Events at the IOP

  1. Getting Out The Vote with Harvard Votes Challenge

    Friday November 2 - 12:00pm

    Join the Ash Center for an Ash Center Community Speaker Series. This event will feature Gwen Camp MC/MPA 2019 and Mike Miesen MPP 2019 about the Harvard Votes Challenge, GOTV, and understanding why it can be so hard to turn voters out to the polls. Teresa Acuña, Associate Director of Democratic Governance Programs at Ash will moderate. Lunch, as always, will be served.

    Friday, November 2 at 12:00 p.m.
    Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt Auburn St, Suite 200N

  2. What’s the Next Big Economic Idea? Evaluating UBI, Job Guarantees & Others

    Thursday November 1 - 6:00pm

    Oren Cass
    Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
    Darrick Hamilton
    Professor of Economics and Urban Policy, The Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy and the Department of Economics, The New School for Social Research, The New School in New York
    Annie Lowrey
    Contributing Editor, The Atlantic Magazine
    Will Wilkinson
    Vice President for Research, Niskanen Center
    Jason Furman (Moderator)
    Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
    Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers (2013 - 2017)

     

  3. Treaties Last Until They Don’t. The Relevance of Contracts, Pacts, and Accords in the Post-Cold War World.

    Thursday November 1 - 4:30pm

    Guest: Air Vice Marshall Gavin Parker, Royal Air Force, United Kingdom's Defense Attache to the United States.

  4. Everybody Wants to Rule the World: The Future of Geopolitics and Conflict

    Wednesday October 31 - 4:30pm

    Guest: Admiral William McRaven U.S. Navy Retired, former Chancellor of the University of Texas University System, ninth Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, retired U.S. Navy SEAL.

  5. POSTPONED- The Briefing Room: The Legal System

    Wednesday October 31 - 4:30pm

    Margaret will not hold a session this week.

  6. Personal Power: Your Role in Collective Freedom

    Tuesday October 30 - 4:30pm

    GuestsChikesia Clemons, Activist and police assault survivor, and Cleo Wade, Poet, Author and Advocate

  7. A Conversation with Kyrie Irving ***Cancelled***

    Monday October 29 - 8:00pm

    ***This event has been Cancelled****

    Kyrie Irving
    Professional Athlete and Activist
    Point Guard, Boston Celtics

    Tommie Shelby
    Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy, Harvard University

    ***THIS FORUM WILL BE TICKETED***
    The lottery has conluded.

  8. A Conversation with Alyssa Mastromonaco

    Monday October 29 - 6:00pm

    Alyssa Mastromonaco
    Co-Host of Crooked Media Podcast Hysteria
    Author of Who Thought This was a Good Idea?
    White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations (2011 -2014)
     
    Amy Dacey (Moderator)
    Fall 2018 Resident Fellow, Institute of Politics
    Former Chief Executive Officer, Democratic National Committee

     

  9. Women and the Workforce

    Monday October 29 - 4:30pm

    Guest: Alyssa Mastromonaco, Co-Host of Crooked Media Podcast Hysteria; Author of Who Thought This was a Good Idea?; White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations (2011 -2014); Political Director for Obama's PAC Hopefund (2006-2008); Director of Scheduling and Advance for Obama 2008.

  10. The Battle Within

    Monday October 29 - 4:30pm

    A study group by Joe Heck.

  11. Midterm Elections Preview: Blue Wave or Red Save?

    Friday October 26 - 4:00pm

    Taegan Goddard
    Publisher, Political Wire
    Clare Malone
    Senior Political Writer, FiveThirtyEight; Panelist, FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast
    Asha Rangappa
    CNN Legal and National Security Analyst
    Former FBI Agent
    Senior Lecturer, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University
    Rick Wilson
    Republican Political Strategist; #1 New York Times Bestselling Author, “Everything Trump Touches Dies”
    Chris Riback (Moderator)
    Host, Chris Riback's Conversations

     

  12. Politics, Potholes and Public Service: A Conversation with Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz.

    Friday October 26 - 12:00pm

    Join Carmen Yulín Cruz Soto, the current mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, for a conversation about politics and government at the local level.

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