The event is sponsored by the Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology, The Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, and the History and Philosophy Track at the School of Arts and Humanities, UT Dallas.
Friday, November 5th, 2021, 9:00 am to 4:30 pm
UT Dallas Campus, Jonsson Academic Center (JO) 4.122.
If you cannot attend in person, you can now join us through Zoom by following this link on Nov 5th at 9:30 am:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85661007157?pwd=WFdlQ3J6THN0emZoT3RyL1hOdTRCUT09
Meeting ID: 856 6100 7157
Passcode: 669028
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9:00 am – Breakfast/coffee/tea
9:30 am – Welcome Remarks, Dr. Nils Roemer, Interim Dean of A&H & Director of Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, UT Dallas
9:40 am – Reading from “Hannah Arendt”, Author Samantha Rose Hill
10:00 am – Dr. John Macready, Professor of Philosophy, Collin College, Plano Campus
10:30 am – Break
10:45 am – Dr. Douglas Dow, Clinical Professor, Honors College, UT Dallas
11:15 am – Dr. Katherine Davies, Assistant Professor, Arts & Humanities, UT Dallas
11:45 am – Reply from the Author & Discussion
2:00 pm – Justin Bensinger: “Arendt and the Ambiguity of the Agon: The Greek or Roman Solution?”
2:30 pm – Chaz Holsomback: “Friends, Enemies, and Lovers: Arendt’s Political Relationships”
3:00 pm – Break
3:15 pm – Angie Simmons: “On Morality and Guilt: A Crisis of Conscience.”
3:45 pm – Discussion, moderated by Kate Davis
4:30 pm – Closing Remarks, Dr. Matthew J. Brown, Professor of Philosophy, CVMST Director, UT Dallas
About the Book: Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century and her work has never been more relevant than it is today. Born in Germany in 1906, Arendt published her first book at the age of 23, before turning away from the world of academic philosophy to reckon with the rise of the Third Reich. After the War, Arendt became one of the most prominent – and controversial – public intellectuals of her time, publishing influential works such as The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, and Eichmann in Jerusalem. Samantha Rose Hill weaves together new biographical detail, archival documents, poems, and correspondence to reveal a woman whose passion for the life of the mind was nourished by her love of the world.
About the Author: Samantha Rose Hill is the author of Hannah Arendt (Reaktion, 2021) and Hannah Arendt’s Poems (Liveright, 2022). She is a senior fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and associate faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and the University of the Underground. You can find her work in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Aeon, LitHub, OpenDemocracy, Public Seminar, Contemporary Political Theory, and Theory and Event. (www.samantharosehill.com)