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2021

Fight Club: The Great Debt Debate (Post-Game Q&A) Wednesday, December 1, 2021 Online Event 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Antisemitism and Christianity: Reckoning with the Christian Roots of Antisemitism and Racism in the Post-World War II World
Magda Teter
Fordham University
 

Tuesday, November 30, 2021 Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Democracy in the Balance?
The Polarized Politics of Political-Economic Reform
Thursday, November 18, 2021 Online Event 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Medieval Fixers: History, Literature, Politics
Zrinka Stahuljak, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies and Comparative Literature, UCLA
Tuesday, November 16, 2021 Olin Humanities, Room 204 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Lunchtime Talk: Robert Boyers
Revisiting the Campus and Culture Wars
Monday, November 15, 2021 Arendt Center 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Antisemitism and Ableism: Refugees and Immigration Policy towards Jews and the Disabled in the Wake of the Holocaust
Katherine Sorrels
University of Cincinnati 

Tuesday, November 2, 2021 Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Call for Submissions: The Arendt Circle Monday, November 1, 2021  Loyola University (and online) 
The Gauntlet
Sxip Shirey & Coco Karol
Sunday, October 17, 2021 parliament of reality 3:00 pm
The Gauntlet
Sxip Shirey & Coco Karol
Saturday, October 16, 2021 parliament of reality 1:00 pm
The Gauntlet
Sxip Shirey & Coco Karol
Friday, October 15, 2021 parliament of reality 5:30 pm
Revitalizing Democracy: Sortition, Citizen Power, and Spaces of Freedom 
Hannah Arendt Center 13th Annual Fall Conference
Thursday, October 14, 2021 – Friday, October 15, 2021 Olin Hall 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Style, Sex, Shame, and the End of Literature
in Ivy Compton-Burnett

Len Gutkin '07,
Senior Editor, The Chronicle Review and Author

Thursday, October 7, 2021 Olin Humanities, Room 102 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Lunchtime Talk: Barbara V. Bechtolsheim
Freedom of Thought - Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blücher
Monday, September 20, 2021 Dubois House 12:00 pm
On Hannah Arendt: Virtual Reading Group - 'The Crisis in Education' with Griselda Pollock Wednesday, August 11, 2021 Online Event 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Yehuda Elkana Memorial Event with Lecture by Helga Nowotny Tuesday, June 22, 2021 Online Event 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
On Hannah Arendt: Virtual Reading Group - 'What is Freedom?' with Judith Butler
A collaboration with the Richard Saltoun Gallery
Thursday, June 17, 2021 Online Event 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
A Celebration of the Relaunch of the Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress
Hosted by Roger Berkowitz and Featuring: Barbara Bair, Thomas Wild, Barbara Hahn, Thomas Bartscherer, Wout Cornelissen, and Samantha Rose Hill
Wednesday, June 16, 2021 Online Event 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Between Past and Future: Reading and Discussion Saturday, May 22, 2021 Online Event 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Between Past and Future: Reading and Discussion Saturday, May 15, 2021 Online Event 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Between Past and Future: Reading and Discussion Saturday, May 8, 2021 Online Event 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Between Past and Future: Reading and Discussion Saturday, May 1, 2021 Online Event 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Courage to Be Series: The Courage to Be More than a Label (or Three) Wednesday, April 28, 2021 Online Event 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
On Hannah Arendt: Virtual Reading Group - 'What is Authority?'
In Collaboration with the Richard Saltoun Gallery
Wednesday, April 28, 2021 Online Event 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Between Past and Future: Reading and Discussion Saturday, April 17, 2021 Online Event 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Making Light in Dark Times: Art and Anthropology for a Troubled World
Written by Alisse Waterston; Illustrated by Charlotte Corden
Thursday, April 8, 2021 Online Event 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Bard Meme Lab: Patia Borja in conversation with Sacha Medjo
Presented by the Bard Meme Lab and the Hannah Arendt Center
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 Online Event 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Erin Taylor (aka ATMFIEND) in conversation with Cecily Chen Tuesday, March 23, 2021 Online Event 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Memes and Neuroethology: A Talk by Jovana Maksic Friday, March 12, 2021 Online Event 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Courage to Be Series: Punishment, Redemption, and Mercy
with Steven Zeidman
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 Online Event 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
On Hannah Arendt: Virtual Reading Group - 'The Concept of History'
A collaboration with the Richard Saltoun Gallery
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 Online Event 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Tough Talks: The Socialist Manifesto with Bhaskar Sunkara Tuesday, March 2, 2021 Online Event 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Tough Talks: Nick Gillespie
How The Pandemic Killed Freedom, Individualism, and Free Speech Along with 500,000 Americans.
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 Online Event 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Courage to Be Series: Model of Courage
with Adolph L. Reed Jr
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 Online Event 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Tough Talks: Against Nonviolence with Vicky Osterweil Tuesday, February 16, 2021 Online Event 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Race and Revolution: Jenna Wortham and Linda Villarosa Thursday, February 11, 2021 Online Event 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
On Hannah Arendt Virtual Reading Group: 'Tradition and the Modern Age' with Seyla Benhabib Wednesday, February 10, 2021 Online Event 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
B*rd Meme Lab & Bard BUMP present
Inzane Johnny
Tuesday, February 9, 2021 Online Event 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
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