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...
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...
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...
Join the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies for a webinar on Taiwan’s recent presidential election, which earlier this month saw the Democratic Progressive Party’s Lai Ching-te capture the presidency. To understand what this means for the future of cross-straits relations as well as Taiwan’s relationship with the United States, we will hear from nonresident research fellow Wenchi Yu, an international affairs journalist with Taiwan-based TVBS television; and Eric Huang, a former spokesperson for the opposition KMT party and current Mid-...
Ash Center Seminar Room 225, Floor Two, Suite 200N, 124 Mount Auburn Street
Harvard-ID holders are invited to join the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies for the RFK Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies Lecture featuring Fernando Limongi, Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies.
Today, most Latin American countries are democracies. Military regimes and coups are not as frequent as in the...
Online event, space limited, registration required
Please join us for the first session of the GETTING-Plurality Research Workshop, a new series, convened by the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation. In this first session, we'll hear from Zoë Hitzig and Shrey Jain, authors of a paper titled, “Contextual Confidence and Generative AI.”
This 90-minute workshop is entirely virtual and will be conducted over Zoom — registration is required to receive the link. Papers will be pre-circulated, and all attendees are expected to read them. A full-group discussion of the work will follow a brief...
Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building, 4th Floor, Harvard Kennedy School
In light of Hamas’ horrific attacks on Israeli civilians on Saturday and the ongoing escalation of the war between Israel and Hamas, we will proceed with this event as an informal space for gathering, mourning, and support for our most impacted students and community members. We ask those who wish to gather in compassionate community to join us with this intention foremost in their minds. For those hoping for a more structured discussion or analysis of the future of the Israeli democracy movement, we ask you to stay tuned for further discussion at a later date.
The Ash Center invites you to an online book talk and series of panel discussions to mark the publication of The Government of Chance: Sortition and Politics from Athens to the Present(Cambridge University Press, 2023) by Yves Sintomer, Ash Center Visiting Democracy Fellow; Professor of Political Science, Paris 8 University; and Associate Member, Nuffield College, University of...
The study group will host three sessions in April 2023 to contribute to answering why the democratization strategies tried in Venezuela in the last five years have failed to achieve sustainable political change and how the regime has adapted and responded to pro-democratic challenges.
The study group discussions will be led by Freddy Guevara, visiting fellow at the Ash Center, and hosted by the Growth Lab, the Venezuelan HKS Caucus, and the Ash Center's Initiative on Democracy in Hard Places. It is open to Harvard University students, fellows, alums, and other relevant actors...
The study group will host three sessions in April 2023 to contribute to answering why the democratization strategies tried in Venezuela in the last five years have failed to achieve sustainable political change and how the regime has adapted and responded to pro-democratic challenges.
The study group discussions will be led by Freddy Guevara, visiting fellow at the Ash Center, and hosted by the Growth Lab, the Venezuelan HKS Caucus, and the Ash Center's Initiative on Democracy in Hard Places. It is open to Harvard University students, fellows, alums, and other relevant actors...