Program of the International Conference

Program of the International Conference:

Between Past and Future: The Meanings of Political Thinking Today

Ljubljana, Slovenia, Hotel LEV (Room no. 2),

June 01–03, 2006

Thursday, June 01

9:00 – 9:45 Welcome of the Organizers

Lev Kreft, Director of the Peace Institute

Abed Naumann, Director of the Goethe Institute Lj.

9:45 – 11:45

First Session: NationalState and Sovereignty

Chair: Tonči Kuzmanić

Joan Cocks: Is the Right to Sovereignty a Human Right? The Idea of Sovereign Freedom and the Jewish State

Etienne Tassin: The Nation-state and the Minorities, Refugees, Wanderers and Stowaways

11:45 – 12:00 Coffee/Tea Break

12:00 – 13:00 Continuation of the First Session

Chair: Antonia Grunenberg

Wolfgang Heuer: Frailties of ContemporaryRepublics

13:00 – 15:00 Lunch

15:00 – 17:00

Second Session: Evil, Terrorism and after 9/11 World

Chair: Lev Kreft

Shiraz Dossa: Colonial Logics: Auschwitz, Muselmanner and 9-11

Obrad Savić: Arendt’s Reading of Justice:Eichmann in Jerusalem

Friday, June 02

9:30 – 11:30 Continuation of the Second Session

Chair: Vlasta Jalušič

Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott: Hannah Arendt in The Post-9/11 World: Totalitarianism and the Banality of Evil Revisited

Žarko Puhovski: Banality of Love: Hannah Arendt between St. Augustin and Eichmann

11:30 – 11:45 Coffee/Tea Break

11:45 – 13:45

Third Session: Memory and History between Present and Future?

Chair: Joan Cocks

Omer Bartov: Building the Future and Erasing the Past: Globalization and Multiculturalism in the Age of Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide

Daša Duhaček: On Judgement: “A Defeated Cause and the Ideal of Certainty”

13:45 – 15:30 Lunch

15:30 – 16:30

Fourth Session: Political Thinking and (Re)Thinking Politics

Chair: Obrad Savić

Josefina Birulés Bertrán: Some Remarks on Political Freedom

Saturday, June 03

09:00 – 12:00 Continuation of the Fourth Session (Closing Session)

Chair: Wolfgang Heuer

Vlasta Jalušič: Thinking Politically About the Anti-political Outcomes

Antonia Grunenberg: “... this beginning is always and everywhere present and ready.” Elements of a Political Hermeneutics with and against Hannah Arendt

Sebastian Hefti: Does Political Thinking take Place?

Hannah Arendt

Organized by the Peace Institute, Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies, Ljubljana; Belgrade Circle, Belgrade; Hannah Arendt Newsletter, Berlin; Hannah Arendt Zentrum, Oldenburg and Goethe Institute, Ljubljana.

The project was made possible by the financial support of East East: Partnership Beyond Borders Program (OSI) and Slovenian Research Agency.