The Hannah Arendt Center
The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College is the world's most expansive home for bold and risky humanities thinking about our political world inspired by the spirit of Hannah Arendt, the leading thinker of politics and active citizenship in the modern era.Upcoming Events
- 1/18Saturday
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Hannah Arendt Center - 2/27Thursday
CHARLENE TETERS, "IN WHOSE HONOR," FILM AND TALK
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium - 3/05Thursday
ANNA ROSMUS, "THE NASTY GIRL," FILM AND TALK
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium - 4/02Thursday
SAMUEL FREEDMAN: "Hubert Humphrey and Hate in the Heartland: The Struggle for America’s Values As World War II Ends"
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Read This Week's Feature
The Need for Analogy
Peter E. Gordon writes a defense of historical analogy in the New York Review of Books. Gordon situates his considered argument against the backdrop of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum issuing a blanket statement, refusing historical comparison to the Holocaust in response to Alexandra Ocasio Cortez calling the detention camps on the U.S. boarder “concentration camps” last year. — Samantha Hill01-15-2020