Multi-Day Seminars

Hannah Arendt on Living in Social Crisis

How do we reknit a community once shattered? How do we pick up the thread of a tradition once lost? If authority has been abandoned by breach of trust or unwillingness to take responsibility, how can it possibly be reestablished?

Recent experience has marked many of our lives with these questions. In this seminar, AEI and Civitas Institute Fellow Jenna Storey will explore with participants how twentieth-century political thinker Hannah Arendt drew on the history and philosophy of the Western tradition in an effort to understand how one might recover from social, cultural and political ruptures. Through readings from Arendt’s essays in Between Past and Future, we’ll explore what it might take to recreate the conditions for the kind of community human beings need to find their place in the world.

The seminar will take place on March 19-21 at the Buckley Institute office in New Haven. Participants will be expected to complete a moderate amount of reading prior to the seminar. Students will receive free course materials, lunch and dinner will be provided for the duration of the seminar, and those who complete the full seminar will be eligible to receive a $150 stipend.

Priority applications will be considered through January 31, 2025. Please direct any questions to kyle@buckleyinstitute.com.

This seminar is open to current Yale undergraduate and graduate students.

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