Center for Civic Engagement, Libraries at Bard College, and OSUN present:
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
This event occurs on:
Fri. October 18, 2:15 pm
A guided walk across Bard campus will lead participants to the historic grave of Hannah Arendt, with a stop at Stevenson Library to view an exhibit featuring books and photographs from Arendt's personal library, curated by Jana Mader, Director of Academic Programs at the Hannah Arendt Center, and Helene Tieger, Head of Archives & Special Collections. This lunchtime event offers a unique opportunity to engage with Arendt's legacy while enjoying fresh air, conversation, and movement, as participants walk together and reflect on her life and work. Meet in the Olin Atrium at the Registration Table.
Meet the tour guides:
Learn more about the conference at hac.bard.edu/tribalism-2024.
A guided walk across Bard campus will lead participants to the historic grave of Hannah Arendt, with a stop at Stevenson Library to view an exhibit featuring books and photographs from Arendt's personal library, curated by Jana Mader, Director of Academic Programs at the Hannah Arendt Center, and Helene Tieger, Head of Archives & Special Collections. This lunchtime event offers a unique opportunity to engage with Arendt's legacy while enjoying fresh air, conversation, and movement, as participants walk together and reflect on her life and work. Meet in the Olin Atrium at the Registration Table.
Meet the tour guides:
- Jana Mader is the Director of Academic Programs at the Hannah Arendt Center and a Visiting Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies and the Humanities. Her teaching and research focus on the history, art, and literature of the Hudson River Valley, particularly in the 19th century. As a scholar, writer, and translator, she works at the intersection of theory and practice. She has published four books, including a novel and a comparative analysis of 19th-century literature on the Hudson Valley and the Rhine. Walk Her Way New York City will come out in the Spring of 2025. More about her work can be found at janamarlene.com.
- Lyndsey Stonebridge is a professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham (UK) and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her books include Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees, winner of the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize and a Choice Outstanding Academic Title; The Judicial Imagination: Writing After Nuremberg, which won the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for English Literature; and the essay collection Writing and Righting: Literature in the Age of Human Rights. We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience (Hogarth) was published in January 2024. She is a regular media commentator and broadcaster. She lives in London and France.
Learn more about the conference at hac.bard.edu/tribalism-2024.