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:20190310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.1116854.field_date.0@carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu DTSTAMP:20210301T012500Z 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.\n \nDescription:\n\n\n  \;\n\n\n\n Rights are not static things. They don’ t stay the same from generation to generation but evolve and change depend ing on changing norms and circumstances. In a sense\, they adapt to histor y. This is an unpopular notion. Most human rights advocates understandably fear that\, if long-fought-for rights are not grounded in the bedrock of such things as natural law or inherent human dignity\, they may be subject to disregard or even repeal. As we will argue\, rights represent a descri ption of the good society\, a society that protects and advances its membe rs’ “lives\, liberties\, and pursuit of happiness.” If you already think y ou know what that good society looks like\, naturally you resist changes t o the rendering.\n\n\n\n The problem is that some change in that descriptio n is inevitable. Human rights as we conceive them today are different from how they were conceived fifty\, much less a hundred or more\, years ago. While we may well hope that fundamental human rights\, like the right to l ife or the right not to be tortured or the right to be free from slavery\, will be as robust fifty years from now as they are today (and it is certa inly incumbent upon us to fight hard to see that they are)\, the interpret ation of other rights\, like the right not to be subjected to war crimes\, may need to be different. Still other rights that 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 commonplace in years to come.\n\n \n\n Carr Center Senior Fellow Bill Schulz and Executive Director Sushma Ra man will lead this study group - building upon the convenings of the Fall 2017 semester - \;workshopping chapters and research for their forthco ming 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 development of robotic (autonomous) weaponry\, the emergence of the notion that Nature itself\, including rive rs\, may be rights-bearing entities\, etc.\n\n DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180502T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180502T130000 LAST-MODIFIED:20180226T191851Z 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-2 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR