Running weekly from 31 October to 5 December at 4pm, the series highlights the work of early-career researchers engaging with the political and philosophical thought of Hannah Arendt. Each seminar explores contemporary questions through Arendt’s lens, from democratic life and shared world-building to embodiment, property, and public space.
Programme Line-up
- 31 Oct: Aneta Kohoutova (Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value, Pardubice)
Through My Absent Body, I Perceive You: Spatiality and Female Corporeality in Public Spaces - 7 Nov: Magnus Ferguson (University of Chicago)
Speaking Others Into the World - 14 Nov: Catherine Koekoek (Erasmus School of Philosophy, Rotterdam)
Towards an Architecture of Democratic Infrastructures - 21 Nov: Jonathan Wren (Centre for Ethics in Public Life, Dublin)
Dwelling in the Common World: Arendt and the Right to Share Home With-Others - 28 Nov: Anna Jurkevics (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
Hannah Arendt on ‘Eigentum’: An Antiliberal Theory of Private Property - 5 Dec: Elsa Siu Lonzás (Universidad de Costa Rica)
Natality as a Formative Structure in Hannah Arendt’s Work: A Phenomenological Approach to the Question of the University in Times of Dictatorship
Registration
The series is free and open to all.
For queries: maria.robaszkiewicz@upb.de
This initiative is hosted by the Centre for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists.