Events Calendar

Gender Differences in Negotiation: Personality or Strategy?

Michael Morris is the Chavkin-Chang Professor of Leadership in the Columbia Business School as well as a Professor in the Psychology...

• Location:
  Malkin Penthouse, Littauer building
• Date:
  Thursday, October 1, 2009
• Time:
  11:40 AM

Web2.0 Collaboration Tools

• Location:
  HKS Library Group Study Room
• Date:
  Thursday, October 1, 2009
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Bankruptcy, Guns, or Campaigns: Explaining Armed Organizations' Post-War Trajectories

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Thursday, October 1, 2009
• Time:
  12:15 PM

Fixing Broken Cities: The Implementation of Urban Development Strategies

For more information. ...

• Location:
  Graduate School of Design, 49 Quincy Street, Gund Hall, Portico 123
• Date:
  Thursday, October 1, 2009
• Time:
  1:00 PM

Excessive Salaries on Wall Street: A Focus on Wages and Human Capital

The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government Harvard Kennedy School invites you to attend a Business and Government...

• Location:
  Bell Hall (5th Floor Belfer Building)
• Date:
  Thursday, October 1, 2009
• Time:
  1:00 PM

CID Friday Graduate Seminar Series

• Location:
  Perkins Room, 4th floor Rubenstein, HKS
• Date:
  Friday, October 2, 2009
• Time:
  11:45 AM

Managing Information Overload in your field

Learn how to stay informed in your field without getting overloaded. Bring your laptop! http://www.hks.harvard.edu/library/research/training.htm ...

• Location:
  Library Group Study Room
• Date:
  Friday, October 2, 2009
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Introduction to RefWorks

• Location:
  Library Group Study Room
• Date:
  Friday, October 2, 2009
• Time:
  3:00 PM

Harvard Kennedy School MPA/ID Open House

The MPA/ID Program is hosting an Open House on Monday, October 5, 2009. The day's events will include: • Discussion with...

• Location:
  Cambridge, MA
• Date:
  Monday, October 5, 2009
• Time:
  9:30 AM

The Practice of Arms Control and Nonproliferation

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369
• Date:
  Monday, October 5, 2009
• Time:
  10:30 AM

Religion, Rationality and Violence, presented by Monica Toft

For more information. ...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library
• Date:
  Monday, October 5, 2009
• Time:
  12:00 PM

One Hundred Days After the Iranian Elections.

• Location:
  Littauer Building, Room 382
• Date:
  Monday, October 5, 2009
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Understanding Energy Governance in China: A Portfolio Approach

Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research Seminar Series ...

• Location:
  Fainsod Room (Littauer 324, HKS)
• Date:
  Monday, October 5, 2009
• Time:
  1:00 PM

Historical Legal Developments in Afghanistan's Formal System of Law

• Location:
  Nye 'B', Taubman Conference Center
• Date:
  Monday, October 5, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

The Art of Not Being Governed

• Location:
  124 Mount Auburn, Suite 200-North, Room 226
• Date:
  Monday, October 5, 2009
• Time:
  4:10 PM

Cyprus: Why Reunification Matters

• Location:
  Fainsod Room (L324), Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School
• Date:
  Monday, October 5, 2009
• Time:
  4:15 PM

Does Proliferation Beget Proliferation? Assessing "Reactive Proliferation"

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 6, 2009
• Time:
  9:30 AM

Media Cloud and Quantitative Media Analysis.

• Location:
  Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 6, 2009
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Israel and Palestine: Making Connections Across a Deep Historical Divide.

• Location:
  CSIS Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Second Floor, N-262
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 6, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Information Session for Student Internships in China

In January of 2010 the Harvard China Fund will launch a 2-3 week long Harvard China Service-Learning Program. The program is...

• Location:
  NYE Room A, Taubman, 5th Floor
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 6, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 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 6, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Large Scale Land Warfare and the US Army

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 6, 2009
• Time:
  4:10 PM

India's foreign policy in an evolving Asian balance of power

• Location:
  Goodman Classroom (Littauer 140)
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 6, 2009
• Time:
  4:30 PM

A public address by: Terry McAuliffe, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (2001-2005)

A PUBLIC ADDRESS BY: TERRY McAULIFFE Institute of...

• Location:
  John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 6, 2009
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Congo peace building film Tuesday, 10/6 at 6pm

Please join us and feel free to share this with anyone you think may be interested. ...

• Location:
  Weiner Auditorium, Ground Floor, Taubman
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 6, 2009
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Cross-Border Cooperation on the Island of Ireland

• Location:
  Graduate School of Design, 49 Quincy Street, Gund Hall, Portico 121
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 7, 2009
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Harvard Kennedy School GOP Recruiting Reception

Harvard Kennedy School will host the annual GOP Recruiting Reception in Washington, DC at the University Club. The Club is located at...

• Location:
  Washington, DC
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 7, 2009
• Time:
  5:30 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 7, 2009
• Time:
  7:00 PM

Countering Nuclear Threats

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369
• Date:
  Thursday, October 8, 2009
• Time:
  9:30 AM

Vali Nasr presents Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean For Our World

• Location:
  124 Mount Auburn St., Suite 160
• Date:
  Thursday, October 8, 2009
• Time:
  10:30 AM

Risk Aversion and the Demand for Information among Ugandan Women

Julian Jamison is a Senior Economist with the Center for Behavioral Economics and Decisionmaking at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. ...

• Location:
  Allison Dining Room, Taubman building 5th floor
• Date:
  Thursday, October 8, 2009
• Time:
  11:40 AM

Getting Published: Writing for "International Security" and Other Journals

For more information. ...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Thursday, October 8, 2009
• Time:
  12:15 PM

The Future of British Public Diplomacy

Nic Hailey, Counsellor for Political, Economic and Communications at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office...

• Location:
  Littauer 382
• Date:
  Thursday, October 8, 2009
• Time:
  1:00 PM

Setting the Framework for the Question of Institutional Corruption

Lecture is free and open to the public. Visit ethics.harvard.edu for additional information. Professor Lessig (Harvard Law School, Director of the Edmond Safra...

• Location:
  Starr Auditorium, (Belfer building, 2nd floor)
• Date:
  Thursday, October 8, 2009
• Time:
  4:30 PM

Creating a Culture that Promotes Innovation and Implementing Innovative Ideas

Please join us as Governing magazine's Jonathan Walters delivers remarks on creating a culture of innovation in government organizations. Drawing from the...

• Location:
  124 Mount Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Room 226
• Date:
  Thursday, October 8, 2009
• Time:
  5:30 PM

The Global Voices Film Festival, October 8th-11th

The Global Voices Film Festival ...

• Location:
  Opening Reception, Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street
• Date:
  Thursday, October 8, 2009
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Ticketed Forum: A Tripartisan Majority for Real Change

***MUST ENTER TICKET LOTTERY*** ...

• Location:
  John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
• Date:
  Thursday, October 8, 2009
• Time:
  7:00 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 9, 2009
• Time:
  11:45 AM

Harvard Kennedy School information session in Cairo, Egypt

Harvard Kennedy School will host an information session in Cairo on October 11. It will be held at the American University...

• Location:
  American University in Cairo, Egypt, Location: Moataz Al Alfi Hall
• Date:
  Sunday, October 11, 2009
• Time:
  6:00 PM

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

 OCTOBER 14, 2009: ECONOMIC JUSTICE, FROM LIVING WAGE TO WELFARE REFORM -- GUEST:  IRASEMA GARZA The...

• Location:
  Littauer 166
• Date:
  Monday, October 12, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Harvard Kennedy School information session in Greenville, SC

Harvard Kennedy School will host an information session at the Hyatt Regency Greeville, located at 220 N. Main Street. Attendees will be...

• Location:
  Greenville, SC
• Date:
  Monday, October 12, 2009
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Covering the White House

• Location:
  Nye B, Taubman Building, 5th Floor
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 13, 2009
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Shared Legacies, Diverging Systems: Post-Colonial Approaches To Land, Housing and Planning In Ireland and Massachusetts

• Location:
  Graduate School of Design, 49 Quincy Street, Gund Hall, Portico 123
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 13, 2009
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Winning or losing hearts and minds? Examining the effectiveness of aid in promoting stability in Afghanistan

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room, Rubenstein 219
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 13, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 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 13, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Faith, Values & Public Policy: Study group led by IOP Fellow Leah Daughtry, CEO, 2008 Democratic National Convention

Faith, Values and Public Policy: A Case Study — Climate Change Guest: Burns Strider, American Values Network Examining how...

• Location:
  Littauer 166
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 13, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Creativity in Journalism, in Politics and in Life: A Writer's Perspective Study group led by IOP Fellow Peggy Noonan

“Knowing Five Presidents.”  with Special Guest - Ted Soresen Having knows the past five,...

• Location:
  Faculty Dining Room
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 13, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Amphibious Warfare and the Marine Corps

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 13, 2009
• Time:
  4:10 PM

Advising the President

A Conversation With:       TED SORENSEN Special Counsel, Adviser & Speechwriter to President John F. Kennedy KEN DUBERSTEIN White House Chief of Staff, President Ronald Reagan ...

• Location:
  John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 13, 2009
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Harvard Kennedy School information session in Manama, Bahrain

Harvard Kennedy School will host an information session in Manama on Tuesday, October 13....

• Location:
  The Gulf Hotel in Manama, Bahrain - Falcon Room 3 & 4 (Mezzanine Floor)
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 13, 2009
• Time:
  7:00 PM

Sprawl, Cars and Greenhouse Gases

Sprawl, Cars and Greenhouse Gases Wednesday,...

• Location:
  Taubman Building-5th Floor Allison Dining Room
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 14, 2009
• Time:
  12:00 PM

PEPG Education Policy Colloquia Series - Inside Urban Charter Schools in Massachusetts: Where's the Beef?

• Location:
  Room S-050, Concourse Level of CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 14, 2009
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Obama's Foreign Policy: Iran and Afghanistan

• Location:
  Nye A, Taubman Building, 5th Floor
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 14, 2009
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Panel on the Obama Administration's Global Development Policy: Enhancing Coherence and Effectiveness.

• Location:
  Weil Town Hall (Belfer Building- HKS)
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 14, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Harnessing Politics to Fix Politics

• Location:
  124 Mount Auburn, Suite 200-North
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 14, 2009
• Time:
  4:10 PM

Ahmadinejad's Second Term Foreign Policy

• Location:
  Trustman Lecture Hall, Littauer 150
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 14, 2009
• Time:
  4:15 PM

Harvard Kennedy School information session in Doha, Qatar

Harvard Kennedy School will host an information session in Doha on October 14. The event will take place at the Sheraton...

• Location:
  Doha, Qatar
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 14, 2009
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Health Reform in an Era of Pandemics: Implications for Health Security

A public address by: THE HONORABLEJULIO FRENK Dean of Harvard School of Public Health; Minister of Health...

• Location:
  John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 14, 2009
• Time:
  6:00 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 14, 2009
• Time:
  7:00 PM

Harvard Kennedy School information session in Sao Paulo

The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies will host an information session about Harvard Kennedy School's degree programs. It will take...

• Location:
  Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 14, 2009
• Time:
  8:00 PM

British Public Diplomacy in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran

Simon Shercliff, FCO First Secretary, Foreign Security and Policy, Washington, will conduct a seminar with Q&A for students,...

• Location:
  Taubman 275
• Date:
  Thursday, October 15, 2009
• Time:
  10:30 AM

How Can You Tell When a War is Over for Women: Some Feminist Clues

Already the Iraq War has slipped off the front pages. But how are Iraqi women and US women experiencing what...

• Location:
  Fainsod Room, Littauer building 3rd floor
• Date:
  Thursday, October 15, 2009
• Time:
  11:40 AM

The European C02 Emissions Trading System

The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government Harvard Kennedy School invites...

• Location:
  Bell Hall (5th Floor Belfer Building)
• Date:
  Thursday, October 15, 2009
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Thinking Ahead: How Do U.S. Leaders Assess the Long-Term Costs of Military Intervention?

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

The Day My God Died

• Location:
  Allison Dining Room
• Date:
  Thursday, October 15, 2009
• Time:
  3:00 PM

Introduction to RefWorks

• Location:
  Library Group Study Room
• Date:
  Thursday, October 15, 2009
• Time:
  3:00 PM

Asia Vision 21: Impact of the Financial and Economic Crisis on Asia

Asia Vision 21 Thursday, October 15, 4:00 p.m-6:00 p.m.Impact of the...

• Location:
  Belfer Case Study Room 020, Concourse Level, 1730 Cambridge Street
• Date:
  Thursday, October 15, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Special joint study group on Thursday with Gina Glantz

Defeat and Recovery: The Republican Crisis of the 2008 Election What went wrong, and how to "re"-organize to stay in the policy game...

• Location:
  Littauer 166
• Date:
  Thursday, October 15, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Special Joint Study Group with Stephanie Cutter

Defeat and Recovery: The Republican Crisis of the 2008 Election What went wrong, and how to "re"-organize to stay in the policy game...

• Location:
  Littauer 166
• Date:
  Thursday, October 15, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Highest Level (and highest stakes) Deliberation : An Insider Look at the U.S. Supreme Court and the National Security Council

The NSC Viewed from the Front Line – Ambassador Crocker.  This session will consider the unprecedented role of the NSC...

• Location:
  Faculty Dining Room
• Date:
  Thursday, October 15, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

The Financial Crisis in Perspective

A public address by: PAUL VOLCKER Chairman of...

• Location:
  John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
• Date:
  Thursday, October 15, 2009
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Course: Evidence-based human rights policy

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room, Rubenstein 219
• Date:
  Thursday, October 15, 2009
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Public Lecture by Minister Li Yuanchao, People's Republic of China

Minister Li Yuanchao, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the Organization Department of the...

• Location:
  Wiener Auditorium, Taubman Ground Floor
• Date:
  Friday, October 16, 2009
• Time:
  11:15 AM

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 16, 2009
• Time:
  11:45 AM

Russian - American Reset, START and BMD

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Friday, October 16, 2009
• Time:
  2:30 PM

The Politics of Identity: Are Gay Rights and Civil Rights Human Rights?

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room, Rubenstein 219
• Date:
  Friday, October 16, 2009
• Time:
  3:30 PM

Lessons from a Long War: The U.S. in the Middle East

A PUBLIC ADDRESS BY: AMBASSADORRYAN CROCKER U.S. Ambassador to Iraq (2007-2009); Pakistan (2004-2007); Syria (1998-2001); Kuwait (1994-1997); Lebanon (1990-1993)...

• Location:
  John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
• Date:
  Friday, October 16, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Harvard Kennedy School information session in Dubai, UAE

Harvard Kennedy School will host an information session in Dubai on October 18. It will be held at the Dubai School...

• Location:
  Dubai, UAE
• Date:
  Sunday, October 18, 2009
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Nuclear Nonproliferation Practitioners Seminar with James Reid

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369
• Date:
  Monday, October 19, 2009
• Time:
  10:30 AM

Discussion of The MARO Project

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room, Rubenstein 219
• Date:
  Monday, October 19, 2009
• Time:
  12:00 PM

U.S. Foreign Policy and the Illiberal Peace

U.S. Foreign Policy and the Illiberal Peace Brown Bag Lunch Series: Seminar Harvard students, staff, faculty - Kahn Seminar Room (Littauer 382) October...

• Location:
  Kahn Seminar Room (Littauer 382)
• Date:
  Monday, October 19, 2009
• Time:
  12:30 PM

Smarter Pricing for a Smarter Grid: A Locational Model for Operating Reserves

• Location:
  Fainsod Room (Littauer 324, HKS)
• Date:
  Monday, October 19, 2009
• Time:
  1:00 PM

The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: Where we Stand Today

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Monday, October 19, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Western Impact and Turkey - Seminar 1: A Historical, Theoretical and Conceptual Framework

Seminar 1: Introduction to the Baskin Oran Seminar Series (A Historical, Theoretical and Conceptual Framework).   For more information, http://www.hks.harvard.edu/kokkalis/...

• Location:
  Room 020, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St.
• Date:
  Monday, October 19, 2009
• Time:
  4:30 PM

***NEW TIME/NEW PLACE*** When is an Open Society also a Just Society

NOTE NEW TIME & NEW PLACE Weil Town Hall 79 JFK Street, Belfer Building Harvard Kennedy School A PUBLIC CONVERSATION 4:30 PM When is...

• Location:
  Weil Town Hall
• Date:
  Monday, October 19, 2009
• Time:
  4:30 PM

Public Service Week at HKS: Building the Road to Recovery

Jeffrey Simon, Director, Massachusetts Office of Infrastructure Investment Commentary by Archon Fung, Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship...

• Location:
  Allison Dining Room, 5th floor, Taubman Building, 15 Eliot Street
• Date:
  Monday, October 19, 2009
• Time:
  5:30 PM

Posturing for Peace? Pakistan's Nuclear Posture and South Asian Stability

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 20, 2009
• Time:
  9:30 AM

The Future of the Newspaper Business

• Location:
  Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 20, 2009
• Time:
  11:00 AM

Primary Politics: How Presidential Candidates Have Shaped the Modern Nominating System

• Location:
  Littauer 166
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 20, 2009
• Time:
  12:00 PM

After Guantanamo - A National Security Court?

• Location:
  Faculty Dining Room, Littauer 1 (near the JFK Forum)
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 20, 2009
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Research Workshop: Find it at Harvard

• Location:
  HKS Library Group Study Room
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 20, 2009
• Time:
  3:00 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 20, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Public Service Week at HKS: Real Reform - Facing the Complexity of Health Care

The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government Harvard Kennedy School ...

• Location:
  Starr Auditorium (2nd Floor Belfer Building)
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 20, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Faith, Values, Politics - Study group led by IOP Fellow Leah Daughtry

Faith and Values in American Presidential Politics: A Case Study ...

• Location:
  Littauer 166
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 20, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Creativity in Journalism, In Politics and in Life: A Writer's Perspective - Study group by IOP Fellow Peggy Noonan

What It Is to be a Columnist.”  “My column?  I call it my...

• Location:
  Faculty Dining Room
• Date:
  Tuesday, October 20, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Harvard Women Fellows Networking Lunch

The Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government cordially invites you to a...

• Location:
  Location provided after R.S.V.P. and short bio have been received
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 21, 2009
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Starting from Scratch: Developing Effective Research Strategies

• Location:
  HKS Library Group Study Room
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 21, 2009
• Time:
  12:00 PM

9 Months of Obama in the Middle East: Time to Deliver?

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 21, 2009
• Time:
  12:15 PM

Responding to Crisis: A Briefing on H1N1 Influenza

Dr. Paul Biddinger, associate director of the Center for Public Health Preparedness at the Harvard School of Public Health and director of...

• Location:
  Town Hall
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 21, 2009
• Time:
  2:30 PM

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

WOMEN'S RIGHTS:  SHOULD THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE ROCK THE BOAT? The recent...

• Location:
  Littauer 166
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 21, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Dignity through Discourse: Poverty and the Culture of Deliberation in Indian Village Democracies

• Location:
  124 Mount Auburn, Suite 200-North
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 21, 2009
• Time:
  4:10 PM

Western Impact and Turkey - Seminar 2:The First Wave of Modernization (Kemalism)

• Location:
  Room K262, CGIS, 1730 Cambridge St.
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 21, 2009
• Time:
  4:30 PM

Public Service Week at HKS: Why Human Rights Matter: Human Rights as Public Service

Carr Center for Human Rights Policy 10th Anniversary Celebration A Conversation With:            Samantha Power Founding Executive Director, Center for Human Rights Policy (1998-02); Senior Director for...

• Location:
  John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 21, 2009
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Under the Bombs (Lebanon, 2007)

• Location:
  Wiener Auditorium, Taubman building, Ground Floor, Harvard Kennedy School
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 21, 2009
• Time:
  6:00 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 21, 2009
• Time:
  7:00 PM

Ticketed Forum Event -- The First Year of the Obama White House-- A conversation with: David Axelrod

      David Axelrod Senior Advisor to President Obama; Chief Strategist, Obama Presidential Campaign This is a ticketed Forum. For those without a...

• Location:
  John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
• Date:
  Wednesday, October 21, 2009
• Time:
  8:00 PM

Rebuilding an American City: The New Orleans Recovery

Edward Blakely, the former recovery czar of the city of New Orleans, will speak on "Rebuilding an American City: The New Orleans...

• Location:
  Littaeur Room 382
• Date:
  Thursday, October 22, 2009
• Time:
  10:10 AM

Iraq In Transition: The National Library & Archives

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room, Rubenstein 219
• Date:
  Thursday, October 22, 2009
• Time:
  11:30 AM

Public Service Week at HKS: When Do Female Politicians "Matter" and What Does It Mean?

Professor Rehavi will discuss these issues using her analysis of female legislators' roll call voting and their effect on fiscal priorities. ...

• Location:
  Allison Dining Room, Taubman building 5th floor
• Date:
  Thursday, October 22, 2009
• Time:
  11:40 AM

Country Research 101

• Location:
  HKS Library Group Study Room
• Date:
  Thursday, October 22, 2009
• Time:
  12:00 PM

***CANCELLED*** Why Arab States Fear Islamist Regimes: Threat Perception and Soft Power Politics

***CANCELLED***   http://www.belfercenter.org/events/4073/why_arab_states_fear_islamist_regimes.html ...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Thursday, October 22, 2009
• Time:
  12:15 PM

The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: Teheran's Perspective

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Thursday, October 22, 2009
• Time:
  12:15 PM

Harvard Kennedy School information session at Williams College

Harvard Kennedy School will conduct an information session at Williams College. Please RSVP for more information....

• Location:
  Williamstown, MA
• Date:
  Thursday, October 22, 2009
• Time:
  12:30 PM

The Role of Government in Bank of America's Acquisition of Merrill Lynch

The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government Harvard Kennedy School invites you to attend a Business and Government...

• Location:
  Bell Hall (5th Floor Belfer Building)
• Date:
  Thursday, October 22, 2009
• Time:
  1:15 PM

The Price for Democracy in Lebanon: Reflections and Human Rights Concerns

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room, Rubenstein 219
• Date:
  Thursday, October 22, 2009
• Time:
  1:30 PM

The Imperative to Act Against Poverty: Peter Singer and Richard Stearns in Conversation

• Location:
  First Parish Church (corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St., Cambridge)
• Date:
  Thursday, October 22, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Philanthropy Study Group: Fully Leveraging Philanthropic Assets for Long-Term Social and Environmental Impact

Joshua Humphreys is founding director of the Center for Social Philanthropy, which provides research, resources, data and tools for foundations, donors, and investors...

• Location:
  Weil Town Hall
• Date:
  Thursday, October 22, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Organizing for Power: Influencing Policy and Politics - Gina Glantz, former senior Advisor to Service Employees International

Wes Metheny -- Senior Vice President for Alliances, Access and Affordability, PhRMA.  PhRMA is...

• Location:
  Littauer 166
• Date:
  Thursday, October 22, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Highest Level (and Highest Stakes) Deliberations: The NSC, the Surge, and the SOF

David Satterfield - Development and implementation of the surge strategy was formally organized and coordinated from the NSC beginning in the fall...

• Location:
  Faculty Dining Room
• Date:
  Thursday, October 22, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

ACT-ing UP: The Living Legacy of AIDS Protest

• Location:
  Sert Gallery, Carpenter Center For the Arts
• Date:
  Thursday, October 22, 2009
• Time:
  5:00 PM

Spreading Innovation: Innovation as Narrative

• Location:
  124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Room 226
• Date:
  Thursday, October 22, 2009
• Time:
  5:00 PM

Public Service Week at HKS: Inspiring Public Service

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2009   5:30 PM ...

• Location:
  John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
• Date:
  Thursday, October 22, 2009
• Time:
  5:30 PM

Human Rights Policy Analysis. Lesson 2: Measuring the unmeasurable: Indicators, measurements and indices

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room, Rubenstein 219
• Date:
  Thursday, October 22, 2009
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Panel Discussion: US-Pakistan Relations

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room, Rubenstein 219
• Date:
  Friday, October 23, 2009
• Time:
  11:00 AM

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 23, 2009
• Time:
  11:45 AM

Counterterrorism Challenges Today

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Friday, October 23, 2009
• Time:
  12:15 PM

Goldstone Report: Should Hamas and Israel be investigated for war crimes?

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room, Rubenstein 219
• Date:
  Friday, October 23, 2009
• Time:
  1:30 PM

Preview Session for January Courses and Immersion Activities

• Location:
  HKS Forum
• Date:
  Friday, October 23, 2009
• Time:
  2:00 PM

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