De Gruyter–Arendt Center
Lecture in Political Thinking

A conference on Hannah Arendt and Black political thought may be jarring, if not altogether improbable, for some persons to comprehend. Yet it very well might be needed now more than ever. This keynote address examines strivings for the revolutionary spirit and what such strivings reveal about the contours of modern Black political thought and Arendt studies between past and future.

This lecture is free and open to the public, and will be live streamed. 

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The U.S. Supreme Court today faces a crisis of legitimacy. More than half of Americans have an unfavorable view of the Court—the lowest in over three decades. Dr. Birmingham gave the keynote at our 2024 Spring Conference: Between Power and Authority: Arendt on the Constitution and the Courts. 

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The inaugural lecture was delivered by Professor Linda Zerilli, Charles E. Merriam Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the College at The University of Chicago. Her lecture, entitled “Arendt and the Problem of Political Persuasion,” took place on Thursday, March 2, 2023. Professor Zerilli’s lecture also served as the keynote address for a two-day interdisciplinary humanities conference, ‘Judgment, Pluralism, and Democracy: On the Desirability of Speaking with Others.’

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The De Gruyter-Arendt Center Lecture in Political Thinking series aims to promote and foster the legacy of Hannah Arendt’s thought. A partnership between the Hannah Arendt Center (HAC) at Bard College and De Gruyter publishing, the lecture will be delivered annually by a prominent scholar. De Gruyter explicitly intends for the lecture series to be open to a broad approach to Arendt across the disciplines of not only philosophy and political theory but the humanities and social sciences more generally.