Call for Abstracts: 11th Annual Meeting of the Hannah Arendt Circle, hosted by the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College on March 30–April 1, 2017.
The Hannah Arendt Circle meets annually to provide a forum for scholars from a variety of institutions and disciplinary backgrounds to present their research on Hannah Arendt. We invite submissions on any aspect of Arendt’s work, including critiques and applications of her thinking. In addition to the regular program, this year’s conference will feature the following events:
Special Book Panel, Friday, March 31
Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt’s Denktagebuch
Edited by Roger Berkowitz and Ian Storey, Fordham University Press
Working Groups
The Arendt Circle also hosts two working groups: I) Race, Gender and Queer Theory, and II) Hannah Arendt and Her Contemporaries. The working groups will meet on Thursday, March 30. For more information, please contact the working group coordinators by email.
Submissions
Please send abstracts of no more than 750 words as an email attachment (.doc or .docx) to the program committee chair, Jennifer Gaffney (jgaffney@gettysburg.edu). The deadline for submissions is December 15th, 2016. Please indicate “Arendt Circle submission” in the subject heading of your email message. Program decisions will be announced by January 10th, 2017.
Program Committee
Jennifer Gaffney, Gettysburg College,
Anne O’Byrne, Stony Brook University
Roger Berkowitz, Bard College
Working Group Coordinators
Race, Gender, Queer Theory:
Lisa Stenmark, San Jose State University, lisa.stenmark@sjsu.edu
Arendt and Her Contemporaries:
Kei Hiruta, University of Oxford, kei.hiruta@philosophy.ox.ac.uk