Hannah Arendt Center presents:
Hope in Action with Ann Rubin
A Dialogue Project
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
Online Event
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
This event occurs on:
Wed. October 21, 1 pm – 2:30 pm
The Hannah Arendt Center Dialogue Project offers themed dialogue groups that are based on readings that address a theme in Arendt’s work. The readings and videos offer insights into the ways we can understand and access hope to transcend the daunting challenges of the current global political climate. We address Arendt's concerns that hope is a barrier to action and her admonition to confront reality as a way of being in the world, alongside Byung-Chul Han's perspective on hope. In "The Spirit of Hope," Han says "Hope is a searching movement, an attempt to find a firm footing and a sense of direction…by going beyond the events of the past beyond what already exists, it enters into the unknown, goes down paths of what-is-not- yet."
Sign up by contacting Susan Oberman: [email protected] or 434-806-4116.
The Hannah Arendt Center Dialogue Project offers themed dialogue groups that are based on readings that address a theme in Arendt’s work. The readings and videos offer insights into the ways we can understand and access hope to transcend the daunting challenges of the current global political climate. We address Arendt's concerns that hope is a barrier to action and her admonition to confront reality as a way of being in the world, alongside Byung-Chul Han's perspective on hope. In "The Spirit of Hope," Han says "Hope is a searching movement, an attempt to find a firm footing and a sense of direction…by going beyond the events of the past beyond what already exists, it enters into the unknown, goes down paths of what-is-not- yet."
Sign up by contacting Susan Oberman: [email protected] or 434-806-4116.