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How Do We Restore, Repair, Reconstruct, and Redress?

Scholars ask why a multifaceted approach for societal repair is needed, create space with poetry, and examine German efforts to atone for Nazi atrocities. This is a recording of session one of the 2021 Global Summit.

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Our single professional learning sessions are designed to easily fit into your day. Typically one hour or less, these sessions explore timely and relevant topics including teaching strategies, current events, and more.

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This professional learning event is self-paced and will be delivered virtually. When you register, you will receive instructions for how access and participate in the event.

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Democracy & Civic Engagement

As the opening session of the Global Summit on Repair, Reconstruction, and Restoration, this learning opportunity breaks down into three parts:

  1. Martha Minow, Karine Duhamel, and Karen Murphy address the big questions framing the 2021 Global Summit: why do we need to take a multifaceted approach to repair, what is the importance of acknowledgement and accountability in creating a just society and world, and how, as Martha Minnow says, “We're implicated in each other's lives, and that each of us is part of concentric circles of causation.”
  2. Marilyn Nelson reads her poem, “Minor Miracle.”
  3. Susan Neiman—drawing on her book, Learning from the Germans—examines German efforts to atone for Nazi atrocities and identifies lessons for how the United States might come to terms with its legacy of slavery and racism, helping us consider what we can learn from this case study.

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