“The Politics of Beginning: Hannah Arendt Today” – 2 December 2021

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Online Symposium from Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, organised by Facundo Vega. Nine speakers over three panels beginning 14:00 Central European Time.

The Politics of Beginning:
Hannah Arendt Today
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
December 2nd 2021

Panel I. 14:00-16:00 (Central European Time)
14:00: Miguel Vatter (Deakin University): “Arendt and Political Theology”
14:30: James Martel (San Francisco State University): “In the Beginning: Archē, Anarchism, and Arendt”
15:00: Anne Eusterschulte (Freie Universität Berlin) TBA
15:30: Discussion and Q&A

Panel II. 17:00-19:00 (Central European Time)
17:00: Laura Ephraim (Williams College): “The Beginnings of Life”
17:30: Wolfgang Heuer (Freie Universität Berlin): “Destruction of the Beginning and its Rescue”
18:00: Jerome Kohn (The New School for Social Research): “Creatio ex Nihilo and Spontaneity”
18:30: Discussion and Q&A

Panel III. 20:00-22:00 (Central European Time)
20:00: Peg Birmingham (DePaul University): “Agere/Gerere: Bearing the Beginning”
20:30: Patchen Markell (Cornell University): “Arendt, Authority, and Archē”
21:00: Linda Zerilli (University of Chicago): “Rethinking the Problem of Post-Truth with Arendt”
21:30: Discussion and Q&A

Zoom link upon registration at: https://noticias.uai.cl/evento/politicas-del-comienzo-hannah-arendt-hoy/

Organizer: Facundo Vega (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez / Affiliated Fellow, ICI Berlin)