Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North
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Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200 North
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Like many cities across Europe and the U.S., the Spanish city of Bilbao was confronted with a deep economic and social crisis during the 70s and 80s due to a sharp decline in industrial power. Fast forward to November 2017, the city won the European City of the Year award granted by The Academy of Urbanism. What precipitated this change? Many accounts of the transformation of Bilbao focus on the role of the Guggenheim Museum as an engine of change, driving the city from industrial to service and culturally oriented. While the Guggenheim is a part of the transformation story, other fundamental aspects such as the collaboration and financing instruments devised by the government have been overlooked. Focusing on these other less-known areas, this talk will describe the transformation of Bilbao and discuss interesting insights applicable to other cities around the world.
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200 North
Join the Ash Center and Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government for a discussion with Amir Levi, Former Director of Budgets, Israel's Ministry of Finance; and Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government. Tarek Masoud, Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations, will moderate.
Join Miles Rapoport, Senior Practice Fellow in American Democracy at the Ash Center, for the seventh session of a spring semester study group with practitioners in the field of democratic governance. Study group participants will hear from advocates, organizers, elected officials, and policy innovators, and have the opportunity to discuss the latest strategies and leading organizations promoting democratic institutions and norms. Study group sessions are open to all Harvard ID holders. Refreshments will be provided.
Ash Center Conference Room, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200N, Room 226
Join Tiffani Ashley Bell, Ash Technology and Democracy Fellow, and Founder and Executive Director of The Human Utility for a hands-on workshop.
Sometimes all a problem needs in the world to go away is passion, a community, and a few thousand eyeballs. At The Human Utility, we pulled the internet together and signed up over 10,000 people to start paying the water bills for hundreds of low-income and/or elderly families in Detroit. This workshop...
JFK Jr. Forum, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street
Join the Institute of Politics, Ash Center, HKS Black Student Union, HKS Arts & Culture Caucus, IOP Politics of Race and Ethnicity (PRE) for a public screening of Stranger Fruit, a documentary about the killing of Michael Brown, in Rubenstein 306a at 4:00 PM followed by a forum discussion featuring:
Benjamin Crump, Attorney for families of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Stephon Clark
Lezley McSpadden,Mother of Michael Brown
Jason Pollock, Documentary Filmmaker, Stranger Fruit
Jasmine RandAttorney for families of Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin
Khalil Muhammad, Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and Suzanne Young Murray Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Moderator
Ashley Spillane, Senior Advisor to the Institute of Politics, Harvard Kennedy School, Roy and Lila Ash Student Fellow, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Moderator
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Suite 200N
Join two of the Ash Center's Dalio Scholars, Yuheng Wen MPA '19 and Vanessa NingziPiao MPP '19, as they discuss their work and research prior to and throughout their Ash Center affiliation. Yuheng will discuss Chinese rural education while Vanessa will recount her work as a journalist at The New York Times’s Beijing bureau. Edward Cunningham, Director of the Ash Center's China Programs, will moderate.
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200 North
Join Kathleen Collins, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota Department of Political Science, in discussion. Scott Mainwaring, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazil Studies, will moderate.
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North
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Join Professor Steve Goldsmith, the Innovations in Government Director at the Ash Center, for a discussion of his latest book, "A New City O/S: The Power of Open,...
