Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200 North
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Join Elena Fagotto, Transparency Policy Project Director of Research, Ash Center; Archon Fung, Harvard Kennedy School Academic Dean, Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government; and Jan Walker, Associate Professor of...
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200 North
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Join the Ash Center for a discussion with Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Associate Professor at Ohio State University. Jeffries teaches undergraduate and graduate seminars on the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement. His book, Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt, tells...
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200 North
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Like many cities across Europe and the U.S., the Spanish city of Bilbao was confronted with a deep economic and social crisis during the 70s and 80s due to a sharp decline in industrial power. Fast forward to November 2017, the city won the European City of the Year award granted by The Academy of Urbanism. What precipitated this change? Many accounts of the transformation of Bilbao focus on the role of the Guggenheim Museum as an engine of change, driving the city from industrial to service and culturally oriented. While the Guggenheim is a part of the transformation story, other fundamental aspects such as the collaboration and financing instruments devised by the government have been overlooked. Focusing on these other less-known areas, this talk will describe the transformation of Bilbao and discuss interesting insights applicable to other cities around the world.
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Suite 200N
Join two of the Ash Center's Dalio Scholars, Yuheng Wen MPA '19 and Vanessa NingziPiao MPP '19, as they discuss their work and research prior to and throughout their Ash Center affiliation. Yuheng will discuss Chinese rural education while Vanessa will recount her work as a journalist at The New York Times’s Beijing bureau. Edward Cunningham, Director of the Ash Center's China Programs, will moderate.
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Suite 200N
Join Kunal Kothari, MPP 18 and Ihsaan Patel, MPP 18, for a discussion about how cities are using data and dealing with new emerging technologies such as the autonomous car. Kothari and Patel will share their insights from working at different levels of governments. They will discuss how governments are incorporating innovations and how they are overcoming the challenges that come with change. Teresa Acuña, Associate Director of the Ash Center’s Democratic Governance program, will moderate.
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Suite 200N
Join Manfred Elfstrom, China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow, AY16-18, for a discussion about how rising labor activism is transforming the Chinese state in a contradictory manner. Specifically, Elfstrom will show how, under sustained pressure from below, the government is increasing its ability to control citizens, while at the same time saddling itself with new social commitments.
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Suite 200N
Join Kanoko Kamata MC/MPA ’12, former Ash Center Fellow and current Research Associate for the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Relations and Executive Director of Community Organizing Japan, and Rawan Zeine MC/MPA ’18, Ash Ford Foundation Mason Fellow and Founder of Ta3leelah, an organization that creates spaces for self-expression, social cohesion and community efficacy. Both Kamata and Zeine used a common community organizing structure to create their respective organizations, which they...
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200 North
Join us for a lunch conversation with Malcolm McPherson, Economist and Senior Research Associate with the Vietnam Program at the Ash Center. McPherson's presentation is entitled Environment, Agriculture, and Livelihoods: Challenges and Opportunities in the Lower Mekong Basin. Ash Center Director Tony Saich will moderate.
Join us for a lunch conversation with Cecilia Nicolini, MC-MPA 17, Ash Center Research Fellow 18; and Miles Rapoport, Senior American Democracy Practice Fellow; as they discuss how to build a successful voter turnout strategy in the U.S. and Internationally.
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200 North
Join us for a lunch conversation with Seeyew Mo 2018 HKS MC/MPA and Kathryn Peters MPP 2011 as they discuss the challenges and opportunities for students and alumni working to leverage their HKS experiences and delve into the civic tech world. We will also be joined by our newest cohort of Ash Center Technology and Democracy Fellows, who will introduce themselves and preview their research projects for the...
