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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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Copyright Inquiries: The Hannah Arendt Bluecher Literary Trust is a legal entity established in the Last Will and Testament of Hannah Arendt. Georges Borchardt Inc., is the Trust's literary agent. The Trust holds all rights of copyright to Arendt's writings. All inquiries about rights to publish Arendt's written or spoken words must be addressed, in as much detail as possible, to Valerie Borchardt at [email protected]; all inquiries about photographs and their reproduction must be addressed, also in as much detail as possible, to Michael Slade at Art Resource at [email protected].
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