The violent unease of today’s world would have been familiar to Hannah Arendt. She lived through it all – tyranny, occupation, disenchantment, post-truth politics, conspiracy theories, racism, mass migration. Arendt wrote about power and terror, exile and love, freedom. She advocated a politics of action and plurality, courage and, when necessary, disobedience.

Who is the Arendt we need most today? Join Lyndsey Stonebridge in conversation with Devorah Baum and Jonathan Leader to discuss her book, We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience.

Speaker

Lyndsey Stonebridge is professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham, UK, and Fellow of the British Academy. Her books include Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees, winner of the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize and a Choice Outstanding Academic Title; The Judicial Imagination: Writing After Nuremberg, which won the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for English Literature; and the essay collection, Writing and Righting: Literature in the Age of Human Rights.

Event: Tuesday March 4, from 6pm onwards