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THUR 2 MAR 10.30–14.30
ONLINE EVENTS
Hannah Arendt & Isaiah Berlin: The Feud
In Association with Lockdown University and with the
Rabin Chair Forum of The George Washington University
Kei Hiruta | Chair: Dennis Davis
For the first time, the full story of the conflict between two of
the twentieth century’s most important thinkers—and how their
profound disagreements continue to offer important lessons for
political theory and philosophy.
Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin fundamentally disagreed on central
issues in politics, history and philosophy, in spite of their overlapping
lives and experiences as Jewish émigré intellectuals. Research Fellow
in Philosophy at Oxford’s Wolfson College, Kei Hiruta discusses his
acclaimed book with Judge Dennis Davis in this free online event in
partnership with Lockdown University.
Online
10.30–11.30
FREE
Women of Expressionism
In Association with the Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, and with the
Rabin Chair Forum of the George Washington University
Shulamith Behr
Challenging predominantly male-oriented narratives, Shulamith
Behr examines the women whose inspired search for artistic
integrity and equality influenced Expressionist avant-garde culture
in Women Artists in Expressionism: From Empire to Emancipation.
From Käthe Kollwitz’s socio-political printmaking and how Dutch
artist Jacoba van Heemskerck’s spiritual abstraction earned her the
status of an honorary German Expressionist, to Nell Walden’s role
as an influential art dealer and the posthumous critical reception of
Paula Modersohn-Becker, a wonderful insight from the Courtauld
Institute senior lecturer.
Online
12.00–13.00
£7.50
One Hundred Saturdays
In Association with the Rabin Chair Forum
of The George Washington University
Michael Frank, Stella Levi
With nearly a century behind her, Stella Levi never spoke in detail
about her past, until essayist Michael Frank visited her Greenwich
Village apartment to ask about the Juderia in Rhodes, where she
was part of a Sephardic Jewish community that was deported in its
entirety to Auschwitz.
In the resulting book, a Wall Street Journal Top 10 of 2022, Stella
reveals what it was like to grow up in an extraordinary place at an
extraordinary time—and to construct a life after that place vanished.
She joins The Mighty Franks author to discuss her story and their
transformative friendship
Online
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13.30–14.30
£7.50