Crises of our Republics: Hannah Arendt at One Hundred

Provisional Program

Friday, September 29, 2006

9:00 – 9:45 am: coffee and pastries
9:45 – 10:00 am: introduction and welcome – Seyla Benhabib
10:00 – 12:00 pm: Session I
Political Violence and Terror – the Changing Face of the Political

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, “Visions of Non-Violence”
Samantha Power, “The Perils of Statelessness”
Jonathan Schell, “The Democracy Movement of the Late 20th Century and the Crisis of the American Republic”

Stathis Kalyvas (Chair)
Dick Howard (Commentator)

12:00 – 1:30 pm: lunch
1:30 – 3:30 pm: Session II
Institutions, Constitutions and Civil Society

Andrew Arato, “Banishing the Sovereign? Arendt's America and Ours”
Jeremy Waldron, “Arendt on Legal and Constitutional Equality”
Jeff Isaac, “Anti-Political Politics and its Limits”

Boris Kapustin (Chair)
Maurizio Passerin d'Entreves (Commentator)

3:30 – 4:00 pm: Coffee Break
4:00 – 6: 00 pm: Session III
Reflections on “The Human Condition”

George Kateb, “Arendt and the Moral Sense in the Modern Age”
Patchen Markell, “ On the Architecture of The Human Condition”
Roy Tsao, “Arendt and the Common World”

Seyla Benhabib (Chair)
Tony Kronman (Commentator)

Reception at the Whitney for Conference Participants and Guests
Dinner for Conference Participants

Saturday, September 30, 2006

8:30 – 9:00 am: coffee and pastries
9:00 – 11:00 am: Session IV
Judgment and Evil

Richard Bernstein, “Are Arendt’s Reflections on Evil Still Relevant?”
Susan Neiman, “Banality Reconsidered”
Bryan Garsten, “The Elusiveness of Arendtian Judgment”

Steven Smith (Chair)
Ronald Beiner (Commentator)

11:00 – 1:00 pm: Session V
Modernity, Totalitarianism and Jurisdictional Legacies

Benjamin Barber  TBA
Dana Villa: “Arendt: The Pathologies of Modernity and the Contingency of the Holocaust”
Leora Bilsky: “The Eichmann Trial and the Legacy of Jurisdiction”
Paolo Flores d’Arcais, "The totalitarian risk within democracies"

Norma Thompson (Chair)
Judith Resnik (Commentator)

1:00 – 3:00 pm: Lunch and founding meeting of the North American Hanna Arendt society
3:00 – 5:00 pm: Session VI
“Provincializing Europe”. Hannah Arendt on Anti-Semitism and Imperialism

Karuna Mantena, “Genealogies of Catastrophe: Arendt on the logic and legacy of Imperialism”
Richard King, “Humanism and Equality: Arendt, her Contemporaries and the non-Western World”
Jerome Kohn: “Some Remarks on Hannah Arendt's Experience as a Jew”

Ute Frevert (Chair)
Sankar Muthu (Commentator)

5:00 – 6:00 pm: Roundtable

Jeff Isaac, Geore Kateb, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl and Bernstein
Roy Tsao (Chair)

Reception at the Whitney for Conference Participants and Guests
Dinner for Conference Participants

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