Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny
Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny
Wednesday, April 15th, 2026 | 5:30 Reception | 6:00pm Film Screening | 7:30pm Panel
On Wednesday, April 15th at 6:00pm, Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies (JIMES) at Washington University in St. Louis will host an advanced film screening of PBS’s Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny.
Hannah Arendt came of age in Germany as Hitler rose to power, before escaping to the United States as a Jewish refugee. Through her unflinching capacity to demand attention to facts and reality, Arendt’s time as a political prisoner, refugee and survivor in Europe informed her groundbreaking insights into the human condition, the refugee crisis and totalitarianism.
Her major works, including The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), The Human Condition (1958), Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963), On Revolution (1963) and Crises of the Republic (1972) remain among the most important and most-read treatises on the development and impact of totalitarianism and the fault lines in American democracy.
This timely documentary screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Professor Jonathan Judaken (JIMES), Professor Amy Gais (CL&T & Political Science) and Professor Judah Isseroff (JIMES).
This event is free and open to the public. It will be held in Rebstock Hall, 215 on the Danforth Campus of Washington University in St. Louis.
About the film: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/hannah-arendt-documentary/36135/
Find more JIMES events at https://jimes.wustl.edu/events.
Those with specific inquiries about this event can contact Hannah Ryan at rhannah@wustl.edu