Podcasts

Amor Mundi Podcast Special Series, Thinking the Plague: Thinking in Dark Times

This is episode 6,”Thinking in Dark Times.”  It features the Arendt Center's Founder and Director Roger Berkowitz and Samantha Hill, Assistant Director of the Hannah Arendt Center, in a wide-ranging conversation about thinking during the time of the plague.

Amor Mundi Podcast Special Series,Thinking the Plague: Looking in the Mirror

This is episode 5,” Looking In the Mirror.”  It features the Arendt Center's Founder and Director Roger Berkowitz in conversation with Jerome Kohn, a political thinker, the literary executor for Hannah Arendt,  and the editor of many volumes of Arendt’s posthumous works including “Thinking Without a Bannister,” “The Jewish Writings,”  “Essays in Understanding,” and Responsibility and Judgment.”

Podcast: Living with Honor, part of our special series: Thinking the Plague

Roger Berkowitz speaks with Uday Mehta, Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York.

Arendt, Freedom, and Protest

Arendt Center Founder and Director Roger Berkowitz speaks with Toby Buckle in the Political Theory Podcast on Arendt’s idea of freedom and protest.  The conversation includes discussions of constitutionalism, lottery-based citizen assemblies, the revitalization of democracy, and the basic question of “What we are fighting for?”

HAC Podcast Episode 3: Twilight of the Gods, with Antonia Grunenberg

A talk delivered at the Hannah Arendt Center, November 25, 2019, on Walter Benjamin‘s project of founding a political metaphysics in secular times – and Hannah Arendt‘s answer

Episode 2 - Seyla Benhabib

Join Roger Berkowitz as he talks with Seyla Benhabib, the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University. Her new book, Exile, Statelessness, and Migration explores the intertwined lives, careers, and writings of a group of prominent Jewish intellectuals during the mid-twentieth century, including Hannah Arendt, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Isaiah Berlin, and many others.

Sunday Listening: An Interview
With Roger Berkowitz

In advance of the Hannah Arendt Center's 12th Annual Fall Conference, titled "Racism and Antisemitism," Hillary Harvey interviews HAC founder and academic director Roger Berkowitz.

The Courage to Be Lectures: Mariame Kaba

Mariame Kaba, “Courage is Contagious:” Police Torture, Reparations & Making #BlackLivesMatter in Chicago

Why Arendt Matters - Celso Lafer

Arendt scholar, student, and former foreign and commerce minister of Brazil, Celso Lafer, and Why Arendt Matters.