Residents, and Habitants Maria Robaszkiewicz, Paderborn University: From the Darkness to the Light: Hannah Arendt’s Phenomenology of Migration 17.30 – 18.50 Track 1 Waltraud Meints-Stender, Niederrhein University, Mönchengladbach: Plurality – a fundamental question of the political Tobias Albrecht, Frankfurt University: Arendt’s notion of Plurality and its Potential for Critical Theory Track 2 Niklas Plaetzer, University of Chicago/Sciences Po Paris: Fugitive World-Building: Arendtian Cosmopolitics and the Specter of Slavery Lexi Neame, Northwestern University: “The quintessence of the human condition”. Earth in the Thought of Hannah Arendt Friday, 14th December 2018 9.00 – 10.20 Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir, University of Iceland: Reflections on Feminist Body Politics and Embodied Philosophical Thinking in Light of the Philosophy of Hannah Arendt Stefanie Rosenmüller, FH Dortmund: Judging Populism with Hannah Arendt 10.30 – 11.50 Marieke Borren, Utrecht University: A Place in the World” and “Sharing the Earth.” Worldling the Human of Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity Christian Volk, FU Berlin: What is Transformative Protest? Hannah Arendt and the Challenges of Contentious Politics 12.00 – 13.00 Lunch 13.00 – 14.20 Track 1 Marieke Kajewski, Frankfurt University: Political Emotions and the Concept of Plurality [to be confirmed] Track 2 Zaynep Gambetti, Bogazici University, Istanbul: Plurality as the Power-to-Become Aoife McInerney, University of Limerick: Reconceiving Solidarity in the Wake of Plurality 14.30 – 15.50 Track 1 Héla Hecker, Oldenburg University: Feeling Plurality. How Affectability Leads to Political Judgment Alexander Kurunczi, RUB Bochum / Kenneth Rösen, Wuppertal University: The Revolution will not be Institutionalized: Ambivalences of Time, Affect, and Resistance in Arendt, Benjamin, and Fanon Track 2 Holger Sederström, HU Berlin: Plurality in Language Agustina Varela, University of Murcía: Spaces of (Non)appearance: Thinking the “Paradoxical Plurality of Unique Beings” in Violent Times 16.00 – 17.20 Track 1 Sonja Schierbaum, Hamburg University: Empowered action without (moral) constraints? Attempting a two-layer view Hugo Strandberg, University of Pardubice: Forgiveness and Plurality Track 2 Melike Durmaz, Yeditepe University, Istanbul: The Foundations of Plurality and its Ancient Greek Implications Mareike Gebhardt, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg: Populism, Plurality and parhessia, or: Political Theory in Dark Times 18.00 Keynote Lecture Linda Zerilli, University of Chicago: Plurality and Political Objectivity: Hannah Arendt on Judging and the 'Common World’ Saturday, 15th December 2018 9.00 – 10.20 Track 1 Jonas Holst, San Jorge University, Saragossa: Singularity, Duality, Plurality: On Thoughtlesness, Friendship and Politics in Hannah Arendt’s Work Alessandro Topa, American University Cairo: “The living essence of the person”. Personality and Plurality as Developmental Teleologies: A Peircean Approach to the Ontology and Semiotics of the Disclosure of the Who Track 2 Melis Baş, University of Twente: Hannah Arendt Meets Philosophy of Technology: Public Parks as Political Mediators Javier Burdman, Frankfurt University: Plurality as the Ground of Responsibility for Action in Arendt’s Thought 10.30 – 11.50 Track 1 Tobias Matzner, Paderborn University: Privacy beyond Autonomy: An Arendtian Approach Stefania Maffeis, FU Berlin: The shifting I/We in Arendt’s thinking on plurality. With some reflections on the reception Track 2 Daniel Conway, Texas A&M University: Towards the Guardians of Plurality: Revisiting the Postscript to Eichmann in Jerusalem Rosario Pérez Bernal, UNAM, Mexico: Plurality, Responsibility, Banality of Evil, and Literature. Intersections between Hannah Arendt and Jose Luis Borges 12.00 – 13.00 Lunch 13.00 – 14.20 Track 1 Michael Weinman, Bard College, Berlin: Arendt and the Legitimate Leadership of Plural Persons: Hierarchy and the Limits of Horizontal Relations Ellen Spielmann, State University of Rio de Janeiro Hannah Arendt: A reception in Colombia Succeeded in Reaching the Top of the State in Early 1980s Track 2 Julia Maria Mönig, Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart Title: to be confirmed Rafal Zawisza, University of Chicago/Warsaw University: Schopenhauer, Weininger, Weil: Saturnine Genealogy of Arendtian Natalism 14.30 – 15.50 Ayten Gündoğdu, Barnard College, NY: A Phenomenology of Living Things: Arendt and Merleau-Ponty on Worldliness, Appearance, and Plurality Sophie Loidolt, TU Darmstadt: Plurality and the Ethical Demands of Life, Truth, and Reason 16.00 – 17.20 Robert Kunath, Illinois College: Anti-Plurality and Genocide: The Arendtian Understanding of Holocaust Perpetrators David Marshall, Pittsburg University: Distinguishing Arendtian Judgment in the Afterlife of Weimar Political Theory Venue The conference takes place at Paderborn University main campus, Building L. Registration You can register for the conference by sending a short e-mail to the above mentioned e-mail address. The regstration fee is 10€ and can be paid upon arrival. Organisation Tobias Matzner, Paderborn University Maria Robaszkiewicz, Paderborn University Jochen Schmidt, Paderborn University Contact: Dr. Maria Robaszkiewicz, Assistant Professor Department of Humanities: Philosophy Paderborn University Warburger Str. 100 33098 Paderborn Germany Phone: +49(0)5251 60-2314 Email: maria.robaszkiew...@upb.de Web: http://upb.de/hannaharendt2018 __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __________________________________________________
