Events Calendar

Soros Rights and Governance Global Internship Program (SRGGI)

The Open Society Foundations is partnering with Harvard University to offer a new Soros Rights and Governance Global Internship (SRGGI). SRGGI will...

• Location:
• Date:
  Monday, February 18, 2013
• Time:
  12:00 AM

Through the Looking Glass: Examining the Intersection of Politics, Policy and the Future of the Conservative Movement

Through the Looking Glass: Examining the Intersection of Politics, Policy and the Future of the Conservative Movement Session One: Looking Back...

• Location:
  Littauer 166
• Date:
  Monday, February 18, 2013
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Julia Angwin: "Privacy in the Digital Age."

Speaker series with Julia Angwin, senior technology editor for The Wall Street Journal....

• Location:
  Taubman 275
• Date:
  Tuesday, February 19, 2013
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Panel Discussion: The "World Development Report 2013: Jobs" and its Focus on Economic Rights of Informal Workers

Please join us for the lunchtime seminar: "'The 'World Development Report 2013: Jobs' and its Focus on Economic Rights of Informal Workers," a...

• Location:
  Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building, floor 1
• Date:
  Tuesday, February 19, 2013
• Time:
  12:00 PM

"Digital Public Affairs: Social Media for Advocacy" - Digital Communications Workshop presented by Zach Stanley, Associate Vi

“Digital Public Affairs: Social Media for Advocacy” Whether it’s non-profit or corporate, traditional issue advocacy campaigns rely on identifying, organizing, and mobilizing allies to...

• Location:
  Littauer Building, Room 382
• Date:
  Tuesday, February 19, 2013
• Time:
  1:10 PM

A Deep Dive into Congressional Analysis

A Deep Dive into Congressional AnalysisAn Introduction to Election AnalysisHow do the nation's top, independent political analysts analyze and "rate" Congressional...

• Location:
  Faculty Dining Room
• Date:
  Tuesday, February 19, 2013
• Time:
  4:00 PM

The Art of Communication

The Art of Communication:Trial by Fire - September 11, 2001 The most shocking and difficult day during my time as Counselor...

• Location:
  Littauer 166
• Date:
  Tuesday, February 19, 2013
• Time:
  4:00 PM

A Public Address by Her Excellency Sherry Rehman Ambassador of Pakistan

A Public Address by Her Excellency Sherry Rehman Ambassador of Pakistan Welcoming Remarks by Iris Bohnet Academic Dean, Harvard Kennedy School Director,...

• Location:
  JFK Jr. Forum
• Date:
  Tuesday, February 19, 2013
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Addressing the Effectiveness of Supply-Side Controls at Preventing Proliferation

MTA/ISP Research Fellow Ian Stewart will explore the effectiveness of supply-side controls based not only on the ability of these tools to...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library (Littauer 369)
• Date:
  Wednesday, February 20, 2013
• Time:
  10:00 AM

Student Policy Group on Human Trafficking: "National Anti-Trafficking Action Plans and Models"

The Spring Semester's first meeting of the Student Policy Group on Human Trafficking. This session's topic will be: "National Anti-Trafficking Action Plans...

• Location:
  Please RSVP for venue.
• Date:
  Wednesday, February 20, 2013
• Time:
  11:30 AM

"Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan: Will it Weather the Turbulence?" a Belfer Center Director's Lunch with Dr. Asher Susser

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

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library (L369)
• Date:
  Wednesday, February 20, 2013
• Time:
  12:15 PM

"Give Me Solutions, Not Problems" - Public Speaking Workshop presented by Holly Weeks, HKS Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy

If you don’t have much of someone’s time, where and how do you want to focus your information, especially when the...

• Location:
  RG 20, Rubenstein Building, Floor 1
• Date:
  Wednesday, February 20, 2013
• Time:
  1:10 PM

Benefit-Cost Analysis Study Group -- Assessing Costs

Enrolled Harvard students, faculty, fellows, and staff welcome!...

• Location:
  L-382 (Kahn)
• Date:
  Wednesday, February 20, 2013
• Time:
  2:40 PM

Social Policy Entrepreneurship: Changing the World One Big Idea at a Time

Social Policy Entrepreneurship: Changing the World One Big Idea at a Time No Holes Barred:  A Discussion of Politics and Policy with Governor...

• Location:
  Littauer 166
• Date:
  Wednesday, February 20, 2013
• Time:
  4:00 PM

China's Rise, America's Response

China's Rise, America's Response China and the US: Through the Looking GlassThis introductory session will look first at both...

• Location:
  Faculty Dining Room
• Date:
  Wednesday, February 20, 2013
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy

Michael Kremer, Harvard University. “Adoption of a New Water Technology: The Role of Joint Liability, Asset Collateralization, and Credit Access.”...

• Location:
  Harvard Kennedy School Room Littauer-382
• Date:
  Wednesday, February 20, 2013
• Time:
  4:10 PM

From Brussels to Shanghai: Turkey's changing global ambitions

Soli Özel is a 2013 Fisher Family Fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project and the foreign...

• Location:
  GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT: 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie Vernon room, K262
• Date:
  Wednesday, February 20, 2013
• Time:
  4:30 PM

Innovative Finance: Creative Options to Fund Transportation in Massachusetts

Dana Levenson, Chief Financial Officer, Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT)Transportation funding is a hot topic in Massachusetts as the Legislature reviews a...

• Location:
  Nye A, 5th floor Taubman Building
• Date:
  Wednesday, February 20, 2013
• Time:
  5:30 PM

A Conversation with David Keene and John King

***THIS FORUM EVENT WILL BE TICKETED*** David Keene President National Rifle Association IOP Fellow, ’76 in conversation with John King Chief National...

• Location:
  JFK Jr. Forum
• Date:
  Wednesday, February 20, 2013
• Time:
  6:00 PM

"My Neighborhood" Screening and Discussion

• Location:
  Ames Courtroom, Harvard Law School
• Date:
  Wednesday, February 20, 2013
• Time:
  7:15 PM

Diversity to a Deadline: How We Created Everyone`s 2012

Stephen Frost, WAPPP Fellow The Olympic and Paralympic Games represent a once in a lifetime opportunity to achieve paradigm change in policy...

• Location:
  WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman Building, Room 102
• Date:
  Thursday, February 21, 2013
• Time:
  11:40 AM

The Labor Market Impacts of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling Moratorium

• Location:
  Bell Hall (5th Floor Belfer)
• Date:
  Thursday, February 21, 2013
• Time:
  11:45 AM

Terrorist Rehabilitation: Fact or Fiction

Speaker: Marisa L. Porges, research fellow, International Security Program Coffee & Tea Provided Link to seminar description: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/5968/ Sponsored by the International Security Program...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Thursday, February 21, 2013
• Time:
  12:15 PM

"How to Revise" - Writing Workshop presented by Morgan McVicar, MC/MPA 2003, 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 382
• Date:
  Thursday, February 21, 2013
• Time:
  1:10 PM

The State as Partner: Why and How International NGOs Bring the State Back In. Frontline with Faculty Series.

Critics contend that NGOs often usurp the role of states by providing crucial services in developing countries, which can have significant economic,...

• Location:
  Belfer, Weil Town Hall, Lobby Level, Harvard Kennedy School
• Date:
  Thursday, February 21, 2013
• Time:
  4:15 PM

CID Speaker Series Featuring: Ruchir Sharma, Head of Emerging Markets, Morgan Stanley

Ruchir Sharma, Head of Emerging Markets and Global Macro at Morgan Stanley Investment, will discuss his international best selling book Breakout Nations:...

• Location:
  Perkins Room (R-415), Rubenstein 4th flr. | HKS
• Date:
  Friday, February 22, 2013
• Time:
  11:45 AM

HR PIC & HRE Lunchtime Film Screening: "Path to Dignity: The Power of Human Rights Education"

The Student HR PIC, the Human Rights in Education Program and others are sponsoring this lunchtime film screening of a great documentary...

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room (R-219)
• Date:
  Friday, February 22, 2013
• Time:
  12:00 PM

What's Pyschology Got to Do with NIMBY? (with Wendy Sarkissian, Life Fellow, Planning Institute of Australia)

Canadian-born Wendy Sarkissian has worked as a social planning consultant and academic in Australia since 1969. The author of eight books on...

• Location:
  Harvard Graduate School of Design, Portico 124
• Date:
  Friday, February 22, 2013
• Time:
  1:00 PM