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    2020 Oct 16

    Algorithms of Oppression: A Conversation with Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble

    Registration Closed 3:00pm to 4:00pm

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    Virtual Event (Registration Required)

    Towards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century is a talk series organized by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy featuring prominent scholars, business and technology leaders, public interest technologists, and activists who address the ethical and rights implications of the impact of Artificial Intelligence on society and human life. The title of the series draws inspiration from the title of Max Tegmark’s book, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

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    • Dr....
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    2020 Oct 29

    Advocating for the Rights of People on the Move: A conversation with Refugee Community Leaders

    Registration Closed 1:30pm to 2:30pm

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    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.

    Join us for a conversation with refugee community leaders on economic justice and migration. Abid Shamdeen, co-founder of...

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    2020 Sep 23

    Acts of Rebellion & Envisioning a New Society: a Conversation with Drs. Vincent Brown and Timothy McCarthy

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

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    Virtual Event (Registration Required)

    Please join The Royall House and Slave Quarters for a dynamic and exciting virtual conversation between Drs. Vincent Brown and Timothy McCarthy about the role of protests and revolts in shaping Black resistance and freedom movements from slave rebellions in the 18th-century Atlantic world, to the Black Lives Matter Movement today. This talk is co-sponsored by the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard and The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

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    • Dr. Vincent Brown |...
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    2018 Mar 07

    A.R.T. of Human Rights

    8:00pm to 9:30pm

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    OBERON 2 Arrow St. Cambridge, MA 02138

    Resistance Mic! is part of the A.R.T. of Human Rights series, an ongoing collaboration between the American Repertory Theater and Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Resistance Mic! will take place on Wednesdays @ 8pm @ OBERON, A.R.T.’s second stage theater, and will be co-hosted by Timothy Patrick McCarthy and Sarah Sweeney.

    Resistance Mic! continues this spring with performances February 7,...

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    2020 Oct 01

    A conversation with Alphonso David, Human Rights Campaign

    7:00pm to 8:00pm

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    Virtual Event (Registration Required)

    On Thursday, October 1 at 7pm ET, join President of the Human Rights Campaign, Alphonso David, in conversation with Harvard Kennedy School Professor Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Lecturer on Education and Public Policy, and Core Faculty, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy discussing pressing matters to the LGBTQ community and celebrating LGBTQ History Month.

    The quest for equity and inclusion in the LGBTQ community has historically faced many obstacles and in these challenging times the...

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    2020 Oct 08

    10 Years On: Lessons from the Cholera Epidemic in Haiti

    2:00pm to 3:30pm

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    Virtual Event (Registration Required)

    October 2020 marks the 10-year anniversary of UN peacekeepers’ introduction of cholera to Haiti. The resulting epidemic has killed over 10,000 people and caused immeasurable losses in Haiti. The UN’s reluctance to accept responsibility and to remedy affected communities has also tested the organization’s commitment to human rights and spurred strong criticisms from inside and outside of the organization.  This event brings together UN officials and Haiti advocates to examine what lessons the UN should draw from the cholera epidemic. Panelists will discuss how the cholera...

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    2017 Mar 06

    *CANCELLED* Laughtivism: Fighting Authoritarian Regimes with the Power of Humor *CANCELLED*

    4:30pm to 6:00pm

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    Carr Center Conference Room R-219

    *This event has been cancelled*

    How do you start, build, and complete a peaceful revolution?  How do we fight oppression and violence? Why were the Serbian and Arab Spring revolutionaries able to topple deep-seated autocrats while the American Occupy movement failed to achieve its stated goals? What are the application of rules for 'people power' movements in different environments - from autocracies to democracies?

    Join us on Monday, March 6th, as Srdja Popovic looks at how past youth movements have successfully toppled...

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    2020 Oct 29

    #BlackLivesMatter Across The Americas: Black Youth Organizers and the Struggle for Racial Justice

    4:00pm to 5:00pm

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    Virtual Event (Registration Required)

    Join the second event in the What Justice Looks Like series for a conversation with activists from Black youth-led movements from the US and Latin America, leading the struggle against racial injustice, from police violence to structural racism and disparate effects of the COVID pandemic on racialized and low-income communities.

    Speakers:

    • Ana Belique, Reconocido Movement (Santo Domingo)
    • Daniela Rincón, Casa Cultural El Chontaduro (Cali)
    • Marcelle Decothé...
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