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Teachers Need Renewal

  • March 29, 2011,
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As I prepare to announce the summer scholars who will be working on the political theory of Hannah Arendt with me this summer at Bard College, an article in today’s New York Times about the state of public education in the U.S. gave me p..

  • Posted by Kathy J.
  • Posted in education,Hannah Arendt

NEH Summer Seminar: Announcing the 2012 Summer Scholars

  • May 9, 2012,
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Just six weeks from today I will be in residence at Bard College, getting ready to welcome the 2012 NEH  Summer Scholars with whom I will have the pleasure of working on the political theory of Hannah Arendt for five weeks. We will meet every..

  • Posted by Kathy J.
  • Posted in education,Hannah Arendt

Guest Commentary: Teaching Arendt by Chris Zegar, NEH Arendt Seminar 2011

  • July 17, 2012,
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We are ending our fourth week of the NEH seminar on Arendt, held again this summer at Bard College, under the auspices of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities. Soon, participants will present their research and creative project..

  • Posted by Kathy J.
  • Posted in education,Hannah Arendt

NEWS FLASH!! NEH 2014: Arendt Seminar Funded

  • July 26, 2013,
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I am delighted to report that I received news from the NEH a few days ago that my application to direct the NEH summer seminar on Hannah Arendt’s political theory has been funded. I will be returning to Bard College’s Hannah Arendt..

  • Posted by Kathy J.
  • Posted in education,Hannah Arendt

Guest Blog Posts

  • October 10, 2013,
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Each year, I invite present and past summer scholars to reflect on their NEH Arendt Summer Seminar experiences and, if they choose to, submit a blog posting to share with those who visit this web site. I have been behind on posting some of the..

  • Posted by Kathy J.
  • Posted in education,Hannah Arendt,NEH Summer Scholars,Politics,public life,public space,science,technology,The Human Condition,The Origins of Totalitarianism,thinking

Reading Eichmann in Jerusalem

  • February 4, 2014,
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There is just about one month left to apply to become a summer scholar in the NEH-funded seminar for schoolteachers that I will direct at Bard College’s Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities in 2014 on the political theory of ..

  • Posted by Kathy J.
  • Posted in education,Eichmann Trial,evil,Hannah Arendt,Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities,NEH Summer Scholars,Politics,public life,public space,thinking,uncertainty

Welcome NEH Summer Scholars to NEH Arendt 2014

  • April 24, 2014,
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After careful deliberation, my committee members and I selected the 2014 Summer Scholars who will study the political theory of Hannah Arendt under my direction this summer at Bard College’s Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Huma..

  • Posted by Kathy J.
  • Posted in education,Eichmann Trial,Hannah Arendt,Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities,Hudson Valley,Humanities Magazine,Life of the Mind,NEH,NEH Summer Scholars,personal responsibility,Politics,public life,public space,Religion and Politics,summer scholars,teachers,The Human Condition,The Origins of Totalitarianism,thinking

Reading Eichmann in Jerusalem

  • April 30, 2014,
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Fifty years ago, Hannah Arendt published her controversial report on the trial of Nazi deportation commander, Adolf Eichmann: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. The book put Arendt at the center of a storm of criticism th..

  • Posted by Kathy J.
  • Posted in education,Eichmann Trial,evil,Hannah Arendt,Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities,Hudson Valley,Humanities Magazine,NEH,NEH Summer Scholars,personal responsibility,public life,public space,teachers,thinking,uncertainty

Eichmann’s Thoughtlessness and Arendt’s Judgment

  • May 18, 2014,
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We are now about four weeks away from the start of my NEH Arendt seminar at Bard College’s Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities, when I will join 16 other educator/colleagues from across the country for a summer of schola..

  • Posted by Kathy J.
  • Posted in education,Eichmann Trial,evil,Hannah Arendt,Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities,NEH,NEH Summer Scholars,personal responsibility,Politics,public life,summer scholars,teachers,The Human Condition,The Origins of Totalitarianism,thinking

We Refugees

  • June 19, 2014,
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This morning’s New York Times carried a report from United Nations refugee agency. António Guterres, head of the agency, noted with alarm that “the number of people displaced by violent conflict hit the highest level since World War II at..

  • Posted by Kathy J.
  • Posted in comity of nations,displaced persons,education,evil,Hannah Arendt,human rights,international community,NEH Summer Scholars,Politics,public life,public space,refugees,The Origins of Totalitarianism,thinking
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