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Making a Movement
 
Linda Bilmes, Soroush Saghafian, Iris Bohnet, John Donahue, Jay Rosengard, John Haigh, Jason Furman, Jeffrey Frankel, Mark Fagan, Archon Fung, Sheila Jasanoff, Henry Lee, Jane Nelson, Mathias Risse
In 2023, the international community celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The creation of such a document—its mere existence—must…
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Mathias Risse
vlog Working Paper No. RWP23-025
Wub-e-ke-niew’s enormously unsettling book We Have the Right to Exist presents a version of indigenous philosophical thought as an alternative way of being human in the world that…
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Mathias Risse
When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act into law, his action honored a decades-long struggle by grassroots activists and dedicated political leaders to…
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Mathias Risse
Carr Center Discussion Paper Series 2020-010
This paper was prepared for an interdisciplinary conference on Gefährliche Forschung? (Dangerous Science?) held at the University of Cologne in February 2020 and is scheduled to…
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Mathias Risse
“I want to be remembered as a woman … who dared to be a catalyst of change.” - Shirley Chisholm In 1972, Shirley Chisholm made history as the first African American woman to seek…