Jewish Thought & Contemporary Philosophy: Prof. Roger Berkowitz
As part of theJewish Thought and Contemporary Philosophyproject run by Assoc. Prof. Joseph Cohen of UCD School of Philosophy, the Newman Centre is delighted to welcomeProf. Roger Berkowitz (Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and Professor of Politics, Philosophy, and Human Rights at Bard College) to present a lecture on:
Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism: Hannah Arendt on the Jewish Question and Antisemitism
on Tuesday 18 February from 6-8pm, in the Agnes Cuming Seminar Room (D520) in the School of Philosophy, John Henry Newman Building, UCD Belfield.
You are welcome to attend the lecture in person or online via Zoom. If you plan to attend in person, please arrive by 5.55pm at the latest for the event. If you have any questions, or would like access to the Zoom link, please email Assoc. Prof. Joseph Cohen (Lead Investigator,Jewish Thought and Contemporary Philosophy, UCD Newman Centre) atjoseph.cohen@ucd.ie.
Roger Berkowitzis Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and Professor of Politics, Philosophy, and Human Rights at Bard College. Professor Berkowitz authoredThe Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition(Harvard, 2005; Fordham, 2010; Chinese Law Press, 2011). Berkowitz is editor ofOn Civil Disobedience: Henry David Thoreau and Hannah Arendt (forthcoming, 2024); The Perils of Invention: Lying, Technology, and the Human Condition(2020) and co-editor ofThinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics(2009),The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis(2012) andArtifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt's Denktagebuch(2017). His writing has appeared inThe New York Times,The American Interest,Bookforum,The Forward,The Paris Review Online,Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, and many other publications. Berkowitz editsHA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Centerand the weekly newsletterAmor Mundi. He is the winner of the 2024Compassion Awardgiven by Con-Solatio and the 2019Hannah ArendtPrizefor Political Thoughtgiven by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Bremen, Germany.
