ICYMI: #UMD Distinguished University Professor Patricia Hill Collins received the $1M Berggruen Prize for Philosophy! She was honored for her pioneering research on the intersections of race, gender, social class and sexuality. #BlackHistoryMonth go.umd.edu/3SxoLns

🏆Supreme Court Justice & 2019 #BerggruenPrize Laureate Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a trailblazer dedicated to advancing human rights and championing the legal recognition of gender equality.

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Based on a seminar organized by Berggruen Institute Europe in Granada, Spain, European University Institute scholars Fabrizio Tassinari & Nicholas Milanese have collected a series of policy briefs on the topic 'An enlarged Europe as a civilization of consent: Can Europe be a laboratory for a new planetary

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Last October Berggruen Institute gathered a group of philosophers in Granada on the day of the European Political Community summit to imagine Europe as a civilisation of consent in the aftermath of Russia’s aggression.
Here’s the result. And here’s to hope.
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How can new economic potentials be unlocked across the Sahel region? A new report by @uclaluskin, which evaluates scores from the Berggruen Governance Index (BGI), suggests Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Sudan could build resilience and foster development by shifting away from

The Berggruen Institute is now accepting applications for 2024 Beijing Fellowships! Thinkers in all areas are welcome to join us at the Berggruen Research Center at Peking University.

Link below to Apply:
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🌎Planetary challenges are problems without passports. Nothing epitomizes this problem more than climate change, explains co-author Jonathan Blake
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Discover Future Techne’s Air Age Blueprint: ancient healing traditions, computational technologies, techno-mysticism with writers and musicians K 🕸🐬, Armen Nalbandian, and OpenAI’s GPT3. Claire Isabel Webb Zandie Brockett 张桂才 Learn more at the link! berggruen.org/news/1-air-age…

🎯'Blake and Gilman argue that it is essential to reimagine our governing institutions in light of the fact that we can only thrive if the multi-species ecosystems we inhabit are also flourishing'
Seems like common sense to me!

Becoming 'Children of a Modest Star': Long Now Foundation talks with Jonathan Blake and Nils Gilman about pandemics, climate change, and the planetary governance systems required to deal with them:
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Future Humans is hiring a Sr. Program Manager.

Led by Dr. Claire Isabel Webb, our Program explores the shifting category of the human in relation to emerging, novel life forms. We connect scientists, creators, and scholars who are shaping how humans of the future will collaborate

For those who missed it, here is video of Berggruen Institute event about local democracy, 'Barcelona v Bogota: Which Is the World's Most Democratic City?' #DemocracyLocal Democracy Local Democracy International youtube.com/watch?v=_CzYBl…

To grapple with the planetary crises of the contemporary moment, we need new systems of planetary thinking.

In their new book CHILDREN OF A MODEST STAR, Nils Gilman and Jonathan Blake of Berggruen Institute
explore planetary governance. Read our interview: hubs.ly/Q02tZjmW0

🏆Renowned philosopher & 2018 #BerggruenPrize Laureate Martha C. Nussbaum's influential ‘capabilities approach’ has strengthened our understanding of human potential and development.

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“To recognize that AIs will increasingly share some of our features does not devalue our own. This zero-sum view of intelligence must be abandoned as we grow as a species.”

— Michael Levin

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