Hannah Arendt Center Presents

The Arendt Forum 2026: Solidarity: What Are We Fighting For?

A public forum for thinking together about the fragile bonds that hold a plural world together.
In a time when we know all too well what we oppose—
war, injustice, authoritarianism, loneliness—
we struggle to answer a deeper question:

What are we fighting for?
Hannah Arendt wrote that the break of the Western tradition in the 20th century had left us with “an ominous silence that still answers us whenever we dare to ask, not “What are we fighting against,” but “What are we fighting for.”

The 2026 Arendt Forum takes up that question directly.
 

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For more information, call 845-758-7878, e-mail [email protected],
or visit https://hac.bard.edu/solidarity-2026#eventoverview.

Time: 9:00 am – 11:00 am EDT/GMT-4

Location: Olin Hall