Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz

Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz


Latest Episodes

Q&A on Eichmann in Jerusalem | Bonus Episode
August 30, 2024

The Hannah Arendt Center's Virtual Reading Group just finished reading and discussing Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, and we collected questions from our members and podcast listeners for a new regular feature of our podcast: Q&A with Roger and

Conversation with John McWhorter and Ayishat Akanbi at the Alpine Fellowship Symposium on Language | Bonus Episode
August 23, 2024

With our reading group on hiatus this August, we bring you another special episode of the podcast! In this episode we delve into race and language. Recorded live at the Alpine Fellowship Foundation Symposium on Language in Tuscany in July 2024, this episo

An Arendtian Perspective on Fake Quotes | Bonus Episode
August 16, 2024

Why create a fake Hannah Arendt quotation when so many real ones express a similar viewpoint? And, does it matter?While on break from our chapter readings, we bring you a special episode of the podcast, where host Roger Berkowitz explores the implication

A Conversation with Bill T. Jones on Respectful Disagreement | Bonus Episode
August 09, 2024

On break from our chapter readings, we continue our series of bonus episodes with a conversation between our host, Roger Berkowitz, and Bill T. Jones, the Tony Award-winning artist, choreographer, and longtime Hannah Arendt Center member. Bill's a regular

Eichmann in Jerusalem: Bettina Stangneth
August 02, 2024

A discussion of Bettina Stangneth's Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer (New York: Random House 2014) Chapter 2, Eichmann in Conversation, p. 234-311ABOUT:Produced by the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, this podcast

Eichmann in Jerusalem: Postscript
July 26, 2024

Eichmann in Jerusalem, final chapter: PostscriptABOUT:Produced by the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, this podcast offers close readings of Arendt's books alongside engaging interviews and thought-provoking conversations. Released weekly, each

A Conversation with Leon Botstein on Campus Protest | Bonus Episode
July 12, 2024

This week we bring you a bonus episode! The first in a new series of engaging interviews and thought-provoking conversations between your host, Roger Berkowitz, and renowned scholars and public intellectuals - to supplement our close readings of Arendt's

Eichmann in Jerusalem: Epilogue
July 05, 2024

This episode of Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz deals with the Epilogue Eichmann in Jerusalem. Our podcast follows the book that we are reading in our current Virtual Reading Group(VRG), which meets weekly on Fridays at 1 PM EST. We are curren

Eichmann in Jerusalem: Judgment, Appeal, And Execution
June 28, 2024

This episode of Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz deals with the Chapter in Eichmann in Jerusalem titled Judgment, Appeal, And Execution. Our podcast follows the book that we are reading in our current Virtual Reading Group(VRG), which meets wee

Eichmann in Jerusalem: Evidence And Witnesses
June 14, 2024

This episode of Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz deals with Chapter 11 of Eichmann in Jerusalem: Evidence And Witnesses. Our podcast follows the book that we are reading in our current Virtual Reading Group(VRG), which meets weekly on Fridays a