On Love and Tyranny: The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt
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Join us for a discussion with author Dr. Ann Heberlein, about her new book On Love and Tyranny: The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt. In an utterly unique approach to biography, Dr. Heberlein traces the life and work of the iconic German Jewish intellectual Hannah Arendt, whose political philosophy and understandings of evil, totalitarianism, love, and exile prove essential amid the rise of the refugee crisis and authoritarian regimes around the world.
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Speakers
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Peter L. BiroPeter is the Founder of Section 1, a democracy and civics education think-tank in Toronto, Canada. He is a lawyer, educator, writer and businessman. He is Chair Emeritus of the Jane Goodall Institute Global and CEO of Newcon Optik. He has published and lectured widely on legal and political affairs and been an outspoken advocate for civil liberties, human rights, civics education, wildlife conservation and animal welfare. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Editor of Constitutional Democracy Under Stress: A Time For Heroic Citizenship (Mosaic Press).
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Nathalie Des RosiersPrincipal, Massey College
Nathalie Des Rosiers is the Principal of Massey College. From 2016-2019, she was MPP representing the riding of Ottawa-Vanier. She was Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry from January to June 2018. Prior to politics, she was the Dean of Law, Common Law at the University of Ottawa (2013-2016), General Counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (2009-2013), Vice-President, Governance , University of Ottawa (2008-2009), Dean of Law, Civil Law (2004-2008) and President of the LAW Commission of Canada (2000-2004). With Peter Oliver and Patrick Macklem, she co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Canadian Constitutional Law (2017). She also wrote with Louise Langevin and Marie-Pier Nadeau, L’indemnisation des victimes de violence sexuelle et conjugale (Prix Walter Owen, 2014). She has received the Order of Canada, the Order of Ontario, honorary doctorates from Université UCL (Belgium) and the Law Society of Ontario, le Prix Christine Tourigny (Barreau du Québec) and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
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Dr. Ann Heberlein
Dr. Ann Heberlein is the bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including A Little Book on Evil, A Good Life, and the autobiographical I Don’t Want to Die, I Just Don’t Want to Live, which has sold hundreds of thousands of copies, and has been translated into multiple languages and dramatized and mounted on several stages. In 2018, Heberlein debuted as a fiction writer with the novel Everything Is Going to Be All Right. Heberlein has researched and taught at the Department of Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University and at the Faculty of Theology, Lund University.
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Stephanie RedekopJunior Fellow, Massey College
Stephanie Redekop is a PhD Candidate in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. She holds an MA from Boston College. Her dissertation charts a literary history of American public discourse in the 1960s, tracing the role of the fact in the work of eight midcentury essayists who negotiated some of the toughest problems posed in and by American public life. Her research is supported by a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, a Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement, the Centre for the Study of the United States, and the Centre for Jewish Studies. Stephanie is a Junior Fellow at Massey College and the Co-Director of the University of Toronto’s American Literature Research Collaborative.
