Events Calendar

Digital Communications Workshop: Big Ideas in the Digital World, presented by Megan Garber, staff writer, The Atlantic, forme

In a world of whirlwind information, how do we ensure that big ideas, the ideas that change minds and change the...

• Location:
  Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building, Lobby
• Date:
  Monday, April 16, 2012
• Time:
  10:10 AM

Graduating students: "Show What You Can Do" for the HKS Fund!

Graduating HKS Students: Stop by the "Show What You Can Do" Table in the Forum from 10:30 to 2:30 on Monday,...

• Location:
  Forum
• Date:
  Monday, April 16, 2012
• Time:
  10:30 AM

The Politics of Maps: Mapping the West Bank Barrier

• Location:
  124 Mt. Auburn Suite 100, Rm 110
• Date:
  Monday, April 16, 2012
• Time:
  12:15 PM

Exploring the Transition to Democracy in the Arab Region

Panel 1: From Autocracy to Democracy in the Arab region Samir Makdisi: Autocratic Environment and the Initial Democratic Breakthroughs Rami G. Khouri:...

• Location:
  Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building, 4th Floor, HKS
• Date:
  Monday, April 16, 2012
• Time:
  1:45 PM

PAE Info Session with MPP2s: Human Rights, Environment & Corporate Social Responsibility

Come hear several MPP2s discuss their PAE experiences, including finding and working with clients; the pros & cons of single vs. partners;...

• Location:
  Perkins Room (Rubenstein 4th floor)
• Date:
  Monday, April 16, 2012
• Time:
  3:00 PM

The Stakes of Politics & Policy: Global Political Risks and 2012

• Location:
  Faculty Dining Room
• Date:
  Monday, April 16, 2012
• Time:
  4:15 PM

like All General Elections Are Social: Lessons from the Primaries

• Location:
  L166
• Date:
  Monday, April 16, 2012
• Time:
  4:15 PM

The U.S. Foreign Service at Work in Africa: A public address by Ambassador Ronald McMullen

Ronald McMullen, former United States Ambassador to Eritrea (2007-2010) and now Diplomat-in-Residence at the University of Texas at...

• Location:
  Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building
• Date:
  Monday, April 16, 2012
• Time:
  4:30 PM

**EVENT CANCELLED** Gender & Security Seminar Series. Topic: 'Institutionalizing Gender in Peace Operations'

**EVENT CANCELLED** The next meeting of the Gender & Security Seminar Series will feature Claire Hutchinson, Gender Affairs Officer, UN Department of Peackeeping,...

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room (R-219)
• Date:
  Monday, April 16, 2012
• Time:
  5:00 PM

Jake Tapper: "The 2012 Presidential Race: Behind the Scenes."

Speaker Series with Jake Tapper, Senior White House Correspondent, ABC News and a substitute host for ABC's This Week....

• Location:
  Allison Dining Room, Taubman Building, 5th Floor
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 17, 2012
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Community-Powered Disaster Recovery: A Brownbag Presentation by Recovers.Org

Created in the wake of an EF3 tornado, Recovers.org provides free software and support to recovering areas immediately after a disaster. In...

• Location:
  Taubman 301
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 17, 2012
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Money Growing on Trees? Stopping Tropical Deforestation to Solve the Climate and Resource Crises

Lunch provided Limited space:  To reserve a seat please RSVP to lauren_bloomberg@hks.harvard.edu. Speakers:Per Fredrik Ilsaas Pharo is the Director of Norway’s International Climate...

• Location:
  Littauer-166 (IOP conference room)
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 17, 2012
• Time:
  12:30 PM

The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future

There is no more society closed off from the world today then North Korea. Not even Burma or Syria rival the...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library (Littauer 369)
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 17, 2012
• Time:
  2:30 PM

Right to Water Study Group. Topic: ''Professor Richard M. Vogel discusses 'Balancing Human & Environmental Needs for Water: T

Please join the Right to Water Study Group. for a presentation by Richard M. Vogel, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Tufts...

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room (R-219)
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 17, 2012
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Communications Program Writing Workshop: "On Style" Presented by Greg Harris, HKS Writing Consultant

Express yourself more powerfully and memorably on the page by overcoming lifeless, awkward prose.  This workshop will show you a better approach...

• Location:
  Littauer Building, Room 332
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 17, 2012
• Time:
  4:10 PM

Harvard in the Delta: Reflecting on Five Years of the Community Development Project

Since 2008, HKS students have engaged the residents of Baptist Town, a rural community in Greenwood, MS, in local community development efforts....

• Location:
  124 Mt. Auburn, Suite 200-North, Room 226
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 17, 2012
• Time:
  4:10 PM

Employing the Instruments of National Power: AMB Nick Burns; COL Drew Poppas; & Sarah Haig, MPP '12

The National Security Program and the Belfer Center are co-sponsors of a study group for American military affairs.  The study group introduces...

• Location:
  Belfer Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 17, 2012
• Time:
  4:10 PM

Deleterious Me: Whole Genome Sequencing, 23andMe, and the Crowd-Sourced Health Care Revolution

Anne Wojcicki is the CEO and co-founder of 23andMe, a privately-held personal genomics and biotechnology company headquartered in Mountain View, California. Since...

• Location:
  Emerson Hall, Room 105
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 17, 2012
• Time:
  5:00 PM

Iron Wall 2012: Israel and the Arab Transformation

A conversation with Yoram Meital, Associate Professor, Middle East Studies, Ben-Gurion University; Chairman, Ben-Gurion University Chaim Herzog Center for ME Studies &...

• Location:
  NYE A, Taubman Building, Fifth Floor, Harvard Kennedy School
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 17, 2012
• Time:
  5:00 PM

Screening of "De Panzazo", Mexican Documentary about Education

First international screening of ¡De Panzazo!Barely Passed! Worldwide recognized documentary that reflects the reality of the education system in Mexico. Subtitled version.The...

• Location:
  TSAI Auditorium, DRCLAS, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 17, 2012
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Heaven's Rain with Producer and Co-Writer Brooks Douglass (MC/MPA '02)

Please join us for a screening of the film Heaven's Rain, followed by a discussion with the Producer and Co-Writer HKS...

• Location:
  Wiener Auditorium, Taubman Building, Ground Floor, HKS
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 17, 2012
• Time:
  6:45 PM

Architectures for Life

Recent developments in genomic and communication technologies are prompting shifts in the social, institutional and ethical architectures of biomedicine. Examples include direct-to-consumer genetic...

• Location:
  Maxwell Dworkin 119, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 18, 2012
• Time:
  9:00 AM

Richard Plepler: "HBO in the 21st Century."

"HBO in the 21st Century." A conversation with Richard Plepler, co-president of HBO. Moderated by Alex Jones, Shorenstein Center Director....

• Location:
  Allison Dining Room, Taubman Building, 5th Floor
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 18, 2012
• Time:
  12:00 PM

M-RCBG Seminar: Single-Payer Healthcare Reform in Vermont: Is it Economically Sustainable?

Timothy Christian, MD, Professor of Medicine at the University of Vermont and Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government...

• Location:
  Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 18, 2012
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Andrew Wolk, Founder of Root Cause visits with HKS Social Impact Investing Club

Please join us for a session with Andrew Wolk, Founder of Root Cause  Andrew Wolk is the founder and CEO of Root...

• Location:
  Perkins Room, 4th floor Rubenstein, HKS
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 18, 2012
• Time:
  1:00 PM

The International Human Rights Movement

• Location:
  Wasserstein Hall 3013, Harvard Law School
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 18, 2012
• Time:
  2:00 PM

"A Conversation with Acting Under Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller"

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library (L369)
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 18, 2012
• Time:
  3:00 PM

Environmental Economics and Policy

Katharine Sims: Impacts of Mexico's National Payments for Ecosystem Services Program...

• Location:
  Harvard Kennedy School Room Littauer-382
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 18, 2012
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Why Study America? Hardball Politics: An American Tradition

• Location:
  L166
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 18, 2012
• Time:
  4:15 PM

Curate Your Own Experience: Commumity Engagement Through Culture

Wine and Cheese Reception to Follow...

• Location:
  Belfer Building, Weil Town Hall (B L1) Harvard Kennedy School of Government
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 18, 2012
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Ethics under Fire

"Ethics under Fire" - Colonel (reserves) 'Bentzi' Gruber, Israeli Defense Forces, explores the dilemma facing IDF soldiers often having to make split...

• Location:
  Wiener Auditorium (Taubman Bldg. ground floor)
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 18, 2012
• Time:
  6:15 PM

Nuclear Security Summit Process – Accelerating Global Nuclear Security Actions

Ms. Anne Harrington, Deputy Administrator, Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, National Nuclear Security Administration/DOE,  will discuss the impact that the Nuclear Security Summit process has...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369
• Date:
  Thursday, April 19, 2012
• Time:
  10:30 AM

Trafficking & Modern Slavery Student Policy Group. Topic: 'Stigma, Psychological Health, and Human Trafficking'

Please join us for the next meeting of the Trafficking & Modern Slavery Student Policy Group, where the topic will be: 'Stigma,...

• Location:
  RSVP for Venue
• Date:
  Thursday, April 19, 2012
• Time:
  11:30 AM

Older Women Gain a Foothold: Reaching for Full Human Rights on Paper and Beyond

Judy Lear, Gray Panthers and Ferdous Ara Begum, Gender Issues Specialist Older women are invisible. They are among the most vulnerable in societies...

• Location:
  WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, T-102
• Date:
  Thursday, April 19, 2012
• Time:
  11:40 AM

Ben Heineman: Responsible Corporate Supply Chain Practices: Apple in Context

• Location:
  Malkin Penthouse, 4th Floor Littauer Building
• Date:
  Thursday, April 19, 2012
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Sanctions on Iran: Can They Work?

Speaker: Ian J. Stewart, Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom Coffee & tea provided Link to seminar description: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/5777/ Sponsored by...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Thursday, April 19, 2012
• Time:
  12:15 PM

Energy Case Competition

(*DATE AND LOCATION CHANGE*) The Geopolitics of Energy Project at Harvard Kennedy School is excited to announce the second annual Energy Policy Case Competition....

• Location:
  Nye A&B - 5th Floor of Taubman - Harvard Kennedy School
• Date:
  Thursday, April 19, 2012
• Time:
  3:00 PM

Gender & Security Seminar Series. Topic: 'Gender-Mainstreaming Training'

Please join us for what will be a joint session of the Gender and Security Initiative and the Carr Center's Human...

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room
• Date:
  Thursday, April 19, 2012
• Time:
  4:00 PM

HRE Initiative, Training Series. Topic: "Strategies for gender mainstreaming"

Please join us for what will be a joint session of the Human Rights in Education Training Secies and the Carr...

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room
• Date:
  Thursday, April 19, 2012
• Time:
  4:00 PM

The Making of the President 2012: Previewing the General: Obama v. Romney

• Location:
  L166
• Date:
  Thursday, April 19, 2012
• Time:
  4:15 PM

Study Group on Theater and Human Rights

The Study Group on Theater and Human Rights invites you to join this ongoing weekly exploration of the interrelationship of theater and...

• Location:
  RSVP for Venue
• Date:
  Thursday, April 19, 2012
• Time:
  6:00 PM

The Public Value of Art: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Who Picks up the Check?

Panelists Rebecca Blunk, Executive Director,  New England Foundations for the Arts Anna Fitzloff, Director of Marketing and Communications, American Repertory Theater Jill Johnson, Dance Director...

• Location:
  Taubman Building, Rotunda and Weiner Auditorium (ground floor) Harvard Kenn
• Date:
  Thursday, April 19, 2012
• Time:
  6:00 PM

"Big League Chew: Joe and Mike Talk Politics, Media and Baseball"

A conversation with: Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski Co-hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe Moderated by Ted Strickland Resident Fellow, Institute of Politics; Gov. of...

• Location:
  JFK Jr. Forum
• Date:
  Thursday, April 19, 2012
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Earth Month: Cool Recycling Demonstration!

Hands-on demo/Q&A on what can and cannot be recycled at HKS.  Giveaways of great reusable items!  Co-sponsored by HKS Sustainability Initiative and...

• Location:
  Littauer 332
• Date:
  Friday, April 20, 2012
• Time:
  11:00 AM

CID Friday Speaker Series with Professor Linda Brimm

"Global Cosmopolitans" with Professor Linda Brimm, INSEAD...

• Location:
  Perkins Room, 4th Floor Rubenstein, HKS
• Date:
  Friday, April 20, 2012
• Time:
  11:45 AM

Friday Library Workshop - Beyond Harvard: Researching Public Policy as HKS Alumni

Join us to explore the various types of free information sources you can use to conduct research after graduating and about...

• Location:
  Instruction Room
• Date:
  Friday, April 20, 2012
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Earth Month: Bike Day!

Come out for free bike safety checks (adjusting brakes, shifting, pumping up tires, lube) from EMS and information from the Boston Cyclist's...

• Location:
  HKS Courtyard
• Date:
  Friday, April 20, 2012
• Time:
  1:00 PM

Human Rights Student Film Series: 'Stolen Childhoods'

Please join us for The Human Rights Student  Film Series presentation of: "Stolen Childhoods," a feature-length documentary on child labor.More info: http://hks.harvard.edu/cchrp/events/generic_event_handler.php?id=671...

• Location:
  Fainsod Room (Littauer 3rd floor)
• Date:
  Friday, April 20, 2012
• Time:
  2:00 PM

Gender & Security Seminar Series. Topic: 'Portrait of a Lady with her Semi-Automatic Weapon'

Please join us for the next meeting of the Gender & Security Seminar series, at which the presenter will be Daisy Rockwell,...

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room (R-219)
• Date:
  Friday, April 20, 2012
• Time:
  4:00 PM

"Paradigm Shift: How to Innovate the Peace Process"

A public address by Ambassador Dennis Ross, Former Chief White House Advisor on Middle East Policy, Former National Security Council Special Assistant...

• Location:
  JFK Jr. Forum
• Date:
  Friday, April 20, 2012
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Zero-Waste Quorum Call

Free food & drinks. Students, staff, and faculty welcome!...

• Location:
  Courtyard
• Date:
  Friday, April 20, 2012
• Time:
  4:00 PM