Events Calendar

Public Speaking Workshop: Presencing: Creating Change for Ourselves, Our Organizations and Our Communities by Madeline Snow,

Presencing, a blend of the words "presence" and "sensing," refers to the ability to sense and bring into the present one's highest...

• Location:
  Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building, Lobby
• Date:
  Monday, April 2, 2012
• Time:
  10:10 AM

CANCELED: Digital Communications Workshop: Using Social Media to Hit a Moving Target: Things to Do, Things to Avoid, and how

Workshop/TrainingDigital Communications Workshop: Using Social Media to Hit a Moving Target: Things to Do, Things to Avoid, and how to successfully build...

• Location:
  Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building Lobby
• Date:
  Monday, April 2, 2012
• Time:
  10:10 AM

China's Electricity System

ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar Series Lunch will be served....

• Location:
  Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS
• Date:
  Monday, April 2, 2012
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Dis·en·closing Science

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

• Location:
  124 Mt. Auburn Suite 100
• Date:
  Monday, April 2, 2012
• Time:
  12:15 PM

"Implementing the 2010 Nuclear Posture Review," a Belfer Center Director's Lunch with Bradley H. Roberts

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Director's Lunch with Dr. Bradley H. Roberts, Deputy Assistant Secretary of...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library (L369)
• Date:
  Monday, April 2, 2012
• Time:
  12:15 PM

Leadership and the Internet: Jared Cohen, Director, Google Ideas

A conversation with Jared Cohen, Director, Google Ideas; moderated by Nicco Mele, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS Please RSVP: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PPV9ZGS...

• Location:
  Darman Room, Center for Public Leadership, 1st Floor, Taubman Building
• Date:
  Monday, April 2, 2012
• Time:
  3:00 PM

STUDY GROUP How to Be Politically Social: Mixing Social Media, Political Punditry, and Comedy

• Location:
  L166
• Date:
  Monday, April 2, 2012
• Time:
  4:15 PM

STUDY GROUP: 2012's Great Policy Debates: Domestic Issues that Will Shape the Election and Your Life

With Steven Schrage, IOP Resident Fellow , Lanhee Chen, Romney for President Policy Director and Ted Strickland, Chair Obama for President 2012...

• Location:
  Faculty Dining Room
• Date:
  Monday, April 2, 2012
• Time:
  4:15 PM

When Can the Government Force Suspects to Decrypt Incriminating Files?

Speaker: John Villasenor, Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Governance Studies Program, The Brookings Institution Coffee & tea...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 3, 2012
• Time:
  10:00 AM

David Ignatius: "Covering Obama and the Middle East: A Reader's Guide."

Speaker Series with David Ignatius, associate editor and columnist, The Washington Post....

• Location:
  Taubman 275
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 3, 2012
• Time:
  12:00 PM

The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: An Insider's Account with Robert Malley

A conversation with Robert Malley about some of the pitfalls and failures of the Clinton Administration’s approach to Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. Robert Malley...

• Location:
  Nye A, Fifth Floor Taubman Building
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 3, 2012
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Public Speaking Workshop: Give me Solutions, Not Problems presented by Holly Weeks, HKS Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy

Give me Solutions, Not Problems If you don’t have much of someone’s time, where and how do you want to focus your...

• Location:
  Littauer Building, Room 332
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 3, 2012
• Time:
  4:10 PM

The Military in Space and Cyberspace: Lt Col Bob "Sponge" Pavelko

The National Security Program and the Belfer Center are co-sponsors of a study group for American military affairs.  The study group introduces...

• Location:
  Belfer Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 3, 2012
• Time:
  4:10 PM

The EU's Relations with Russia

A lecture by H.E. Ivailo Kalfin, member of European Parliament and former foreign minister of Bulgaria. Co-sponsored with the Comparative Economics Seminar...

• Location:
  CGIS South, Room S354, 1730 Cambridge St.
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 3, 2012
• Time:
  4:15 PM

STUDY GROUP: Class Warfare: A Comparison of Two World Views: Rational Self-interest vs. Concern for the Common Good

• Location:
  Faculty Dining Room
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 3, 2012
• Time:
  4:15 PM

STUDY GROUP: The Politics of Education with IOP Resident Fellow Margaret McKenna & National Education Association President D

• Location:
  L166
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 3, 2012
• Time:
  4:15 PM

The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood

Presentation by John Friedman, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and Raj Chetty, Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences,...

• Location:
  Allison Dining Room, 5th floor, Taubman Building, 15 Eliot Street
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 3, 2012
• Time:
  5:30 PM

Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World

In Europe and throughout the world, competence in English is spreading at a speed never achieved by any language in human history....

• Location:
  124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200-North
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 3, 2012
• Time:
  5:30 PM

"What's Next for NATO: Iran, Afghanistan and Transatlantic Relations"

A panel conversation with: The Rt. Hon. David Miliband, Member of Parliament, United Kingdom; Foreign Secretary, UK (2007-10) Javier Solana, Former Secretary General,...

• Location:
  JFK Jr. Forum
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 3, 2012
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Public Speaking Workshop: Just Breathe! Presented by Allison Shapira, MC/MPA 2010 Founder and President, Global Public Speaki

Just Breathe! How the right breathing and stretching can reduce your nervousness and make people pay attention to your speech. Have you ever...

• Location:
  Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building, Lobby
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 4, 2012
• Time:
  10:10 AM

The Durban Platform: Can it Support a New International Climate Regime?

This seminar will be given by Robert Stowe, Executive Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program Manager, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements. Climate-change negotiators agreed...

• Location:
  Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 4, 2012
• Time:
  12:00 PM

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

Join us for the Poverty, Human Rights and Development in Latin America study group where Prof. Robert Wilkinson of Tufts will...

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 4, 2012
• Time:
  4:00 PM

STUDY GROUP: Europe's Take on America!

Join former Congressman George Nethercutt and his special guest, Holland's Maarten de Groot, one of Europe's leading international wealth managers, for a...

• Location:
  L166
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 4, 2012
• Time:
  4:15 PM

STUDY GROUP: Defining Your Path to Public Service: Serving Your Country: Congress, Military, or Policy Think Tank?

• Location:
  Faculty Dining Room
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 4, 2012
• Time:
  4:15 PM

Whither Europe? Lessons, Risks, and the Way Forward

Third in a semester-long series, this installment of "Whither Europe? Lessons, Risks, and the Way Forward" features Alberto Alesina, Nathaniel Ropes Professor...

• Location:
  Lower Level Conference Room, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies,
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 4, 2012
• Time:
  4:30 PM

A Public Address by Reid Hoffman, Executive Chairman & Co-founder of LinkedIn

A public address by Reid Hoffman, Executive Chairman and Co-founder of LinkedIn and Managing Partner at Greylock Partners. Moderated by Harvard Kennedy School...

• Location:
  JFK Jr. Forum
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 4, 2012
• Time:
  6:00 PM

The Downside of Affirmative Action

Johanna Mollerstrom, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Economics Quotas are sometimes used to achieve gender equality, for example on corporate boards. However, anecdotal evidence...

• Location:
  WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, T-102
• Date:
  Thursday, April 5, 2012
• Time:
  11:40 AM

On the Quality of Economic Analysis at Independent Financial Regulatory Agencies

This seminar is part of the Regulatory Policy Program's seminar series. It will be given by visiting scholar Randall Lutter of Resources for...

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

Forecasting Mass Atrocities and Genocide

Professor Ben Goldsmith from the University of Sydney will discuss his project to develop a quantitative forecasting tool for predicting political instabilities...

• Location:
  Weil Town Hall (1st floor Belfer)
• Date:
  Thursday, April 5, 2012
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Nuclear Fuel Cycle Decision-Making: An Analysis of Influences

Speaker: James Platte, Stanton Nuclear Security Predoctoral Fellow Coffee & tea provided Link to seminar description: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/5756/ Sponsored by the International Security Program...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Thursday, April 5, 2012
• Time:
  12:15 PM

Nuclear 101: How to Write for and Talk to Journalists

Eben Harrell, Jim Smith and Sharon Wilke will discuss how to write for and talk to members of the media about...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library (Littauer 369)
• Date:
  Thursday, April 5, 2012
• Time:
  2:00 PM

The Human Right(s) to Water and Sanitation

Sharmila Murthy, Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, HKS, will give a presentation titled"The Human Right(s) to Water...

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room
• Date:
  Thursday, April 5, 2012
• Time:
  2:00 PM

The Harvard Seminar on History and Policy

Featuring: Michael Woolcock, Lecturer in Public Policy (HKS) Lant Pritchett, Professor of the Practice of International Development (HKS) Alexander Keyssar, Matthew W....

• Location:
  Rubenstein 415 (Perkins Room)
• Date:
  Thursday, April 5, 2012
• Time:
  4:00 PM

HRE Initiative, Training Series: "Analytical tools for the human rights-based approach to development"

Please join us for the next session of the Human Rights in Education Initiative's training series where Felisa Tibbitts will discuss 'Analytical tools for the human rights-based...

• Location:
  RSVP for Venue
• Date:
  Thursday, April 5, 2012
• Time:
  4:00 PM

STUDY GROUP: The Making of the President 2012: The Art of Crisis Management: “Sir, We Need to Talk to You”

• Location:
  L166
• Date:
  Thursday, April 5, 2012
• Time:
  4:15 PM

Study Group on Theater and Human Rights

The Study Group on Theater and Human Rights invites you to join this ongoing weekly exploration of the interrelationship of theater and...

• Location:
  RSVP for Venue
• Date:
  Thursday, April 5, 2012
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Diplomacy PIC: Military 101 Briefing & Mixer with HKS National Security Fellows

Come join a lively presentation, panel, and mixer on demystifying the military. Get your questions on civil-military relations, acronyms, hierarchy, mandates, missions...

• Location:
  Land Auditorium
• Date:
  Thursday, April 5, 2012
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Developing a Curriculum on Civil Society and Nonprofit Organizations in China

PresentersAnthony Saich and Christopher Stone, Harvard Kennedy School of GovernmentNara Dillon, Department of Government, Harvard UniversityRobert . Weller, Department of Anthropology, Boston University...

• Location:
  CGIS North, Room K262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
• Date:
  Friday, April 6, 2012
• Time:
  10:30 AM

CID Friday Speaker Series with Ahmar Iqbal, Maize and Green Capital Partners

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• Location:
  Perkins Room, 4th Floor Rubenstein, HKS
• Date:
  Friday, April 6, 2012
• Time:
  11:45 AM

The Human Rights Student Film Series presents: the documentary "I Came to Testify"

You are cordially invited to attend the next in a series of human rights-related films selected and moderated by HKS students. This...

• Location:
  Weil Town Hall
• Date:
  Friday, April 6, 2012
• Time:
  2:00 PM