American Repertory Theater, Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St, Cambridge
Presented by the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University, the Ash Center and the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School, theWe Live in Cairo Act II Series invites audience members to remain at the theater following select performances for a curated discussion. The discussions are free and open to ticket-holders of any...
American Repertory Theater, Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St, Cambridge
Presented by the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University, the Ash Center and the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School, theWe Live in Cairo Act II Series invites audience members to remain at the theater following select performances for a curated discussion. The discussions are free and open to ticket-holders of any performance, subject to availability.Join us June 8th after the 2:00pm performance for a conversation with Nermin Allam, Assistant Professor of Politics at Rutgers University-Newark; and Vickie Langohr, Associate Professor of Political Science at the College of the Holy Cross.... Read more about "We Live in Cairo" Act II Series: A Discussion with Nermin Allam and Vickie Langohr
American Repertory Theater, Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St, Cambridge
Presented by the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University, the Ash Center and the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School, theWe Live in Cairo Act II Series invites audience members to remain at the theater following select performances for a curated discussion. The discussions are free and open to ticket-holders of any performance, subject to availability.
Join us June 1st after the 7:30pm performance for a conversation with Soha Bayoumi, Allston Burr Resident Dean of Kirkland House, Assistant Dean of Harvard College, and Lecturer in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University; and Ahmed Ragab, Richard T. Watson Associate Professor of Science and Religion at Harvard Divinity School, Affiliate Associate Professor at the Department of the History of Science, and Director of the Science, Religion and Culture Program at Harvard University.
American Repertory Theater, Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St, Cambridge
Presented by the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University, the Ash Center and the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School, theWe Live in Cairo Act II Series invites audience members to remain at the theater following select performances for a curated discussion. The discussions are free and open to ticket-holders of any performance, subject to availability.Join us June 1st after the 2:00pm performance for a conversation with Tarek Masoud, Professor of Public Policy and Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations; Faculty Chair, Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School.... Read more about "We Live in Cairo" Act II Series: A Discussion with Tarek Masoud
American Repertory Theater, Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St, Cambridge
Presented by the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University, the Ash Center and the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School, theWe Live in Cairo Act II Series invites audience members to remain at the theater following select performances for a curated discussion. The discussions are free and open to ticket-holders of any performance, subject to availability.Join us May 25th after the 2:00pm performance for a conversation with Ezzedine Fishere, Visiting Professor, Dartmouth College.... Read more about "We Live in Cairo" Act II Series: A Discussion with Ezzedine Fishere
American Repertory Theater, Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St, Cambridge
Presented by the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University, the Ash Center and the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School, theWe Live in Cairo Act II Series invites audience members to remain at the theater following select performances for a curated discussion. The discussions are free and open to ticket-holders of any performance, subject to availability.Join us May 18th after the 2:00pm performance for a conversation with Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, Founder, Barjeel Art Foundation and Lecturer, Council on Middle East Studies, Yale University.
American Repertory Theater, Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St, Cambridge
Presented by the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University, the Ash Center and the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School, theWe Live in Cairo Act II Series invites audience members to remain at the theater following select performances for a curated discussion. The discussions are free and open to ticket-holders of any performance, subject to availability.Join us May 16th after the 7:30pm performance for a conversation with artist Ganzeer.... Read more about "We Live in Cairo" Act II Series: A Discussion with Ganzeer
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Floor 2, Suite 200N
Join Nahomi Ichino, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan, in disucssion. Tarek Masoud, Professor of Public Policy and Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations, will moderate.
Ghana's major parties recently reformed primary election rules which offers a rare opportunity to assess the effects franchise expansion in contemporary new democracies, where universal suffrage was already established at independence. In this talk, Ichino will propose that democratizing candidate selection by expanding the primary electorate has two consequences in patronage-oriented political systems: the electorate will have more diverse preferences and vote buying will become a less effective strategy. These changes, in turn, affect the types of politicians who seek and win legislative nominations. Using an original dataset on candidate entry and nominations, she will show that expanding the primary electorate opened paths to office for politicians from social groups that were previously excluded, including women and members of ethnic groups outside a party's core national coalition.... Read more about Democracy in Hard Places -- Democratizing the Party: The Effects of Primary Election Reforms in Ghana
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Floor 2, Suite 200N
Join Kurt Weyland, Mike Hogg Professor in Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin Department of Government, in discussion. Scott Mainwaring, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor for Brazil Studies, HKS, will moderate.
To elucidate the prospects of U.S. democracy under President Trump, this talk will analyze the regime impact of populist chief executives in Europe and Latin America. Professor Weyland's investigation finds that institutional weakness is a crucial permissive cause for democratic backsliding. Yet even in weaker institutional settings, authoritarian regression only advances under special circumstances, namely when acute yet resolvable crises or extraordinary bonanzas allow populist leaders to win overwhelming support – and then override institutional constraints. Because none of these conditions prevails in the U.S., an undemocratic involution is exceedingly unlikely.
