Videos

Revitalising Democracy: Citizen Juries as a Response to the Failure of Expert Rule

Roger Berkowitz

I was in Ljubljana in early June to speak at a conference, “What Kind of Government?” You can watch recordings of the talks including my own talk “Revitalising Democracy: Citizen Juries as a Response to the Failure of Expert Rule.”

Racism and Antisemitism

The 2019 Hannah Arendt Center Annual Conference “Racism and Antisemitism” began with Arendt’s insight that antisemitism is a form of racism in that both are ideologies of supremacy and inferiority based on racial difference. Enjoy this video about the conference made by Bard Student and Arendt Center Fellow Jonathan Fine.

On the Hannah Arendt Center’s Conference: “Racism and Antisemitism”

Batya Ungar-Sargon, Reverend Jacqui Lewis, Shahanna McKinney-Baldon, Amy SchillerAfter the 12th Annual Hannah Arendt Center Conference, this year on “Racism and Antisemitism,” the journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon posted an editorial in the Forward claiming she was protested at Bard College for being Jewish. She said she was prevented from continuing to speak, and that Bard College had no plan to deal with the protesters.

A Symposium: Reimagining Human Health: The Microbiome, Farming, and Medicine. 

Hua Wang, Professor in Department of Food Science and Technology, Microbiology, and Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Human Nutrition (OSUN) at the Ohio State University, talks about the overuse of antibiotics and the health of the human microbiome in anticipation of the Symposium at Bard, September 19th and 20th.

An Interview with Uday Mehta

Zelda May Bas interviews Uday Mehta as part of the Hannah Arendt Center dinner and lecture series, "The Courage to Be." This video was first recorded in 2015.

Why Privacy Matters: Panel Eleven

A discussion from our 2015 Annual Conference: Why Privacy Matters: What Do We Lose When We Lose Our Privacy?

Roger Berkowitz Interviews Martin Blaser

Martin Blaser is the director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine (CABM) at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS). Here, he speaks with Roger Berkowitz in advance of the Hannah Arendt Center's upcoming Symposium on Reimagining Human Health: The Microbiome, Farming, and Medicine.

The Courage to Be

A film from Bard student Jonathan Fine about the Hannah Arendt Center's spring semester course and dinner lecture series on courage.

Is Liberal Democracy Our Future?

This talk was a part of the Hannah Arendt Center's 10th annual conference, "Crises of Democracy: Thinking in Dark Times".