Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes Alexander Keyssar—the Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and author of the The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States—for a discussion of his latest book, Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? He will be joined in conversation by Miles Rapoport, Senior Practice Fellow in American Democracy at the Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation....
This event concluded on July 22, 2020. View the original description and event recording below.
Art has the power to provoke, inspire, inform, and force new ways of thinking - particularly in times of crisis. Over the last few years, artists have been engaged in resistance movements, encouraging political participation through their art, and calling attention to issues and tragic events that confront us in novel and affecting ways.
Join the Ash Center and Hutchins Center for African and African American Research for a discussion on how ...
This event concluded on July 20, 2020. Please find a recording below.
Imagine an American democracy where the election system was designed to allow citizens to perform their most basic civic duty with ease and without obstruction. Imagine every citizen treating voting as a civic duty, a society where nearly everyone voted.
Our current crisis of governance has focused unprecedented public attention on intolerable inequities and demands that Americans think boldly and consider reforms that until now seemed beyond our reach. A new report...
This event concluded on July 8, 2020. View the original description and event recording below.
We are in an unprecedented moment of protest and mobilization against the biting impact of racism and inequality. This reckoning is coming just a few months before an election of enormous consequence, with challenges to participation as a result of COVID-19. What can philanthropy do to be most effective? Can it pivot as fast as is needed? What needs to change? Join a conversation with leading practitioners in philanthropy who will talk about all of these...
This event concluded on June 25, 2020. View the original description and event recording below.
When HBO series Watchmen premiered in October 2019, the show—a dramatically different take on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s original comic book/graphic novel—was noted for its direct confrontation of racism in America. Systemic racism, police brutality, collective trauma, and vigilante justice are all central themes to the TV remix. In light of ongoing deaths of Black Americans at the hands of police, nationwide protests, and calls for...
Join the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative (RCPI) for a webinar featuring Amira Hass, Fellow at the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative and Haaretz Correspondent for the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
The webinar will be conducted via Zoom. Registration is required to attend.
This event concluded on June 22, 2020. View the original description and event recording below.
The Green New Deal is alternatively viewed as a bold and progressive American solution to climate change or an economically destructive government intrusion into private enterprise. Yet in the European Union, the ideas behind the Green New deal have become the consensus solution to decarbonization and which underpins much of the official climate change roadmap of the European Commission. With consensus on one side of the Atlantic, and...
This event concluded on June 10, 2020. View the original description and event recording below.
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a large toll on public health and the economy. Several leading thinkers have proposed a massive public jobs program, reminiscent of the New Deal Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Progress Administration, that would hire hundreds of thousands who need employment to both fight COVID-19 and enhance health care in the United States.
Alan Khazei, founder of City Year, Be the Change, and current candidate for Congress, co-...
This event concluded on June 9, 2020. View the original description and event recording below.
Protests continue to sweep across the United States following the violent killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Breonna Taylor in Louisville, and countless others at the hands of police. Join the Ash Center for a conversation with leading scholars and practitioners about the protests, their place in the long fight for social justice, and what they tell us about the state of democracy in America today.
