Thursday, October 17, 2024
Olin Hall 10:30 am – 2:45 am
Join us for a keynote address by Sebastian Junger, the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm and Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, followed by a breakout session where participants may engage with Junger in conversation.
Sebastian Junger is the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of THE PERFECT STORM, FIRE, A DEATH IN BELMONT, WAR, TRIBE, FREEDOM and IN MY TIME OF DYING. As an award-winning journalist, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a special correspondent at ABC News, he has covered major international news stories around the world, and has received both a National Magazine Award and a Peabody Award. Junger is also a documentary filmmaker whose debut film "Restrepo", a feature-length documentary (co-directed with Tim Hetherington), was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
The Hannah Arendt Center's 16th annual fall conference will bring notable speakers to Bard College in Annandale to discuss the implications of tribalist politics just weeks before the national US election. On October 17 and 18, Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism: How Can We Imagine a Pluralistic Politics will spark important conversations about the undeniable fact that tribalism is real, appealing, and dangerous, and explore how to make space for loyalty and meaning while fostering a more pluralistic politics.
Learn more about the conference at https://hac.bard.edu/tribalism-2024.
Sebastian Junger on Tribalism and the Human Condition
Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference on Tribalism and CosmopolitanismOlin Hall 10:30 am – 2:45 am
Join us for a keynote address by Sebastian Junger, the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm and Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, followed by a breakout session where participants may engage with Junger in conversation.
Sebastian Junger is the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of THE PERFECT STORM, FIRE, A DEATH IN BELMONT, WAR, TRIBE, FREEDOM and IN MY TIME OF DYING. As an award-winning journalist, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a special correspondent at ABC News, he has covered major international news stories around the world, and has received both a National Magazine Award and a Peabody Award. Junger is also a documentary filmmaker whose debut film "Restrepo", a feature-length documentary (co-directed with Tim Hetherington), was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
The Hannah Arendt Center's 16th annual fall conference will bring notable speakers to Bard College in Annandale to discuss the implications of tribalist politics just weeks before the national US election. On October 17 and 18, Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism: How Can We Imagine a Pluralistic Politics will spark important conversations about the undeniable fact that tribalism is real, appealing, and dangerous, and explore how to make space for loyalty and meaning while fostering a more pluralistic politics.
Learn more about the conference at https://hac.bard.edu/tribalism-2024.
The Annual Conference: What it's All About
Bold and Provocative Thinking.
Together.
Together.
Every year, students, thinkers, artists, writers gather at Bard College's Annandale campus for two days of exploration into a pressing contemporary issue. Our aim is to bring together speakers from diverse careers to think together - and often to disagree- in public.
Our Conferences
The Center's annual conferences are known for bringing together speakers from diverse careers to think in public about the most important issues of our time. Previous conferences have explored the economic crisis, education, surveillance, and privacy. In conjunction with the conference, the center sponsors an annual student competition and a student debate.
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View video playlists of past conferences on our YouTube channel.
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Citizenship and Civil Disobedience
took place at Bard College on
Thursday, Oct. 11 and Friday, Oct. 12, 2018
