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Arendt’s Histories: Cultural Memory after the Break in Tradition

Considering Hannah Arendt's reflections on historical memory from an interdisciplinary perspective, this workshop explores the reach and contemporary relevance of Arendt's strategies for narrating history in "dark times"—in the absence of continuity and in the midst of political fragmentation.   Scholars in German Studies, Philosophy, Political Theory, Jewish Studies, and Comparative Literature will discuss pre-circulated works in progress.  

The workshop schedule is below.  Seating is limited and registration is required.  To register, please write to Humanities.Center@Dartmouth.edu. 

Organized by Michael McGillen and sponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities and the Department of German Studies

Arendt's Histories: Cultural Memory after the Break in Tradition
Dartmouth Hall 104

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2024

8:45-9:00  
Gathering and Welcome

9:00-10:00
 Thomas Wild (Bard College)
Hannah Arendt's Multilingual Poetics: Also a Response to Broken Traditions?
[Lead Reader: Michael McGillen]

10:15-11:15
Magnus Ferguson (University of Chicago)
Speech, Speechlessness, and Linguistic Reciprocity in Arendt
[Lead Reader: Samantha Rose Hill]

11:30-11:15
Liesbeth Schoonheim (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Arendt, Beauvoir, and the Historical Uses of (Auto)Biography
[Lead Reader: Courtney Hodrick]

12:30-1:30 Catered Lunch

1:30-2:30
Samantha Grayck (College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University)
Hannah Arendt: Publicizing the Politically Illegible Subject
[Lead Reader: Thomas Wild]

2:45-3:45
Jana Schmidt (Bard College)
Ohne mich! Hannah Arendt in Never-Never Land
[Lead Reader: Liesbeth Schoonheim]

4:00-5:00
Gerhard Richter (Brown University)
Arendt's Gap: Kafka's Darkness of the Lived Moment Between Past and Future
[Lead Reader: Adam Stern]

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2024

8:30-9:30
Samantha Rose Hill (Brooklyn Institute for Social Research)
Alone in a Crowd
[Lead Reader: Samantha Grayck]

9:45-10:45
Michael McGillen (Dartmouth College)
Limitless Communication: Arendt, Jaspers, and the Free Play of the Past
[Lead Reader: Jana Schmidt]

11:00-12:00
Courtney Hodrick (Stanford University)
Tradition without Continuity: On Revolution and the Postmodern Canon
[Lead Reader: Gerhard Richter]

12:15-1:15
Adam Stern (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
On Settlerization
[Lead Reader: Magnus Ferguson]

1:15-2:15 Catered Lunch