Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
Robson Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley Thad Dunning will present on his recent work "Does Habit Breed Political Participation? Experimental Evidence on Tax Compliance in Uruguay." Co-authored with Felipe Monestier (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay), Rafael Piñeiro (Universidad Católica, Uruguay),...
Belfer Case Study Room (S020) | CGIS South Building | 1730 Cambridge Street | Cambridge, MA
Mr. Joshua Wong is a Hong Kong student activist and was a leading figure of the 2014 Umbrella Revolution movement. Due to his influence in Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement, he was named as one of Time's "Most Influential Teens of 2014," nominated for its Person of the Year 2014 and listed by Fortune as one of the World's Greatest Leaders in 2015.
Please join us in welcoming Mr. Wong to the Harvard leg of his United States talking series where he will share his insights on the rise of new political forces in Hong...
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
The Ash Center cordially invites you to a book talk with Doug Fuller, Professor, Zhejiang University School of Management. Professor Fuller will discuss how China, a developing country with a spectacularly inefficient financial system, coupled with asset-destroying state-owned firms, has managed to create a number of vibrant high-tech firms.
The talk will be moderated by Edward A. Cunningham, China Programs Director at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Director of the Harvard Kennedy School Asia Energy and...
Dhrumil Mehta will introduce participants to the tools of his trade as a database journalist, from GitHub to XML to locating relevant documents and databases and turning them into usable data for data-driven stories. Participants will gain hands-on training...
Room S020, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
What was cultural about the Cultural Revolution, or was the decade only a cultural desert? Upon the fiftieth anniversary of the Cultural Revolution, this symposium considers the cinematic production and reception, practices and legacies of that tumultuous decade. The mass criticism of several “poisonous weed” films in the mid-1960s helped to launch the Cultural Revolution, and the 1970s saw the expansion of the film exhibition network and radical growth of film audiences. If film was the mass medium that reached the most...
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
Ash Center Student Speaker Series
Join some of the student organizers from the 2016 Black Policy Conference at HKS for a discussion recapping and debriefing this year's conference. We'll discuss the history of the conference, the planning and organizing process, and highlight some of the content that was discussed.
Harvard University Science Center Building (Hall A)
The last Stakeholders and Changemakers panel for the year is ASEAN 2015 in Review: Turbulent Waters, Muddy Crossroads. 2015 was to be a promising year for ASEAN, with the proposed signing of the ASEAN Economic Community and a proposed Code of Conduct for the South China Sea. The CoC did not materialize, while the AEC has promise but has many hurdles to be overcome. Where does ASEAN go from here, as...
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
What are the particular challenges facing social democrats—or the millennial inheritors of the social democratic tradition—in the US, UK, and beyond? Join this discussion on the evolving prospects for social democratic parties across Europe and farther afield. We will explore emerging opportunities for experimentation within social democratic politics and the wider ‘ecosystem’ which surrounds it, including the interplay between NGOs/advocacy organizations, campaigns and candidates.... Read more about Reinventing Social Democracy? Sanders, Corbyn and Beyond
Ash Center, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
Part of the Technology and Democracy Workshop Series
Kirsten Gullickson, Senior Systems Analyst, U.S. House of Representatives (Special Guest to the Technology and Democracy Fellowship)
Kirsten Gullickson will help participants understand how data analysts and software developers convert the paper and parchment of legislative documents and federal law into digital formats including text, XML, and PDF. What is the difference between data and documents, and why should you care? Participants will apply this new knowledge and more by encoding a legislative document...
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
Ash Center Student Speaker Series
Speakers: TAN Qi(MPA-Mason '16), former Program Officer, American Bar Association Rule Of Law Initiative China Program WEI Wei(MPP '17), Journalist, People's Daily Beijing Branch
Moderator: Tony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, and Director, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
