Please join Jelani Cobb, Professor of History and Director of the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Connecticut, contributor to The New Yorker, and recipient of the 2016 Jay College of Criminal Justice Trailblazer award, along with Thomas Abt, Senior...

You are cordially invited to a discussion entitled The Politics of the Latino Vote: Immigration and the Run Up to 2016 with Tom Jawetz, Vice President of Immigration Policy, Center for American Progress; Josiane Martinez, Founder, Archipelago Strategies Group; and ...

The last Stakeholders and Changemakers panel for the year is ASEAN 2015 in Review: Turbulent Waters, Muddy Crossroads. 2015 was to be a promising year for ASEAN, with the proposed signing of the ASEAN Economic Community and a proposed Code of Conduct for the South China Sea. The CoC did not materialize, while the AEC has promise but has many hurdles to be overcome. Where does ASEAN go from here, as...

What was cultural about the Cultural Revolution, or was the decade only a cultural desert? Upon the fiftieth anniversary of the Cultural Revolution, this symposium considers the cinematic production and reception, practices and legacies of that tumultuous decade. The mass criticism of several “poisonous weed” films in the mid-1960s helped to launch the Cultural Revolution, and the 1970s saw the expansion of the film exhibition network and radical growth of film audiences. If film was the mass medium that reached the most...

Movie Screening: Lessons in Dissent

Followed by a Q&A with Joshua Wong

Mr. Joshua Wong is a Hong Kong student activist and was a leading figure of the 2014 Umbrella Revolution movement. Due to his influence in Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement, he was named as one of Time's "Most Influential Teens of 2014," nominated for its Person of the Year 2014 and listed by Fortune as one of the World's Greatest Leaders in 2015.

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Mr. Joshua Wong is a Hong Kong student activist and was a leading figure of the 2014 Umbrella Revolution movement. Due to his influence in Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement, he was named as one of Time's "Most Influential Teens of 2014," nominated for its Person of the Year 2014 and listed by Fortune as one of the World's Greatest Leaders in 2015.

Please join us in welcoming Mr. Wong to the Harvard leg of his United States talking series where he will share his insights on the rise of new political forces in Hong...

On April 25, 2015, the Gorkha Earthquake struck Nepal, causing extensive damage and taking the lives of thousands. In this panel discussion, speakers will draw on their research to discuss how relief and recovery have progressed in the year since the disaster occurred.

Speakers:

What are the particular challenges facing social democrats—or the millennial inheritors of the social democratic tradition—in the US, UK, and beyond? Join this discussion on the evolving prospects for social democratic parties across Europe and farther afield. We will explore emerging opportunities for experimentation within social democratic politics and the wider ‘ecosystem’ which surrounds it, including the interplay between NGOs/advocacy organizations, campaigns and candidates.... Read more about Reinventing Social Democracy? Sanders, Corbyn and Beyond

The Ash Center cordially invites you to a book talk with Arthur R. Kroeber, author of China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know. This discussion will be moderated by Edward...

Robson Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley Thad Dunning will present on his recent work "Does Habit Breed Political Participation? Experimental Evidence on Tax Compliance in Uruguay."  Co-authored with Felipe Monestier (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay), Rafael Piñeiro (Universidad Católica, Uruguay),...

The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, in cooperation with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, cordially invite you to a discussion on Multilateral Solutions to International Problems: U.S. Leadership at the UN and What Lies Ahead with the Honorable Bathsheba Crocker, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs and Harvard Law School alum.  Former UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for...