The Ash Center is proud cosponsor We the People/Hack for Democracy, a hackathon presented by the MIT GOV/LAB to demonstrate the organizers's deep commitment to core American (and human) values of fairness, equality, and openness. In this one day hackathon, creative and compassionate people from across MIT and the Boston area will come together to tackle the immediate challenges U.S. organizations are now facing to safeguard these values. Sign up to help organizations like the ACLU and Let America Vote solve some of their technical challenges. Registration information can be found here.... Read more about We the People / Hack for Democracy
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North
Ash Center Student Speaker Series
Please join us for the final Student Speaker Series event of the year, where we'll hear from WU May Chengnan, a Dalio Scholar at the Ash Center. May will talk about her experience as a primary school teacher, comparing and contrasting her time teaching at a private school in Switzerland with her experience teaching migrant children at home in China. The event will be moderated by Edward Cunningham, the Ash Center's China Programs Director.
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Suite 200N, 124 Mt Auburn Street, Cambridge
About the Speaker
Joshua A. Tucker is Professor of Politics and affiliated Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies and Data Science at New York University, the Director of the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, a co-Director of the NYU Social Media and Political Participation (SMaPP) laboratory, and a co-author of the award winning Monkey Cage blog at The Washington Post. He serves on the Editorial Board of multiple academic journals as well the Advisory Board of the American National Election Study and was a founding co-editor of the Journal of Experimental Political Science. Professor Tucker specializes in the study of mass political behavior, including elections and voting, the development of partisan attachment, public opinion formation, mass protest, and the relationship between social media and political participation. He is the author of Regional Economic Voting: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, 1990-99 (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and the co-author of the forthcoming Communism’s Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes (Princeton University Press, 2017).
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North
Ash Center Student Speaker Series
This week, four students from Marshall Ganz's "Organizing: People, Power, Change" course will present on their work in and out of the classroom. The event will be moderated by 2015-16 Ford Foundation Mason Fellow and current Ash Center Research Fellow Ana Babović.
Speakers:
Andrew Kurban, MPA-MC '17 Rana Abdelhamid, MPP '17 Francesco Galtieri, MPA-MC '17 ...
Harvard Art Museums || 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, (Tickets are Required)
At this time, no more tickets are available.
Join us for a screening and conversation with filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick as they preview their most recent film, The Vietnam War, a new 10-part, 18-hour documentary film series airing in September 2017 on PBS stations nationwide. The screening will be followed by a discussion and audience Q&A with Burns, Novick, Sarah Botstein, Producer, and Thomas Vallely, the senior advisor for Mainland Southeast Asia and the former director of the Vietnam Program at the Ash Center. Ash Center Director and...
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Suite 200N, 124 Mt Auburn Street, Cambridge
Join us for a discussion with Jorrit de Jong, Lecturer in Public Policy and Management at HKS, Faculty Director of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, and author, "Dealing with Dysfunction: Innovative Problem Solving in the Public Sector." Julie Boatright Wilson, Harry Kahn Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, HKS, and Matt R. Andrews Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS, will provide responses. Tony Saich, director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, will moderate.
Wiener Auditorium, Taubman Building, HKS- 79 JFK St., Cambridge, 02138
Join Ted Osius, U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam; Jon Finer, Institute of Politics Fellow and former Chief of Staff & Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State; and Dr. Mira Rapp-Hooper, a Senior Fellow with the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security for a discussion on Vietnam, the U.S., and the future of the Asia-Pacific region. Nicholas Burns, the Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations, will moderate.
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Suite 200N, 124 Mt Auburn Street, Cambridge
The election of Donald Trump has provoked high-stakes clashes over the future of our democracy. But many of the battles under way now were already driving American politics during and before the election: tensions about race, identity, and inclusion; about inequality and economic power; and about the very viability and efficacy of our democratic institutions themselves. How should we understand today's reemergence of an exclusionary, right-populism -- and the prospects for a more inclusive and egalitarian alternative? Why have conventional approaches to liberalism and...
Please note that this event has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule for the fall semester.
Sarah Lewis is an Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She received her bachelor’s degree from Harvard, an M.Phil from Oxford University, and her Ph.D. from Yale University in the History of Art. Before joining the faculty at Harvard, she held curatorial positions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Tate Modern, London and taught at Yale University School of Art.
