Thinking Itself Is Dangerous: public lecture on Hannah Arendt

[Waterloo Centre for German Studies]

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Hannah Arendt was a Jewish German who came of age during the Weimar Republic. With the rise of the Nazis she had to flee Germany, settling eventually in America. After the Second World War, she made her mark writing about totalitarianism: why it became so dominant in the 20th century and how to combat it.

In recent years, many have rediscovered Arendt, thinking that she can help us understand the current contentious political climate. In order to learn more about why this is so, the Waterloo Centre for German Studies (WCGS) has invited the Assistant Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College, Samantha Rose Hill, to give the annual Grimm Lecture on Thursday 19 March 2020 at 7 pm in the CIGI Auditorium, 67 Erb Street W., Waterloo.

Hill knows Arendt's work inside and out. This year she is publishing both a bibliography of Arendt as well as an English translation of Arendt's German poetry. Hill's lecture, to which you're all warmly invited, will address the renewed interest in Hannah Arendt’s work and explain why we should be reading Arendt now.

Since this is the flagship lecture event in the WCGS calendar, a very nice reception will follow the talk, giving you even more reason to attend. Details below.

James Skidmore, Director
Waterloo Centre for German Studies

When: Thursday, March 19, 2020 at 7:00pm (doors open at 6:30pm)
Where: CIGI Auditorium at the Balsillie School of International Affairs (67 Erb Street West Waterloo, ON N2L 6C2)
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/thinking-itself-is-dangerous-reading-hannah-arendt-tickets-89610614761

Co-sponsored by the Departments of Germanic and Slavic Studies and Philosophy, and the Balsillie School of International Affairs.

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