Events & Lectures

Upcoming Events

Friday, March 27, 2020 – Friday, April 10, 2020

Virtual Reading Group

Online A thoughtful and spirited exploration of the works of Hannah Arendt.

Members of the Hannah Arendt Center and Bard College students are invited to join us for the Virtual Reading Group, held regularly online and led by Director Roger Berkowitz and Assistant Director Samantha Hill.

Fridays through April 10.

Upcoming Events

Amor Mundi

The weekly publication of the Hannah Arendt Center
Friday, February 28, 2020 – Friday, March 26, 2027
Hannah Arendt Center,

POSTPONED: A Conversation on the Israel-Palestine Conflict

Featuring Derek Penslar and Beshara Doumani
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Mark Williams: Virtual Dinner Party & Discussion: Predicting Pandemic Disease

Friday, April 3, 2020
Online via Zoom, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

CANCELED Maggie Paxson, The Plateau, On a French Area That Harbored Jews in WWII and Refugees Today

Monday, April 6, 2020
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

CANCELED Courageously Me: Being Gullah/Geechee in Western Society

A Courage to Be Dinner and Lecture
Monday, April 6, 2020
Blithewood Manor Foyer, 6:00 pm

CANCELED: On Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt: A Conversation

A conversation with Seyla Ben Habib, Drucilla Cornell, and Jane Gordon putting Hannah Arendt and Rosa Luxemburg in conversation with one another as they continue to be relevant to the burning issues of our time.
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

ONLINE EVENT: Democratic Revival and Using Lottery in Citizen Juries presented by Dr. Roger Berkowitz, Hannah Arendt Center, Bard College

Saturday, April 18, 2020
Online, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

CANCELED Tough Talk: Should We Reinstate The Draft?

Monday, April 27, 2020
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

CANCELED Tough Talks: Amy Wax

The decline in academic values and the quest for equal results.
Thursday, April 30, 2020
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Revitalizing Democracy: Sortition, Citizen Power, and Spaces of Freedom

Hannah Arendt Center 13th Annual Fall Conference
Thursday, October 15, 2020 – Friday, October 16, 2020
Olin Hall, 8:00 am – 7:00 pm