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2022

Oliver Hall, "Reproductive Justice for Trans Communities: Barriers and Opportunities"
Part of the Autonomies Series
Thursday, December 8, 2022 Weis Cinema, Campus Center 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
What if the people governed? 
How Citizens’ Assemblies Can Restore Trust in LA City Government
Thursday, December 8, 2022 Online Event 1:00 pm
Holly Melgard, "Repositioning Fetal Poetics: Choices Lost to a Post-Roe America"
Part of the Autonomies Series
Friday, December 2, 2022 Weis Cinema, Campus Center 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Hidden Art, Special Talent: Kant on Imagination and Judgment
Nicholas Dunn, Presented by the Philosophy Salon
Friday, November 18, 2022 Barringer House Global Classroom 12:00 pm
Loan Wolves: A Screening with Filmmaker Blake Zeff
Weis Cinema, Campus Center
Thursday, November 17, 2022 Weis Cinema, Campus Center 6:00 pm
Lunchtime Talk:
The HAC Visiting Fellows 
Tuesday, November 8, 202212:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Poetry and Politics - Hannah Arendt’s Essays on Benjamin and Brecht
Olin Hall- Room 203
Tuesday, November 1, 2022 Olin Humanities, Room 203 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Rage and Reason: Democracy Under the Tyranny of Social Media Thursday, October 13, 2022 – Friday, October 14, 2022 Olin Hall 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Left Is Not Woke
Professor Susan Neiman
Director of the Einstein Forum (Potsdam)

Wednesday, September 28, 2022 Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Arendt Center Movie Night: The Great Hack Monday, September 26, 2022 Campus Center, Weis Cinema 7:30 pm
Lunchtime Talk: Citizen Strangers
Hannah Arendt, Muslim Europeans and a Sociology of Hope
Tuesday, September 13, 2022 Arendt Center 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Citizens' Assemblies:
A Workshop to Revitalize Democracy
Tuesday, July 5, 2022 – Friday, July 8, 2022 Olin Hall 5:00 pm – 10:00 am
Member Spring Social
(in-person)
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 Arendt Center 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Seeing Double: Charlotte Beradt’s Black Power Reportages
Jana Schmidt, Visiting Fellow at the German Historical Institute, Washington
Wednesday, April 27, 2022 Olin Humanities, Room 202 5:30 pm – 6:45 pm
Student Conversation
How should people be chosen in a citizens' assembly?
Wednesday, April 27, 2022 Arendt Center 1:00 pm
Lunchtime Talk: Anna Argirò
Arendt and Natality: Including Maternity in the Discourse around Birth
Monday, April 25, 2022 Arendt Center 1:30 pm
Thoughtful Tough Talk: Catherine Liu
Abolish Small Liberal Arts Colleges! Virtue Hoarding and the Case Against the Professional Managerial Class
Tuesday, April 19, 2022 Campus Center, Weis Cinema 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Lunch & Panel Discussion:
The French Climate Assembly
Thursday, April 7, 2022 Arendt Center 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Film Screening (with Pizza)
Convention Citoyenne: Democracy in Construction
Wednesday, April 6, 2022 Preston 6:30 pm
United In Anger: A History of ACT UP
feat. Sarah Schulman


Film Screening & Discussion
Bard Community ONLY: no rsvp required

Thursday, March 31, 2022 Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 6:30 pm
Speak Truth to Power: Sonita Alizada on Courage
Attendance at this event is required for students enrolled in CC108. There are a limited number of additional seats available for Bard community members by RSVP only: If interested in attending please contact Tara Needham, Assistant Academic Director at HAC and Common Course coordinator @[email protected].  
Monday, March 14, 2022 Weis Cinema 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Lunchtime Talk: Jennifer Lupu
Consuming Care: Pharmaceuticals Access, Environmental Racism, and Governmental
Regulation of Medicine in Washington, DC 1880-1920

Monday, March 14, 2022 Arendt Center 1:30 pm
Panel Discussion:
Art & Social Justice: 
A collaboration with the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum

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Sunday, March 6, 2022 Woodstock Artists Association & Museum 28 Tinker Street Woodstock, NY 12498 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Thoughtful Tough Talk: Anna Halpine
On the Meanings of Human Dignity
Tuesday, March 1, 2022 Online Event 6:00 pm
Russia invades Ukraine: Disruption of the World Order? Tuesday, March 1, 2022 Online Event 9:00 am
On Courage and Creativity: 
A Conversation with Playwright and Author V

Presented by The Courage to Be Program and Common Course

Attendance at this event is required for students enrolled in CC108 . 

 
There are a limited number of additional seats available for Bard community members by RSVP only.
 
If interested in attending please contact Tara Needham, Assistant Academic Director at HAC and Common Course coordinator  @ [email protected].  
 

Monday, February 28, 2022 Weis Cinema 6:00 pm – 7:50 pm
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