Please circulate widely:
The Departments of
Philosophy, Communications, and Foreign Languages at the University of
Arkansas, Fayetteville will be hosting the third independent conference for the
Hannah Arendt Circle March
27-29, 2009.
We invite individual
submissions for papers on any aspect of Arendt's work, including critiques and
applications of her thinking.
Please send an abstract of the paper, by e-mail (750
word limit). Abstracts should be formatted for anonymous review and submitted
to the program committee chair, Karin Fry at [log in to unmask] on or before
November 14th, 2008.
Please indicate "Arendt Circle submission" in
the subject heading, and include the abstract as a ".doc" attachment
to your message. Program decisions will be announced by the end of December.
Program Committee:
Karin
Fry, University of Wisconsin Stevens Point
Tama
Weisman, Quincy University
Irene
McMullin, University of Arkansas
Our first two independent meetings were outstanding, and
we are looking forward to the same camaraderie and intense discussion of
Arendt’s work at this year’s conference. Each speaker will have
approximately 35 minutes for paper presentation and discussion combined —papers
should be a maximum of 3000 words (15-20 minutes).
The University of Arkansas is located in the beautiful
Ozark Mountains.
Lodging has been reserved at Carnell Hall:
1-800-295-9118
See also www.innatcarnallhall.com.
Program and other information will be available no later
than January 2009 at:
www.arendtcircle.com