Events Calendar

Nuclear Nonproliferation Practitioners Seminar with Kevin Veal

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369
• Date:
  Monday, October 26, 2009
• Time:
  10:30 AM

Starting from Scratch: Developing Effective Research Strategies

• Location:
  HKS Library Group Study Room
• Date:
  Monday, October 26, 2009
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Gorbachev and the End of the Cold War: New Evidence on Strategic Defense and Biological Weapons

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Room L-369
• Date:
  Monday, October 26, 2009
• Time:
  12:15 PM

Western Impact and Turkey - Seminar 3: Minorities and Minority Rights

• Location:
  *NEW*: Littauer 230, Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School
• Date:
  Monday, October 26, 2009
• Time:
  4:30 PM

The 10th Annual John T. Dunlop Lecture: Toward a More Sustainable Future: Housing, Place and the New Federalism

To be delivered by the Honorable Shaun Donovan, Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. ...

• Location:
  Graduate School of Design, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street
• Date:
  Monday, October 26, 2009
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Custodians of Democracy or Tyrants of the Future

• Location:
  Weiner Auditorium (Taubman Building, Ground Floor)
• Date:
  Monday, October 26, 2009
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Barack Obama v. the Freak Show: Politics and Media on the Wild Frontier.

• Location:
  Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 27, 2009
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Harvard Kennedy School PhD information sesssion

Louisa van Baalen will conduct an information session for PhD prospective students on campus. The session will take place in Littauer 126, located at...

• Location:
  Cambridge, MA
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 27, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Mission Impossible? Deconstructing Counter-insurgency in Afghanistan

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room, Rubenstein 219
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 27, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Fatah, Hamas, and the Future Palestinian State

• Location:
  Starr Auditorium
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 27, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

NGOs and Development study group - Community Mobilization and Good Governance: NGO Perspectives

• Location:
  Belfer Building Room BL 4 (HKS/Hauser Center conference room)
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 27, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Faith, Value, Politics

Having Our Say:  Faith Leaders Sound Off, sharing their thoughts about politicians in their pulpits, where they draw the line, how far...

• Location:
  Littauer 166
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 27, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Creativity in Journalism, in Politics, and in Life: A Writers Prospective

Study group led by IOP Fellow Peggy Noonan, columnist, The Wall Street Journal; author of eight books on American politics...

• Location:
  Faculty Dining Room
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 27, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Amphibious Warfare and the Marine Corps

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 27, 2009
• Time:
  4:10 PM

Seismic Safety in Emerging Nations: Making Schools Safer

Brian Tucker founded GeoHazards International, a nonprofit organization working to reduce the risk of natural hazards in the world's most vulnerable...

• Location:
  124 Mt. Auburn, Suite 200-North, Room 226
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 27, 2009
• Time:
  5:00 PM

Meet Philanthropists from China: Governance Challenges for Private Foundations in China

• Location:
  NYE A,B,C Taubman Building 5th Floor HKS
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 28, 2009
• Time:
  9:00 AM

Rappaport Public Policy Summer Fellowship Information Session

• Location:
  Bell Hall, 5th floor Belfer Building, Corner of JFK and Eliot Streets
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 28, 2009
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Middle East Lecture Series: Human Rights Issues in the Middle East

For more information, visit http://hks.harvard.edu/cchrp/events/2009/month10/Allawi_28.php....

• Location:
  Neustadt Classroom, Rubenstein Building, Ground Floor
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 28, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Ideas into Practice as Students: Opportunities with TAMTAM (Together Against Malaria), a Student-Led Social Enterprise

Opportunities for you: Potential malaria field work in Africa for summer or other timeframes. Our 2009...

• Location:
  Perkins Room, 4th Floor, CID, Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 28, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Winning Across Progressive Movements: Can't We All Just Get Along?

Winning Across Progressive Movements: Can't We All Just Get Along?   Study group led by IOP Fellow Kim...

• Location:
  Littauer 166
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 28, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Eye of the Storm: How Crisis Management Decisions Affect Elections, Reputations, and the Ability to Govern

Eye of the Storm: How Crisis Management Decisions Affect Elections, Reputations, and the Ability to Govern Study group led by...

• Location:
  Faculty Dining Room
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 28, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Why is There No Arab Democracy?

• Location:
  124 Mount Auburn, Suite 200-North
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 28, 2009
• Time:
  4:10 PM

Harvard Toastmasters Club

The Harvard Toastmasters Club is a weekly meeting of Harvard students and community members who want to improve their public speaking and...

• Location:
  Taubman Building, Second Floor, Room 275
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 28, 2009
• Time:
  7:00 PM

Leading Louisiana's Recovery

 A conversation with Andy Kopplin, HKS alum and former Louisiana disaster recovery czar, currently serving as Executive V.P. of Growth Strategy and...

• Location:
  Littauer Room 382
• Date:
  Thursday, October 29, 2009
• Time:
  10:10 AM

Gender Mainstreaming for Policy Makers

The key to understanding how development and relief work affects men, women, girls and boys is grasping the concept of gender....

• Location:
  Taubman Building, Room 275
• Date:
  Thursday, October 29, 2009
• Time:
  11:40 AM

Introduction to RefWorks

• Location:
  Library Group Study Room
• Date:
  Thursday, October 29, 2009
• Time:
  12:00 PM

What's In a Label? The Donor Community's Perceptions of "Success" and "Failure"

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Thursday, October 29, 2009
• Time:
  12:15 PM

Beyond the Beer Summit: Understanding the Role of Race in American Policing

Last summer, national and global news organizations focused for a few days on a relatively minor conflict between a Cambridge police officer...

• Location:
  Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School
• Date:
  Thursday, October 29, 2009
• Time:
  3:00 PM

Organizing for Power: Influencing Policy and Politics

Organizing for Power: Influencing Policy and Politics Study group led by IOP Fellow   Gina Glantz, former...

• Location:
  Littauer 166
• Date:
  Thursday, October 29, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Highest Level (and Highest Stakes) Deliberations: An Insider Look at the U.S. Supreme Court and the National Security Council

  Highest Level (and Highest Stakes) Deliberations: An Insider Look at the U.S. Supreme Court and the National Security Council in...

• Location:
  Faculty Dining Room
• Date:
  Thursday, October 29, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Western Impact and Turkey - Seminar 4:The Second Wave of Modernization (EU Reform Packages 2001-2004)

• Location:
  *NEW* Lower Auditorium, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland St.
• Date:
  Thursday, October 29, 2009
• Time:
  4:30 PM

Middle East Diplomacy Series: H.E. Abdallah Baali, Algerian Ambassador to the United States with an Introduction by Ambassado

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, 3rd Floor Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School
• Date:
  Thursday, October 29, 2009
• Time:
  4:30 PM

His Excellency Abdallah Baali, Ambassador of Algeria to the U.S.

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Thursday, October 29, 2009
• Time:
  4:30 PM

The Entanglement of Scholars in the Global Tobacco Epidemic

The global tobacco catastrophe lies mostly in the future. Only about 100 million people died from smoking in the 20th century, whereas...

• Location:
  Starr Auditorium
• Date:
  Thursday, October 29, 2009
• Time:
  4:30 PM

Ticketed Forum Event -- A Premiere Screening of the HBO Documentary By the People: The Election of Barack Obama

"BY THE PEOPLE: The Election of Barack Obama"   With An introduction by:   Richard Wolffe ...

• Location:
  John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
• Date:
  Thursday, October 29, 2009
• Time:
  6:30 PM

CID Graduate Student Luncheon Seminar

CID Graduate Student Seminar invites academics and practitioners of development from various disciplines and organizations to speak on current development issues. The...

• Location:
  Perkins Room, 4th floor Rubenstein Building, HKS
• Date:
  Friday, October 30, 2009
• Time:
  11:45 AM

Fast Track to the Future: The New Vision for High Speed Rail

Fast Track to the Future: The New Vision for High Speed Rail ...

• Location:
  Littuaer Building-Institute of Politics-1st Floor Conference
• Date:
  Friday, October 30, 2009
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Country Research

• Location:
  Library Group Study Room
• Date:
  Friday, October 30, 2009
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Malalai Joya, Afghan Parliamentarian

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room, Rubenstein 219
• Date:
  Friday, October 30, 2009
• Time:
  2:30 PM

Maasai: At The Crossroads

• Location:
  Science Center Lecture Hall D, One Oxford Street
• Date:
  Friday, October 30, 2009
• Time:
  6:30 PM