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2017

Judging Eichmann: The Banality of Evil
 

Program 2 of Explaining Evil: A program series sponsored by the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College and the Museum of Jewish Heritage
Monday, December 4, 2017 Museum Of Jewish Heritage, NYC 7:00 pm
Colloquium Lecture Monuments and Iconoclasm in the Era of 'Fake News' by professor Matthew Lynch Monday, December 4, 2017 Room 301 5:30 pm
Hannah Arendt on Revolution
A conversation between Roger Berkowitz and
Artemy Magun

Monday, November 13, 2017 Olin Humanities, Room 202 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem
Program 1 of Explaining Evil: A program series sponsored by the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College and the Museum of Jewish Heritage
Wednesday, November 8, 2017 Museum Of Jewish Heritage, NYC 7:00 pm
Compromise and Representation: A Lecture by Associate Fellow Shany Mor Monday, November 6, 2017 Arendt Center 4:45 pm – 6:00 pm
A Conversation to Discuss Marc Jongen's Invitation to Hannah Arendt Center's two-day conference: Crises Of Democracy: Thinking In Dark Times Thursday, November 2, 2017 Olin Humanities, Room 205 5:00 pm
The French Resistance
Charles B. Potter, Professor of History at the Institute for American Universities in Aix-en-Provence
Wednesday, November 1, 2017 Olin Humanities, Room 102 6:45 pm
The Fourth Frontier: Discovering Humanity’s Future
A Tough Talk with Bret Weinstein
Wednesday, November 1, 2017 Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
"Crises of Democracy: Thinking in Dark Times"
Hannah Arendt Center's 10th Annual Fall Conference
Thursday, October 12, 2017 – Friday, October 13, 2017 Olin Hall 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
"Representative Democracy Has Failed"
Bard College Public Debate
Wednesday, October 11, 2017 Campus Center, Multipurpose Room 6:00 pm
  "Genocide Survivors into Religious Minorities: Armenians in the Turkish Republic"
Lerna Ekmekcioglu
Associate Professor of History, Massachussets Institute of Technology

Monday, October 2, 2017 Olin Humanities, Room 202 6:00 pm
One Day University Film School Presents: "Norman" and a Discussion with Roger Berkowitz
Location: NYC
Sunday, October 1, 20179:15 am – 12:00 pm
"The pluses and minuses of saying what’s not supposed to be said." Wednesday, September 20, 2017 Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
(Postponed) Hannah Arendt Center Associate Fellow, Alexander Soros Lecture: Goethe’s Ambivalent Double: Heinrich Heine as Jewish Dionysus
 
Monday, September 11, 2017 Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 6:00 pm
Reading Group Workshop with Tania Bruguera - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Wednesday, September 6, 2017 – Tuesday, September 12, 2017 Arendt Center 
Paid Fellowships and Student Media Intern positions available during the 17-18 academic year at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics & Humanities at Bard
Descriptions & How to Apply
Tuesday, August 1, 2017 – Friday, September 1, 2017 Arendt Center 
A Living Room Conversation: Crossing The Divide
Hosted by; Student-led Initiative Dorm Room Conversations, and the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College
Wednesday, May 3, 20176:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Post-Truth and Politics: Departing from the Thought of Hannah Arendt
ICI Berlin Presents a One-Day Conference
Saturday, April 29, 2017 Berlin, Germany 1:30 pm
Is the Private Political? A Colloquium on Natality, Laboring, and the Body
Hosted by the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College
Friday, April 21, 2017 Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 1:00 pm – 7:00 pm
The Myth of Gender Equality by Suzanne Venker
Sponsored by the Hannah Arendt Center's Tough Talk Lecture Series
Thursday, April 13, 2017 Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 
"Berlin’s Bête Noire: Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, and the Modes of Anti-totalitarian Commitment in the 20th Century." A Lunchtime Talk with Visiting Scholar, Kei Hiruta Wednesday, April 12, 2017 Arendt Center 1:30 pm
Courage To Be College Seminar Dinner and Lecture Series, with Mariame Kaba
Hosted by: The Hannah Arendt Center
Tuesday, April 11, 2017 Kline, Faculty Dining Room 6:00 pm
Europe in Bad Constitution: A Lecture by Georg Zenkert Thursday, April 6, 20177:00 pm
Constitutional and Ethical Challenges of our Times Wednesday, April 5, 2017 Hackensack, NJ 7:30 pm
Book Release and Panel Discussion: Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Arendt's "Denktagebuch"​
Hosted by: The Hannah Arendt Center
Friday, March 31, 2017 Olin Humanities, Room 201 4:15 pm
HA CIRCLE 2017: Hosted by the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College Thursday, March 30, 2017 – Saturday, April 1, 2017 Olin Humanities, Room 201 
Feeling Good is Not Enough: Create a Political Moment. Courage To Be College Seminar Dinner & Lecture Series, with Tania Bruguera
Hosted by: The Hannah Arendt Center
Tuesday, March 28, 2017 Blithewood 6:00 pm
Lowi's "The End of the Republican Era" and the Beginning of What? Reflections on The Rise of Trump
Hosted by the Hannah Arendt Center and the Political Studies Program
Monday, March 27, 2017 Olin Humanities, Room 201 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
The Hannah Arendt Edition Series with Susanne Lüdemann: Hannah Arendt and the Problem of Judging (in) Modernity.
Hosted by the Hannah Arendt Center and the German Studies Program
Wednesday, March 15, 2017 Olin Humanities, Room 204 6:30 pm
Stephen Haswell Todd: Post Doctoral Fellow Lunchtime Talk 
Hosted by: The Hannah Arendt Center
Monday, March 13, 2017 Arendt Center 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
The Italians ... and the challenges of
writing about them

John Hooper, Italy correspondent of The Economist magazine and the author of The Italians (Viking, 2015 & 2016)
Monday, February 27, 2017 RKC 103 5:00 pm
Dance and Politics: Moving Beyond Boundaries
A Lecture by Dana Naomy Mills
Thursday, February 23, 2017 Campus Center, Weis Cinema 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Megachange in the Time of Trump and Technology
 

Darrell West
Vice President and Director of Governance Studies
Brookings Institution
 

Wednesday, February 22, 2017 RKC 103 6:45 pm
Samantha Hill, Klemens von Klemperer Post Doctoral Fellow Lunchtime Talk
Hosted by: The Hannah Arendt Center
Tuesday, February 14, 2017 Arendt Center 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Courage To Be College Seminar Dinner & Lecture Series, with Penny Gill
Hosted by the Hannah Arendt Center
Tuesday, February 7, 2017 Blithewood 6:00 pm
Monthly Virtual Reading Group for Hannah Arendt Center Members
Currently reading Hannah Arendt's 1961 book, On Revolution. Free for Students.
Sunday, January 1, 2017 – Sunday, December 31, 2017 Virtual: BlueJeans Video Conferencing 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
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