Upcoming

Roger’s 2026 schedule will be posted here as it’s confirmed. In the meantime, you’ll find a selection of his talks and appearances from past years below.

2025

UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTEVIDEO | Lectures included: “The Perils of Invention,” “A World We Share: Hannah Arendt on Friendship and Politics",” “What’s going on in the North? Trump, Mobs and Movements,” “The Paradoxical Danger and Need for Truth in Politics,” and “Public Education: The challenge of educational authority in a world without authority.”

LIBREBOOK (BRUSSELS), LE PETIT EUROPÉEN MAGAZINE | “America on the Brink: Thinking in Times of Darkness with Hannah Arendt.”

EGMONT PALACE (BRUSSELS), HANNAH ARENDT NETWORK ON DEMOCRATIC RESILIENCE AND RENEWAL | “Power and Democracy: Thoughts on the Return of Politics.”

TEDxBARD COLLEGE | “Why free speech (and listening) matter.”

GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY, INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES | Plenary Remarks: The Future of Liberalism.

UNIVERSITY OF VERONA, ARENDTIAN COUNCILIARISM: VISIONS AND CARE FOR DEMOCRACY | Angela Taraborrelli (Università degli Studi di Cagliari) – The Role of the Council System in Arendt’s Cosmopolitan Vision, in conversation with Roger Berkowitz.

BARD NYC, PREMIERE OF HANNAH ARENDT: FACING TYRANNY | Introduction and Post-Viewing Q&A.

THE POLYOPPORTUNITY, NEW YORK RETREAT | “Session Seven: New Human — The Humanities, Now.”

THE HANNAH ARENDT CENTER FOR POLITICS AND HUMANITIES AT BARD COLLEGE | JOY: Loving the World in Dark Times (Annual Fall Conference).

NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY (TAIPEI), HANNAH ARENDT AND EAST ASIAN DEMOCRACY IN DIALOGUE: POLITICAL FUTURE AT THE CROSSROAD | “Democracy and Power: Thoughts on the Return of Politics” and “Plurality, Public Space, and Democratic Communication in Divided Societies.”

NOVA UNIVERSITY OF LISBON | “The Blind Poet: Arendt on Public Judgment.”

2018

ONE DAY UNIVERSITY, PENN CLUB OF NEW YORK | Artificial Intelligence: The Future of Humans (in a world of intelligent machines).

2017

ONE DAY UNIVERSITY | “Norman: The Moderate Rise and Fall Of a New York Fixer”

2016

THE ANDREW GAGARIN CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND CIVIL SOCIETY, ST. PETERSBURG RUSSIA | Hannah Arendt's Revolutionary Constitutionalism

2015

WAMC, NPR | Roger Berkowitz and David Brin Discuss "Why Privacy Matters”

2014

MILLERTON, NY | Marshall Miles Interviews-Roger Berkowitz Associate Professor of Politics, Bard College on the film Hannah Arendt at The Moviehouse in Millerton July 12-18.

ONE DAY UNIVERSITY, MARRIOTT HOTEL IN PHILADELPHIA | There is a rush to adopt drones to make our lives better. In our headlong embrace of drone technology, we are forgetting to ask: What is a drone?

CANADIAN BROADCASTING COMPANY | The political philosopher Hannah Arendt published a famous book and created an instant uproar that has never ended. Roger Berkowitz, Adam Gopnik, Rivka Galchen and Adam Kirsch debate the reality behind Hannah Arendt and her ideas. ►

2013

ATHENAEUM LECTURE SERIES, CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE | “Hannah Arendt, Eichmann, and the Holocaust” ►

NPR'S "ON POINT WITH TOM ASHBROOK" | Hannah Arendt on the Big Screen ►

SKIRBALL CENTER, LOS ANGELES | Jewish Voices in the Eichmann-Controversy — A lecture on the controversy over Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem which has always been charged my implications of anti-Semitism. Some called Arendt a self-hating Jew. Her friends decried the attacks on her as a pogrom. The truth, however, is that Arendt’s book exposed important fault lines in the Jewish community. To ask about the Jewish responses to Arendt’s book is to broaden our understanding of Jewish intellectual attempts to address the horror of the Final Solution.

Join Roger Berkowitz— Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities —for a lecture exploring Jewish responses to Arendt’s provocative book Eichmann in Jerusalem and how it exposed important fault lines in the Jewish community.

2012

THE JUST WAR IN WORLD RELIGIONS | Keynote Address at The Institute of Advanced Theology's 2012 Conference at Bard College (2012).

39TH DEUTSCHES RECHTSHISTORIKERTAG | From Justice to Justification. Keynote Lecture. University of Lucerne (Sept. 2012).

ONE DAY UNIVERSITY | The Singularity and the Human Condition. (May, 2012).

2011

UNIVERSITY OF LUCERNE | Text, Authority, and Normativity, organized by the university's trans-disciplinary research group TeNOR-Text and Normativity (2011).

2009

OLDENBURG UNIVERSITY | Keynote Address at the University of Oldenburg Arendt Center, Conference "On the Founding of a Political Ethics. (July, 2009). ►

KINGS COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY | Cambridge Seminars in Political Thought and Intellectual History, (February, 2009). ►

2008

CONVERSATIONS WITH SHAKESPEARE | Expert panelist on the topic of "Revenge." Symphony Space, NY, NY (April, 2008).

BARNARD COLLEGE | Political Science Department. "Dignity and Human Rights." (2008).

BARD COLLEGE CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES | Conference: "The Lesser Evil." (2008).

2007

UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE | "What is Law without Morality?" Keynote Speaker. (August, 2007).

UNIVERSITY OF CAPETOWN | "Law, Dignity and Transformative Constitutionalism Conference" (July, 2007).

UNIVERSITY OF WITWATERSTAND | International Human Rights Exchange Lecture Series. (August, 2007).

2006

YALE UNIVERSITY | Department of Political Science (January, 2006).

MCGILL UNIVERSITY | Legal Theory Workshop (January, 2006).

2005

BIRKBECK LAW SCHOOL | London (January, 2005).

CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA | "Ubuntu Project Conference." Keynote speaker (August, 2005).

SUNY PURCHASE | Philosophy Forum (October, 2005).

TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY | Cegla Center Conference on "Critical Modernities: Politics and Law beyond the Liberal Imagination" (December, 2005).

2004

UC SAN DIEGO | Department of Political Science (January, 2004).

2003

CARDOZO LAW SCHOOL | Burns Lecture Series (January, 2003).

STANFORD UNIVERSITY | Department of Political Science (January, 2003).

COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL | Columbia Law Forum (April, 2002; April, 2003).

2002

BRYN MAWR | Department of Political Science (January, 2002).

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO LAW SCHOOL | Legal Theory Workshop (October, 2002).

2001

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY | Washington College of Law (January, 2001).

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO| Department of Political Science (January, 2001).

CARDOZO LAW SCHOOL | Conference on Nietzsche and Law (October, 2001).