2016 100/10 Challenge - An Open Letter from Academic Director, Roger Berkowitz

07-22-2016

Dear Friends,

Hannah Arendt insisted on loving the world in even the darkest times. Dedicated to thinking about our world with the fearless and provocative spirit that Arendt brought to everything she wrote, the Hannah Arendt Center works to find in Arendt's unique and brilliant thinking a path to rethink our basic understandings.

Edward Snowden during a Q&A session at "Why Privacy Matters"

Last year's Annual Fall Conference "Why Privacy Matters" featured Edward Snowden. In October 2016, we host "Real Talk: Difficult Questions About Race, Sex, and Religion on Campus." Featured speakers include Claudia Rankine, Mary Gaitskill, and Hilton Als. In all we do, the Arendt Center works to actualize Arendt's ideal of political thinking, bringing together philosophers, poets, artists, business leaders, and academics from multiple backgrounds to think what we are doing.

The Arendt Center relies on your generous support. We exist at Bard College, in prisons through the Bard Prison Initiative, in Bard's early colleges in Newark, NYC, Cleveland, Baltimore, and New Orleans, in public programs in New York City, in Berlin, on the web, in our Journal, in our Amor Mundi newsletter, and through our Post-Doctoral Fellowships. All of this work is supported by our members.

Today we launch our annual 100/10 Member Challenge: 100 new members in 10 days! If you are already a member, we hope that you'll renew. If you haven't yet joined, we ask you to become part of our world.

Arendt Center Members gain free admission to our Conferences and Lectures and are eligible to participate in our Virtual Reading Group.
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HA: The Journal of The Hannah Arendt Center

All new members will receive a copy of the 2011 inaugural issue of HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center, featuring essays by Marianne Constable, Leon Botstein, Jerome Kohn, Patchen Markell, Babette Babich, Peg Birmingham, George Kateb, and many others.

All new and renewing members are entered in a drawing for special prizes including a DVD of “Hannah Arendt,” the movie by Margarethe von Trotta and a signed copy of Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics.

We have a number of exciting contests during our 100/10 challenge! I’d like to mention two in particular. First, our $1000 Challenge offers new members at the $1000 level entrance into a drawing for the opportunity to win Hannah Arendt's Library, a beautiful artist book by Heinz Peter Knes, Danh Vo, and Amy Zion. Learn more about the book here.

Second, we have a Referral Challenge, which gives you the opportunity to win a Tote Bag Package when you refer family or friends to join the center. The Tote Bag Package includes: (1) HA Tote Bag, HA: The Journal, Vol. 1, 2, 3 and 4 and a signed copy of Thinking in Dark Times.

Simultaneously to these two challenges, drawings for 3 additional Tote Bag Packages are being made for 3 lucky fans who help spread the word of our campaign via social media (look for the #ShareArendt posts). For more details on this and all of our contests and member perks, visit our membership page.


2016 Real Talk Tote Bags

Lastly, all members receive free admittance to our 9th Annual Conference, Real Talk: Difficult Questions About Race, Sex, and Religion on Campus, which takes place on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 20-21. Register here. You can learn more about becoming a member and membership here.

Bold thinking about politics in the humanist style of Hannah Arendt is profoundly necessary in our increasingly thoughtless era. The Arendt Center exists to nurture provocative thinking about politics and ethics. We are grateful for your confidence in us and your engagement in our work to build a community around the thinking Hannah Arendt.

We thank you in advance and look forward to seeing you at our future events.

Roger Berkowitz