"Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience"
London event with Lyndsey Stonebridge and Samantha Rose Hill - a week today!
Event = Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience
Speakers = Lyndsey Stonebridge and Samantha Rose Hill
Date = Thursday February 22nd
Time = 7pm to 9pm
Venue = Conway Hall, London
Tickets = https://bit.ly/4bvBOOW
This event brings together two of the world’s leading Arendt scholars, Lyndsey Stonebridge and Samantha Rose Hill, to discuss Arendt’s life and work and its urgent dialogue with our troubled present.
The violent unease of today’s world would have been all too familiar to Hannah Arendt. Tyranny, occupation, disenchantment, post-truth politics, conspiracy theories, racism, mass migration, the banality of evil: she had lived through them all.
Born in the first decade of the last century, Arendt escaped fascist Europe to make a new life for herself in America, where she became one of the world’s most influential – and controversial – public intellectuals. She wrote about power and terror, exile and love, and, above all, about freedom. Questioning – thinking – was her first defence against tyranny. In place of the forces of darkness and insanity, she pitched a politics of plurality, spontaneity and defiance. Loving the world, Arendt taught, meant finding the courage to protect it.
In this event, Lyndsey Stonebridge and Samantha Rose Hill will call on us to think our way, as Hannah Arendt did – unflinchingly, lovingly and defiantly – through our own unpredictable times. You can find out more and buy tickets here.
Speakers:
Lyndsey Stonebridge is a professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham (UK) and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her new book, We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience, is published by Jonathan Cape.
Website: https://lyndseystonebridge.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LyndseyStonebri
Samantha Rose Hill is the author of two books: Hannah Arendt (2021, Reaktion Books) and What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt (co-edited with Genese Grill, 2023, Liveright). She regularly contributes to publications including Los Angeles Review of Books, Contemporary Political Theory and The South Atlantic Quarterly. She is currently writing a book on loneliness.
Website: www.samantharosehill.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Samantharhill