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
- 10/23Wednesday
The three bad ideas that are weakening Gen Z (one of which fosters hate)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium - 10/28Monday
A Talk: The Agency of Bones & Marginal Memory
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Arendt Center - 10/29Tuesday
What is Brexit?
7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium - 11/07Thursday
Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook - Documentary Screening & Discussion
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Political Trials
By Roger BerkowitzIn the final chapters of Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt worries that the very strength of the Israeli Court in its trial of Adolf Eichmann—its fairness and its fidelity to law—prevented the court from understanding that Eichmann’s unprecedented acts required a political rather than a legal response. Eichmann himself argued that if he were guilty, it was of “aiding and abetting” in the commission of horrific crimes, that he himself had not...
10-22-2019