Hannah Arendt Center presents:
Hannah Arendt in Art and Practice
Part of the Hannah Arendt Special IHRAF Festival Celebrating the life and ideas of Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
Saturday, June 6, 2026
The 30th Street Theater, 259 West 30th Street, NYC
3:00 pm
This event occurs on:
Sat. June 6, 3 pm
The Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College presents a discussion with artists and scholars about how Arendtian ideas influenced their work. Moderated by Thomas Bartscherer (Peter Sourian Senior Lecturer in the Humanities at Bard College) and featuring Jenny Lyn Bader (playwright) and three IHRAF artists: Emmanuelle Zagoria (The banality of being a balloon), Shailly Agnihotri (The Supremes) and Dylan Horowitz (Living The Dream).
Thomas Bartscherer (Workshop Leader) holds PhD and MA degrees from the University of Chicago and a BA (summa cum laude) from the University of Pennsylvania. He has held fellowships at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, the University of Heidelberg, and the Center for Advanced Film Studies at the Freie Universität in Berlin. He is a Senior Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities. His writing for performance has been presented at numerous venues, including LA Phil’s Disney Hall, the Baryshnikov Arts Center, the Prototype Festival, the Kaatsbaan Festival, and the First Take Opera Workshop.
Roger Berkowitz (Introduction) is an American scholar and professor whose work focuses on politics, philosophy, and law. He is recognized as a leading scholar on the political thinking of Hannah Arendt. In 2006, he founded the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, where he is a Professor of Politics, Philosophy, and Human Rights.
Jenny Lyn Bader (Playwright)'s plays include Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library (Luna Stage), Equally Divine (Theatre at the 14th St. Y), In Flight (Turn to Flesh Productions), and None of the Above (New Georges). A Harvard graduate, she has received the “Best Documentary One-Woman Show” Award (United Solo Fest); Athena Playwriting Fellowship; and the O’Neill Center’s Edith Oliver Award for a playwright who has, in the spirit of the late New Yorker critic, “a caustic wit that deflates the ego but does not unduly damage the human spirit.” Her work has been published by Dramatists Play Service, Smith + Kraus, Applause, Vintage, W.W. Norton, The Lincoln Center Theater Review, Plays International + Europe, and The New York Times, where she served as a frequent contributor to the "Week in Review.”
IHRAF Festival: Hannah Arendt is taking place June 5-7 at The 30th Street Theater, 259 West 30th Street, New York, NY 10001
The International Human Rights Art Movement announces its IHRAF Festival: Hannah Arendt, highlighting the thought and power of the 20th century social philosopher Hannah Arendt, and how her work informs our understanding of today’s social and political world. IHRAF: Arendt, funded by a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts and in conjunction with the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard college, highlights her ideas through dance, theater, puppetry, music, a workshop discussion and other artistic means, 15 performances chosen out of 100 submissions.
The Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College presents a discussion with artists and scholars about how Arendtian ideas influenced their work. Moderated by Thomas Bartscherer (Peter Sourian Senior Lecturer in the Humanities at Bard College) and featuring Jenny Lyn Bader (playwright) and three IHRAF artists: Emmanuelle Zagoria (The banality of being a balloon), Shailly Agnihotri (The Supremes) and Dylan Horowitz (Living The Dream).
Thomas Bartscherer (Workshop Leader) holds PhD and MA degrees from the University of Chicago and a BA (summa cum laude) from the University of Pennsylvania. He has held fellowships at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, the University of Heidelberg, and the Center for Advanced Film Studies at the Freie Universität in Berlin. He is a Senior Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities. His writing for performance has been presented at numerous venues, including LA Phil’s Disney Hall, the Baryshnikov Arts Center, the Prototype Festival, the Kaatsbaan Festival, and the First Take Opera Workshop.
Roger Berkowitz (Introduction) is an American scholar and professor whose work focuses on politics, philosophy, and law. He is recognized as a leading scholar on the political thinking of Hannah Arendt. In 2006, he founded the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, where he is a Professor of Politics, Philosophy, and Human Rights.
Jenny Lyn Bader (Playwright)'s plays include Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library (Luna Stage), Equally Divine (Theatre at the 14th St. Y), In Flight (Turn to Flesh Productions), and None of the Above (New Georges). A Harvard graduate, she has received the “Best Documentary One-Woman Show” Award (United Solo Fest); Athena Playwriting Fellowship; and the O’Neill Center’s Edith Oliver Award for a playwright who has, in the spirit of the late New Yorker critic, “a caustic wit that deflates the ego but does not unduly damage the human spirit.” Her work has been published by Dramatists Play Service, Smith + Kraus, Applause, Vintage, W.W. Norton, The Lincoln Center Theater Review, Plays International + Europe, and The New York Times, where she served as a frequent contributor to the "Week in Review.”
IHRAF Festival: Hannah Arendt is taking place June 5-7 at The 30th Street Theater, 259 West 30th Street, New York, NY 10001
The International Human Rights Art Movement announces its IHRAF Festival: Hannah Arendt, highlighting the thought and power of the 20th century social philosopher Hannah Arendt, and how her work informs our understanding of today’s social and political world. IHRAF: Arendt, funded by a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts and in conjunction with the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard college, highlights her ideas through dance, theater, puppetry, music, a workshop discussion and other artistic means, 15 performances chosen out of 100 submissions.