Events Calendar

Writing Workshop with Ron Suskind - A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence at the Shorenstein Center

• Location:
  Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building, Lobby
• Date:
  Monday, February 6, 2012
• Time:
  10:10 AM

Historians and earthquakes in the central United States: Making the past clear when the future isn't

Lunch will be provided to those who RSVP by the Thursday before....

• Location:
  124 Mount Auburn Suite 100
• Date:
  Monday, February 6, 2012
• Time:
  12:15 PM

Workshops on Mobilization and New Media for Nonprofit Leaders in China at Peking University

• Location:
  Belfer Building, BL4 (front entrance) HKS School of Government
• Date:
  Monday, February 6, 2012
• Time:
  12:30 PM

Gender & Security Seminar Series. Topic: 'Introducing the New US National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security'

Please join us for the first sesion of the Gender & Security Seminar Series for this spring semester. This session's topic will...

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room (R-219)
• Date:
  Monday, February 6, 2012
• Time:
  5:00 PM

FORUM: A Conversation with Peter Thiel and Niall Ferguson

A conversation with: Peter Thiel, founding CEO of PayPal; Member, Board of Directors, Facebook; entrepreneur; and venture capitalist and Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch...

• Location:
  JFK Jr. Forum
• Date:
  Monday, February 6, 2012
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Lourdes Garcia-Navarro: "Women and War in the Arab World"

Speaker Series with Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, foreign correspondent, NPR....

• Location:
  Taubman 275
• Date:
  Tuesday, February 7, 2012
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Do Nuclear Power Plants Benefit Japan's Local Communities?

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs’ special series on post-disaster Japan continues. Professor Saito’s research interests focus on the institutional determinants of representation and redistribution,...

• Location:
  Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St.
• Date:
  Tuesday, February 7, 2012
• Time:
  12:30 PM

Public Speaking Workshop: Creating Your Speaker Persona: A Little Larger than Life

Creating Your Speaker Persona: A Little Larger than Life, presented by Holly Weeks, HKS, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy. Your persona is the...

• Location:
  Littauer Building, Room 332
• Date:
  Tuesday, February 7, 2012
• Time:
  4:10 PM

The Changing Face of Foreclosures in Massachusetts

Presentation by Tim Davis, independent consultant who produces the quarterly Foreclosure Monitor for the Massachusetts Housing PartnershipCommentary by Clark Ziegler, Executive Director, Massachusetts...

• Location:
  Allison Dining Room, 5th floor, Taubman Building, 15 Eliot Street
• Date:
  Tuesday, February 7, 2012
• Time:
  5:30 PM

Digital Communications Workshop: Social Media Analytics

Social Media Analytics Workshop presented by Nicco Mele, HKS, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy How do you read a Google Analytics report...

• Location:
  Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building, Lobby
• Date:
  Wednesday, February 8, 2012
• Time:
  10:10 AM

February Freecycle, Small Electronics Recycling, and Makeup & Toiletry Drive

February Freecycle, Small Electronics Recycling, and Makeup & Toiletry Drive* *The drive benefits homeless women living...

• Location:
  The Forum
• Date:
  Wednesday, February 8, 2012
• Time:
  11:30 AM

Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy

Solomon Hsiang: Destruction, Disinvestment, and Death:  Economic and Human Losses Following Environmental Disaster...

• Location:
  Harvard Kennedy School Room Littauer-382
• Date:
  Wednesday, February 8, 2012
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Poverty, Human Rights and Development in Latin America Study Group Meeting

Please join us for this semester's first meeting of the Poverty, Human Rights and Development in Latin America study group. This week...

• Location:
  Carr Center Conferece Room (R-219)
• Date:
  Wednesday, February 8, 2012
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Bringing King to China

Bringing King to China is about a young American woman struggling to bring Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream of nonviolence to China,...

• Location:
  Land Hall, Belfer Building, 4th Floor; 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
• Date:
  Wednesday, February 8, 2012
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Like Daughter, Like Judge: How Having Daughters Affects Judges’ Voting on Women’s Issues

Maya Sen, Doctoral Candidate, Harvard Department of Government Social scientists have long maintained that women judges might behave differently than their male colleagues...

• Location:
  WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, T-102
• Date:
  Thursday, February 9, 2012
• Time:
  11:40 AM

Miss Representation Screening

Like drawing back a curtain to let bright light stream in, Miss Representation uncovers a glaring reality we live with every...

• Location:
  WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102
• Date:
  Thursday, February 9, 2012
• Time:
  11:40 AM

M-RCBG Seminar: Super PACs--The WMDs of Campaign Finance

This seminar will be given by Ben Heineman, Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Lunch will...

• Location:
  Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
• Date:
  Thursday, February 9, 2012
• Time:
  11:45 AM

Life on the Downward Slope: Assessing the Consequences of Great Power Decline

Speaker: Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson, Research Fellow, International Security Program Coffee & tea provided. Link to seminar description: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/5683/ Sponsored by the International Security...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Thursday, February 9, 2012
• Time:
  12:15 PM

"5 Secrets of Powerful Public Speakers" a Public Speaking Workshop with Marie Danziger

5 Secrets of Powerful Public Speakers This workshop will summarize the key lessons from “The Arts of Communication” and then give participants...

• Location:
  Taubman Building, Room 275
• Date:
  Thursday, February 9, 2012
• Time:
  2:40 PM

Nuclear 101: U.S. Nuclear Missile Operations

Lt. Col. Ronald Allen will provide an overview of U.S. nuclear missile operations and their role in deterrence. Lieutenant Colonel Ronald G....

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library (Littauer 369)
• Date:
  Thursday, February 9, 2012
• Time:
  3:00 PM

"Power Politics in the Age of Google." <strong> Watch the LIVE Webcast at 4 p.m. EST </strong>

A digital power play stopped the SOPA and PIPA legislation. Watch the LIVE Webcast at 4 p.m. EST What are the...

• Location:
  Wiener Auditorium, Taubman Building, ground floor
• Date:
  Thursday, February 9, 2012
• Time:
  4:00 PM

HRE Initiative, Training Series. Topic: "Nonformal education strategies for promoting empowerment"

This spring we have a new initiative at the Carr Center: Human Rights in Education, led by Carr Center Fellow Felisa Tibbitts. Please...

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room (R-219)
• Date:
  Thursday, February 9, 2012
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Participatory Grant Making in Action: The Vision of a New Young Feminist Fund

A panel discussion (moderated by Peter Bell, former CEO of CARE) on an innovation in participatory grant making....

• Location:
  Weil Town Hall (Belfer Lobby 1)
• Date:
  Thursday, February 9, 2012
• Time:
  4:30 PM

"India's global agenda: A domestic policy view"

Baijayant “Jay” Panda was elected to the Parliament of India, Lower House (Lok Sabha) from Kendrapara Constituency, Odisha in May 2009. Earlier...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Belfer Building, Third floor
• Date:
  Thursday, February 9, 2012
• Time:
  4:30 PM

Finding Yes: Creating a Constructive Global Conversation about Our Planet’s Future

The Harvard University Center for the Environment Green Conversations series continues this spring. This discussion will examine the question, is it possible...

• Location:
  Tsai Auditorium (Room S-010), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
• Date:
  Thursday, February 9, 2012
• Time:
  5:00 PM

CID Future of Latin America Series: Venezuela - The Paradoxes of an Oil Economy

Please join CID in welcoming Professor Jose Manuel Puente on a lively discussion of Venezuela's oil economy and his new book.  Refreshments...

• Location:
  Perkins Room, 4th Floor Rubenstein
• Date:
  Thursday, February 9, 2012
• Time:
  6:00 PM

CID Friday Speaker Series Featuring: Stace Lindsay of Fusion Ventures

Join CID's weekly luncheon seminar with Stace Lindsay, founder of Fusion Ventures, an advisory and ventures investment firm.  Learn about Fusion Ventures...

• Location:
  Perkins Room, 4th floor Rubenstein, HKS
• Date:
  Friday, February 10, 2012
• Time:
  11:45 AM

Friday Library Workshop - Find It @ Harvard

Join us to learn about the various Harvard resources such as HOLLIS, Google Scholar, and E-Journals and to learn how to...

• Location:
  Instruction Room
• Date:
  Friday, February 10, 2012
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Digital Communications Workshop: Communication Strategies to Support Development Programs and Projects

Digital Communications Workshop presented by Jamil Simon, President of Spectrum Media and Charles Mann, Development economist. While frequently missing in development projects, a well-designed...

• Location:
  Rubinstein Building, 2nd Floor, Carr Conference Room
• Date:
  Friday, February 10, 2012
• Time:
  2:10 PM

Film Screening and Discussion: 'The Times of Harvey Milk' with Timothy Patrick McCarthy

Please join us for the second presentation of the student-organized, Human Rights Film Series. This week's film will be the documentary 'The Times...

• Location:
  Bell Hall (Belfer 5th floor)
• Date:
  Friday, February 10, 2012
• Time:
  2:30 PM