Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
Ash Center Student Speaker Series
Peiran Wei (MC-MPA '15)
Lunch will be provided
About the Event
The rise of private wealth is one of the most important developments in modern China, with implications for the country’s social, economic, and political arenas. How individuals choose to deploy such resources will shape the relationships between the individual and the state, between the state and business, and between the state and the social sector.
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
The Ash Center and the Asia Center cordially invite you to a discussion on Myanmar's recent elections with Thomas Vallely and David Dapice, director and senior economist, respectively, of the Ash Center's Myanmar Program. Dapice and Vallely will be joined by Hla Hla Win, Ford Foundation Mason Student Fellow at the Ash Center and 2016 mid-career MPA candidate at the Kennedy School. The discussion, entitled Myanmar After the Elections: The Challenges Ahead will explore the political transitions that will need to be negotiated in Myanmar...
Wiener Auditorium, Taubman Bldg. 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA 02138
The Harvard Kennedy School Indonesia Program and the Harvard Asia Center, with support from The Australian National University’s Indonesia Project, are hosting their first national conference on Indonesia, “Understanding Indonesia: Revealing the Mysteries of Asia’s Inscrutable Giant.” Although Indonesia is a giant of Asia, it has largely escaped the attention of U.S. policy makers, academics, and the public at large. With a population of 250 million, it is the fourth most populous country in the world. It is the largest democratic country with a Muslim-majority population. With...
Ash Center, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge, Mass
The Ash Center cordially invites you to the next session of its Comparative Democracy Seminar Series. We will be joined by Benjamin Smith, Associate Professor of Political Science and Research Foundation Professor at the University of Florida. Dr. Smith will present his research on the "resource curse" and present a new indicator for oil dependence—a concept he terms rent leverage. It captures the share of individuals’ buying power that directly depends on fuel income (and that nearly everywhere is controlled by...
Foyer, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North Cambridge, MA 02138
The Ash Center cordially invites you to the next session of its Race and American Politics Seminar Series. We will be joined by Michael C. Dawson, the John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. Professor Dawson will examine both liberal and conservative objections to slavery reparations, present recent public opinion data and analysis on support for reparations and slavery apologies, as well as discuss the issue of reparations within the broader racial divide in American public...
Ash Center Foyer (124 Mt. Auburn St. Suite 200-North)
The Ash Center cordially invites you to its next Student Speaker Series event, Designing Better Engagement: Reflection on the Black in Design Conference
Shani A. Carter, Master’s in Urban Planning candidate ’16 at the Graduate School of Design, and Courtney D. Sharpe, Master’s in Urban Planning candidate ’16 at the Graduate School of Design
Ash Center Foyer (124 Mt. Auburn St. Suite 200-North), 12-1 pm
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA
The Ash Center cordially invites you to a discussion with Patrick Mendis, distinguished senior fellow in the School of Public Policy and affiliate professor of public and international affairs at George Mason University. Dr. Mendis' talk is entitled: The Trans-Pacific Partnership or the One Belt, One Road Strategy? The Future of Sino-American Trade Relations in the Asia-Pacific Regionand will be...