P R O G R A M
Hannah
Arendt and the Political
International Conference
17-18 November, 2006
Location: New University of Lisbon, Lisbon,
Portugal
Website
Organized by: The Philosophy of Language Institute (IFL), a
research unit of the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences
(Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas) of the New
University of Lisbon (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Contact Information:
hannaharendt_2006@yahoo.com
Description
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) is celebrated as being one of the
most important thinkers of the political in last century.
The aim of the conference is to gather contributions on her
approach to the political as distinguished from other
disciplines, namely from ethics, political science or
sociology. In this sense, comparisons between her thought
and other major thinkers of the twentieth century are
welcome.
Conference Program
17 November 2006
8.30-9.30 Registration
9.30-9.45 Welcome Address
António Marques (FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Plenary Session
9.45 -10.45 - Auditorium 2 (2nd Floor -
Tower B)
Keynote Speaker: Lisa Disch (Minnesota University, USA)
How can Hannah Arendt worship the American Revolution but
disdain political representation?
Chair: António Marques (IFL- FCSH, Universidade Nova de
Lisboa)
10.45-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-13.00 Parallel Sessions:
Totalitarianism, Sovereignty and Resistence
Auditorium 2 (3rd Floor) Judgment and Community
Room T15 (3rd Floor)
11.00 Superflous People, Kushanava
Choudhury
(Yale University, USA) Hannah Arendt and Judgment: the
Faculty and the Duty to Judge, Annelies Degryse (Catholic
University Leuven, Belgique)
11.30 Désobéissance Civile, Conscience
Individuelle et Politique, Regina Queiroz (IFL - FCSH,
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
Hannah Arendt, bios politikos and political reason, Lídia
Figueiredo (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal)
12.00 Arendt and the Political: Freedom after
Sovereignty,
Catherine Kellogg (University of Alberta, Canada) Hannah
Arendt and the concept of the Political: the Problem of
Political Community and Individual Responsibility, Sarah
Sorial (Macquarie University, Australia)
12.30 -13.00 Debate
Chair: Catherine Kellogg (University of Alberta)
Debate
Chair: Sarah Sorial (Macquarie University)
13.15-14.45 Lunch
15.00-17.00 Parallel Sessions:
Representation, Revolution, Foundation
Auditorium 2 (3rd Floor) Violence
Room T15 (3rd Floor)
15.00 Hannah Arendt's radical politics:
beyond really existing democracies, André Duarte
(Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brasil) Violence et
fondation, Hannah Arendt face à l'énigme machiavélienne,
Thomas Berns (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique)
15.30 Political Shipwreck: Authority and
the End of Revolution, Margarida Amaral (Universidade de
Lisboa, Portugal) Levinas and Arendt on Violence and
Conscience: The Disharmony of Everyday Life, David Kaye
(The New School for Social Research, USA)
16.00 Debate
Chair: João Tiago Proença (IFL - FCSH, Universidade Nova de
Lisboa, Portugal) Debate
Chair: Luiz Baptista (IFL - FCSH, Universidade Nova de
Lisboa, Portugal)
18 November 2006
10.00-12.00 Parallel Sessions:
Happiness and Friendship
Auditorium 3 (5th Floor) Agonism and Pluralism
Room T16 (3rd Floor)
10.00 Arendt’s View of the
Political: How Crucial is it to Human Happiness?, Lee
Cooper (Colorado State University, USA) Identity and the
Political: the Importance of Hannah Arendt for retrieving a
constitucional Locus for Agonistic Action, Rachel Lawlor
(University of Stirling, Scotland)
10.30 The Whereabouts of Friendship. On
Civic Friendship, Boundary-Crossing and Being at Home in
the World in Hannah Arendt, Marieke Borren (University of
Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Between Arendt and Lyotard: Unravelling the Différend,
Kathleen Vandeputte & Bart Vandenabeele (Universiteit
Gent, Belgique)
11.00 Political Responsibility and Public
Happiness: Hannah Arendt’s Concept of the Political,
Terukazu Morikawa (Meijo University, Japan) Debate
Chair: João Tiago Proença (IFL - FCSH, Universidade Nova de
Lisboa, Portugal)
11.30 -12.00 Debate
Chair: Terukazu Morikawa (Meijo University)
12.00 -13.45 Lunch
14.00-16.00 Parallel Sessions:
Language and the Political
Auditorium 3 (5th Floor)
History
Room T16 (3rd Floor)
14.00 Speaking and the Spoken – An
Investigation of the Politics of Speech in Hannah
Arendt’s Human Condition, Meghan A. Robison (New
School University, USA)
Arendt and Thucydides on Freedom, Anne Hewitt (City
University of New York, USA)
14.30 Bakhtin and Arendt in Dialogue
– Authority and Freedom in ‘Making’ the
Political and the Language, Floarea Vîrban (European
University Institute, Italia) Politics as Substance of
History – On Hannah Arendt’s Critique of
Ideology, Marcin Moskalewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University,
Poland)
15.00 Public and Private: the Sense of the
Political in Wittgenstein and Arendt, Luke Plotica (The
John Hopkins University, USA) Hannah Arendt: Le Temps de la
Révolution, Antonio Mazzù (Université Libre de Bruxelles,
Belgique)
15.30 -16.00 Debate
Chair: Luke Plotica (The John Hopkins University) Debate
Chair: Antonio Mazzù (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
16.00 -16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-18.00 Parallel Sessions:
Foreignness and Lie
Auditorium 3 (5thFloor)
The Political Compared
Room T16 (3rd Floor)
16.30 Truth and Lies in an Arendtian
Sense: Confronting Derrida’s Discussion of
“Truth and Politics”, Cara O’Connor
(Stony Brook University, USA) 'Anything is possible and
everything is permitted' Psychoanalytic Reflections on
Hannah Arendt’s Elements of Totalitarianism, David
Bell (British Psychoanalytic Society, England)
17.00 The Place of Thinking: Arendt on
Moral Foreignness, Christine Lopes (University of
Southampton, England) The Boundaries of The Political:
Arendt and Rancière, Michael J. Shapiro (University of
Hawaii, USA)
17.30 -18.00 Debate
Chair: Christine Lopes (University of Southampton) Debate
Chair: Michael J. Shapiro (University of Hawaii, USA)