Symposium on Hannah Arendt

Sydney Society for Literature and Aesthetics

July 20-21st, University of Sydney, Building Old Geology Theatre

Draft Timetable (3/07/06)

 

Thursday, July 20th

 

9.30-10.00 Conference Registration and Welcoming Addresses

 

10.00-11.00am

Keynote Address:

John Grumley (University of Sydney)

Hannah Arendt's Devaluation of the Concept of Life?

 

11.00-11.15am Morning Tea

 

11.15-12.15pm

Session 1

Jeff Malpas (University of Tasmania)

Truth, Politics, and Democracy

Jacques Delaruelle (National Art School, Sydney, Australia)

Tact and Taste as Praxis

(On Hannah Arendt's reading of Kant's Third Critique)

 

12.45-1.30pm LUNCH

 

1.30-2.30pm

Session 2

Peter Murphy,  (Monash University)

Hannah Arendt's Beginnings: The Paradoxes of Political Time and the Act of Social Creation

Danielle Celermajer (University of Sydney)

H. Arendt's Light and Dark: God, reason and politics

 

2.30-2.45pm Afternoon Tea

 

2.45-3.45pm

Session 3

Matthew Sharpe (Deakin University)

Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss, Plato And today

Ned Curthoys (Australian National University)

Hannah Arendt, Erich Auerbach, and the crisis of Historical Narrative

 

3.45-4.00pm Afternoon Tea

 

4.00-5.99pm

Session 4

Matthew Boss (University of Sydney)

Hannah Arendt and M. Heidegger on Willing And Thinking

James Phillips (University of New South Wales)

A Reason for Believing in Truth

 

 

6.00-7.30 RECEPTION AT THE NICHOLSON MUSEUM

SPEAKER TO BE ANNOUNCED

 

 

Friday, July 21st

10.00-10.30 Conference Registration

 

10.30-11.30am

Special Guest Speaker:

Professor Maria Pia Lara

(University Autonoma Metropolitana Mexico)

Hannah Arendt and the Heart of Darkness

11.30-11.45am Morning Tea

 

11.45-12.45pm

Session 4

Christine Lopes (University of Southampton, United Kingdom)

The Place of Thinking:  Arendt on Moral Foreignness

Andrew Schaap, (University of Melbourne)

The proto-politics of reconciliation: Lefort and the aporia of forgiveness in Arendt and Derrida

 

12.45-1.30pm LUNCH

 

1.30-2.30

Session 5

Michael Mack (University of Sydney)

Hannah Arendt: Anti-Semitism and the crisis of Modernity

Rowena Azada (University Ateneo de Manila, The Philippines)

Self-Revelation and the role of the Journalist in arendtian perspective

 

3.00-3.15 Afternoon Tea

 

3.15.-4.15pm

Session 6

John Dalton (University of Sydney)

Hannah Arendt: Natality and Technics

Vrasidas Karalis (University of Sydney)

The Philosophical Dialectics of Violence and Power

 

4.45-5.00 Afternoon Tea

5.00-6.30pm

SCREENING OF THE PLAY

HANNAH AND MARTIN by KATE FODOR