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2019

What Questions Should We Be Asking? Tuesday, December 17, 2019 Experimental Humanities Center 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
How Democracy Dies: The View from Ancient Greece Tuesday, December 10, 2019 Olin Humanities, Room 102 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
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Tuesday, December 10, 2019 – Friday, January 24, 2020 Hannah Arendt Center 
Poetry & Philosophy: Ann Lauterbach & T.J. Clark
Sponsored by The Poetry Foundation
Tuesday, December 3, 2019 61 West Superior Street, Chicago, IL 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Twilight of the Gods: A Talk by Antonia Grunenberg Monday, November 25, 2019 Arendt Center 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Nietzsche Reads Emerson
A Lecture by Benedetta Zavatta 
and a conversation with 
Daniel Berthold 
and
Ann Lauterbach

Wednesday, November 13, 2019 Olin Humanities, Room 201 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Refugees in America
A book talk with Lee Bycel
Monday, November 11, 2019 Campus Center, Weis Cinema 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook - Documentary Screening & Discussion Thursday, November 7, 2019 Campus Center, Weis Cinema 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
  What is Brexit? Tuesday, October 29, 2019 Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
A Talk: The Agency of Bones & Marginal Memory
By Bridget Conley
Monday, October 28, 2019 Arendt Center 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
The three bad ideas that are weakening Gen Z (one of which fosters hate)
Jonathan Haidt
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race
A Book Reading and Signing with Thomas Chatterton Williams
Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
The Ars Nova production of
Underground Railroad Game

by Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard with Lightning Rod Special
Directed by Taibi Magar
Produced by Octopus Theatricals

Saturday, October 12, 2019 Fisher Center, LUMA Theater 7:30 pm
The Ars Nova production of
Underground Railroad Game

by Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard with Lightning Rod Special
Directed by Taibi Magar
Produced by Octopus Theatricals

Friday, October 11, 2019 Fisher Center, LUMA Theater 7:30 pm
Racism and Antisemitism
Hannah Arendt Center Annual Fall Conference 2019
Thursday, October 10, 2019 – Friday, October 11, 2019 Olin Humanities Building 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
The Ars Nova production of
Underground Railroad Game

by Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard with Lightning Rod Special
Directed by Taibi Magar
Produced by Octopus Theatricals

Thursday, October 10, 2019 Fisher Center, LUMA Theater 7:30 pm
The Ars Nova production of
Underground Railroad Game

by Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard with Lightning Rod Special
Directed by Taibi Magar
Produced by Octopus Theatricals

Wednesday, October 9, 2019 Fisher Center, LUMA Theater 7:30 pm
Public Debate - Should the US Prison System be Abolished or Reformed? Monday, October 7, 2019 Campus Center, Multipurpose Room 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
The Power of Tribalism
Amy Chua speaks with Walter Russell Mead and Roger Berkowitz about Political Tribes and the Fate of Nations
Thursday, October 3, 2019 The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 170 E 64th St, New York, NY 10065 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
A Symposium: Reimagining Human Health: The Microbiome, Farming, and Medicine.  Thursday, September 19, 2019 – Friday, September 20, 2019 Blithewood 
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Courage to Be Student Fellowships Tuesday, July 23, 2019 – Friday, August 30, 2019 Arendt Center 
Conversation on Courage Dinner Series, with Daniel Karpowitz
Hosted by: The Hannah Arendt Center
Monday, April 22, 2019 Arendt Center 6:00 pm
Tough Talk: Hidden in Plain Sight
Propaganda, Surveillance, and the 21st-Century Vilification of Sex Workers
Wednesday, April 17, 2019 Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Karen Scharff: Courage to Be College Seminar Dinner and Lecture Series Monday, April 15, 2019 Blithewood 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Heroic Politics on Screen Thursday, April 4, 20196:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Fellowship Opportunity
The Hannah Arendt Center is hiring fellows for the Campus Plurality Forum
Thursday, April 4, 2019 – Thursday, April 11, 2019 Dubois House 
Conversation on Courage Dinner Series, with Sanjib Baruah
Hosted by: The Hannah Arendt Center
Tuesday, April 2, 2019 Arendt Center 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
The Words We Live By: Poetry and Philosophy in Conversation Tuesday, March 26, 2019 The Sanctuary at Murray's, Tivoli 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Tough Talk: Nadine Strossen
Hate: Why We Should Resist it with Free Speech, Not Censorship
Monday, March 11, 2019 Reem-Kayden Center 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Deo Niyizonkiza: Courage to Be College Seminar Dinner and Lecture Series
Coming to Courage
Monday, March 4, 2019 Blithewood 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Conversation on Courage Dinner Series, with Claudette Aldebot
Hosted by: The Hannah Arendt Center
Wednesday, February 27, 2019 Arendt Center 6:00 pm
Rana Abdelhamid: Courage to Be College Seminar Dinner and Lecture Series
Lecture: “Building a Grassroots Movement”
Monday, February 25, 2019 Blithewood 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Sarah Schulman, Roe v. Wade
The surprising, untold story of the case that made abortion legal in America and the two young women who brought the case to the Supreme Court.
Friday, February 22, 2019 Resnick Studio 4:30 pm
Tough Talk: Sarah Schulman
Conflict Is Not Abuse
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Film Screening: In Whose Honor?
Film and discussion with Charlene Teters and Jay Rosenstein
Tuesday, February 12, 2019 Olin Humanities, Room 102 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
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