Past Events

  • 2020 Mar 25

    VIRTUAL Book talk with Richard Hasen, author of "Election Meltdown"

    12:00pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    Zoom meeting, https://harvard.zoom.us/j/765369862

    The Ash Center invites you to a virtual book talk with with Richard Hasen, Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California, Irvine -- and author of "Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy." Ash Center Democracy Fellow Tova Wang will moderate. 

    Written before the current coronavirus pandemic, Election Meltdown, has taken on an even deeper meaning. Hasen will talk about the major new challenges the virus is creating for the elections of...

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  • 2020 Mar 24

    CANCELLED Study Group -- Voting Rights Restoration: At the Intersection of Criminal Justice and Democracy

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    124 Mt Auburn Street, South Lobby, Suite 160S, Room 105

    Join Ash Center fellows Miles Rapoport and Tova Wang for a five-part study group examining various aspects of the burgeoning democracy reform movement sweeping through states across the country. Session 4 is entitled "Voting Rights Restoration: At the Intersection of Criminal Justice and Democracy." Lunch will be served. Seating preference will be given to students. No preregistration or RSVP is necessary. 

    Throughout the semester, leading advocates, organizers and scholars on voting rights, social movements, and structural election reform will share their...

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  • 2020 Mar 05

    Super Tuesday - What Just Happened?

    6:00pm

    Location: 

    JFK Jr. Forum

    Join the Institute of Politics for reflections on Super Tuesday results and where the 2020 campaign goes from here with Mike Allen Co-Founder, Axios, Tiffany Cross, IOP Spring 2020 Resident Fellow, Co-Founder and Managing Editor, The Beat DC, Galen Druke, Podcast Producer and Reporter, FiveThirtyEight moderated by Margaret Talev, Politics and White House Editor, Axios, IOP Fall 2018 Resident Fellow.

    Mike Allen
    Co-Founder, Axios...

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  • 2020 Feb 25

    Study Group -- If You Only Knew: The Power of State and Local Election Officials

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    124 Mt Auburn Street, South Lobby, Suite 160S, Room 105

    Join Ash Center fellows Miles Rapoport and Tova Wang for a five-part study group examining various aspects of the burgeoning democracy reform movement sweeping through states across the country. Session 3 is entitled "If You Only Knew: The Power of State and Local Election Officials." Lunch will be served. Seating preference will be given to students. No preregistration or RSVP is necessary. 

    Throughout the semester, leading advocates, organizers and scholars on voting rights, social movements, and structural election reform will share their unique...

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  • 2020 Feb 18

    Study Group -- Voter Suppression in 2020: What to Expect, Who is Fighting Back?

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    124 Mt Auburn Street, South Lobby, Suite 160S, Room 105

    Join Ash Center fellows Miles Rapoport and Tova Wang for a five-part study group examining various aspects of the burgeoning democracy reform movement sweeping through states across the country. Session 2 is entitled "Voter Suppression in 2020: What to Expect, Who is Fighting Back?" Guests include Beth Stevens from the Texas Civil Rights Project who will focus on suppression of the student vote and Jamal R. Watkins, Vice President of Civic Engagement at the NAACP.

    Lunch will be served. Seating preference will be given to students. No preregistration or...

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  • 2020 Feb 13

    Covering 2020

    6:00pm to 7:15pm

    Location: 

    JFK Jr. Forum, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

    This event at the Institute of Poitics is the second Forum in our 2020 Election series featuring embedded reporters sharing stories from the presidential campaign trail. We will reflect on voter engagement in the 2020 election and the outcome of the New Hampshire primary with national political reporters who are covering Democratic presidential candidates: Astead W. Herndon (The New York Times), Josh Lederman (NBC News), Arlette Saenz (CNN), and Sean Sullivan (The Washington Post) in conversation with IOP Senior Fellow...

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  • 2020 Feb 11

    New Hampshire Primary Watch Event at the IOP

    7:00pm

    Location: 

    Institute of Politics
    Join the Institute of Politics to watch the coverage of New Hampshire and wait for results from the First in the Nation primary.
  • 2020 Feb 10

    Book Talk -- American Resistance: From the Women’s March to the Blue Wave

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St, Suite 200N

    Join us for a discussion with Dana R. Fisher, Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Program for Society and the Environment at the University of Maryland, author of American Resistance: From the Women’s March to the Blue Wave. Marshall GanzRita E. Hauser Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing, and Civil Society, will moderate. Lunch will be served.

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  • 2020 Feb 07

    New Hampshire Debate Watch Event

    7:00pm

    Location: 

    JFK Jr. Forum
    Join us in the JFK Jr. Forum for a viewing party of the eighth Democratic Primary Debate, live from the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. Doors will open at 6:30PM.

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