Events Calendar

HKS Admissions and Registrar's Office Closed

Please note: Admissions Counselors will not be available on March 30, 31, or May 4, 5, due to an all-staff training. You...

• Location:
  Cambridge, MA
• Date:
  Monday, March 30, 2009
• Time:
  9:00 AM

Corporate Social Responsibility: The Effective Use Of Public Private Partnerships

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Monday, March 30, 2009
• Time:
  12:15 PM

MIT/Harvard Gaza Symposium

• Location:
  Wong Auditorium (MIT) and Austin Hall (HLS)
• Date:
  Monday, March 30, 2009
• Time:
  1:00 PM

Study group led by IOP Fellow Jim Ramstad and former Drug Czar General Barry McCaffrey

General Barry McCaffrey, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy in the Clinton Administration, will be...

• Location:
  L-166
• Date:
  Monday, March 30, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Making Hard Choices in Troubling Times: How Massachusetts Is Addressing its Fiscal Crisis

Leslie Kirwan, Massachusetts Secretary of Administration and Finance Comments by State...

• Location:
  Nye AB, 5th floor Taubman Building, 15 Eliot Street
• Date:
  Monday, March 30, 2009
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Liability Issues in Carbon Sequestration R&D

• Location:
  Fainsod Room, Littauer-324
• Date:
  Tuesday, March 31, 2009
• Time:
  9:00 AM

HKS Admissions and Registrar's Office Closed

Please note: Admissions Counselors will not be available on March 30, 31, or May 4, 5, due to an all-staff training. You...

• Location:
  Cambridge, MA
• Date:
  Tuesday, March 31, 2009
• Time:
  9:00 AM

The Sources and Future of Nuclear Postures in Asia: China, India, and Pakistan

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Tuesday, March 31, 2009
• Time:
  9:30 AM

Can the EU Build Political Identity and Legitimacy?

• Location:
  Center for European Studies (CES
• Date:
  Tuesday, March 31, 2009
• Time:
  2:00 PM

True and Emergent Crises: Distinguishing Extreme and Unconventional Emergencies

The Taubman Center's Program on Emergency Preparedness, Crisis Management, and Disaster Recovery and the Center for Public Leadership are sponsoring: "True...

• Location:
  Taubman Building-Room 401
• Date:
  Tuesday, March 31, 2009
• Time:
  2:30 PM

Study group led by IOP Fellow Rose Styron and Ambassador William Luers

Session VII – The intersection of art, education, and diplomacy via the United Nations – April 14th Guest:...

• Location:
  L-166
• Date:
  Tuesday, March 31, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

For the Common Defense: Space, Cyberspace and Information Operations in the 21st Century

Space, Cyberspace, and Information Operations in the 21st Century The modern concept of national...

• Location:
  Belfer Library (L-369)
• Date:
  Tuesday, March 31, 2009
• Time:
  4:10 PM

Political Economy and Geopolitics of Energy in Eurasia

A panel discussion with: Dr. Michael Caramanis, College of Engineering, Boston University, and former chairman of the Regulatory Authority for Energy...

• Location:
  Goldman Room, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland St
• Date:
  Tuesday, March 31, 2009
• Time:
  4:30 PM

Geopolitics of Energy Seminar: India

The Geopolitics of Energy Seminar Series Wednesdays, Land Lecture Hall (4th Floor, Belfer Building), 10:30am-12:00pm?Harvard Kennedy School Hosted by...

• Location:
  Land Lecture Hall, 4th Floor, Belfer Building
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 1, 2009
• Time:
  10:30 AM

White House Politics and Economic Policy

Richard Parker is Lecturer in Public Policy and Senior Fellow of the Shorenstein Center. An economist by training, he is a...

• Location:
  Littauer 332
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 1, 2009
• Time:
  12:00 PM

UDHR Speaker Series: Article 26: Martha Davis

Wednesday, April 112:00 - 1:30pm HKS Campus, Carr Center Conference Room (Rubenstein 219) Martha Davis, Faculty Director at the Program on Human Rights and the Global...

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room - Rubenstein 219
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 1, 2009
• Time:
  12:00 PM

The Politics of Covering Regular People

For more information, http://www.hks.harvard.edu/presspol/news_events/calendar.html...

• Location:
  Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 1, 2009
• Time:
  1:00 PM

Study group led by IOP Fellow Teresa Vilmain

Staffing up! How to Hire (and Fire) Campaign Staff and Consultants...

• Location:
  L-166
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 1, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

U.S. Energy Independence: Forty Years of Failure, Society Ever More Divided and Unequal. What's Next?

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2009   6:00 PM ...

• Location:
  JFK Jr. Forum
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 1, 2009
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Harvard Toastmasters Club

The Harvard Toastmasters Club is a group of students from throughout Harvard University who meet weekly to improve their public speaking and...

• Location:
  Taubman Building, Fourth Floor, Room 401
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 1, 2009
• Time:
  6:45 PM

Informing the Debate: A Panel Discussion on Boston's Charter, Pilot, and Traditional Schools

Tom Kane, Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Education ...

• Location:
  Askwith Auditorium, Longfellow Hall, Graduate School of Education
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 1, 2009
• Time:
  7:00 PM

The Impact of the Financial Crisis on the Business-Government Relationship

The Impact of the Financial Crisis on the Business-Government Relationship ...

• Location:
  Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor, Littauer Building
• Date:
  Thursday, April 2, 2009
• Time:
  8:30 AM

Can We Afford the Government We Need? The Role of Private Actors in Producing Public Services

  Skip Stitt, as Senior Deputy Mayor and Chief Operating Officer from the city of Indianapolis, was responsible for many of...

• Location:
  Taubman 135/Darman Seminar in the Center for Public Leadership
• Date:
  Thursday, April 2, 2009
• Time:
  8:30 AM

Maximizing State Assets During a Fiscal Crisis

                                                                                   Alan Trager Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Commissioner,...

• Location:
  Bell Hall (5th Floor Belfer Building)
• Date:
  Thursday, April 2, 2009
• Time:
  12:00 PM

U.S. Highway Privatization and Motorists' Heterogeneous Preferences

U.S. Highway Privatization and Motorists'  Heterogeneous Preferences  Thursday, April 2nd,...

• Location:
  Taubman Building-Room 301
• Date:
  Thursday, April 2, 2009
• Time:
  12:00 PM

New Evaluation Mindsets and Their Application to Complex Community Based Interventions

This mid-day seminar is being hosted by the Malcolm Wiener Center.  Lunch will be provided. The presentation is based upon...

• Location:
  L166 - IOP 1st Floor Conference Room
• Date:
  Thursday, April 2, 2009
• Time:
  12:00 PM

The Pitfalls of Jihad

For more information, http://www.belfercenter.org/events/3898/pitfalls_of_jihad.html...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Thursday, April 2, 2009
• Time:
  12:15 PM

China Salon Speaker Series: The Global Crisis and China's Short- and Long-Term Growth Prospects

Speaker Series Organized by Harvard Kennedy School China Caucus ...

• Location:
  Room 230, Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School
• Date:
  Thursday, April 2, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Afghanistan: Rhetoric and Reality

• Location:
  WCFIA - Bowie-Vernon Room N262
• Date:
  Thursday, April 2, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Study group led by IOP Fellow Tina Flournoy and Richard Rothstein - Research Associate for "Economic Policy" and former New Y

The Achievement Gap. Education Reform. Accountability....

• Location:
  L-166
• Date:
  Thursday, April 2, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Study group led by IOP Fellow Howard Zucker and Thomas Novotny, MD, MPH, Professor, Graduate School of Public Health, San Die

The Role of The White House, State Department, HHS, & Congress...

• Location:
  L-FDR (Faculty dining room)
• Date:
  Thursday, April 2, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Philanthropy Study Group: The Ins and Outs of Mission-Related Investing

Thursday, April 2ndfrom 4:30-6:00 pm in Rubenstein G-20 (HKS campus) for “The Ins and Outs of Mission-Related Investing: When,...

• Location:
  Rubenstein G-20
• Date:
  Thursday, April 2, 2009
• Time:
  4:30 PM

"A Country That Works"-- A public address by Andy Stern

THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2009   6:00 PM  A public address by: Andy...

• Location:
  JFK Jr. Forum
• Date:
  Thursday, April 2, 2009
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Ecological Urbanism: Alternative and Sustainable Cities of the Future

Opening Remarks by Drew Gilpin Faust, President, Harvard University and Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino Keynote Speakers: ...

• Location:
  Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street
• Date:
  Friday, April 3, 2009
• Time:
  9:00 AM

30th Anniversary of Taiwan Relations Act

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA). Enacted on April 10, 1979, the bill continued the...

• Location:
  Knafel Building, Room 354, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
• Date:
  Friday, April 3, 2009
• Time:
  10:30 AM

The U.S.-Japan Alliance: A Fifty Year Perspective

• Location:
• Date:
  Friday, April 3, 2009
• Time:
  12:30 PM

Practice of Public Diplomacy: A Pakistani Perspective

The Harvard Public Diplomacy PIC aims to engage and cultivate public diplomacy practitioners within the HKS student body and the Harvard University...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, L369
• Date:
  Friday, April 3, 2009
• Time:
  2:00 PM

China's Emerging Energy Security Debate

• Location:
• Date:
  Friday, April 3, 2009
• Time:
  4:00 PM

2009 International Development Conference

For more information, http://www.harvard-idc.com/...

• Location:
  Nye Conference Center, Taubman Building, 5th Floor
• Date:
  Friday, April 3, 2009
• Time:
  4:30 PM

Africa Week at Harvard

The Harvard African Law Association (HALA), Harvard Kennedy School Africa Caucus, Harvard African Students Association (HASA), and Harvard Graduate School of Education's...

• Location:
  HKS, HGSE, HLS
• Date:
  Saturday, April 4, 2009
• Time:
  10:00 AM