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    2019 Apr 25

    Workshop: Human Rights Advocacy - Writing to Persuade & Building Coalitions

    12:30pm to 1:45pm

    Location: 

    Littauer-324

    The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy invites you to join a workshop on human rights advocacy! The workshop is convened and moderated by Elisa Massimino, Former President of Human Rights First & Senior Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.

    Description:

    Human rights advocacy can often seem a bit quixotic. But progress is possible. The problems we tackle need serious, hard-nosed strategies and activists with the skills to execute them. In this...

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    2020 Sep 10

    What Remains? Liberalism and Racial Justice

    Registration Closed 1:30pm to 2:30pm

    Location: 

    Virtual Event (Registration Required)

    Please join the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy for its signature weekly series this fall, The Fierce Urgency of Now, featuring Black, Indigenous, People of Color scholars, activists, and community leaders, and experts from the Global South. Hosted and facilitated by Sushma Raman and Mathias Risse, the series also aligns with a course they will co-teach this fall at the Harvard Kennedy School on Economic Justice: Theory and Practice.

    In this discussion, Charles Mills, a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center, CUNY, will examine how liberal thought...

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    2020 Feb 10

    We Didn't Cross the Border, the Border Crossed Us

    5:30pm to 6:45pm

    Location: 

    Rubenstein 414-AB

    Towards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century is a talk series organized and facilitated by Mathias Risse, Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Administration. Drawing inspiration from the title of Max Tegmark’s book, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, the series draws upon a range of scholars, technology leaders, and public interest technologists to address the ethical aspects of the long-term impact of...

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    2020 Sep 24

    Washington Bullets: a Conversation with Vijay Prashad about Marxism Today and the Role of the United States in the World

    Registration Closed 1:30pm to 2:30pm

    Location: 

    Virtual Event (Registration Required)

    Please join the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy for its signature weekly series this fall, The Fierce Urgency of Now, featuring Black, Indigenous, People of Color scholars, activists, and community leaders, and experts from the Global South. Hosted and facilitated by Sushma Raman and Mathias Risse, the series also aligns with a course they will co-teach this fall at the Harvard Kennedy School on Economic Justice: Theory and Practice. 

    Panelists:

    • Vijay Prashad | Director, Tricontinental:...
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    2020 Jul 16

    Viral Justice: Pandemics, Policing, and Portals with Ruha Benjamin

    Registration Closed 12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual Event (Registration Required)

    Join us for a conversation with Ruha Benjamin, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University.

    Panelists: 

    • Ruha Benjamin | Associate Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University
    • Sushma Raman (Moderator) | Executive Director, Carr Center 

     

    Ruha Benjamin is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton...

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    2017 Apr 10

    Violence and cell phone communication patterns: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Nye A, Taubman 520, Taubman Building, 79 JFK St, Cambridge MA 02138

     

    About the seminar:

    "When and where will violent conflict break out?" The answer to this question is critically important to people who might fall victim to violence, to policy makers who are charged with preventing and resolving deadly disputes, and to academics who strive to understand human behavior. The social science literature on reducing political violence mostly concerns answering the question, "Which countries are likely to experience violence?" Recent research has refined geographic predictions to identify local level danger zones....

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    2017 Oct 12

    UN Treaty Bodies: The Work of the Committee on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights

    9:00am to 10:00am

    Location: 

    Nye A, 5th floor, Taubman Building, (Harvard Kennedy School)

    The Carr Center is delighted to host Maria Virginia Bras Gomes, Chair of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

    Ms. Bras Gomes will discuss the Committee's work on diverse economic, social, and cultural rights issues, and provide an insight into the work of critical UN treaty bodies addressing human rights policy.

    Selected participants for the Carr Center's delegation to the UN General Assembly are required to attend this event, but all others are also welcome to attend.

    *Breakfast will be served.

    2020 Sep 24

    Transformation 2020: Popular Democracy Defined

    Thu - Sat, Sep 24 to Sep 26, 4:30pm - 1:30pm

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    Virtual Event (Registration Required)

    Welcome to the nexus of awarding-winning art, activism, politics, and culture. Hosted by the Center for Popular Democracy, they are bringing together some of the world’s biggest artists, community organizers, and progressive leaders for a historic multi-hour, cross-platform livestream. 

    Dr. Tim McCarthy, Lecturer on History and Literature, Education & Public Policy at Harvard University, will be part of the following sessions: 

    • Thursday, September 24, 4-5:30pm: "Performing 1776: The Politics and Poetics of the...
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