Hannah Arendt Center Presents

For Love of the World on Radio Kingston

Join this month's guest host HAC Senior Fellow Thomas Bartscherer in a conversation with Bard alum Nikita Nelin ’09, the author of a recent essay Defining Joy, published in the weekly newsletter of the Hannah Arendt Center. Thomas Bartscherer is one of the regular speakers at our annual fall conference, this year on the topic of JOY: Loving the World in Dark Times, at Olin Hall on October 16-17. Registration for the conference is now open! Free to HAC members and the Bard community, please register to help with our planning, and subscribe to our weekly newsletter, Amor Mundi, to receive regular updates about the conference!

Thomas Bartscherer is the Peter Sourian Senior Lecturer in the Humanities at Bard College. He works in the humanities and the arts and on the study of liberal education and politics. Current projects include the new critical edition of Hannah Arendt’s The Life of the Mind, which he coedited for the Complete Works series, and When the People Rule: Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice, which he is coediting for Cambridge University Press. With composer Dylan Mattingly, he has created Stranger Love, a six-hour opera commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, which premiered at the the LA Phil’s Disney Hall in May of 2023. He also writes on technology, new media, and contemporary art, and has published translations from German and French. He is coeditor of Erotikon: Essays on Eros, Ancient and Modern and Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts, both from the University of Chicago Press. He has held research fellowships at the École Normale Supérieure, and the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich and was a Senior Fellow in residence at the Center for Advanced Film Studies at the Freie Universität in Berlin. He was director of Bard’s Language and Thinking Program from 2010 to 2015.

Nikita Nelin ’09 was born in Moscow, Russia and immigrated to the U.S in 1989. He has lived in Austria and Italy, and has traveled the U.S extensively. He received the Sean O’Faolain prize for short fiction, the Summer Literary Seminars prize for nonfiction, and the Dogwood Literary prize, as well as being chosen as a finalist for the Restless Books Immigrantprize and the Dzanc Books prize. He has conducted research through the Harriman Institute as well as translation through Yale Press, holds an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College, and has been an associate fellow for the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities. He now lives in Seattle where he works as a Somatic Therapist, writes poetry, and is trying to figure out what people do in their 40s. His poetry can be found at https://sumizdat.substack.com, as well as some of his other writing at nikitanelin.com.

For Love of the World, every fourth Tuesday from 6-6:30 pm on Radio Kingston, is your portal to the bold ideas and respectful, deep conversations about contemporary issues that we’re having regularly at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. Join host Roger Berkowitz each month as we delve into the work of one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, Hannah Arendt, with renowned scholars and public intellectuals, and exemplify what it means to have a conversation of patient humility, in the Arendtian tradition. 

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Time: 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4

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