BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal: Date iCal//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.16.12// METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Ical BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20181104T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20180311T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20190310T020000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.1116742.field_date.0@carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu DTSTAMP:20210301T012455Z DESCRIPTION:\n The study group will meet from 12:00-1:00pm on four occasions this semester:\n\n\n\n \n Wednesday\, March 7 in room R229\n \n \n Thursday\, March 22 in room R414AB\n \n \n Thursday\, April 5 in room R229\n \n \n Wednesda y\, May 2 in room R229\n \n\n\n\n This group is open by application only. If you are interested\, please send an email explaining your interest to car r_center@hks.harvard.edu.\n\nDescription:\n\n\n  \;\n\n\n\n Rights are n ot static things. They don’t stay the same from generation to generation b ut evolve and change depending on changing norms and circumstances. In a s ense\, they adapt to history. This is an unpopular notion. Most human righ ts advocates understandably fear that\, if long-fought-for rights are not grounded in the bedrock of such things as natural law or inherent human di gnity\, they may be subject to disregard or even repeal. As we will argue\ , rights represent a description of the good society\, a society that prot ects and advances its members’ “lives\, liberties\, and pursuit of happine ss.” If you already think you know what that good society looks like\, nat urally you resist changes to the rendering.\n\n\n\n The problem is that som e change in that description is inevitable. Human rights as we conceive th em today are different from how they were conceived fifty\, much less a hu ndred or more\, years ago. While we may well hope that fundamental human r ights\, like the right to life or the right not to be tortured or the righ t to be free from slavery\, will be as robust fifty years from now as they are today (and it is certainly incumbent upon us to fight hard to see tha t they are)\, the interpretation of other rights\, like the right not to b e subjected to war crimes\, may need to be different. Still other rights t hat we can barely conceive of today\, like an unlimited right to assisted suicide or of an animal to be regarded as a legal agent\, may seem commonp lace in years to come.\n\n\n\n Carr Center Senior Fellow Bill Schulz and Ex ecutive Director Sushma Raman will lead this study group - building upon t he convenings of the Fall 2017 semester - \;workshopping chapters and research for their forthcoming book (to be published by Harvard University Press) which will address prospective changes to rights brought about by such developments as a non-binary understanding of gender\; the developmen t of robotic (autonomous) weaponry\, the emergence of the notion that Natu re itself\, including rivers\, may be rights-bearing entities\, etc.\n\n DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180405T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180405T130000 LAST-MODIFIED:20180402T133711Z LOCATION:Carr Center Conference Room (R229)\, HKS\, 79 JFK Street\, Cambrid ge\, MA 02138 SUMMARY:Study Group: Metamorphosis - New Rights on the Horizon URL;TYPE=URI:https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/study-group-metamorph osis-new-rights-horizon-1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR