Totalitarianism in Georgia in the Light of Hannah Arendt`s Theory of

Totalitarianism in Georgia in the Light of Hannah Arendt’s
Theory of Totalitarianism
Academic conference dedicated to Hannah Arendt, 25.05.2015
Programme:
11:00–11:20 OPENING
GIGA ZEDANIA, GIORGI MAISURADZE: WORDS OF WELCOME
▪ FIRST PART
11:20–12:00
GÖRAN LINDBLAD: “HOW EUROPE’S TOTALITARIAN PAST IS HAUNTING US STILL”
12:00–12:40
SIMONE MATTHAEI: “IST DIE TOTALITARISMUSTHEORIE VON HANNAH ARENDT NOCH AKTUELL?”
12:40–13:20
TINA MAMATSASHVILI: “HANNAH ARENDT AND THE CONCEPTION OF THE BANALITY OF EVIL.
BETWEEN ‘THOUGHTLESSNESS’ AND ‘LACK OF IMAGINATION’”
13:20–15:00
BREAK
▪ SECOND PART
15:00–15:40
NORMAN AJARI: “ON TWO FORMS OF MODERN IMPERIALISM. A CRITICAL OVERVIEW OF HANNAH
ARENDT’S ‘THE ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM’”
15:40–16:20
MALKHAZ TORIA: “THE ‘ROSE REVOLUTION’ — THE ARENDTIAN ‘TRUE EVENT’ OR FAILED PROJECT
OF OVERCOMING THE SOVIET PAST?”
16:20–17:00
NINO PIRTSKHALAVA: “DAS BILD DER POLITISCH-ÜBERPOLITISCHEN WIRKLICHKEIT DER
TOTALITÄREN UTOPIEN IM LICHTE DER TOTALITARISMUSTHEORIE VON HANNAH ARENDT”
17:00–17:30
BREAK
17:30–19:30
PANEL: “TOTALITARISMUS: DIE SOWJETISCHE ERFAHRUNG”