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2023

NYC Holiday Party  Thursday, December 21, 2023 Moxy Hotel, Chelsea NYC 4:00 pm
Lunchtime Talk: A Publishing Alliance - Hannah Arendt’s collaboration with Kurt and Helen Wolff on getting Jaspers and Benjamin published in the US
With Visiting Scholar Marion Detjen
Monday, December 4, 202312:30 pm
Democracy Innovation Workshop 2023 Friday, November 10, 2023 – Sunday, November 12, 2023 New York City 
Critical Perspectives on the War: Is There a Common Ground? Wednesday, November 8, 2023 RKC 103 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Not So Black and White
with Kenan Malik
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 Olin Humanities, Room 205 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Reflections from the Outstanding Jewish Pariah: Hannah Arendt on What Went Wrong with the Zionist Project Monday, October 23, 2023 Arendt Center 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Friendship and Politics Thursday, October 12, 2023 – Friday, October 13, 2023 Olin Hall 
The Art of Friendship: A Student Exhibition & Community Dinner Party Wednesday, October 11, 2023 Campus Center 
Close Film Screening Wednesday, October 4, 2023 Campus Center, Weis Cinema 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
After Chinua Achebe: African Writing and the Future
Honoring the Memory of the Late Chinua Achebe (1930–2013)
Friday, September 22, 2023 Campus Center, Weis Cinema 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Student Open House & Outdoor Movie Night Thursday, September 14, 2023 Arendt Center 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Judgment, Imagination, Politics: Arendt in Berlin Tuesday, July 25, 2023 Bard College Berlin 
The Origins and Influence of Arendt’s Kant Lectures: A Conversation with Ronald Beiner
**PLUS: a visit to the Arendt archive**
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 Arendt Center 11:00 am
Spring Member Social Gathering Wednesday, May 24, 2023 Arendt Center 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Doing Democracy Differently
A Fellowship/Course for HS Teachers
Saturday, May 20, 2023 – Sunday, May 21, 2023 NYC (Barnard Milstein Center for Learning) 
How to Think Together: The Social Life of the Mind  Wednesday, May 3, 20234:00 pm
The Politics of the Pill:
A Panel On the Current State of Medication Abortions
Friday, April 28, 2023 Olin Humanities, Room 102 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
The Political Encounter: Woolf, Faulkner, and Arendt
A lunchtime talk with Nagehan Yanar
Monday, April 17, 2023 Arendt Center 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Masha Gessen: The Courage to Leave and the Courage to Stay Wednesday, March 29, 2023 Chapel of the Holy Innocents 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Against Redemption: From Fascism to Democracy
A Discussion with Franco Baldasso, Thomas Wild, and Jana Schmidt
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 Arendt Center 5:30 pm
The Bill Mullen Recitation Contest Friday, March 10, 2023 Bard Hall 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
The Political Theology of Sortition
with Archie Magno 
Tuesday, March 7, 2023 Arendt Center 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Documenting Trans Family Life
Featuring Krys Belc
Monday, March 6, 2023 Olin Language Center, Room 115 5:00 pm
Linda Zerilli: “Arendt and the Problem of Political Persuasion”
The Inaugural De Gruyter Lecture
Thursday, March 2, 2023 Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 5:15 pm – 7:00 pm
Judgment, Pluralism, and Democracy
On the Desirability of Speaking with Others
Thursday, March 2, 2023 – Friday, March 3, 2023 Multiple Locations (See below) 
Lunchtime Talk: Jo Dillabough and Simina Dragos Monday, February 13, 202312:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Dahlia Lithwick presents Lady Justice: Courage
For Courage to Be With course participants only
Wednesday, February 8, 2023 Kline, Faculty Dining Room 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
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