We intend to use this space to examine and interpret parts of the collection by curating online exhibits in collaboration with scholars worldwide. We encourage scholars to consult the catalog of the collection and to contact us regarding particular research interests and proposals for collaborative projects.

Current Projects:

Thinking in Dark Times: The Legacy of Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt would have celebrated her 100th birthday on October 14, 2006. To mark the occasion, Bard College hosted an international conference entitled "Thinking in Dark Times: The Legacy of Hannah Arendt." The conference took place on Friday, October 27 through Sunday, October 29 (for more information click here). We've created a collection of audio samples and images from the conference available online.

Arendt On Mannheim - Professor David Kettler presents a comprehensive reading of Arendt's critical reading of sociologist Karl Mannheim, including: an essay, "Das Geheimnis von Karl Mannheims auXerordentlichen Aufstieg," historical notes, a painstaking recreation of Arendt's marginalia in an unbound galley copy of Mannheim's "Ideologie und Utopie" [1929], and in a small pamphlet, "Die Bedeutung der Konkurrenz im Gebeite des Geistigen," [1928,1929]. Also collected here is Professor Peter Baehr's "Sociology and the Mistrust of Thought: Hannah Arendt’s Encounter with Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Knowledge."

Power and Violence
In December of 1968 Heinrich Bluecher, Arendt's husband, delivered a final lecture before his retirement. On the occasion Bard President Reamer Kline invited Hannah Arendt to campus for a retirement celebration. She agreed to give a lecture on the topic of "Power and Violence" (following the Columbia student protests in spring of 1968). A few  months later, in the February 27, 1969 issue of The New York Review of Books, Arendt published "Reflections on Violence,"  later included in her On Violence, published by Harcourt Brace in 1970. (Audio was digitized in 2006 from reel to reel analog tape archives.)

Listen to:
Part 1: Lecture (18mb|19:40) - Stream or Download (Right Click and Save As)
Part 2: Q&A Section (34.1mb|37:17) - Stream or Download (Right Click and Save As)