WAMC’s On the Road Broadcasts Live from Arendt Center’s Annual Conference “JOY”

On Friday, October 17, from 9 am to noon, WAMC’s The Roundtable with host Joe Donahue broadcasts live from Bard College campus. Opening the show, Donahue will speak with Bard President Leon Botstein and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities at Bard College Roger Berkowitz. Other speakers from the Arendt Center’s 17th annual conference, “JOY: Loving the World in Dark Times,” will follow on the radio program. Poet and professor Ann Lauterbach will also join Donahue in conversation. Writers Donovan Hohn, acting editor of Lapham’s Quarterly, and Francine Prose, Bard distinguished writer in residence, will talk about their work on Lapham’s Quarterly and its recent partnership with Bard and the Hannah Arendt Center. The programming will include a Bard student panel, with students discussing how campus leadership programs (such as Courage to Be), work opportunities, and internships at Bard shape and inform their futures. Mariel Fiori ’05, cofounder and managing editor of La Voz, will participate in a segment focused on her Bard-based monthly Spanish language publication, which has been serving the Mid-Hudson Valley and the Catskill region since 2004, as well as her own Radio Kingston show La Voz con Mariel Fiori, which does a live broadcast from the Arendt conference every year. Additional guests will include Hannah Arendt Center's first Chairman of the Board Steve Maslow and Director of Academic Programs Jana Mader among others. The Roundtable On the Road event will broadcast in front of a small, live audience of ticket holders. 

Post Date: 10-14-2025