2017

2017 Sep 26

Volunteer Voter Registration Drive

1:00pm to 4:30pm

Location: 

Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200 North

Join Ash Center Senior Fellow Miles Rapoport for a voter registration drive in Cambridge as part of National Voter Registration Day (NVRD), September 26. Students, Harvard affiliaties, and community members interested in participating should gather in the foyer of the Ash Center, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, second floor, at 1:00pm. Nonprofit VOTE, the lead national sponsor of NVRD will provide a briefing, and participants will then go to local T stations to help register voters. Participants will be back on campus by 4:30, in time for the Pizza Party and Activist Fair at...

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2017 Nov 27

Human Trafficking Study Group: Future Directions and Cross-Sectoral Collaborations

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Ash Center Conference Room, HKS, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200 North, Room 226

The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy invites you to join a study group on innovations in the fight against human trafficking. The study group, which will meet five times this semester, is convened and moderated by Herman Bolhaar, Former Attorney-General of The Netherlands and Senior Fellow at the Ash Center.

Our fifth and final study group will feature Dr. Christina Bain, Director Initiative on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery, Babson College.

The goal of the study...

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2017 Nov 13

Combating Organ Trafficking: New Research and Methods

4:15pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

124 MT. AUBURN - SUITE 100 ROOM 106

The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy invites you to join a study group on innovations in the fight against human trafficking. The study group, which will meet five times this semester, is convened and moderated by Herman Bolhaar, Former Attorney-General of The Netherlands and Senior Fellow at the Ash Center. Note that the room has changed to 124 MT. AUBURN - SUITE 100 ROOM 106. 

Our fourth study group will feature Dr. Frederike Ambagtsheer, Fellow, Northeastern University. Dr. Ambagtsheer will give a presentation entitled: "Human trafficking for the purpose of organ removal: discourse versus empirical research findings."... Read more about Combating Organ Trafficking: New Research and Methods

2017 Oct 30

Human Trafficking Study Group: Trafficked --The Position and Perspective of Victims

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Ash Center Conference Room, HKS, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200 North, Room 226

The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy invites you to join a study group on innovations in the fight against human trafficking. The study group, which will meet five times this semester, is convened and moderated by Herman Bolhaar, Former Attorney-General of The Netherlands and Senior Fellow at the Ash Center.

Our third study group will feature Dr. Laura Cordisco Tsai, Fellow Carr center, HKS

The goal of the study group is to examine the problem of human trafficking from...

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2017 Oct 10

Human Trafficking Study Group: Evidence of Human Trafficking

1:00pm to 3:00pm

Location: 

Ash Center Conference Room, HKS, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200 North, Room 226

The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy invites you to join a study group on innovations in the fight against human trafficking. The study group, which will meet five times this semester, is convened and moderated by Herman Bolhaar, Former Attorney-General of The Netherlands and Senior Fellow at the Ash Center.

Our second study group will feature Dr. Danilo...

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2017 Sep 22

Money and Politics: The Story of Campaign Financing in Africa

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Ash Center Foyer (124 Mt. Auburn St. Suite 200-North)

Ash Center Student Speaker Series

Speakers:
Glen Mpani, MC-Mason '18, Ford Foundation Mason Fellow

About the Event

Join Ash Center Ford Foundation Mason Fellow Glen Mpani (MC-Mason '18) as he discusses his experience as a democracy and governance practitioner working in Africa

About the Series

The Ash Center Student Speaker Series highlights and explores the implications and lessons learned from the research projects or applied learning experiences of Harvard...

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2017 Sep 29

Does Integration Change Gender Attitudes? The Effect of Randomly Assigning Women to Traditionally Male Teams

10:00am to 11:30am

Location: 

1 Brattle Street, 3rd Floor Conference Room (Room 350), Cambridge, MA

Join us for the first installment of the Gender and Security Seminar Series, a discussion with Dr. Andreas Kotsadam, Senior Researcher at The Frisch Centre and Affiliated Researcher at the Department of Economics at the University of Oslo. Light breakfast to be served.

Dr. Kotsadam's research examines whether exposure of men to women in a traditionally male-dominated environment can change gendered attitudes. The context is the military in Norway, where female recruits were randomly assigned to some squads but not others during boot camp. Findings show that living...

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