Program:

Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022 

(Online Video: https://www.cedis.fu-berlin.de/services/medien/av-medien/test/hannah_arendt/begruessung)

12:30                Arrival

12:45-13:00     Welcome and Introduction, Barbara Hahn

13:00-13:30     Welcoming Address, President of the Freien Universität Berlin

13:30-14:00     Annette Vowinckel (ZZF Potsdam/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): 

                         On the Antisemitism Part

14:00-14:15     Break

14:15-14:45     Friedbert Rüb (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin):

                         On the Imperialism Part

14:45-15:15     Hanno Berger / Christian Pischel (Freie Universität Berlin):

                         On the Totalitarianism Part

15:15-15:45     Coffee Break

15:45-16:15     Ingo Kieslich (Freie Universität Berlin):

                         On the Digital Edition of Arendt’s Works

16:15-17:15     Q&A with the Editors

17:15-17:30     Break

17:30-18:30     Keynote: Ilija Trojanow 

(Online Video: https://www.cedis.fu-berlin.de/services/medien/av-medien/test/hannah_arendt/keynote)

18:30                Reception

Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022

Panel 1:    Antisemitism 

(Online Video: https://www.cedis.fu-berlin.de/services/medien/av-medien/test/hannah_arendt/panel1)

9:30-10:30      Helmut Walser Smith (Vanderbilt University):

                         Anti-Semitism: Its Place in Arendt's Origins and in Emerging Interpretations of the Catastrophe

10:30-11:30    Rebecca Wittmann (University of Toronto):

                         Arendt, Antisemitism, and Eichmann: Enduring Questions on Motivation 

11:30-11:45    Coffee Break

11:45-12:45    Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Technische Universität Berlin):

                         Recent Trends in Historiography on Antisemitism 

12:45-13:45     Lunch break

Panel 2:    Imperialism

(Online Video: https://www.cedis.fu-berlin.de/services/medien/av-medien/test/hannah_arendt/panel2)

13:45-14:45     Hans-Jörg Sigwart (RWTH Aachen):

                         The Experience of Expansion. Arendt‘s Characterological Interpretation of Imperialism

14:45-15:45      Jan Maximilian Robitzsch (Universität Greifswald):

                          The Development of Hannah Arendt's Thoughts on Human Rights

15:45-16:00      Coffee break

16:00-17:00      Derek Penslar (Harvard University):

                           Arendt, Zionism, and Colonialism

19:00:                Conference Dinner

Friday, Oct. 21, 2022

Panel 3:    Totalitarianism

(Online Video https://www.cedis.fu-berlin.de/services/medien/av-medien/test/hannah_arendt/panel3)

09:30-10:30     Thomas Lindenberger (Hannah Arendt-Institut, Dresden):

                          Between History, Memory Politics and „The Burden of Our Time”: The Case of “Totalitarianism”

10:30-11:30      Juliane Fürst (ZZF Potsdam/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin):

                          Late Socialism and Totalitarianism:  A History in Two Acts

11:30-11.45      Coffee Break

11:45-12:45      Marcel Stoetzler (Bangor University, Wales):

                          Totality and Total Domination: The Concept of Totalitarianism in Arendt and in Critical Theory  

12:45-13:45      Lunch Break

Panel 4:    Methods, Concepts, and Reception 

(Online Video https://www.cedis.fu-berlin.de/services/medien/av-medien/test/hannah_arendt/panel4)

13:45-14:45      Amir Engel (Hebrew University, Jerusalem):

                          Between the Hate and the Love of Israel: Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem

14:45-15:00      Coffee Break

15:00-16:00      Round Table Discussion moderated by the editors