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...
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...
Hybrid - WexG02 Seminar Room, Harvard Kennedy School, and Online
You're invited to a book talk with Harvard Kennedy School's Bruce Schneier, author of "A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend them Back." Schneier will be joined in conversation by moderator Archon Fung, Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government.
Lunch will be served starting at noon and the discussion and livestream will commence at 12:15 PM. We are currently at capacity for the in-person discussion and invite you...
Rubenstein 414 (Democracy Lab), Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard-ID holders are invited to a conversation with former US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx for a talk on “Interstate Highways, Transportation, and Social Justice,” moderated by Ash Center Director Professor Archon Fung. Foxx led the US Department of Transportation from 2013 to 2017. Previously, Foxx served as the mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, where he guided the city’s economic recovery following the 2008 financial crisis and helped champion the extension of the city’s light rail system.
Rubenstein 414 AB (Democracy Lab), Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard-ID holders are invited to a conversation with former US Representative Stephanie Murphy (D-FL) moderated by Ash Center Director Professor Archon Fung on the challenges and opportunities for preserving our democracy in a divided government. Congresswoman Murphy represented a central Florida congressional district in the US House of Representatives from 2017 to 2023. She will also discuss her background working in the Department of Defense following the 9/11 terrorist attacks as well as her experience serving on the House Select Committee on the January 6...
Harvard-ID holders are invited to a conversation with Interim Director of the Institute of Politics Setti Warren for a conversation on how veterans can protect our democracy, moderated by Ash Center Director Professor Archon Fung. Warren, an Iraq War veteran served in the Navy Reserve as an intelligence specialist for 9 years. After leaving active duty, Warren was elected to two terms as the mayor of Newton, Massachusetts.
This discussion is part of the Ash Center’s spring 2023 Leaders in Democracy Seminar Series.
The Ash Center invites you to a dinner screening and discussion of the environmental racism documentary "There's Something in the Water," co-directed and produced by Ian Daniel MC MPA 23. The film explores the topic of environmental racism and shines a light on the Canadian government’s current and historical decisions to prioritize the profits of large corporations over the health of Indigenous and Black Nova Scotian communities. The screening will be followed by a post-film conversation with Louise Delisle, Dorene Bernard, and Michelle Francis Denny, three activists...
Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor, Taubman Building HKS
The Ash Center's Democracy in Hard Places Initiative invites you to a book talk with the University of Michigan’s Dan Slater, co-author of From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia (Princeton University Press, 2022). Gautam Nair, Ash Center faculty...