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Book Roger

Book the Hannah Arendt Center's founder, academic director, author, and leading Arendtian scholar Roger Berkowitz as a guest speaker or author.

If you’d like to put current hot-button political issues in historical context, explore the meaning of justice and ethics, or broaden your understanding of Hannah Arendt’s legacy, book Roger Berkowitz as a guest speaker or author.

Who Should Book Roger as a Guest Speaker/Author:
Podcasts about:

  • Political Theory, Philosophy, Human Rights
  • Current Events
  • Justice, Freedom of Speech, Democracy, the Human Condition
  • Hannah Arendt/History/Culture/Relevance
  • Democracy and Citizens Assemblies
  • Civil Discourse, Thinking together, Friendships, 
  • Academic conferences
  • News publications
  • Scholarly publications

Qualifications:
  • Founder & Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College
  • Professor of Politics, Philosophy,  and Human Rights at Bard College
  • Author of:
    • On Civil Disobedience: Henry David Thoreau, Hannah Arendt
    • The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition
  • Co-Editor of:
    • Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt's Denktagebuch (2017)
    • Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics (2010)
    • The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis (2012)
  • Editor of:
    • The annual HA: Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center
    • Amor Mundi
  • 2019 recipient of the Hannah Arendt Award for Political Thought given by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung in Bremen, Germany. 
  • Featured in:
    • The New York Times
    • Bookforum
    • The Chronicle of Higher Education
    • The Paris Review Online
    • Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
    • The American Interest
    • And more
For booking requests, please email [email protected].

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