Dawn Herrera’s bio:
Dawn Herrera is a theorist whose teaching and writing are dedicated to the invigoration of the political imaginary. She holds a Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, where she completed a dissertation on non-sovereign conceptions of freedom in the work of Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault. Related research interests include the spatiality and temporality of politics, play, metaphor, violence, and the critique of political economy. Her current book project traces the genealogy of the nation-state in Foucault’s Collège de France lectures.

Ben Helphand’s bio:
For more than twenty years, Ben Helphand has focused on ways to help communities have a direct hand in the creation and stewardship of the built environment.  He is the Executive Director of NeighborSpace, a nonprofit urban land trust dedicated to preserving and sustaining community-managed open spaces in Chicago.  NeighborSpace shoulders the responsibility of property ownership for a network of flower, vegetable, and prairie gardens across the City so that community groups can focus on gardening and community building.  In addition to his work at NeighborSpace, Helphand is Co-founder and President of the Friends of the Bloomingdale Trail (FBT), an all-volunteer, community-based organization that advocated for the conversion of the under-used Bloomingdale rail embankment into a public greenway from 2002 until the project's completion in 2015.  As the official Park Advisory Council for the Bloomingdale Trail, FBT now serves as its long-term community steward.  Helphand has also served as a board member of the Active Transportation Alliance, the Mayor's Pedestrian Advisory Committee, Grow Greater Englewood, and the Chicago Housing Trust.  In 2012, he was awarded a Chicago Community Trust Emerging Leader Fellowship, and was part of Next City's 2018 Vanguard class.  Originally from Oregon, he holds a degree in the history of religion from the University of Chicago and studied at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

Readings

Hannah Arendt, selections from The Human Condition (1998, 1958):  Prologue, 1-6; Chapter IV, 139-174
Hannah Arendt, “The Crisis in Culture” Between Past and Future (1977), 194-222

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