Professor Roger Berkowitz, founder and academic director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, will be giving a guest lecture, “Truth and Power: How a Politics of Friendship Can Help Rebuild a Broken World” on Thursday, February 5th from 3:00-4:20p at MSU’s Romney Hall, Room 008.

Roger Berkowitz is an American scholar and professor whose work focuses on politics, philosophy, and law. He is recognized as a leading scholar on the political thinking of Hannah Arendt. His essays and commentary have appeared in publications including the Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, and the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities. Berkowitz is also known for making scholarly discussions of political theory and Hannah Arendt accessible to wider audiences through public writing, podcasts, and educational programming.

This lecture is open to the public.