Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Suite 200N, 124 Mt Auburn Street, Cambridge
The Ash Center cordially welcomes you to a talk by Michael Enright, Director, Enright, Scott & Associates and Professor, School of Business, University of Hong Kong entitled Developing China: The Remarkable Impact of Foreign Direct Investment. This discussion will be moderated by William Overholt, President, Fung Global Institute and Asia Center Fellow, Harvard University
Ash Center, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200N, R226, Cambridge, MA 02138
Class Description:
This class is not for credit and open to all Harvard students, staff members and the general public of the Greater Boston Area. The lessons will be conducted by Ms. Aria Citra Kusuma (Aria_Kusuma@hks.harvard.edu), a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA). All levels of skill – beginner, intermediate, and advanced – are welcome. The class will focus on the culture of Indonesia, as well as day to day...
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge MA 02138
Ash Center Student Speaker Series
In the first Student Speaker Series event of the year, Glynis Startz and Cecily Tyler will discuss the role civic engagement has played in their work. Through two very different mediums—Glynis as an Ash Center Summer Fellow working on in-person and online engagement and outreach as part of a smart cities project in Chicago, and Cecily as a filmmaker using crowdsourced documentary film as a tool to empower communities to tell their own stories—both women have explored new and innovative ways to inspire people to take ownership over...
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 124 Mt Auburn St, Suite 200 North
Please join us for a book talk with Stein Ringen, author of The Perfect Dictatorship: China in the 21st Century and Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. This discussion will be moderated by Ash...
Ash Center, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200N, R226, Cambridge, MA 02138
Class Description:
This class is not for credit and open to all Harvard students, staff members and the general public of the Greater Boston Area. The lessons will be conducted by Ms. Aria Citra Kusuma (Aria_Kusuma@hks.harvard.edu), a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA). All levels of skill – beginner, intermediate, and advanced – are welcome. The class will focus on the culture of Indonesia, as well as day to day...
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 124 Mt Auburn St, Suite 200 North
Kicking off our Making Democracy Work Seminar series, this talk explores anonymity, online institutional designs, and their effects on deliberation. University of Cambridge Postdoctoral Research Fellow Alfred Moore and colleagues built a data set of some 42 million comments made on the Huffington Post website between January 2013 and February 2015, as the site moved from a regime of easy anonymity, to registered pseudonyms, and finally to outsourcing their comments to Facebook. It turns out that real name environments may be worse for talking about politics online than...
Local election officials are where the rubber meets the road in our electoral process. But there are so few resources focused on helping officials keep pace with technology and improve communication with voters.
The Election Toolkit from the Center for Technology and Civic Life is an online library of tech resources, including tools like a Twitter guide, a free app to measure voter wait times, tools for publishing real-time election results, and a collection of civic icons. All of the tools in the Toolkit...
Ash Center, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200N, R226, Cambridge, MA 02138
Class Description:
This class is not for credit and open to all Harvard students, staff members and the general public of the Greater Boston Area. The lessons will be conducted by Ms. Aria Citra Kusuma (Aria_Kusuma@hks.harvard.edu), a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA). All levels of skill – beginner, intermediate, and advanced – are welcome. The class will focus on the culture of Indonesia, as well as day to day...
The Ash Center is proud to cosponsor Notes From the Field: Doing Time in Education -- created, written, and performed by Anna Deavere Smith.
Urgent and inspiring, Notes from the Field outlines the civil rights crisis currently erupting at the intersection between America’s education system and its mass incarceration epidemic. In Act I, Anna Deavere Smith introduces the students, parents, teachers, and administrators caught in America’s "school-to-prison pipeline” through her trademark portrait performances.
Please join us for a book talk with Stein Ringen, author of The Perfect Dictatorship: China in the 21st Century and Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. This discussion will be moderated by Ash...