Repeats every week every Friday until Fri May 19 2023 .
2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location:
Ash Center Conference Room, #226, 124 Mt Auburn Street, Suite 200N
Harvard community members and other Boston-area students and scholars are invited to join us during the fall semester every week for a free, Indonesian language class, starting Friday, September 9 and ending Friday, May 19, 2023.
Course Description
This class is not for credit and open to all Harvard students, faculty, fellows, and staff members as well as other Boston-area students and scholars. The lessons will be conducted by ...
Session five of the Democratization in the Arab World: Challenges and Prospects for the Future Study Group with former Tunisian president Dr. Moncef Marzouki will focus on the role of the economy in the victory the revolution (2010-2011) and its role in the return to power of the counter revolution (2014-2022). Discussion will also touch on topics related to the challenges of long political transitional stages and the disagreement over priorities between an elite obsessed with freedoms and a majority obsessed with the urgency of improving its standard of living. Participants will then...
Join us for the third session of the fall semester student study group, Co-Creating Local Government. This session will share strategies for bringing residents and staff together on equal footing to jointly solve issues facing the community including examples from the Open Space Creation Task Force and the Parking Policy Task Force.
This event is at capacity and registration is now closed.
Required Reading for This Session
Open Space Creation Task Force Strategy Memo. City of Somerville. August 9, 2019. https://www....
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation invites you to a discussion sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies featuring Dr. Francisco Sagasti, former president of Peru entitled "Democratic Governance in Turbulent Times: The Experience of the Peruvian Transition and Emergency Government." This discussion is moderated by Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government and Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
About the Discussion: An uncertain global and regional context,...
Ash Center Conference Room, #226, 124 Mt Auburn Street, Suite 200N
The connections between corruption management and democratic compromise are myriad, complex, and not commonly understood. What starts as an anticorruption campaign can end up as an instrument of cronyism and media control – undermining democracy. The first session will discuss the causes and consequences of anticorruption campaigns in the Philippines, with particular focus on the future of reforms under the new administration of President Marcos Jr.
Ash Center Conference Room, #226, 124 Mt Auburn Street, Suite 200N
Harvard community members and other Boston-area students and scholars are invited to join us during the fall semester every week for a free, Indonesian language class, starting Friday, September 9 and ending Friday, May 19, 2023.
Course Description
This class is not for credit and open to all Harvard students, faculty, fellows, and staff members as well as other Boston-area students and scholars. The lessons will be conducted by ...
S050 (Concourse level), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St.
Join Christian Grose, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Southern California for a talk on “Strengthening Democracy with Dollars? Increasing Funding for Elections Changes Administrators' Behavior and Increases Voter Turnout.” This discussion is part of the American Politics Speaker Series sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Center for American Political Studies.
This will be an in-person event open to Harvard ID holders only. Lunch will be served.
JFK Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA -- Registration Required
On September 29, 2022, join the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability (IARA) Project in the JFK Jr. Forum for a discussion featuring Maya Wiley, president of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and former counsel to the mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio. The conversation will be moderated by Khalil Gibran Muhammad, director of the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project and Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. We will hear from President Wiley about her vision for leading the nation through a...
Session four of the Democratization in the Arab World: Challenges and Prospects for the Future Study Group with former Tunisian president Dr. Moncef Marzouki will focus on the most specific obstacle to Arab democratization: Islamism. Discussion will include how has political Islam in its armed version as well as in its civil version been a gift from heaven to dictatorships. Students will also explore why democratic elections have favored Islamist parties, and why they have failed the test of power (the case of Tunisia and Morocco). Participants will then debate the question: “Now that...