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.1367748.field_date.0@carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu DTSTAMP:20210301T011053Z DESCRIPTION:\n Please join the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy for its s ignature weekly series this fall\, The Fierce Urgency of Now\, featuring B lack\, Indigenous\, People of Color scholars\, activists\, and community l eaders\, and experts from the Global South. Hosted and facilitated by Sush ma Raman and Mathias Risse\, the series also aligns with a course they wil l co-teach this fall at the Harvard Kennedy School on Economic Justice: Th eory and Practice. \;\n\n\n\n  \;\n\n\n\n The opening panel for this series will provide a global perspective on economic justice concerns and ways to build a better future.\n\n\n\n  \;\n\n\n\n Panelists: \n\n\n\n \n César Rodríguez-Garavito | \;Co-Director\, Center for Human Rights a nd Global Justice\, New York University School of Law\n \n \n Kumi Naidoo |&n bsp\;former Secretary General of Amnesty International\, former Internatio nal Executive Director of Greenpeace International \;\n \n \n Sushma Rama n | \;Executive Director\, Carr Center \;\n \n \n Mathias Risse (Mode rator) | Faculty Director\, Carr Center \;\n \n\n\n\n César Rodríguez-Ga ravito \;is a director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justi ce at NYU School of Law. He is a human rights and environmental justice sc holar and practitioner whose interests focus on global governance\, climat e change\, socioeconomic rights\, business and human rights\, and the huma n rights movement. César has been an associate professor at the University of the Andes and a visiting professor at NYU Law\, Stanford\, Brown\, the University of Melbourne\, European University Institute\, University of P retoria (South Africa)\, the Getulio Vargas Foundation (Brazil)\, Central European University\, and the Andean University of Quito. He is the Editor -in-Chief of \;Open Global Rights \;and has served as a strategy a dvisor to leading international and domestic human rights organizations in different parts of the world. César has been an expert witness of Inter-A merican Court of Human Rights\, an Adjunct Judge of the Constitutional Cou rt of Colombia\, a member of the Science Panel for the Amazon and a lead l itigator in climate change\, socioeconomic rights and indigenous rights ca ses. He has served as director of Dejusticia\, the Global Justice and Huma n Rights Program and the Center for Socio-Legal Research at the University of los Andes.\n\n\n\n Kumi Naidoo \;is a life-long social justice camp aigner hailing from South Africa. Kumi has held multiple leadership roles\ , but his time as Executive Director of Greenpeace International cemented his reputation as a bold activist who championed civil disobedience\, most notably when he was arrested for scaling a Greenlandic oil rig to hand-de liver a petition in protest of drilling in the Arctic in 2011. \; A ye ar later he occupied a Russian oil rig in the Barents Sea in the Russian A rctic. Kumi’s most recent role has been as a co-founder and interim chair of the pan-African organization\, Africans Rising for justice\, peace and dignity. The group\, which has forged partnerships across trade unions\, r eligion and civil society\, aims to change the fact that while the Africa as a continent has benefitted from economic growth\, Africans themselves h ave not shared in that increasing wealth and power. The group\, which has forged partnerships across trade unions\, religion and civil society\, aim s to change the fact that while the Africa as a continent has benefitted f rom economic growth\, Africans themselves have not shared in that increasi ng wealth and power.\n\n\n\n Sushma Raman is the Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. She brings over two decades of global experience launching\, scaling\, and leading social justice and philanthr opic programs and collaboratives\, building capabilities of grassroots hum an rights organizations and their leaders\, and teaching graduate courses in the public policy schools at UCLA\, USC\, and Harvard Kennedy School. S ushma has worked at the Ford Foundation\, where she helped launch and scal e social justice and women’s funds around the world\, and at the Open Soci ety Foundation\, where she was a Program Officer on the founding staff for US Programs. Sushma is the co-author\, along with Bill Schulz (former exe cutive director of Amnesty International USA and Carr Center Senior Fellow )\, of the book \;The Coming Good Society: Why New Realities Demand Ne w Rights\, released by Harvard University Press in June 2020. This forward -looking book examines the coming changes to the human rights landscape an d argues that rights must adapt to new technological and scientific realit ies or risk being consigned to irrelevance.\n\n\n\n Mathias Risse \;is the Faculty Director at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and the Lu cius N. Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School. His work primarily addresses questions of global j ustice ranging from human rights\, inequality\, taxation\, trade and immig ration to climate change\, obligations to future generations and the futur e of technology. He has also worked on questions in ethics\, decision theo ry and 19th century German philosophy\, especially Nietzsche. Risse is the author of On Global Justice and Global Political Philosophy. On Global Ju stice is known for introducing the 'grounds-of-justice' approach to global political thought. Global Political Philosophy is an introduction to poli tical thought from a global standpoint rather than the more typical state- focused perspective. Risse is the co-author of On Trade Justice: A Philoso phical Plea for a New Global Deal \, published by Oxford University Press (with Gabriel Wollner). His next book is On Justice: Philosophy\, History\ , Foundations\, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. \;\n\n\n \n Virtual Event DetailsThis event will be livestreamed on YouTube Live. At tendees registered for this event (link below) will receive a reminder for the livestream fifteen minutes before the event along with a link to the YouTube page where you can participate in the live chat and ask questions during the event.\n\n\n\n  \;\n\n DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200903T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200903T143000 LAST-MODIFIED:20200903T133506Z LOCATION:Virtual Event (Registration Required) SUMMARY:Economic Justice: Building a Better Future URL;TYPE=URI:https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/fierce-urgency-now-we binar-series-economic-justice-building-better-future END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR