Past Technology and Democracy Workshops and Events

Past Technology & Democracy Workshops and Event

2024 Mar 28

DEI in Higher Education: Five Truths and Five Myths

1:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Virtual event, registration required

Since 2023, legislators across 28 U.S. states and in Congress have introduced 81 bills restricting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs at colleges and universities, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education’s DEI Legislation Tracker. To report on this trend and its consequences, journalists need to understand the history of diversity initiatives, common myths about DEI today and the latest research showing what works — and doesn’t work — for creating equal opportunity and better outcomes among students, faculty and staff, and college campuses as a whole.  

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2024 Mar 27

Why Citizens Don’t Hold Politicians Accountable for Air Pollution

4:00pm to 5:15pm

Location: 

Ash Center Seminar Room, Room 225 Suite 200N, 124 Mount Auburn Street

You’re invited to a Global Challenges to Democracy Seminar Series event featuring Tariq Thachil, Professor, Madan Lal Sobti Chair for the Study of Contemporary India; Director, Center for Advanced Study of India; University of Pennsylvania.  

Urban citizens in low-income democracies rarely hold elected officials accountable for toxic air. To understand why, Thachil will discuss a recent paper co-authored by Shikhar Singh.  

This event will be recorded. Light refreshments will be served.

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2024 Mar 25

India Votes 2024: From the Outside In

12:00pm

Location: 

Online via Zoom, with in-person watch party in CGIS South, Room S030 (Lee)

This spring, the Mittal Institute will host a series of events focused on the Indian elections, from how they are covered to what it means regionally and globally. This is the second part of the series, focusing on “How do India’s neighbors perceive recent developments in India?”

Speakers:

  • Nusrat Chowdhury, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Amherst College
  • Farzana Haniffa, Professor of Sociology, University of Colombo
  • Nida Kirmani, Associate Professor of Sociology, Lahore University of Management Sciences
  • Kanak...
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2024 Mar 22

Indonesian Language Class – Every Friday

Repeats every week every Friday until Mon May 20 2024 except Fri Nov 24 2023, Fri Dec 22 2023, Fri Dec 29 2023, Fri Jan 05 2024, Fri Jan 12 2024, Fri Jan 19 2024.
2:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 100N, Room 106

The Indonesia Program at the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia invites you to join a not-for-credit Indonesian language and culture course. The class is open to a diverse audience including Harvard students, faculty, fellows, staff members, as well as students and scholars from the wider Boston area. Your instructor, Ivanna Zakiyah, a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA), will guide you through an inclusive curriculum suitable for all skill levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced learners.

Embark on a cultural journey through Indonesia as you develop...

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2024 Mar 22

Seminar Series with David Hogg: Lessons from the Movement for Gun Reform

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Location will be shared upon accepted application

Join David Hogg, AB ‘23, president of Leaders We Deserve, for a four-part seminar series that will explore several facets of creating successful social movements.

In this interactive series, students will learn foundational skills and strategies for launching and sustaining the gun reform movement and will have opportunities to test these skills. Each session will be augmented by short readings and live practice using the tools gained in the lesson and students will also hear from David’s personal experience in launching a nationwide social movement. 

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2024 Mar 22

The Impact of National Service on Beliefs, Mindsets, and Life Pathways: Evidence from Teach For All

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Ash Center Seminar Room, Room 225 Suite 200N, 124 Mount Auburn Street

You’re invited to join Cecilia Mo, Judith E. Gruber Associate Professor at the University of California Berkley, for an American Politics Speaker Series discussion sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Center for American Political Studies.

Registration is encouraged but not required. This event series will not be recorded.

This event is open to Harvard ID holders only. Lunch will be served.

Register today...
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2024 Mar 21

India’s National Election: The Future of the World’s Largest Democracy

9:00am to 10:00am

Location: 

Virtual, Registration Required

As India prepares for general elections beginning next month, the world’s largest democracy finds itself at an inflection point. With incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) expected to maintain control of the country’s parliament, what can we expect from a third five-year term? What are the opportunities and challenges that a dominant BJP poses to India’s democracy? Is India’s democracy in decline, as some assert, or does it remain broadly competitive and inclusive and perhaps even a relative bastion of democracy’s promise?

Speakers include:...

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2024 Mar 19

Confronting Dictators: Lessons from Egypt, Russia, and Venezuela

5:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor, Taubman Building, Harvard Kennedy School

Harvard ID holders are invited to join us for a discussion featuring student researchers from the Non-Violent Action Lab: 

  • Shady ElGhazaly Harb MC/MPA 2023 (Egypt) 
  • Maria Kuznetsova MPP 2025 (Russia)  
  • Freddy Guevara MC/MPA 2024 (Venezuela) 

Erica Chenoweth, Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment and Director, Nonviolent Action Lab, will moderate.  

The panelists will discuss how their experiences, lessons learned, and perspectives on their respective struggles, nations,...

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2024 Mar 15

Indonesian Language Class – Every Friday

2:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 100N, Room 106

The Indonesia Program at the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia invites you to join a not-for-credit Indonesian language and culture course. The class is open to a diverse audience including Harvard students, faculty, fellows, staff members, as well as students and scholars from the wider Boston area. Your instructor, Ivanna Zakiyah, a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA), will guide you through an inclusive curriculum suitable for all skill levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced learners.

Embark on a cultural journey through Indonesia as you develop...

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2024 Mar 08

Indonesian Language Class – Every Friday

2:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 100N, Room 106

The Indonesia Program at the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia invites you to join a not-for-credit Indonesian language and culture course. The class is open to a diverse audience including Harvard students, faculty, fellows, staff members, as well as students and scholars from the wider Boston area. Your instructor, Ivanna Zakiyah, a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA), will guide you through an inclusive curriculum suitable for all skill levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced learners.

Embark on a cultural journey through Indonesia as you develop...

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2024 Mar 07

Towards Life 3.0 with Latanya Sweeney

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

Virtual Webinar Event

This webinar is part the Carr Center’s Towards Life 3.0 series, co-sponsored by the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation at the Ash Center. Towards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century is a talk series organized and facilitated by Dr. Mathias Risse, Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Drawing inspiration from the title of Max Tegmark’s book, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, the series draws upon a range of scholars, technology leaders, and public interest technologists to address the ethical aspects of the long-term impact of...

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2024 Mar 06

India Votes 2024: The World’s Largest Democracy?

5:30pm

Location: 

CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010)

This spring, the Mittal Institute will host a series of events focused on the Indian elections, from how they are covered to what it means regionally and globally. This is the launch of the series, focusing on “How should we assess India’s standing as the “world’s largest democracy,” in theory and practice?”

Speakers:

  • Sandipto Dasgupta, Assistant Professor of Politics, The New School for Social Research
  • Sushant Singh, Senior Fellow at Centre for Policy Research
  • Raheel Dhattiwala, Baden-Wurttemberg Fellow at the South Asia...
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2024 Mar 06

Preventing Rebel Resurgence after Civil War: A Field Experiment in Security and Justice Provision in Rural Colombia

4:00pm to 5:15pm

Location: 

Ash Seminar Room 225, Suite 200N, 124 Mount Auburn Street

You’re invited to a Global Challenges to Democracy Seminar Series event featuring Michael Weintraub, Associate Professor in the Escuela de Gobierno at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, and Director of the Security and Violence Area of the Center for the Study of Security and Drugs (CESED).

States struggle to reestablish authority in areas of former rebel governance. How can they prevent armed groups from exploiting local governance gaps in areas of former rebel rule? During this talk, Weintraub will discuss his randomized evaluation of Colombia’s...

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2024 Mar 01

Indonesian Language Class – Every Friday

2:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 100N, Room 106

The Indonesia Program at the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia invites you to join a not-for-credit Indonesian language and culture course. The class is open to a diverse audience including Harvard students, faculty, fellows, staff members, as well as students and scholars from the wider Boston area. Your instructor, Ivanna Zakiyah, a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA), will guide you through an inclusive curriculum suitable for all skill levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced learners.

Embark on a cultural journey through Indonesia as you develop...

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2024 Feb 29

Spillover Implications of a China Growing 0-2%

12:00pm to 1:15pm

Location: 

Wexner 434ab + Virtual Via Zoom

Educators, policymakers and business leaders need to decide how to respond to the implications of China’s economic slowdown. Options have not been adequately considered because the extent of the slowdown has not been understood and acknowledged. Even today international organizations, governments, and prominent public intellectuals endorse rosy assumptions that would not be taken seriously elsewhere. It’s time to talk about the slow growth era in China. To set the table for that, the structural economic problems that reduce China’s potential growth to 0-2% must be recognized. ...

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2024 Feb 28

Defending Parliament: Responses of Mainstream Parties to Parliamentary Erosion

4:00pm to 5:15pm

Location: 

Ash Seminar Room 225, Suite 200N, 124 Mount Auburn Street

You’re invited to a Global Challenges to Democracy Seminar Series event featuring Isabela Mares, Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science, Yale University.

Historically, extremist parties have engaged in a process of parliamentary disruption, violating the rules of interaction, and slowing down the legislative process. How can democratic parties respond to these strategies and counter parliamentary erosion? During this talk, Mares will discuss her paper on the political reforms adopted in Third Republic France and Weimar Germany which sought to defend...

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2024 Feb 27

Film and Panel Discussion: Bad Press

7:00pm to 9:15pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall

Join us for a screening of the documentary film Bad Press, recipient of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion to consider the making of the film and the role of Mvskoke Media—a company that distributes information to the Mvskoke people through various channels—in fighting to preserve a free press.

The Muscogee (Creek) Nation is the fourth-largest Native American tribe. Out of 574 federally recognized tribes, the Muscogee Nation was one of only five to establish a...

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2024 Feb 27

AI and Democracy - Threats, Promises, and Reality Checks

9:00am to 10:15am

Location: 

Malkin Penthouse, 4th Floor, Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School and Online

The Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia invites you to join us for a hybrid conversation on the influence of artificial intelligence on democracy. This year, emerging AI tools, disinformation campaigns, and the pervasive embedding of technology in society pose risks to democratic elections across the globe. This panel will explore such dynamics in Taiwan’s recent election and the upcoming US election and offer ways of thinking about — and countering — such threats. 

Speakers include:  

  • Wu Min Hsuan, DoubleThink Lab...
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2024 Feb 23

Indonesian Language Class – Every Friday

2:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 100N, Room 106

The Indonesia Program at the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia invites you to join a not-for-credit Indonesian language and culture course. The class is open to a diverse audience including Harvard students, faculty, fellows, staff members, as well as students and scholars from the wider Boston area. Your instructor, Ivanna Zakiyah, a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA), will guide you through an inclusive curriculum suitable for all skill levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced learners.

Embark on a cultural journey through Indonesia as you develop...

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2024 Feb 23

Implications of Indonesia’s Presidential Election: The Future of Democracy and National Development

9:00am to 10:00am

Location: 

Online event, registration required

On February 14th voters in the world’s third largest democracy elected Prabowo Subianto president of Indonesia by such a large margin that there is no need for the commonly predicted June run-off election. Join the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia for a Global Elections Webinar Series event to reflect on the implications of Prabowo’s landslide victory for the state of democracy and prospects for national development in Indonesia.       

Speakers include:  

  • Made Supriatma, Visiting Fellow,...
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