Citizenship and Civil Disobedience

Kenyon Victor Adams

Kenyon Victor Adams is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, curator and creative director, also known as little ray. His current work explores the notion of fractured epistemologies, and seek to reclaim or expand various ways of knowing through integrative artistic practices.  Kenyon has contributed art and thought leadership at Yale School of Drama, Yale ISM Poetry Conference, the Langston Hughes Project, the National Arts Policy Roundtable, Summit Series, Nomadique Collections, Lux Projection Festival, and Yale Cabaret. He studied Religion & Literature at Yale Divinity School, and Theology of Contemporary Performance at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Kenyon served as Artist in Residence at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music for the 2015-16 academic year. His multi-media performance works have addressed issues of legibility, race, and American memory. Recent works include LEDGER (multi-media performance, ’15) and Blood Memory (video,’15). He currently serves as Arts Initiative Director at Grace Farms.   VIEW MORE >>

Roger Berkowitz

Roger Berkowitz has been teaching political theory, legal thought, and human rights at Bard College since 2005. He is the academic director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College.
Professor Berkowitz is an interdisciplinary scholar, teacher, and writer. His interests stretch from Greek and German philosophy to legal history and from the history of science to images of justice in film and literature. He is the author of The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition; coeditor of Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics; editor of Revenge and Justice, a special issue of Law, Culture, and the Humanities; and a contributing editor to Rechtsgeschichte. His essays have appeared in numerous academic journals. Roger Berkowitz received his B.A. from Amherst College; J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley; and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. 

Leon Botstein

Leon Botstein has been president of Bard College since 1975, where he is also Leon Levy Professor in the Arts and Humanities. He is chairman of the board of the Central European University and a board member of the Open Society Foundations. He has been music director of the American Symphony Orchestra since 1992. He is coartistic director of the SummerScape and Bard Music Festivals at Bard College, and conductor laureate of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, where he served as music director from 2003 to 2010. Forthcoming publications: a sequel to his Jefferson’s Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture;  VIEW MORE >>

Mark Bray

MARK BRAY is a historian of human rights, terrorism, and political radicalism in Modern Europe at Dartmouth College. He is the author of the national bestseller Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook (Melville House 2017), Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street (Zero 2013), The Anarchist Inquisition: Terrorism and Human Rights in Spain and France, 1890-1910 (forthcoming), and the co-editor of Anarchist Education and the Modern School: A Francisco Ferrer Reader (PM Press 2018). His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Boston Review, Foreign Policy, and numerous edited volumes.
 

Deirdre d'Albertis

Deirdre d'Albertis Dean of Bard College, Professor of English and Review Editor, Nineteenth-Century Contexts.

David Bromwich

David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. He has taught and written about British and American romanticism, Shakespeare, modern poetry, and the rhetoric of persuasion. His books include Hazlitt: the Mind of a Critic (1983) and The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence (2014). His political commentaries on the Cheney-Bush, Obama, and Trump presidencies have appeared in the Huffington Post, Antiwar, Dissent, the New York Review of Books, Mondoweiss, Tom Dispatch, the Nation, and the London Review of Books.

Marion Detjen

Marion Detjen teaches migration history at Bard College Berlin and works as the academic director for Bard College Berlin's Program for International Education and Social Change. She studied history and literature in Berlin and Munich and received her Ph.D. from Freie Universität Berlin. 2009 - 2014 she taught history at Humboldt University Berlin, 2015 - 2017 she was a researcher at the Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam. She is a regular contributor to the column 10nach8 at ZEIT-Online as part of its editorial team and is a co-founder of Wir machen das (we are doing it), a coalition of action focused on issues of forced migration in Berlin. She published monographs on the history of refugees from the GDR and people's smuggling after the building of the Berlin Wall (Ein Loch in der Mauer, Siedler Verlag, 2005), on resistance against National socialism in Munich (Zum Staatsfeind ernannt, Buchendorfer Verlag,1998), and on the German constitution (Die Deutschen und das Grundgesetz, Pantheon Verlag, 2009; together with Max Steinbeis and Stephan Detjen). 

Kevin Duong

Kevin teaches Political Theory at Bard College.

Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun

Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun is a designer of extreme experiences that aims to bring the sublime to life. Dubbed the "Willy Wonka of Design," Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun is an award-winning French designer and filmmaker who creates multi-dimensional experiential projects at the intersection of science, theatre, politics and Design. Wired awarded her their inaugural Innovation Fellowship in 2014, and Icon magazine recognized Dr. Ben Hayoun as one of the top 50 designers 'shaping the future' for her pioneering "total bombardment" design philosophy.   VIEW MORE >>

Samantha Hill

Samantha Rose Hill is the assistant director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and visiting assistant professor of Political Studies at Bard College. She is also associate faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. 

Sarah Jaffe

Sarah Jaffe is the author of Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt, which Robin D.G. Kelley called “The most compelling social and political portrait of our age.” She is a Nation Institute reporting fellow and an independent journalist covering labor, economic justice, social movements, politics, gender, and pop culture. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and many other publications. She is the co-host, with Michelle Chen, of Dissent magazine’s Belabored podcast, as well as a columnist at The New Republic and New Labor Forum.

Callie Jayne

Callie Jayne is Founder & Executive Director of Rise Up Kingston. Jayne’s desire to fight for justice began in 8th Grade protesting against inequitable dress code policies.  Callie’s career started off in sales, bouncing from job-to-job, and struggling to meet ends meet. When she decided to go back to college, she found herself transitioning to the post-secondary education field - wanting to focus on helping women prioritize their education, and moving forward in their careers. It was then, that she found herself in a situation like so many before her - a single mother, trying to survive within structures that were created to make sure she failed. Callie finished her undergraduate degree in business, and then went on to complete her Masters’ in Nonprofit Management. For her internship, she began working at a human services organization, which later hired her full time. She built and expanded the volunteer base and pantry hours which increased the number of families who were able to access food. She increased the individual giving, community and business engagement which lowered operational costs. Though providing emergency services was helping hundreds of families every week, it was doing nothing to change the systems of oppression that are set in place.  VIEW MORE >>

Jonathan Kay

Canadian Editor for Quillette, and co-host of the Wrongspeak podcast. A former editor for Canada’s National Post newspaper, and editor-in-chief of a Canadian literary magazine. Jonathan Kay's freelance work appears regularly in the National Post, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy. In 2014, Kay served as the principal editorial assistant on Justin Trudeau’s memoir, Common Ground. Author of; The Truthers (HarperCollins, 2011) and Legacy: How French Canadians Shaped North America (Signal, 2016). 

Seon-Wook Kim

Seon-Wook Kim is a Professor at the Department of Philosophy at Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea. He is the President of the Korean Society for Hannah Arendt Studies. He received his BA and MA from Soongsil University, and Ph.D from SUNY Buffalo. He published several books on Arendt in Korean. The most recent title is The Thoughts of Hannah Arendt, which introduces Arendt's political ideas against the background of 2016-17 Korean Candlelight Rallies that led to the regime change in 2017. He translated Eichmann in Jerusalem, The Crises of the Republic, The Promise of Politics and Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy into Korean. He also supervised most of the Korean translations of Michael J. Sandel's books including Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do.

Dennis Maloney

Dennis Maloney is a retired Teacher/Supervisor/Administrator/Principal of the NYC Board of Education, a resident of Dutchess County for 33 years, active in local politics, and originalist/constitutionalist that meets with the Dutchess County Tea Party.

Judy Pepenella

Judy Pepenella has devoted the last ten years of her life fighting for her country as a founding board member of the Conservative Society for Action (CSA). This grassroots political action organization has been involved in local, state and federal politics since its inception in October of 2008. Judy is CSA's liaison with other grassroots state & national organizations and has managed CSA's social networking outreach program. She has maintained daily communication with TEA Party organizers around the state and nation and has helped organize such events as the first Town Hall Meeting in Setauket Long Island and the State Capital March on Albany, both in June 2009, as well as the September 12, 2009 TEA Party March on Washington where she was a featured activist speaker. She has also organized numerous lobbying trips to Washington and Albany on behalf of CSA. Judy has attended hundreds of rallies, meetings, events and public hearings. She is a frequent speaker before her local County legislature. Judy is a member of the Brookhaven Republican Committee where she represents her election district as well as CSA. Ms. Pepenella is a proud single mom of two. Her business background is in marketing and advertising.  VIEW MORE >>

Chantal Mouffe

Chantal Mouffe is Professor of Political Theory at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster in London. She has taught and researched in many universities in Europe, North America and South America and she is a corresponding member of the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris. She is the editor of Gramsci and Marxist Theory (Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1979), Dimensions of Radical Democracy. Pluralism, Citizenship, Community (Verso, London, 1992), Deconstruction and Pragmatism (Routledge, 1996) and The Challenge of Carl Schmitt (Verso, London, 1999); the co-author with Ernesto Laclau of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy. Towards a Radical Democratic Politics (Verso, London, 1985) and the author of The Return of the Political (Verso, London, 1993), The Democratic Paradox (Verso, London, 2000) and On the Political (Routledge, London, 2005).

Susan Oberman

Susan Oberman is the Director of Common Ground Negotiation Services, a private mediation practice in Charlottesville, Virginia. She developed the Sustainable Knowledge Model of Norm-Educating Mediation and has over thirty years of mediation experience. In her articles on mediation published in Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution and Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal she argues that mediation is grounded in time honored legal principles that protect parties’ rights in mediation—as opposed to its label as an alternative to the law. Ms. Oberman offers Continuing Education workshops for mediators on the basic elements of mediation such as self-determination, neutrality and impartiality, and confidentiality. In addition, she offers workshops for community groups and organizations that include Negotiation Skills for Everyday Life, Conflict as Opportunity, and Self and Identity: Individuality, Community and Systems of Domination.

Chiara Ricciardone

Ricciardone's work is motivated by the question of how humans individually and collectively navigate difference. When does difference inspire wonder, and when does it engender fear, discomfort and disease? Her dissertation focuses on how Plato's language of disease and health poses the philosophical question of difference and identity.

Peter Rosenblum

Peter Rosenblum is a professor of international law and human rights at Bard College

Rebecca Saletan

Rebecca Saletan is editorial director of Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Past positions include publisher of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and editorial roles at Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Simon and Schuster, Random House, and Yale University Press. Writers she has worked with include Masha Gessen, Mohsin Hamid, Junot Díaz, Hillary Clinton, and Peter Matthiessen. Since early 2017, Saletan has been a member of Indivisible Harlem and founder and coordinator of a coalition of Manhattan activist groups focused on regaining Democratic control of the New York state senate.  

Yasemin Sari

Yasemin Sari is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and World Religions at the University of Northern Iowa. Dr. Sari completed her PhD in Philosophy at the University of Alberta in 2015. She was a DAAD Post-Doctoral Researcher at Goethe University, Frankfurt in 2016. As a political philosopher, her work mainly focuses on democratic political theory, especially as it relates to human rights, extra-institutional recognition, and the borders between citizen and non-citizen. Dr. Sari's most recent publications include "Arendt and Nancy: Revolution and Democratic Responsibility" (forthcoming in Symposium), " "Arendt, Truth, and Epistemic Responsibility (Arendt Studies, 2018), and "An Arendtian Recognitive Politics: The Right to Have Rights as a Performance of Visibility" (Philosophy Today, 2017). She is the co-editor of The Bloomsbury Companion to Arendt (forthcoming). Her current research takes up the ongoing global refugee crisis.

Christopher W. Schmidt

A member of the Chicago-Kent faculty since 2008, Professor Schmidt teaches in the areas of constitutional law, legal history, comparative constitutional law, and sports law. He has written on a variety of topics, including the historical development of the Fourteenth Amendment, the history of Brown v. Board of Education, the Tea Party as a constitutional movement, how Supreme Court Justices communicate with the American people, and the rise of free agency in Major League Baseball. He has published in leading law reviews and peer-review journals, among them Constitutional Commentary, Cornell Law Review, Law and History Review, Northwestern University Law Review, and UCLA Law Review. His article Divided by Law: The Sit-Ins and the Role of the Courts in the Civil Rights Movement won the 2014 Association of American Law Schools' Scholarly Papers Competition and the 2016 American Society for Legal History Surrency Prize.
Professor Schmidt is the author of The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era (University of Chicago Press, 2018). He is currently working on a new book project, Civil Rights: An American History, which examines how Americans have struggled over the meaning of civil rights from the Civil War through today.  VIEW MORE >>

Annie Seaton

Ann Seaton worked with Mary Lefkowitz and Frank Bidart at Wellesley, where she was a two-time undergraduate Academy of American Poets Prize winner. Annie was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities at Stanford, where she went intending to study Greek and Latin with John Winkler, and subsequently left for Harvard, where she worked with Barbara Johnson. Annie was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown in Aesthetics and Politics. Annie is a Visiting Assistant Professor of
Humanities at Bard College. Her main interests are in Ancient Greek and Latin pastoral and Ovid, English Renaissance, French 18th and 19th century, and critical race theory. Annie is working on a book-length project, “Race and the
Pastoral.” She has presented portions of this work in progress at the CUNY Grad Center’s conference on the Pastoral, Si Canimus Silvas, the Kelly Writer’s House (Penn), at the Center for African-American Poetics at the University of
Pittsburgh, and, this fall, to Classics graduate students and faculty at Princeton. Annie also works as a conceptual artist, and her work has appeared at the Whitney Museum and the Witte de With in Rotterdam, NL as part of the YAM
Collective. Annie founded and directs the Difference and Media Project at Bard College, an intersectional thinktank on difference, aesthetics, and politics.

Amy Schiller

Amy Schiller researches, writes, and consults at the intersection of political theory and philanthropy. As faculty at Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and at Brooklyn College, Amy teaches on race, sexuality, and gender in politics. Her writing for The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast and The Chronicle of Philanthropy has covered campus discourse on Israel-Palestine, funding the Movement for Black Lives, and American Girl dolls.   VIEW MORE >>

Theda Skocpol

THEDA SKOCPOL is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University, where she has also served as Dean of the Graduate School and as Director of the Center for American Political Studies. Skocpol is an internationally recognized scholar and has been elected to membership in all three of America’s scholarly honor societies: the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the American Philosophical Society; and the National Academy of Sciences. In addition to her teaching and research, Skocpol serves as the Director of the Scholars Strategy Network, an organization with dozens of regional chapters that encourages nonpartisan public engagement by university-based scholars, building ties between academics and policymakers, civic groups, and journalists.  VIEW MORE >>

Allison Stanger

Allison Stanger is the Russell Leng ’60 Professor of International Politics and Economics and founding director of the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs at Middlebury College. She is the author of One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy and the forthcoming Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Leaks: The Story of Whistleblowing in America, both with Yale University Press. She is working on a new book tentatively titled Consumers vs. Citizens: How the Internet Revolution is Remaking Global Security and Democracy’s Public Square. Stanger has published opinion pieces in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, New York Times, USA Today, U.S. News and World Report, and the Washington Post and has testified before the Commission on Wartime Contracting, the Senate Budget Committee, the Congressional Oversight Panel, and the Senate HELP Committee. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. Stanger is currently a Scholar in Residence at New America.

Renata Stih & Frieder Schnock

Renata Stih & Frieder Schnock are Berlin based conceptual artists, exploring how memory functions in the social sphere and how it is reflected symbolically in urban spaces and in museums. Their idea of art in public space affects everyday life through their projects, among other their decentralized memorial Orte des Erinnerns / Places of Remembrance in Berlin--Schöneberg and their transitory memorial concept BUS STOP, which they created as entry for Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial ; Invitation advertising self-help groups on Berlin-Alexanderplatz ; The Art of Collecting - Flick in Berlin , Image Spheres for the Technical University in Esslingen, and LIFE~BOAT about survival strategies at sea. Stih & Schnock have exhibited at numerous European and American galleries and museums including: CTRL Space, Center for Art and Media (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany ; RAF. KW/Kunstwerke - Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, Joanneum Graz / Austria; Reality Bites, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis Krimiseries, London/Ontario; Signs from Berlin at the Jewish Museum New York; the environmental installation Who Needs Art, We Need Potatoes for the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, and a corresponding video program for the media façade of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Croatia ; The German Connection - Raft with Stranded Objects at The Saint Louis Art Museum focusing on the legacy of German Emigrants in this collection. Their latest artistic research project on women in WWII is called ROSIE WON THE WAR which was exhibited at the Boca Raton Museum of Art.  VIEW MORE >>

Micah White

Micah White, PhD is a public intellectual and lifelong activist who co-created Occupy Wall Street, a global social movement that spread to 82 countries, while an editor of Adbusters magazine. His essays and interviews on the future of protest have been published internationally in periodicals including The New York Times, The Guardian, Folha de São Paulo, The Washington Post, Poder (Brazil) and The Los Angeles Review of Books. He has been a featured guest on major network television shows such as Bill Maher’s Politically Incorrect, the BBC's Newsnight and The National, Canada’s flagship nightly current affairs broadcast. Widely recognized as a pioneer of social movement creation, White has been profiled by NPR's Morning Edition, The New Yorker, The Guardian and Esquire has named him one of the most influential young thinkers alive today. Learn more about him at micahmwhite.com

Thomas Chatterton Williams

Thomas Chatterton Williams is the author of a memoir, Losing My Cool (2010, Penguin Press) and a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, The London Review of Books and many other places. He is the recipient of a Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin and is a 2019 New America Fellow. He is currently at work on a book, rooted in his experience as the black father of two white-looking children in Paris, that will reckon with the ways in which we construct race in America. 

Timeline

ONLINE REGISTRATION IS CLOSED

On-site Registration will be available, October 11th and 12th.

Conference Fees

The admission fee for this two-day conference is a flat rate (both days) of $150.00 per person. Admission is FREE for:

• Members of the Hannah Arendt Center (see additional member benefits below)
• Bard College staff and faculty
• Bard College Students (Matriculated Students - does not include LLI)

Members

Members receive complimentary admission for yourself and a guest. If you would like to become a member, or renew a membership, please click HERE. If you are unsure if your membership is current, please contact the Hannah Arendt Center at [email protected]. Memberships are valid for one year.

Lunch

Lunch Orders CLOSED
If you missed online registration to reserve lunch, here's a list of local food options available and open to all guests:

Thursday, October 11

                        Lessons from the Resistance
                        Moderators: Theda Skocpol and Rebecca Saletan
                        Location: OLIN 201

                        Civics and Civil Disobedience: Responsibility to the World
                        Moderators: Susan Oberman and Yasemin Sari
                        Location: OLIN 204
   

Friday, October 12

Getting Here

Bard College's main campus is located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, on the east bank of the Hudson River, about 90 miles north of New York City and 220 miles southwest of Boston. The Conference takes place in Olin Auditorium in the Olin Humanities Building (C3 on the Bard Map). 
 

Accommodations

A comprehensive list of nearby hotels, inns, and B & B’s may be found on the Bard webpage, HERE. We recommend booking your accommodations and restaurant dining as soon as possible. The Best Western Plus in Kingston, NY offers a special discounted rate during the Hannah Arendt Center 2-day Conference. To make reservations using the Bard discount, you must call the hotel direct at 845-338-0400, Monday–Friday from 9AM–5PM and ask for the “Hannah Arendt Bard College Discount.” We recommend booking your accommodations as early as possible.

Parking Is Free

There are two main parking lots; One across from Olin and one south of Olin Hall -- Please park in either lot. Additionally, you may also park in the gravel lot across from the Stevenson Gymnasium off of Annandale Road. Please click HERE to see venue map. The black objects represent Parking Lots.

DATE: October 10, 2018
TIME: 6:00pm
LOCATION: Bard College, Campus Center MPR
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