Bringing together speakers from diverse careers to think in public about the pressing issues or our time.
Thursday, October 14, 2021 – Friday, October 15, 2021
Olin Hall 10:00 am – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Hannah Arendt knew that democracy is tenuous. In 1970 she famously wrote:“Representative government is in crisis today, partly because it has lost, in the course of time, all institutions that permitted the citizens’ actual participation, and partly because it is now gravely affected by the disease from which the party system suffers: bureaucratization and the two parties’ tendency to represent nobody except the party machines.”
Revitalizing Democracy: Sortition, Citizen Power, and Spaces of Freedom
Hannah Arendt Center 13th Annual Fall ConferenceOlin Hall 10:00 am – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Hannah Arendt knew that democracy is tenuous. In 1970 she famously wrote:“Representative government is in crisis today, partly because it has lost, in the course of time, all institutions that permitted the citizens’ actual participation, and partly because it is now gravely affected by the disease from which the party system suffers: bureaucratization and the two parties’ tendency to represent nobody except the party machines.”
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 conjuction 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
