Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge MA 02138
Ash Center Student Speaker Series
Just four days out from the election, join Teresa Acuña, the Roy and Lila Ash student fellow at the Ash Center and a longtime Democratic campaign operative, legislative aide, and progressive advocate, as well as Andrew McClure, a co-chair of the HKS Republican Caucus, MPA2 representative in the HKS student government, former Marco Rubio campaign staffer, and a United States Marine. Devin Romanul, Associate Director for the Project on Municipal Innovation, will moderate an election preview, where we’ll discuss the...
Room 106, Suite 100, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for a lecture and group discussion led by Yotam Polizer of IsraAID, who will discuss his team’s experience working with refugees in Greece, Germany, and Northern Iraq.
Mr. Polizer directs the global partnership program of IsraAID – Israel’s biggest humanitarian NGO. Following the September 2015 refugee crisis in Europe, he led IsraAID’s humanitarian mission in Lesbos, Greece, to support Syrian refugees on the island and also established IsraAID Germany, which provides long-term support for Yazidi and Syrian refugees in Germany. His presentation will draw...
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Suite 200N, 124 Mt Auburn Street, Cambridge
Join us for our inaugural seminar with Baroness Tessa Jowell as she leads a discussion on Brexit and Trump: the new populism in the US and UK. As frustrated citizens lose faith in established political processes and leaders, they are turning to alternatives that may produce bad policy, bad outcomes for society, and perhaps even threaten democracy itself. What are the sources of these “populist” revolts against the elites that produced Brexit and the Trump candidacy? What does the future hold?
This discussion will be moderated by Archon Fung, Ford Foundation...
This is a hands-on workshop; participants are expected to arrive ready to learn and practice a new skill. Equipment (a laptop, etc.) or prerequisite reading may be...
Join Dr. Amanda Sloat, former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Southern Europe and Eastern Mediterranean Affairs at the State Department for a discussion on the state of democracy in Turkey today and its prospects for the future. Tarek Masoud, Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations at HKS will moderate.
This event is cosponsored by the Middle East Initiative.
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge MA 02138
Ash Center Student Speaker Series
Join two Ash Center fellows working on the challenges and opportunities of health care policy, in two very different contexts.
Jane Bai (MPP '16) is currently a Research Fellow at the Ash Center, continuing work she started in her PAE. Her research focuses on a value based purchasing transition project with the China Medical Board. She will be joined by Grace Oh (MPP '17), who as an Ash Center Summer Fellow in Innovation spent two months in Albany, NY, working on NY State's Medicaid Redesign project, a 2015 Innovations in...
Loeb House at Harvard University, 17 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
The Harvard Kennedy School Office of Alumni Relations and Resource Development and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation cordially invite you to RSVP for the 2016 S.T. Lee Lecture, presented by Rana Mitter, professor of history and politics of modern China and fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford. Arne Westad, the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations and faculty...
The Ash Center invites you to join a discussion in the JFK Jr Forum on Making Democracy Work: Is Democracy in Crisis? Speakers include Ilya Somin, Professor of Law at George Mason University, Jason Brennan, Robert J and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Term Associate Professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and Melissa Williams, Visiting Scholar, Ash Center, and Professor of Political Science & Founding Director, Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto. Christopher Robichaud, Lecturer in Ethics and Public Policy at HKS...
