Speakers

Barbara Bair, M.A., Ph.D., is a historian at the Library of Congress. She collaborates in digital humanities projects and is curator of the Hannah Arendt Papers and collections in Literature, Culture, and the Arts in the Manuscript Division.

Roger Berkowitz is the Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center and Professor of Political Studies, Philosophy, and Human Rights at Bard College.

Thomas Wild is Associate Professor of German Studies and Research Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. He is co-editor-in-chief of the Critical Edition of Hannah Arendt’s Complete Works (print and digital).

Barbara Hahn, Max Kade Foundation Chair in German Studies Emerita at Vandebilt Unviersity and Honoray Professor at the Free University, Berlin. She is is co-editor-in-chief of the Critical Edition of Hannah Arendt’s Complete Works (print and digital).

Thomas Bartscherer is the Peter Sourian Senior Lecturer in the Humanities at Bard College and a Senior Fellow Hannah Arendt Center. He is s co-editor of forthcoming critical edition of The Life of the Mind.

Wout Cornelissen (Ph.D. in Philosophy, Leiden) is appointed at FU Berlin and specializes in twentieth-century continental political thought. He is co-editor of the new and critical edition of The Life of the Mind and published on Arendt’s conceptions of thinking in Artifacts of Thinking (ed. Berkowitz & Storey, 2017) and The Bloomsbury Companion to Arendt (ed. Gratton &
Sari, 2020).

Samantha Rose Hill is the assistant director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and visiting assistant professor of Political Studies at Bard College. She is the author of two forthcoming books, Hannah Arendt (Reaktion 2021) and Hannah Arendt’s Poems (Liveright 2022).

Schedule

12:00 pm Barbara Bair presents new Library of Congress digital release of The Hannah Arendt Papers

12:15 pm Thomas Wild and Barbara Hahn: Hannah Arendt Critical Edition

12:30 pm Thomas Bartscherer and Wout Cornelissen: The Life of the Mind

12:45 pm Samantha Hill: Life, Writing, and Hannah Arendt

1:00 pm Q&A

This event occurred on: The Library of Congress has been actively at work converting the Hannah Arendt Papers digital site to its new open access format, which will make the collection of Hannah Arendt’s papers more widely and more easily accessible through the Library of Congress Web site. In addition to the new format, the Library of Congress has worked to clear rights for many of the folders in the Arendt Papers that previously were only available in-person at the Library itself. In the new version of the Arendt Papers on the website, the vast majority of Arendt’s papers and correspondence will be accessible.

To celebrate the relaunch of the Hannah Arendt Papers on the Library of Congress Website, please join us for a panel discussion on Arendt’s archive. Barbara Bair of the Library of Congress will walk us through the new digital archive on the Library’s website. Thomas Wild and Barbara Hahn will speak about the ongoing work on the Hannah Arendt Critical Edition. Thomas Bartscherer and Wout Cornelissen will present on their new edition of The Life of the Mind for the Critical Arendt Edition and speak about how the Arendt archive contributed to their work. Samantha Rose Hill speak about her new biography on Hannah Arendt and her use of the archives.

A Celebration of the Relaunch of the Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress

Hosted by Roger Berkowitz and Featuring: Barbara Bair, Thomas Wild, Barbara Hahn, Thomas Bartscherer, Wout Cornelissen, and Samantha Rose Hill

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A Celebration of the Relaunch of the Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress

Hosted by Roger Berkowitz and Featuring: Barbara Bair, Thomas Wild, Barbara Hahn, Thomas Bartscherer, Wout Cornelissen, and Samantha Rose Hill

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