2016

2016 Mar 01

Career talk with Ash Center Senior Fellow Peter Quilter

12:30pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Taubman 401

The Office of Career Advancement  will be hosting a brown bag discussion with Ash Center senior fellow Peter Quilter on Tuesday, March 1st at 12:30pm in Taubman 401.  Quilter joined the Ash Center in 2016 after serving as a senior official in the Organization of American States (OAS).  Prior to his tenure at the OAS, Quilter worked as a senior policy staffer covering Latin America at the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Department of State.  At the Ash Center, Quilter’s work focuses on the growth and retrenchment of democracy in the Americas. ...

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2016 Mar 01

How to Handle the Tools of Civic Tech: A Primer for Government

4:10pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Ash Center, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA

Part of the Technology and Democracy Workshop Series

With Hollie Russon Gilman, Civic Innovation Fellow, New America Foundation and Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs

Hollie Russon Gilman, PhD will introduce participants to key concepts, tools, and language at the frontiers of civic technology. Taking the perspective of a government official who values innovation and is...

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Ash Center Establishes Technology and Democracy Fellowship

February 22, 2016

Cambridge, MA— The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School is pleased to announce the establishment of the Technology and Democracy Fellowship.  Designed to build connections between the Kennedy School and the worlds of technology, policy, and government, the fellowship supports practitioners and students in developing their skills and understanding of major concepts related to technology and governance.

Technology and Democracy Fellows will design and lead a series of hands-on workshops for Harvard Kennedy School students on a broad...

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2016 Feb 26

Risky Business: Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Singapore (Panel 1)

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

Edgerton Hall, EG&G Education Center, MIT Building 34-101, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge MA 02139

Synopsis: As the world continues to globalise, Singapore has to start moving towards an entrepreneurial economy for dynamic and sustainable growth. This panel discussion focuses on the experiences of Singaporean entrepreneurs, the entrepreneurial environment in Singapore, how these compare to other countries, and what the future may, and should, hold for Singapore and its entrepreneurial and business environment.

Panelists:

Charles L Cooney, 

Emeritus Faculty DIrector, Deshpande Center for...

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A Lifelong Learner and Traveler: Roy and Lila Ash Fellow Priscilla Lee

A Lifelong Learner and Traveler: Roy and Lila Ash Fellow Priscilla Lee

February 18, 2016

By: Maisie O'Brien, Communications Coordinator

Priscilla Lee MPA 2016 holds up her phone displaying a picture of a beaming mom in a bright blue headscarf holding her newborn son. “This is Decca and Isaac,” she says. “I took these last week when I visited them in the hospital.”* 

Decca, Lee explained, faced countless obstacles to starting a family. She was born in Somalia and lived much of her life on the move or in refugee camps before coming to the US where she was separated from her family for years. The two met when Decca enrolled in an English for Speakers of...

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2016 Feb 25

How Numbers Lie: Intersectional Violence and the Quantification of Race

4:15pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Knafel Center Map It 10 Garden Street Cambridge, MA 02138

Tracing the genealogy of statistical discourses on race, Khalil Gibran Muhammad explores the violence of racial quantification on black women and men’s lives beginning in the postbellum period. How did the numbers of out of wedlock childbirths or incarcerated men come to define the progress and potential of African Americans by contrast to others? Why have such facts spoken for themselves as is so often said today? Or have they?

Muhammad is the director of...

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2016 Apr 07

Building Support for Taxation in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Mexico

4:10pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA

Please join us for the next presentation of the Ash Center's Comparative Democracy Seminar Series. Gustavo Flores-Macías is an Assistant Professor of Government and Director of the Latin American Studies Program at Cornell University.  His talk is entitled: "Building Support for Taxation in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Mexico."

Background
In spite of the importance of taxation for political and economic development, we know relatively little about the conditions under which citizens might not exact a political cost on leaders...

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2016 Mar 10

Ruling Before the Law: The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia

4:10pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA

You are invited to join William Hurst, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University and currently a Radcliffe Institute Fellow, for a discussion entitled “Ruling Before the Law: The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia.” This talk will be moderated by Tony Saich, Ash Center Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs at HKS. 

Background
"Ruling Before the Law" begins by arguing that in order to understand the politics of legal institutions in authoritarian, socialist, and post-colonial...

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Connecting the Dots on Sustainability

Connecting the Dots on Sustainability

February 9, 2016

Jayant Kairam MPP 2010 is working across sectors to combat climate change and strengthen communities

By: Maisie O'Brien, Communications Coordinator

“Climate change is the fight of our time,” says Jayant Kairam MPP 2010 from his office at Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) in Austin, Texas. “Every day we see the increased threats that climate change poses to coastlines, agriculture, water, public health, and political and economic stability, and we must act now to reduce carbon pollution.”... Read more about Connecting the Dots on Sustainability

Peter Quilter

Peter Quilter, Senior Latin America Policy Expert Joins Harvard Ash Center

February 8, 2016

Cambridge, MA -- The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, a leading research center at the Harvard Kennedy School today announced the appointment of longtime Latin America policy expert Peter Quilter as senior non-residential fellow. 

Quilter, who most recently served as the secretary for administration and finance at the Organization of American States (OAS) joins the Ash Center where he will focus on issues surrounding both the growth and retrenchment of democracy in the Western Hemisphere. “Peter’s perspective as a thought leader on Latin America policy will...

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