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