Hannah Arendt Center Presents

Militant Non-Violence with Uday Singh Mehta

Uday Singh Mehta is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center and the 2022 Yehuda Elkana Fellow (awarded by Central European University and the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College). Professor Mehta has taught at several universities, including Princeton, Cornell, MIT, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Hull and Amherst College. He is the author of The Anxiety of Freedom: Imagination and Individuality in the Political Thought of John Locke(Cornell University Press, 1992) and Liberalism and Empire, (University of Chicago Press, 2000). Liberalism and Empire was awarded the J. David Greenstone prize for the best book in Political Theory by the American Political Science Association in 2002. In 2003, Mehta was one of ten recipients of the prestigious “Carnegie Scholars” prize given to “scholars of exceptional creativity.” His forthcoming book is titled A Different Vision: Gandhi’s Critique of Political Rationality.

Free and open to the public, the lecture will take place at Bard’s Campus Center North (33 Robbins Rd.), in the Multi-Purpose Room, on April 23rd at 5p EST and will be livestreamed here.

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For more information, call 845-758-6822.

Time: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: North Campus Center, Multipurpose Room

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