Founded in 2001, the Colloquium sponsors visiting lectures, workshops, and conferences on diverse themes of interest to scholars in history, philosophy, political theory, literature, and the human sciences. The Colloquium recently held a lecture series on the work of Hannah Arendt, which examined the legacy of this significant scholar from a variety of perspectives. See more information on Intellectual History at Harvard.
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Harvard Colloquium on Intellectual History — Vulgar Marxism
Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History — Translating Marx's Capital in the 21st Century: Notes on the New English Edition
Harvard Colloquium on Intellectual History & Committee on Degrees in Social Studies — In the Wake: Exposing White German Abolitionist Performativity and the Limits of Empathy
Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History & European Politics Seminar — Confessions of the Flesh: Michel Foucault’s Final Volume of "The History of Sexuality"
A Spring 2019 Lecture Series at Harvard University — Adorno, Aesthetic Negativity, and the Problem of Idealism
Adorno's Aesthetic Theory - A Spring 2019 Lecture Series at Harvard University — On the “Spiritual” in Aesthetic and Metaphysical Experience
Adorno's Aesthetic Theory - A Spring 2019 Lecture Series at Harvard University — Mind and World in Kant and Adorno: From Wild Beauties to Spiral Jetty
Adorno's Aesthetic Theory - A Spring 2019 Lecture Series at Harvard University — Primacy of the Object: Adorno's Aesthetic Theory and the Return of Form
Adorno's Aesthetic Theory - A Spring 2019 Lecture Series at Harvard University — Remembrance and Anticipation: Adorno's Reading of Proust and Beckett
Adorno's Aesthetic Theory - A Spring 2019 Lecture Series at Harvard University — Adorno as Tourist
Adorno's Aesthetic Theory - A Spring 2019 Lecture Series at Harvard University — Natural History and Aesthetic Experience
Adorno's Aesthetic Theory - A Spring 2019 Lecture Series at Harvard University — Art Has No Power Over Schein Through Its Abolition
International Conference - Day 2 Sessions — Adorno's Negative Dialectics at 50
International Conference - Day 1 Sessions — Adorno's Negative Dialectics at 50
Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History — Hannah Arendt and the Problem of the Public Intellectual
Hannah Arendt Lecture Series — Eichmann in Jerusalem: Conscience, Normality, and the Rule of Narrative
Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History — Hannah Arendt and the Laboring Body
Walter Benjamin and Isaiah Berlin: Modes of Jewish Intellectual Life in the 20th Century
Thomas Hobbes and Civil Conversation
The Political Origins of Global Justice
The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France
Back to Where We've Never Been: Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida on Tradition and History (Past, Present, and Future)
What Is Jewish (if anything) about Sir Isaiah Berlin's Political Philosophy?
Intentionality and Irony: The Missed Encounter of Quentin Skinner and Hayden White
From Culture to Culture: Nahum Glatzer, émigré Jewish scholar, disseminator of European philosophy, and architect of academic Jewish Studies
An Atheism that is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought
Ideas of Terror and Terrorism in 20th-Century Europe
Symposium: The Future of American Intellectual History
An Integrated History of the Holocaust: Some Methodological Problems
Rethinking Foucault: Terror, Horror, and the Execution of Damiens
Word and Image in the Philosophy of Hobbes
