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:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.1326305.field_date.0@carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu DTSTAMP:20210301T011024Z DESCRIPTION:\n Join us for a conversation with Danielle Allen\, Director of Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics\, and John Shattuck\, Senior F ellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy\, as they discuss their c ommon purpose of reviving American Democracy in the 21st Century. \;\n \n\n\n Professor Allen has recently worked with The American Academy to rel ease Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Centu ry. A report which lays out a case for renewed civic faith. It offers a se t of recommendations for building a fresh collective commitment to democra tic citizenship\, to American constitutional democracy\, and one another. \n\n\n\n Professor Shattuck leads the Renewing Rights and Responsibilities in the United States research and policy initiative at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. The initiative is a two-year research project\, laun ched last fall by the Carr Center\, to create a nonpartisan\, evidence-bas ed report and agenda for the U.S. administration in 2021 for the renewal o f rights and responsibilities in the U.S.\n\n\n\n Panelists: \;\n\n\n\n \n Danielle Allen | \;James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harva rd University\, and Director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethic s\n \n \n John Shattuck | \;Professor of Practice in Diplomacy at the Fle tcher School of Law and Diplomacy\, and Senior Fellow\, Carr Center \; \n \n \n Mathias Risse (Moderator) \;| Faculty Director\, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy \;\n \n\n\n\n Danielle Allen is a political theoris t who has published broadly in democratic theory\, political sociology\, a nd the history of political thought. Widely known for her work on justice and citizenship in both ancient Athens and modern America\, Allen is the a uthor of The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens (2000)\, Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown vs. the Board of Education (2004)\, Why Plato Wrote (2010)\, Our Declarat ion: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality ( 2014)\, Education and Equality (2016)\, and Cuz: The Life and Times of Mic hael A. (2017). She is the co-editor of the award-winning Education\, Just ice\, and Democracy (2013\, with Rob Reich) and From Voice to Influence: U nderstanding Citizenship in the Digital Age (2015\, with Jennifer Light). She is a former Chair of the Mellon Foundation Board\, past Chair of the P ulitzer Prize Board\, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sci ences and the American Philosophical Society. Allen is also the principal investigator for the Democratic Knowledge Project\, a distributed research and action lab at Harvard University. The Democratic Knowledge Project se eks to identify\, strengthen\, and disseminate the bodies of knowledge\, s kills\, and capacities that democratic citizens need in order to succeed a t operating their democracy. The lab currently has three projects underway : the Declaration Resources Project\, the Humanities and Liberal Arts Asse ssment Project (HULA)\, and the Youth and Participatory Politics Action an d Reflection Frame.\n\n\n\n John Shattuck is Professor of Practice in Diplo macy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy\, Tufts University\, a Se nior Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations\, and chairs the international advisory boar d of the Center on Ethics\, Justice and Public Life at Brandeis University . His many publications include Freedom on Fire\, a study of the internati onal response to genocide and crimes against humanity\, Rights of Privacy\ , and many articles on democracy\, human rights\, civil liberties\, intern ational relations and higher education. \;Shattuck comes to the Carr C enter after a distinguished career spanning more than three decades in hig her education\, international diplomacy\, foreign policy and human rights. Shattuck served as the President and Rector of Central European Universit y\, CEO of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation\, a national public affa irs center in Boston\, and Senior Fellow at Tufts University\, where he ta ught human rights and international relations.\n\n\n\n Mathias Risse is the Faculty Director at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and the Luciu s N. Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Administration at the Har vard Kennedy School. His work primarily addresses questions of global just ice ranging from human rights\, inequality\, taxation\, trade and immigrat ion to climate change\, obligations to future generations and the future o f technology. He has also worked on questions in ethics\, decision theory and 19th century German philosophy\, especially Nietzsche. In addition to the Harvard Kennedy School\, he teaches in Harvard College and the Harvard Extension School\, and he is affiliated with the Harvard philosophy depar tment. He has also been involved with executive education both at Harvard and in collaboration with international organizations. Risse is the author of On Global Justice and Global Political Philosophy. On Global Justice i s known for introducing the 'grounds-of-justice' approach to global politi cal thought. Global Political Philosophy is an introduction to political t hought from a global standpoint rather than the more typical state-focused perspective. Risse is currently completing two additional books. The firs t is the co-authored On Trade Justice: A Philosophical Plea for a New Glob al Deal\, forthcoming with Oxford University Press (with Gabriel Wollner). The other is On Justice: Philosophy\, History\, Foundations\, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.\n\n\n\n Virtual Event DetailsThis event w ill be livestreamed on YouTube Live. Attendees registered for this event ( link below) will receive a reminder for the livestream fifteen minutes bef ore the event along with a link to the YouTube page where you can particip ate in the live chat and ask questions during the event.\n\n DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200715T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200715T150000 LAST-MODIFIED:20200630T202106Z LOCATION:Virtual Event (Registration Required) SUMMARY:Civic Engagement and Human Rights: Reviving U.S. Democracy URL;TYPE=URI:https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/civic-engagement-and- human-rights-reviving-american-democracy END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR