Co-Sponsored by The Center for the Study of Europe. Synopsis from Zeitgeist Films: In the award-winning HANNAH ARENDT, the sublime Barbara Sukowa reteams with director Margarethe von Trotta (Vision, Rosa Luxemburg) for a brilliant new biopic of the influential German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist. Arendt\u2019s reporting on the 1961 trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann in The New Yorker\u2014controversial both for her portrayal of Eichmann and the Jewish councils\u2014introduced her now-famous concept of the \u201cBanality of Evil.\u201d Kosher pizza will be provided and we will host a discussion after the film with BU Professors Pnina Lahav (LAW), Deeana Klepper (CAS Religion\/History), and Abigail Gillman (Modern Languages and Comparative Literature).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ok, so this isn’t directly related to our class, but it’s an event well worth attending. Screening of Margarethe von Trotta’s HANNAH ARENDT Starts: 6:30 pm on Tuesday, November 12, 2013 Ends: 9:30 pm on Tuesday, November 12, 2013 Location: COM 209, 640 Commonwealth Ave, Boston URL: http:\/\/www.zeitgeistfilms.com\/film.php?directoryname=hannaharendt Co-Sponsored by The Center for the Study […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/revolutionaryrussia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/revolutionaryrussia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/revolutionaryrussia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/revolutionaryrussia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/revolutionaryrussia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/revolutionaryrussia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/revolutionaryrussia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/revolutionaryrussia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/revolutionaryrussia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/revolutionaryrussia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}