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Tuesday, May 21st
08.00-09.00 Coffee and Welcome by Vivian Liska (director Institute of Jewish Studies)
09.00-10.45 Session I: Judaism(I)
Session Chair: Cassie Striblen (West Chester University)
A. The Controversy over Eichmann in Jerusalem and Hannah Arendt's "German-Jewish" Identity - Robert Kunath (Illinois College)
B. Arendt and the Role of Exilic Language in Forming a Political Life - Jules Simon (University of Texas at El Paso)
C. Hannah Arendt: Judaism and the Other - Olga Kirschbaum (New York University)
10.45-11.00 Break
11.00-12.10 Session II: Identity and Selfhood
Session Chair: Nathan Van Camp (University of Antwerp)
A. Feminist Encounters with Hannah Arendt: Between Social Identity and Political Agency - Emily Katzenstein (University of Oxford)
B. Arendt on Selfhood, Intersubjectivity, and Moral Integrity - Tatjana Noemi Tömmel (University of Frankfurt)
12.10-14.10 Lunch
14.10-15.15 Session III: Comparing Arendt
Session Chair: Dennis Baert (University of Antwerp)
A. On Responsibility: Reading Hannah Arendt with Karl Jaspers and Jan Patocka - Ulrika Bjork (Uppsala University)
B. Public Reason for a Common World: An Encounter between Arendt and Rawls - Vasti Roodt (University of Stellenbosch)
15.15-15.30 Break
15.30-16.40 Session IV: Arendt and Politics
Session Chair: Melis Baş (University of Twente)
A. The Aporias of Establishing the Right to Have Rights - Jan Maximilian Robitzsch (University of Pennsylvania)
B. Peace and the Preservation of Politics - Diane Enns (McMaster University)
17.00-17.45 Business Meeting
Wednesday, May 22nd
08.30-09.30 Coffee
09.30-10.40 Session V: Judaism (II)
Session Chair: Richard I. Cohen (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
A. "When one is attacked as a Jew... one must respond as an Oriental": Hannah Arendt and Edward Said in a Semitic Dialogue - Anya Topolski (University of Leuven)
B. "What's Love Got to Do With It?": Between the Political and the Anti-political in the Arendt/Scholem Exchange - Shira Kupfer (University of Haifa)
10.40-11.00 Break
11.00-12.10 Session VI: Education and Politics
Session Chair: Arthur Cools (University of Antwerp)
A. Religious Education out of Love for the World? A Contemporary Discussion with Hannah Arendt - Pieter DeWitte (Catholic University of Leuven)
B. Hannah Arendt's Exercises in Political Thinking and their Role as Preparatory Political Practice - Maria Robaszkiewicz (University of Paderborn)
12.10-14.10 Lunch
14.10-15.15 Session VII: Speech and Action
Session Chair: Marinus Schoeman (University of Pretoria)
A. "Talking Back and Measuring Up": The Judging Role of Speaking Together in Hannah Arendt's Thought - Karen McCarthy (Emory University)
B. The Moral Dimension of Action: Arendt's Ethics of the World - Tal Correm (Temple University)
15.15-15.30 Break
15.30-16.40 Session VIII: Forgiveness and Reconciliation
Session Chair: Kei Hiruta (University of Oxford)
A. Hannah Arendt's Jesus: A Contextual Exploration of Arendt's Depiction of Jesus in Light of her Formative Years in Weimar Germany - Thomas Wittendorff (European University Institute)
B. Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Restoring the Meaning of a Political Relation - Els Van Peborgh (University of Antwerp)
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