Events & Lectures

Upcoming Events

Thursday, February 27, 2020

Charlene Teters: In Whose Honor? Film Screening and Discussion

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Charlene Teters, who received death threats for trying to retire racist sports team mascots at the University of Illinois, will speak following the showing of the award-winning PBS documentary about her—In Whose Honor?

Upcoming Events

Anna Rosmus: The Nasty Girl, Film Screening and Discussion

Thursday, March 5, 2020
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Courage to Be Informal Dinner: Whitney Slaten

Thursday, March 5, 2020
Blithewood, Levy Institute, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

HESTIA 2020

The Association for Sociopolitical Heterodoxy
Friday, March 6, 2020 – Sunday, March 8, 2020
Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

The Black Body Experience: Giving Back, Giving Black
5th Annual Conference

Saturday, March 7, 2020 – Sunday, March 8, 2020
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Courage to Be Program Formal Dinner Series with Guest Speaker Laurie Jo Reynolds

We Should Not Have Policies We are Afraid to Talk About: Drawing at the Extremes of the U.S. Criminal Legal System
Monday, March 9, 2020
Blithewood, Levy Institute, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

WHO AM I
Courage to Be Informal Dinner with Thurman Barker

Monday, March 16, 2020
Dubois House, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Thinking Itself is Dangerous: Reading Hannah Arendt Now

Thursday, March 19, 2020
The CIGI Campus Auditorium 67 Erb St W Waterloo, ON N2L 6C2 Canada, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Samuel Freedman: "Hubert Humphrey and Hate in the Heartland: The Struggle for America’s Values As World War II Ends"

Thursday, April 2, 2020
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

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

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

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

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