Hannah Arendt Today

The New Voices Talk Series continues this winter with a lecture dedicated to Hannah Arendt and is organized by Samantha Fazekas (Trinity College Dublin) & Maria Robaszkiewicz (Paderborn University).

Talk: Natality as a formative structure in Hannah Arendt’s work. A phenomenological approach to the question of the university in times of dictatorship by Elsa Siu Lanzas (University of Costa Rica)

Abstract:

This paper is guided by Hannah Arendt’s phenomenological approach to education, arguing that a university undergoing dictatorial intervention fractures one of the structures of formation: natality. I first review the possibilities the author grants to the concept of ‘natality’ for thinking about the relationship between education and formation. Then I present an approximation to Arendt’s own understanding of the university. Finally, I develop a description of the forced closure of the Universidad Centroamericana in Nicaragua and, regarding the possibilities of Arendt’s conceptual framework, I seek to provide some of the aspects that, due to the university’s fragile situation, ends up limiting the formation.

About the speaker:

Elsa Siu Lanzas (Dra. phil.) is visiting professor and researcher specializing in phenomenology and the philosophy of education, trained at the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional de Colombia and the University of Costa Rica. Her work focuses on questions of passivity, embodiment, and philosophical formation, including the role of the body in thinking and teaching. She has published on Husserl, Patočka, and philosophical pedagogy, contributing studies on responsibility, memory, and educational challenges in Latin American contexts.

Everyone is welcome to attend. You will get the Zoom-Link here or at maria.robaszkiewicz@upb.de.

More about the New Voices Winter Talk Series 25/26:
https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/new-voices-talk-series/