Call for Abstracts: 11th Annual Meeting of the Hannah Arendt Circle

Call for Abstracts: 11th Annual Meeting of the Hannah Arendt Circle

Hosted by the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College

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. They 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.

Submissions

Please send an abstract 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.

All submissions and inquiries should be sent to: Jennifer Gaffney, Arendt Circle Program Committee Chair at jgaffney@gettysburg.edu.

For further information, visit http://www.thearendtcircle.com/our-next-meeting