Events Calendar

Harvard Kennedy School to attend Idealist Denver graduate school fair

Harvard Kennedy School will attend the Idealist Denver graduate school fair. Please visit www.idealist.org for more information and to register....

• Location:
  Denver, CO
• Date:
  Monday, October 8, 2012
• Time:
  5:00 PM

China Goes Global Conference

The Ash Center will be hosting the 6th annual China Goes Global Conference at Harvard Kennedy School from October 8 –...

• Location:
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 9, 2012
• Time:
  8:00 AM

“Regulating India's Environment: An Inside Perspective on Policy and Implementation Challenges”

Discussion with Chirag Bhimani, Deputy Environmental Engineer, Gujarat Pollution Control Board, India; Anant Sudarshan, SSP Fellow; Nicholas Ryan, SSP Fellow; Moderated by...

• Location:
  CID Perkins Room
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 9, 2012
• Time:
  11:00 AM

Rory O'Connor: "The Effects of Social Media on Politics, Brands and Traditional Media."

Tuesday, October 9, 12 p.m. | "The Effects of Social Media on Politics, Brands and Traditional Media." Speaker Series with Rory O'Connor,...

• Location:
  Taubman 275
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 9, 2012
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Where Japan is Headed

About the SpeakerAmbassador Fujisaki has served as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the U.S. since June 2008. Prior...

• Location:
  Tsai Auditorium S010, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 9, 2012
• Time:
  12:30 PM

Harvard-MIT Economic Development Seminar: "Factory Farming: The Impact of Agricultural Output on Local Economic Activity in I

How do transitory output shocks affect the magnitude and composition of local economic activity? Do such temporary shocks serve to persistently relax...

• Location:
  Harvard Hall 104
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 9, 2012
• Time:
  2:40 PM

"Delivering Bad News Well," a Public Speaking Workshop with Holly Weeks, HKS Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy

Giving Bad News Well Hemingway called courage grace under pressure and sometimes that's what it takes to give bad news well.  We...

• Location:
  Starr Auditorium, Belfer Building, Floor 2.5
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 9, 2012
• Time:
  4:10 PM

Harvard Kennedy School visits Mexico City

HKS will host an information session for prospective students at ITESM's Santa Fe Campus, located at Av. Carlos Lazo No 100....

• Location:
  Mexico City, Mexico
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 9, 2012
• Time:
  6:30 PM

Nuclear 101: Nuclear Reactor Design and Safety

MTA Fellow Yun Zhou will discuss the basics of nuclear reactor design and safety, and their implications for policy....

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library (Littauer 369)
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 10, 2012
• Time:
  10:00 AM

"Defense and National Security Priorities in an Era of Budget Austerity," Belfer Director's Lunch with Michèle Flournoy

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Director's Lunch with Michèle Flournoy Belfer Center Senior Fellow and former...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library (L369)
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 10, 2012
• Time:
  12:15 PM

The Sixteen New Rules of Writing Email You Must Know, a Digital Communications & Writing Workshop with Steven D. Stark, autho

Thanks to computers and smartphones, writing in the business world has changed dramatically. In an era in which everyone reads less linearly...

• Location:
  Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building, Lobby
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 10, 2012
• Time:
  1:10 PM

Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy

Christopher Knittel: Embracing our Differences:  Heterogeneous Externalities and their Implication for Welfare...

• Location:
  Harvard Kennedy School Room Littauer-382
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 10, 2012
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Communication in a Post Truth Age of Politics

Some on the right claim that the mainstream media is ideologically biased. This bias justifies ideological reporting on outlets such as Fox...

• Location:
  Wiener Auditorium, Ground Floor, Taubman Building, HKS
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 10, 2012
• Time:
  4:30 PM

Your Phone is Your Ticket – Mobile Innovation at the MBTA

The MBTA faces significant long-term financial challenges and continuing demand for customer improvements .  At the same time, the T has seen...

• Location:
  Taubman 401
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 10, 2012
• Time:
  4:30 PM

Anne-Marie Slaughter: "Open v. Closed: Media, Government and Social Organization in the Information Age"

"Open v. Closed: Media, Government and Social Organization in the Information Age." Richard S. Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press delivered...

• Location:
  John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 10, 2012
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Race, Gender, and the Dynamics of Social Hierarchy Reversal

Robert Livingston, Assistant Professor of Management & Organizations, Northwestern University This research examines the challenges of upward mobility for minorities in mainstream organizations....

• Location:
  WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman Building, Room 102
• Date:
  Thursday, October 11, 2012
• Time:
  11:40 AM

Regulatory Breakdown: The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regulation

Regulation has become one of the most contested areas of American domestic politics. In this seminar, contributors to the new book Regulatory...

• Location:
  Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
• Date:
  Thursday, October 11, 2012
• Time:
  11:45 AM

Arms Control and Missile Proliferation in the Middle East

Speakers: Sven-Eric Fikenscher, Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom; Bernd W. Kubbig, Peace Research Institute, Frankfurt; Christian Weidlich,  Peace Research...

• Location:
  124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106
• Date:
  Thursday, October 11, 2012
• Time:
  12:15 PM

"Why Long-Term Prediction Fails in Defense Decision-Making and How to Replace it," a Belfer Center Director's Lunch with Rich

POSITIVE RSVP ONLINE ONLY: http://belfercenter.hks.harvard.edu/events/danzig.html The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Director's Lunch...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library (L369)
• Date:
  Thursday, October 11, 2012
• Time:
  12:15 PM

Housing & Cities Brown Bag Lecture with Michael Luzier (National Association of Home Builders Research Center)

Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies Fall 2012 Brown Bag Lecture Series HOUSING & CITIES: BUILDING SUSTAINABLE AND INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES presents Michael...

• Location:
  Harvard Graduate School of Design, Portico 121
• Date:
  Thursday, October 11, 2012
• Time:
  1:05 PM

"Revision: Learn to Be Your Own Best Editor," a Writing Workshop with Morgan McVicar, MC/MPA 2003 and HKS Writing Consultant

To revise is to "see again." Revision is the most difficult and the most important part of the writing process. Ideally,...

• Location:
  Littauer Building, Room 332
• Date:
  Thursday, October 11, 2012
• Time:
  1:10 PM

Belfer Center Director's Lunch with General James Cartwright (USMC Ret.)

POSITIVE RSVP ONLINE ONLY: http://belfercenter.hks.harvard.edu/events/cartwright.html The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Director's Seminar with...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library (L369)
• Date:
  Thursday, October 11, 2012
• Time:
  3:30 PM

Belfer Center Director's Seminar with General James Cartwright (USMC Ret.)

POSITIVE RSVP ONLINE ONLY: http://belfercenter.hks.harvard.edu/events/cartwright.html The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Director's Seminar with...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library (L369)
• Date:
  Thursday, October 11, 2012
• Time:
  3:30 PM

Transitional Justice Seminar Series: "Prosecuting War Criminals"

Please joins us for the second in our series of Transitional Justice Seminars with Michael Semple. This sessions topic:  "Prosecuting War Criminals."...

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room (R-219)
• Date:
  Thursday, October 11, 2012
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Global Trade Policy and The Rush to Bilateralism

Peter Sutherland, former head of the WTO, will be giving a talk in the Malkin Penthouse on current trade issues on...

• Location:
  Malkin Penthouse
• Date:
  Thursday, October 11, 2012
• Time:
  4:00 PM

International security bubbles: Do they exist? Do they burst?

Join us for a conversation with Amb. Tibor Tóth, Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization on ""International security...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library (Littauer 369)
• Date:
  Friday, October 12, 2012
• Time:
  10:30 AM

CID Speaker Series: Featuring Stephen Hayes, Corporate Council on Africa

• Location:
  Perkins Room, 4th Floor Rubenstein Building
• Date:
  Friday, October 12, 2012
• Time:
  11:45 AM

Human Rights Student Film Series presents "Faces of Change"

Please join us for the second presentation in the Human Rights Student Film series. This week will be a screening and...

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room (R-219)
• Date:
  Friday, October 12, 2012
• Time:
  2:00 PM

Not Talking in Class? - a Public Speaking Workshop with Holly Weeks, HKS Adjunct Lecturer

Not Speaking in Class?  If you were quiet in the beginning and now it’s hard to start speaking; if you prep what...

• Location:
  Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building, Lobby
• Date:
  Friday, October 12, 2012
• Time:
  2:10 PM