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2024

The Virtual Reading Group WINTER BREAK
Most Fridays at 1pm EST
Friday, December 27, 2024 Online Event 
The Virtual Reading Group WINTER BREAK
Most Fridays at 1pm EST
Friday, December 20, 2024 Online Event 
The Virtual Reading Group
Most Fridays at 1pm EST
Friday, December 13, 2024 Online Event 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
For Love of the World on Radio Kingston
Conversations with the Hannah Arendt Center
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 Online Event 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Thanksgiving Celebration at HAC
Please RSVP to [email protected] so we can plan!
Monday, November 25, 2024 The Hannah Arendt Center, 1448 Annandale Road 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
The Virtual Reading Group
Most Fridays at 1pm EST
Friday, November 22, 2024 Online Event 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
The Virtual Reading Group
Most Fridays at 1pm EST
Friday, November 15, 2024 Online Event 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
The Life and Fate of Joshua Wong: From Hong Kong Activist to Political Prisoner
with Peter Baehr, a Fellow in the Center of Social and Political Thought at the University of Southern Florida (Tampa)
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
The Virtual Reading Group
Most Fridays at 1pm EST
Friday, November 8, 2024 Online Event 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
The Virtual Reading Group
Most Fridays at 1pm EST
Friday, November 1, 2024 Online Event 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Student Journalism Contest (win cash prizes!)
DEADLINE EXTENDED! Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism
Monday, October 28, 2024
The Virtual Reading Group
Most Fridays at 1pm EST
Friday, October 25, 2024 Online Event 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
For Love of the World on Radio Kingston
with special guests Sierra Ford and Jonathan Becker
Tuesday, October 22, 20246:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Wine & Cheese Receptions at the Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism Conference
Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference
Friday, October 18, 2024 Olin Hall 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Hannah Arendt Walking Tour
Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism
Friday, October 18, 2024 Olin Humanities Building 2:15 pm
Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism in Israel and Palestine
Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism
Friday, October 18, 2024 Olin Humanities, Room 202 1:30 pm – 2:15 pm
Bloods, Crips, and Overcoming Tribalism in Los Angeles
Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism
Friday, October 18, 2024 Olin Hall 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Student Journalism Contest (win cash prizes!)
Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism
Friday, October 18, 20249:30 am – 6:00 pm
Wine & Cheese Receptions at the Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism Conference
Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference
Thursday, October 17, 2024 Olin Hall 5:45 pm – 6:15 pm
Sebastian Junger on Tribalism and the Human Condition
Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism
Thursday, October 17, 2024 Olin Hall 10:30 am – 2:45 am
Student Journalism Contest (win cash prizes!)
Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism
Thursday, October 17, 202410:00 am – 6:15 pm
Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism: How Can We Imagine a Pluralist Politics? Thursday, October 17, 2024 – Friday, October 18, 2024 Olin Hall 
Student Journalism Contest (win cash prizes!)
DEADLINE EXTENDED! Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism
Thursday, October 17, 2024 – Monday, October 28, 2024
The Virtual Reading Group
Most Fridays at 1pm EST
Friday, October 11, 2024 Online Event 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
HAC Student Fellows: Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism Tabling Tuesday, October 8, 2024 Kline Commons 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
The Hannah Arendt Center on WAMC's The Roundtable Tuesday, October 8, 2024 Online Event 9:00 am – 11:00 am
Hannah Arendt on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism: Selections from the Hannah Arendt Personal Library Collection
Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism
Monday, October 7, 2024 – Thursday, October 31, 2024 Stevenson Library 
Call for Student Volunteers: Join Us at the Tribalism & Cosmopolitanism Conference! Saturday, October 5, 2024 – Wednesday, October 9, 2024 Olin Humanities Auditorium 
The Virtual Reading Group
Most Fridays at 1pm EST
Friday, October 4, 2024 Online Event 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
HAC Student Fellows: Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism Tabling Friday, October 4, 2024 Kline Commons 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
HAC Student Fellows: Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism Tabling Wednesday, October 2, 2024 Campus Center 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Creolizing Hannah Arendt Book Launch and Collective Conversation Thursday, September 26, 20247:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities Student Open House & Pizza Party Wednesday, September 25, 2024 Arendt Center 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
For Love of the World on Radio Kingston
with special guest Sebastian Junger
Tuesday, September 24, 20246:00 pm – 6:45 pm
The Gift of Freedom: Reading the New Edition of Hannah Arendt’s The Life of the Mind
Wout Cornelissen, University Lecturer in Philosophy of Law (Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL) 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm
The Virtual Reading Group
Most Fridays at 1pm EST
Friday, September 20, 2024 Online Event 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Jews on Campus Pick a Side: On the Demand That Jews Be Public
Keith Kahn Harris, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and Senior Lecturer at Leo Baeck College
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 Olin Humanities, Room 202 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
The Virtual Reading Group
Most Fridays at 1pm EST
Friday, September 13, 2024 Online Event 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
The Virtual Reading Group
Most Fridays at 1pm EST
Friday, September 6, 2024 Online Event 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities Tabling at the Arrival Day Resource Fair Friday, August 9, 2024 Campus Center, Multipurpose Room 11:30 am – 2:30 pm
HAC Annual Summer Drive
200 Members in 10 Days
Sunday, July 21, 2024 – Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Spring Member Social  Tuesday, May 14, 20245:30 pm – 8:00 pm
The Green Amendment - The People's Fight For a Clean, Safe & Healthy Environment, including Climate Wednesday, May 8, 2024 Reem-Kayden Center Room 102 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Political Pregame: Where Do We Go From Here? Friday, April 26, 2024 Campus Center, Multipurpose Room 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Social Philosophy Workshop: Explanation, Imagination, Transformation Saturday, April 20, 2024 Finberg House library 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
The Bill Mullen Recitation Contest  Friday, April 19, 2024 Bard Hall 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Social Philosophy Workshop: Explanation, Imagination, Transformation Friday, April 19, 2024 Finberg House library 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Play a Part in Climate Action Monday, April 1, 20246:00 pm
Celebrate Women's History Month
Leading Ladies at Bard Mixer
Friday, March 29, 2024 Blithewood 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Carol Gilligan: In a Human Voice Friday, March 29, 2024 Campus Center, Weis Cinema 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
“Hannah Arendt Quits Smoking” – A Staged Reading of a New Play by the Kansas Collective Wednesday, March 27, 2024 Campus Center, Weis Cinema 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Gabriele Parrino on Reconciling Freedom and Authority: Thinking Democracy with Hannah Arendt and the Roman Tradition Tuesday, March 26, 2024 Arendt Center 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Author's Talk: Jo Knowles Tuesday, March 12, 202412:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Peg Birmingham: The Problem of Constitutional Authority in a Secular Age Thursday, March 7, 2024 Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Between Power and Authority: Arendt on the Constitution and the Courts Thursday, March 7, 2024 – Friday, March 8, 2024 Multiple Locations at Bard College 
Memory, Resistance, and Colonial Hierarchies of Belonging (A)cross the Atlantic Friday, March 1, 2024 Olin 202 & RKC 103 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home Thursday, February 29, 2024 Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
A Conversation with Yehuda Beinin Monday, February 19, 2024 Olin Humanities, Room 205 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Zone of Interest Screening at the Moviehouse in Millerton, NY
 
Thursday, February 15, 2024 The Moviehouse in Millerton, NY 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
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