PROGRAMS IN NEW YORK
SUNDAY, December 3, 2006 at 7:00 pm
Center for Jewish History
16 West 16 Street - New York, NY 10011
Box Office: 917-606-8200
General admission: $20; Students and
seniors: $15
Made Possible by the generous support of
the Weiner and Gisella Levi Cahnman Foundation
Between Friends: Hannah Arendt and Mary
McCarthy
A theatrical adaptation by Vivian Gornick
in collaboration with The House of Elder Artist. Part of the
centennial conference on Hannah Arendt presented by the
Institute for the Humanities at NYU and the Hannah Arendt
Organization.
Talk back with Vivian Gornick (director)
and Elizabeth Young-Bruehl (biographer of Hannah Arendt).
“Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy,
were two of the most important American intellectuals of their
generation. They were politically engaged, socially active,
powerful, gossipy women who became increasingly close during
the decades after WWII. A parade of writers and editors passes
through their letters: W.H. Auden, Robert Lowell, Saul Bellow,
Elizabeth Bishop, the cliques from the Partisan Review and the
New York Review of Books, the right-wing rebels of Commentary.
The two friends discuss the Cold War, McCarthyism, Vietnam,
Kennedy liberalism, the student riots of the ‘60s. When
one friend finds herself in hot water, the other flies to her
aid. Arendt and McCarthy had no qualms about expressing
themselves honestly, even obnoxiously. They were just old
enough to rely on letters in a way almost obsolete in the age
of the telephone, so plenty of opinions make their way onto
these pages.” (Rita Goldberg)
Vivian Gornick began her writing career
thirty years ago at The Village Voice where she wrote essays,
reviews, and articles, concentrating mainly on the burgeoning
feminist movement of which she was an early member. In the
years since her pieces have appeared in the Nation, the New
York Times Book Review and Magazine, the Washington Post, the
Los Angeles Times, the New Yorker, and the Three penny Review.
She has written eight books; among them an acclaimed memoir (Fierce Attachments)
and two influential collections of essays (Approaching Eye Level and The End of the Novel of Love). She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship,
and one of her books was partially funded by a Ford Foundation
grant. She has also taught nonfiction writing for the past
fifteen years.
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl published her
prize-winning biography Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World in
1982. Her Anna Freud: A Biography appeared in 1988, and since
then she has published Creative Characters, Freud on Women, The
Anatomy of Prejudices, Cherishment, and three essay
collections. She is a psychoanalyst in Manhattan and on the
faculty of the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and
Research.
December, 2 and 3, 2006
New York University
Cantor Film Center
38 East 8th Street
New York, NY 10003
Informationt: Molly Sullivan, ms1386@nyu.edu or
212-998-2100.
CENTENNIAL CONFERENCE: HANNAH ARENDT
RIGHT NOW
Curated by Elisabeth Elizabeth
Young-Bruehl and Lawrence Weschler
This coming Saturday, December 2nd and
Sunday, December 3rd, 2006, the Hannah Arendt Center and the New
York Institute for the Humanities will be co-sponsoring a
conference at NYU entitled HANNAH ARENDT RIGHT NOW. In
observance of the centenary of Hannah Arendt’s birth, the
conference will be bringing together a group of exceptionally
well known writers, artists, and activists from around the
world, all of whose work has been deeply influenced by Hannah
Arendt’s ideas, and all of whom will reflect on her
importance, thirty years after her death, in relation to the
work they do and the issues that continue to concern them.
PROGRAM
Friday evening, December 1
Reception at CvZ Contemporaries Gallery in
SoHo
featuring the German artist Volker Maerz
and his sculptures.
Saturday, December 2, 2006
9:30 am - Introduction: Ren Weschler
9:45 am-11:15am - Azar Nafisi, respondent
Ladan Boroumand
11:30a m-1:00pm - Kanan Makiya, respondent
Jonathan Schell
{LUNCH}
2:15pm-3:45pm - Jonathan Schell,
respondent Samantha Power
4:00pm-5:30pm - Samantha Power, respondent
Azar Nafisi
{DINNER}
7:30 pm-9:30pm - Eichmann in
Jerusalem/Margarethe von Trotta
-Anthony Grafton introduces
- Passages shown from Rony Brauman and
Eyal Sivan’s documentary on the trial
- Margarethe von Trotta, with screenwriter
Pamela Katz discuss the fictional film they’re
developing.
- Robert Sklar, discussant
Sunday, December 3, 2006
9:30 am - Introduction: Elisabeth Young
Bruehl
9:45 am-11:15am - Rony Brauman, respondent
Kanan Makiya
11:30am-1:00pm - Walter Mosely, introduced
by Siva Vaidhyanathan.
Respondent: Steve Wasserman
Thursday, 30 November, 2006 - Friday, 1
December, 2006
Wolff Conference Room, New School For
Social Research, 65 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY
America, Democracy and Political Change.
International Conference.
Organized by Jay Bernstein.