Guest Blog Posts
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
Welcome NEH Summer Scholars to NEH Arendt 2014
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.
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Eichmann’s Thoughtlessness and Arendt’s Judgment
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
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
NEH 2016!!
I learned last week that the NEH seminar on Arendt, which I direct, will be funded for summer of 2016. The dates of the seminar are June 26 2016-July 29 2016. The location will be the beautiful Hudson Valley campus of Bard College, which house..
- Posted by Kathy J.
- Posted in education,Eichmann Trial,ethics,Hannah Arendt,Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities,Hudson Valley,Life of the Mind,NEH Summer Scholars,public life,public space,summer scholars,teachers,The Human Condition,The Origins of Totalitarianism,thinking
Possibility and Despair
(This posting is a reprint from my original blog entry on the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College’s web site, published on September 20, 2015) “The calamity of the rightless is not that they are deprived of life, liberty, and the purs..
- Posted by arendt
- Posted in comity of nations,displaced persons,ethics,Hannah Arendt,human rights,Politics,refugees,The Origins of Totalitarianism
Considering Totalitarianism
The response around the globe to the election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States has ranged across a spectrum. Applause came, of course, from Trump supporters who voted for him. The majority of these were white voters, men ..
- Posted by arendt
- Posted in banality of evil,character,displaced persons,education,ethics,evil,Hannah Arendt,personal responsibility,Politics,public life,public space,teachers,The Origins of Totalitarianism,thinking
Holocaust Precursor: German Colonialism in Namibia
A few days ago, the New York Times reported about efforts on the part of the German government to acknowledge the attempted extermination of Nama and Herero ethnic tribes in Namibia, who were resisting German domination and land grabs in Namib..
- Posted by arendt
- Posted in bureaucracy,crimes against humanity,genocide,Germany,Hannah Arendt,Namibia,NEH Summer Scholars,racism,The Origins of Totalitarianism
Welcome 2017 Hannah Arendt Summer Scholars
For the last few weeks, my assistants and I have been coordinating paperwork for all the new Arendt scholars who will join me at UC-Davis this summer to study key works of the political theorist, Hannah Arendt. I have now posted all the short ..
- Posted by arendt
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Guest Lecturer Ada Ushpiz’s Film, Vita Activa
Summer scholars who will attend the 2017 NEH seminar on Arendt should already be reading Eichmann in Jerusalem in preparation for the first discussions we will have. A controversial book that continues to spark heated discussion, the book moti..
- Posted by arendt
- Posted in Ada Ushpiz,arts,Eichmann in Jerusalem,Eichmann Trial,film,Hannah Arendt,NEH,NEH Summer Scholars,refugees,The Origins of Totalitarianism