{"id":1976,"date":"2024-12-18T12:39:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T17:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/?page_id=1976"},"modified":"2025-12-08T16:35:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:35:45","slug":"about-the-keynote-speaker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/martin-luther-king-jr-day-2025\/about-the-keynote-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote Speaker Erica Chenoweth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/files\/2024\/11\/Chenoweth_radcliffe_fellow_21_22.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"726\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/files\/2024\/11\/Chenoweth_radcliffe_fellow_21_22-726x900.webp\" alt=\"Erica Chenoweth\" class=\"wp-image-1962\" style=\"width:264px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/files\/2024\/11\/Chenoweth_radcliffe_fellow_21_22-726x900.webp 726w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/files\/2024\/11\/Chenoweth_radcliffe_fellow_21_22-242x300.webp 242w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/files\/2024\/11\/Chenoweth_radcliffe_fellow_21_22-768x953.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/files\/2024\/11\/Chenoweth_radcliffe_fellow_21_22-506x628.jpg 506w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/files\/2024\/11\/Chenoweth_radcliffe_fellow_21_22-1238x1536.webp 1238w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/files\/2024\/11\/Chenoweth_radcliffe_fellow_21_22-161x200.webp 161w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/files\/2024\/11\/Chenoweth_radcliffe_fellow_21_22.webp 1547w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ash.harvard.edu\/articles\/episode-one-meet-the-nonviolent-action-lab\/\">The 2025 MLK Day keynote speaker is scholar and author Erica Chenoweth,<\/a> an expert in mass movements, nonviolent resistance, terrorism, political violence, revolutions, and state repression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chenoweth&nbsp;is the academic dean for faculty development and the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard Kennedy School, faculty dean at Pforzheimer House at Harvard College,&nbsp;and a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at Harvard&#8217;s Radcliffe Institute<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chenoweth&#8217;s current book project,&nbsp;<em>The End of People<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Power<\/em>, investigates why civil resistance movements in recent years are meeting with less success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025 MLK Day keynote speaker is scholar and author Erica Chenoweth,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"parent":887,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-1976","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1976\/revisions\/1981"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}