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2016

Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin,
and the Politics of Kinship

Siobhan Phillips, Associate Professor of English
Dickinson College

Tuesday, November 15, 2016 RKC 103 6:30 pm
W.G. Sebald's Literary Remains:
On the Disappearance of the Author in his
Work and Archive

Dr. Ulrich von Bülow (The German Literary Archive)
Thursday, November 10, 2016 Olin, Room 204 5:00 pm
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life: By William Deresiewicz Monday, November 7, 2016 Kline, Faculty Dining Room 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
A Special Living Room Conversation Panel, Hosted by the New Student-Led Initiative, Dorm Room Conversations Wednesday, November 2, 2016 Campus Center, Multipurpose Room 7:00 pm
"REAL TALK: Difficult Questions about Race, Sex and Religion" October 20-21, 2016
The Hannah Arendt Center Annual Fall Conference
Thursday, October 20, 2016 – Friday, October 21, 2016 Olin Hall 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
The Hannah Arendt Edition Series - Inaugural Lecture - Jerome Kohn: The Work of Art Wednesday, October 19, 2016 Olin, Room 204 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Public Debate: Does Safe Space Rhetoric Do More Good or Harm? Tuesday, October 18, 2016 Campus Center, Multipurpose Room 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Visual Attention as Ethical Action:
Tolstoy - Cézanne - Salgado

Thomas Pfau, Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English, Professor & Chair of Germanic Languages & Literatures, Duke Divinity School
Thursday, October 6, 2016 RKC 103 5:00 pm
Special Talk: Nadia Murad Basee Taha to Speak on the Yazidi Genocide and Sexual Slavery Friday, September 23, 2016 Bard Hall 10:00 am
Identifying Voters or Suppressing the Vote? Race, Partisanship, and Resistance in the Politics of Voter Identification Wednesday, September 21, 2016 Campus Center, Weis Cinema 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Hannah Arendt Porch Dedication/Reception Monday, September 19, 2016 Arendt Center 4:00 pm
"What Is Political Protest?" By Professor Christian Volk Monday, September 12, 2016 Olin, Room 204 5:00 pm
Difficult Questions College Seminar FALL 2016 Course List Monday, August 29, 2016 Arendt Center 
Film Screening: Vita Activa - The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
Director: Ada Ushpiz
Wednesday, August 17, 2016 Upstate Films, Rhinebeck NY 2:15 pm
Summer Course Offering: The Courage to Change: Timeless Wisdom for the Modern Age.  Wednesday, June 1, 2016 – Wednesday, June 22, 2016 Tibet House, NYC 
Democracy Today in the USA
Nexus Instituut Symposium
Saturday, May 21, 2016 DeLaMar Theater, Amsterdam 2:00 pm
‘Thinking Beyond Crisis’ Historical, Artistic and Media Approaches To Contemporary Migration In Europe
Bard Berlin 2016 Conference
Tuesday, May 17, 2016 Berlin 
Cinema Arts Centre Presents: Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
Part of the Jewish Film Series
Thursday, May 12, 2016 Cinema Arts Centre, Huntington, NY 7:30 pm
Lunchtime Talk with Post Doctoral Fellow, Elsa Natalia Mendoza Rockwell Wednesday, May 11, 2016 Arendt Center 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
  The Translation Symposium: Round Table Discussion Friday, May 6, 2016 Reem-Kayden Center 103 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
  The Translation Symposium: Faculty Panel Friday, May 6, 2016 Reem-Kayden Center 103 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
The Translation Symposium: Keynote Address
Lorin Stein, The Paris Review, in conversation with Wyatt Mason
Friday, May 6, 2016 Reem-Kayden Center 103 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
  The Translation Symposium: Student Panels Friday, May 6, 2016 Reem-Kayden Center 103 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
  The Translation Symposium: Sui Generis Celebration Thursday, May 5, 2016 Reem-Kayden Center 103 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Special Event: Vita Activa - The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
Film Screening at The Moviehouse: Millerton, NY
Saturday, April 30, 2016 The Moviehouse: Millerton, NY 4:00 pm – 6:45 pm
In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and its Ironies- A talk with David Rieff Tuesday, April 26, 2016 Olin, Room 102 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Courage To Be College Seminar Dinner & Lecture Series, with Danfung Dennis
Infusing technology with moral courage to fight for human and animal rights.
Monday, April 25, 2016 Kline, Faculty Dining Room 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Hell and Back Again: Movie Marathon at the Hannah Arendt Center!
Start Times: 10 am, 12:15 pm, and 4:30 pm
Monday, April 25, 2016 Arendt Center 10:15 am – 6:30 pm
Hell and Back Again movie screening in Weis Cinema
 
Sunday, April 24, 2016 Campus Center, Weis Cinema 6:15 pm – 7:45 pm
Worker Coops: Theory and Practice of 21st Century Socialism
Richard D. Wolff, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Friday, April 22, 2016 Levy Economics Institute Conference Room 4:45 pm – 6:30 pm
Reading Group: "Appearance and the Invisible" with Cecilia Sjöholm Wednesday, April 20, 2016 Arendt Center 6:30 pm
"Intertwinements - Rethinking Politics and Aesthetics in Hannah Arendt's Work" with Special Guest: Cecilia Sjöholm Tuesday, April 19, 2016 Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 6:30 pm
Lunchtime Talk: "Critical Styles" With Special Guest: Cecilia Sjöholm Monday, April 18, 2016 Arendt Center 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Images of the Chinese Youth Sent to the Countryside During the Cultural Revolution 1966-1976 by Tang Desheng
Exhibition: April 1-30. Special Panel Discussion on April 13
Wednesday, April 13, 2016 Campus Center, Weis Cinema 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Courage To Be College Seminar Dinner & Lecture Series, with Leora Kahn Monday, April 11, 2016 Kline, Faculty Dining Room 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
John Cage's "How To Get Started" (1989) Friday, April 8, 20162:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Lunchtime Talk with Hannah Arendt Center Post Doctoral Fellow, Samantha Hill
“I Can’t Breathe”: The Respiring Body & The Politics of Breath
Wednesday, April 6, 2016 Arendt Center 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Vita Activa - The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
Director: Ada Ushpiz
Wednesday, April 6, 2016 Film Forum, NYC 
Film Screening: Vita Activa - The Spirit of Hannah Arendt  Monday, April 4, 2016 Campus Center, Weis Cinema 6:00 pm
Learning from the West African Ebola Epidemic: The Role of Governance in Preventing Epidemics Thursday, March 31, 2016 Carnegie Council for Ethics In International Affairs, NYC 10:00 am – 5:30 pm
Roger Berkowitz: Visiting Professorship at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences Thursday, March 10, 2016 – Thursday, March 24, 2016 Arendt Center 
Celebrating the Complete Works of Primo Levi
A conversation with award-winning translators Ann Goldstein (New Yorker) Michael F. Moore (PEN/Heim Translation Fund)
Tuesday, March 8, 2016 Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Joyce Dalsheim: Cultural Anthropologist Researching Nationalism, Religion, and the Israel/Palestine Conflict
On Goat Surveillance and the False Promises of Sovereignty
Tuesday, March 8, 2016 Arendt Center 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Lunchtime Talk with Klemens von Klemperer Post Doctoral Fellow, Jana Schmidt Tuesday, February 23, 2016 Arendt Center 1:30 pm

Courage To Be College Seminar Dinner & Lecture Series, with Reverend Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou

The Courage to Rebel: Ferguson, Faith and the Future of American Democracy
Monday, February 22, 2016 Kline, Faculty Dining Room 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
What Is Political Theory? Special Guest: Nicholas Xenos Thursday, February 18, 2016 Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Syria Cry: Photographs From A Refugee Camp
By: Hannah Arendt Center Student Fellow, Zelda Bas
Thursday, February 18, 2016 Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
A Taste for Chaos: The Hidden Order in the Art of Improvisation Monday, February 15, 2016 Bitó Conservatory Building 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
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