Join us for the next installment of our Economic Development in East Asia Seminar Series featuring Muhamad Chatib Basri, Professor of Economics at the University of Indonesia, and a former Minister of Finance of Indonesia. Professor Basri, a former senior fellow at the Ash Center, will give a talk entitled: Understanding the Slow Catch-Up Growth in Indonesia and Fixing the Problem.
This seminar series is cosponsored by the Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia, Sunway University, Kuala Lumpur and the Harvard...
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...
Please join us for a panel of Harvard Kennedy School alumni working to leverage digital technology to make governance and society more inclusive. The panel will explore the potential and pitfalls of digital technology in realizing democratic values such as participation, transparency, accountability, responsiveness, and equal representation.
: Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
The Ash Center is cosponsoring a discussion hosted by the Program on US-Japan Relations at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs entitled China’s Rise in the Asia-Pacific Region and Japanese Foreign Policy.
Makoto Iokibe, Chancellor, Prefectural University of Kumamoto, and Senior Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Discussant: Arne Westad, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School.
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
Join Sean Alaback and George Simpson for a discussion on the importance of data to city governments. Both George and Sean were 2016 Ash Center Summer Fellows in Innovation, and worked on civic data projects at two very different scales. George, who worked in the Mayor’s office in Los Angeles, CA, worked between the Chief Data Officer and the Communications department, helping to craft and disseminate the City’s messaging around their data initiatives. Sean, as part of the Innovation Field Lab, developed a data tool called...
The Ash Center is inaugurating a new seminar series on Economic Development in East Asia. For our first installment of this new seminar series, we are pleased to host Professor Fukunari Kimura, the Dean of the Faculty of Economics at Keio University, the Chief Economist of Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), and the President of the Japanese Society of International Economics for a discussion entitled: "A New Development Strategy for Southeast Asia based on the Expansion of Production Networks and Preferential Trade Agreements."
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 124 Mt Auburn St, Suite 200 North
Join us for a book talk with Dara Kay Cohen, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School as she presents findings from her recently published work Rape During Civil War.
Join the Harvard University Asia Center and the Ash Center for the 6th Thailand@Harvard Lecture with Pravit Rojanaphruk, Senior Staff Writer, Khao Sod English
Sponsored by the Thai Studies Program at the Harvard University Asia Center and the Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School
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