2021 Dignity Workshop 330: Message to the World from Mechthild "Mecke" Nagel
Channel: Evelin Lindner
Date: 2022-01-19

This is Mechthild "Mecke" Nagel's "Message to the World" shared on Day Three of the 18th Annual Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict, “Toward a New Global Normal: Dignity Through Solidarity,” co-hosted by Morton Deutsch-International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Teachers College, Columbia University, December 9 – 11, 2021,  held online due to the coronavirus pandemic.

"Messages to the World" are a contribution to the World Dignity University Library of Ideas to be shared with the world and, hopefully, inspirational for future generations. 

Mechthild "Mecke" Nagel is professor of philosophy, Director of the Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies (CGIS) at the State University of New York, College at Cortland, and most recently, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen. Dr. Nagel is also a visiting professor at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany. She is author of seven books, with the recent coedited book titled "Diversity, Social Justice, and Inclusive Excellence: Transdisciplinary and Global Perspectives" (SUNY Press, 2014). 
She has taught in area prisons in New York state and established a prison education program at a prison in Fulda, Germany. She writes on justice studies, global feminist studies, Africana philosophy. Lately, Dr. Nagel also works with teens at a Youth Center and supervises a college program, teaching philosophy to children in an area high-need elementary school.
Dr. Nagel is founder and editor-in-chief of the online feminist journal "Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies" (wagadu.org).

We thank Anna Strout for taking wonderful photos, and Fatma Tufan for the recording! (Please be aware that this is an unedited video.)

See more on: 
- www.humiliationstudies.org
- www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/annualmeeting/36.php
- www.worlddignityuniversity.org