Past Events

  • 2024 Mar 07

    Towards Life 3.0 with Latanya Sweeney

    4:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual Webinar Event

    This webinar is part the Carr Center’s Towards Life 3.0 series, co-sponsored by the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation at the Ash Center. Towards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century is a talk series organized and facilitated by Dr. Mathias Risse, Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Drawing inspiration from the title of Max Tegmark’s book, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, the series draws upon a range of scholars, technology leaders, and public interest technologists to address the ethical aspects of the long-term impact of...

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  • 2024 Mar 06

    India Votes 2024: The World’s Largest Democracy?

    5:30pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010)

    This spring, the Mittal Institute will host a series of events focused on the Indian elections, from how they are covered to what it means regionally and globally. This is the launch of the series, focusing on “How should we assess India’s standing as the “world’s largest democracy,” in theory and practice?”

    Speakers:

    • Sandipto Dasgupta, Assistant Professor of Politics, The New School for Social Research
    • Sushant Singh, Senior Fellow at Centre for Policy Research
    • Raheel Dhattiwala, Baden-Wurttemberg Fellow at the South Asia...
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  • 2024 Mar 06

    Preventing Rebel Resurgence after Civil War: A Field Experiment in Security and Justice Provision in Rural Colombia

    4:00pm to 5:15pm

    Location: 

    Ash Seminar Room 225, Suite 200N, 124 Mount Auburn Street

    You’re invited to a Global Challenges to Democracy Seminar Series event featuring Michael Weintraub, Associate Professor in the Escuela de Gobierno at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, and Director of the Security and Violence Area of the Center for the Study of Security and Drugs (CESED).

    States struggle to reestablish authority in areas of former rebel governance. How can they prevent armed groups from exploiting local governance gaps in areas of former rebel rule? During this talk, Weintraub will discuss his randomized evaluation of Colombia’s...

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  • 2024 Mar 01

    Indonesian Language Class – Every Friday

    Repeats every week every Friday until Mon May 20 2024 except Fri Nov 24 2023, Fri Dec 22 2023, Fri Dec 29 2023, Fri Jan 05 2024, Fri Jan 12 2024, Fri Jan 19 2024.
    2:00pm to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 100N, Room 106

    The Indonesia Program at the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia invites you to join a not-for-credit Indonesian language and culture course. The class is open to a diverse audience including Harvard students, faculty, fellows, staff members, as well as students and scholars from the wider Boston area. Your instructor, Ivanna Zakiyah, a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA), will guide you through an inclusive curriculum suitable for all skill levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced learners.

    Embark on a cultural journey through Indonesia as you develop...

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  • 2024 Mar 01

    Democratizing the Administrative State with Lived Experience

    12:00pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    Ash Center Seminar Room, Room 225 Suite 200N, 124 Mount Auburn Street

    Barriers and Opportunities for Administrative Participation Among Food Assistance Applicants

    You’re invited to join Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, for an American Politics Speaker Series discussion sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Center for American Political Studies. 

    Registration is encouraged but not required. This event series will not be recorded.  

    This event is open...

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  • 2024 Feb 29

    GETTING-Plurality — “A Roadmap for Governing AI: Technology Governance and Power-Sharing Liberalism”

    12:00pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    Virtual meeting, registration required

    Please join us for a GETTING-Plurality Research workshop series event, convened by the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation. In this session, we’ll hear from Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, Director of the Allen Lab, and presenting author of “A Roadmap for Governing AI: Technology Governance and...

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  • 2024 Feb 29

    Spillover Implications of a China Growing 0-2%

    12:00pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    Wexner 434ab + Virtual Via Zoom

    Educators, policymakers and business leaders need to decide how to respond to the implications of China’s economic slowdown. Options have not been adequately considered because the extent of the slowdown has not been understood and acknowledged. Even today international organizations, governments, and prominent public intellectuals endorse rosy assumptions that would not be taken seriously elsewhere. It’s time to talk about the slow growth era in China. To set the table for that, the structural economic problems that reduce China’s potential growth to 0-2% must be recognized. ...

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  • 2024 Feb 28

    Defending Parliament: Responses of Mainstream Parties to Parliamentary Erosion

    4:00pm to 5:15pm

    Location: 

    Ash Seminar Room 225, Suite 200N, 124 Mount Auburn Street

    You’re invited to a Global Challenges to Democracy Seminar Series event featuring Isabela Mares, Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science, Yale University.

    Historically, extremist parties have engaged in a process of parliamentary disruption, violating the rules of interaction, and slowing down the legislative process. How can democratic parties respond to these strategies and counter parliamentary erosion? During this talk, Mares will discuss her paper on the political reforms adopted in Third Republic France and Weimar Germany which sought to defend...

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  • 2024 Feb 27

    Film and Panel Discussion: Bad Press

    7:00pm to 9:15pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall

    Join us for a screening of the documentary film Bad Press, recipient of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion to consider the making of the film and the role of Mvskoke Media—a company that distributes information to the Mvskoke people through various channels—in fighting to preserve a free press.

    The Muscogee (Creek) Nation is the fourth-largest Native American tribe. Out of 574 federally recognized tribes, the Muscogee Nation was one of only five to establish a...

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  • 2024 Feb 27

    AI and Democracy - Threats, Promises, and Reality Checks

    9:00am to 10:15am

    Location: 

    Malkin Penthouse, 4th Floor, Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School and Online

    The Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia invites you to join us for a hybrid conversation on the influence of artificial intelligence on democracy. This year, emerging AI tools, disinformation campaigns, and the pervasive embedding of technology in society pose risks to democratic elections across the globe. This panel will explore such dynamics in Taiwan’s recent election and the upcoming US election and offer ways of thinking about — and countering — such threats. 

    Speakers include:  

    • Wu Min Hsuan, DoubleThink Lab...
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