Robert Andersen

A native of San Francisco, US Navy and UC Berkeley, a writer not an academic, Robert Andersen is finishing a novel about the Navy in Vietnam and starting a study of the atomic scientists. In 1974-75, he was an intern and assistant editor at The Institute of Society, Ethics, and the Life Sciences (The Hastings Center). There, he became a colleague of Hans Jonas (The Death and Dying Group) and audited Hannah Arendt (The Life of the Mind) at the New School in NYC. In 2010-11, he was a Visiting Scholar at The Hastings Center in Garrison, NY, and in 2015-16, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Notre Dame. In 2019, he gave a talk on The Bomb and read from his play (about Los Alamos at 75) at the Einstein Forum. In 2022-23, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Naval War College in Newport RI. At the Hannah Arendt Center, he will be writing an essay about Hans Jonas titled "The Last Battle of the Last Humanist."

Danilo Gajić

Danilo Gajić is a PhD candidate at the Munich School of Philosophy, where he is writing a dissertation on Hannah Arendt’s notion of political judgment. As a Visiting Scholar at the Hannah Arendt Center, he will examine to what extent Arendt’s account of judging can be understood as a critique of political judgment. Danilo studied cultural anthropology, philosophy, and social theory at Heidelberg University, University College London, and Friedrich Schiller University Jena. His master’s thesis explored notions of conceptual violence in the work of Theodor W. Adorno and Jacques Derrida. He has taught political philosophy in Jena and Munich and is currently a doctoral researcher in the Rottendorf project “Global Solidarities.” His research focuses on political epistemology, vulnerability, and radical democratic theory. He has co-edited special issues of the European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, the Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, and the Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie.

Silvia Lorusso

Silvia Lorusso is pursuing a Ph.D. in Philosophy at Sapienza University of Rome, where she is working on a project about the problem of historical transmissibility in Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin, at the intersection of their critique of the concept of history, the relationship between revolution and tradition, and their reflections on literature, art, and culture. Previously, she earned a B.A. in Philosophy from Sapienza University of Rome with an exchange period at the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris. For her M.A., she obtained a double-degree between Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena and Sapienza, with an additional research stay at Kingston University in London, where she specialized in German idealism and the contemporary reception of post-Kantian philosophy. She recently completed a research period at the University of Vienna, and in Rome she also works as teaching assistant in theoretical philosophy and aesthetics. She contributes as an editorial member to the journals Walter. Benjamin & Co. and Polemos. Materiali di filosofia e critica sociale.

Irene Quiliconi

Irene Quiliconi obtained her master's degree in Philosophy from the University of Pisa with a thesis on Socrates and the figure of the "two-in-one" in Hannah Arendt's thought. She also completed a postgraduate program in Bioethics at the University of Padua (academic year 2023–2024), where she presented an essay on the significance of habitability within palliative care pathways. She is currently a Ph.D. student in Philosophy in the joint doctoral program between the University of Ferrara and PUCPR. Her doctoral research investigates Hannah Arendt's ethical and political understanding of what it means to inhabit the world responsibly, bringing her work into conversation with contemporary environmental ethics. By focusing on concepts such as the endurance of the world, plurality and appearance, and intergenerational responsibility, the project explores the relevance of Arendt's thought for current ecological challenges.