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Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger BerkowitzMontez Press Radio: The Politics of Friendship with Uday Mehta | Bonus EpisodeThis week we're sharing a recording from our friends at Montez Press Radio, an experimental broadcasting and performance platform founded in 2018 with the goal of fostering greater experimentation and conversation between artists, writers, and thinkers through the medium of radio. In the first of their new series, Love Thy Network, one of three excellent new segments on friendship, gossip, and public discourse, Roger Berkowitz and Uday Mehta, a scholar of political philosophy, engage with Hannah Arendt's insights on the intersection of friendship and politics.
Arendt, known for her "genius for friendship," believed that true friendship is where w...2025-07-1153 min
The Music PodcastMahendra Soni | The Visionary Behind SVF & Hoichoi | The Music PodcastWe are thrilled to have media pioneer Mahendra Soni, co-founder of SVF, on this special episode of The Music Podcast with Tarsame Mittal! A visionary in the Bengali film and music industry, Mahendra ji has played a pivotal role in shaping regional entertainment—from launching blockbuster films to pioneering the digital revolution with Hoichoi.In this candid conversation, Mahendra ji opens up about his early days—how Sri Venkatesh Films (SVF) started with a small dream and went on to become one of the biggest film production houses in India. He shares incredible behind-the-scenes stories, including the 98’ Bengal...2025-03-071h 51
Philosophy Talk Starters554: Liberty and Justice For Who?More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/liberty-and-justice-who.
Many democracies are founded on the ideals of 18th- and 19th-Century British Liberalism: the idea that human beings deserve the right to self-government because we are born free, equal, and capable of rationality. Yet Liberalism was used to justify colonialism, which deprived people around the world of the right to govern themselves. How could a political philosophy that claims to be pro-freedom be used to take freedom away from so many people? Was Liberalism misunderstood, or were its moral flaws built-in from the beginning? How can we design a political philosophy that...2025-02-0210 minReading Hannah Arendt with Roger BerkowitzThe Equivocations of Tribalism with Uday Mehta | Bonus EpisodeIn this bonus episode of Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger Berkowitz, we feature a talk from the Arendt Center's fall 2024 conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism. Uday Mehta discusses the contrasting concepts of tribalism and cosmopolitanism, exploring how they shape identity, governance, and interpersonal relationships. He emphasizes the rootedness and exclusivity of tribalism in contrast to the voluntary and interest-based nature of cosmopolitanism. Beginning at minute 28:51 in this episode, a conversation between Mehta and podcast host Roger Berkowitz delves into the distinctions and overlaps between these constructs, and the profound role of tradition, familiarity, and the arts.
Uday S...2025-01-1752 min
IIFAll India Rank, PoacherFilm critics Rahul Desai and Uday Bhatia discuss Varun Grover's debut film ALL INDIA RANK and Richie Mehta's new series, POACHER. 2024-02-261h 02
All things Sports showEp #004 Matchweek 36 Premier League, UCL Semis This week we review the matchweek 36 of premier league and look at the UEFA champions league semis. Join me (Uday Khandelwal ) and my friend Sid Mehta as we bring our analysis for you. 2023-05-1831 min
All things Sports showEp #004 Matchweek 36 Premier League, UCL Semis In this episode we take a look at the business end of the season with premier league completing Matchweek 36. Also, champions league semis are nearing completion. Join me(Uday) and Sid Mehta for insights. 2023-05-1732 min
Dodge This: Action Movies UnleashedALIENOID (South Korea, 2022)Where we're going, we don't need roads! Because there's spaceships and wuxia and magic and ALL THE MOVIE in South Korean sci-fi action and a whole lot more genre-mashup ALIENOID directed by Choi Dong-hoon, starring Ryu Jun-yeol, Kim Woo-bin, and Kim Tae-ri. >>> Alienoid trailer 2023-03-211h 04
Philosophy Talk: Select EpisodesLiberty and Justice For Who?More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/liberty-and-justice-who.
Many democracies are founded on the ideals of 18th- and 19th-Century British Liberalism: the idea that human beings deserve the right to self-government because we are born free, equal, and capable of rationality. Yet Liberalism was used to justify colonialism, which deprived people around the world of the right to govern themselves. How could a political philosophy that claims to be pro-freedom be used to take freedom away from so many people? Was Liberalism misunderstood, or were its moral flaws built-in from the beginning? How can we design a political philosophy that...2022-10-2151 minSelect EpisodesLiberty and Justice For Who?More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/liberty-and-justice-who.
Many democracies are founded on the ideals of 18th- and 19th-Century British Liberalism: the idea that human beings deserve the right to self-government because we are born free, equal, and capable of rationality. Yet Liberalism was used to justify colonialism, which deprived people around the world of the right to govern themselves. How could a political philosophy that claims to be pro-freedom be used to take freedom away from so many people? Was Liberalism misunderstood, or were its moral flaws built-in from the beginning? How can we design a political philosophy that...2022-10-2151 min
Beaconsfield#8 The Project of Self-Knowledge: Burke, Gandhi, and the quest for moral integrityEdmund Burke and Mahatma Gandhi – two thinkers separated in time and place – both come to political theory with an idea of moral integrity always in view. In this conversation, Uday Mehta and I explore the deep relationship between the rhetoric, writing and spiritual exercises of these two men – thinkers, who in the midst of politics, asked the ethical question: ‘Who am I? And what am I prepared to stand for?’
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Discourse Magazine PodcastPluralism and Liberalism: Ben Klutsey talks to Roger BerkowitzIn this seventh installment of our series on liberalism, Benjamin Klutsey, the director of academic outreach at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, sits down with Roger Berkowitz to discuss the effects that democratic conversations, elite technocratic prejudices, and mass loneliness have on pluralism and liberalism. Dr. Berkowitz is the Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and Professor of Politics, Philosophy, and Human Rights at Bard College. He specializes in law, political theory, and continental philosophy. His books include The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition and Thinking I...2021-01-081h 01
Better Read than Dead: Literature from a Left PerspectiveEpisode 57: A Passage to IndiaThe book commies get into one of our favorite topics this week -- liberal imperialism (well, *dunking on* liberal imperialism is one of our favorite topics, because it is very, very bad). We’re conflicted about E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India (1924), a novel with some great writing (you know, Forster) that tries to think seriously about empire’s many incoherences and oppressive structures… but that also tends to reproduce those incoherences and structures. And that does plenty of its own “orientalizing.” And then there’s the novel's extremely fraught and fucked up gender politics. (Marabar Caves, wtf.) Tl;dr Ed...2020-11-221h 27
Reading Hannah Arendt with Roger BerkowitzAmor Mundi Podcast Special Series,Thinking the Plague: Living with HonorRoger Berkowitz discusses the world as it is now with Uday Mehta, Distinguished Professor at City University of New York.
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CHIASMOS: The University of Chicago International and Area Studies Multimedia Outreach Source [audio]Panel 3: The Politics of Knowledge in a Global WorldPanel 3: Uday Singh Mehta, Amherst College; Arjun Appadurai, New York University; Sheldon Pollock, Columbia University. Co-sponsored by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT), the Franke Institute for the Humanities, and the Nicholson Center for British Studies.2010-03-121h 01
Southern Asia EventsPanel 3: The Politics of Knowledge in a Global WorldPanel 3: Uday Singh Mehta, Amherst College; Arjun Appadurai, New York University; Sheldon Pollock, Columbia University. Co-sponsored by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT), the Franke Institute for the Humanities, and the Nicholson Center for British Studies.2010-03-121h 01