Events Calendar

Digital Communications Workshop: "Future Politicians: How Living Public Online Can Help You" presented by Micah Sifry

If Google never forgets, then going online and using social media like Twitter or Facebook can be dangerous for budding politicians, right?...

• Location:
  Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building, Lobby
• Date:
  Monday, April 9, 2012
• Time:
  10:10 AM

“Careers in Public Policy,” a Belfer Center Student Seminar with Eric Rosenbach

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a student seminar with Eric Rosenbach, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library (L369)
• Date:
  Monday, April 9, 2012
• Time:
  11:00 AM

Current Practices and Future Opportunities: Managing Produced Water in the Marcellus

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

• Location:
  Malking Penthouse, Littauer Building (PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION)
• Date:
  Monday, April 9, 2012
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Documenting the World: Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record

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

• Location:
  124 Mt. Auburn Suite 100
• Date:
  Monday, April 9, 2012
• Time:
  12:15 PM

"Death by a Thousand Cuts? How to Stop the Current Cyber Onslaught on the U.S."

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Director's Lunch with Eric Rosenbach, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library (L369)
• Date:
  Monday, April 9, 2012
• Time:
  12:15 PM

The 2012 Election, Medicare, and the Budget Deficit Debate

*Lunch provided by the Health Policy PIC* Dr. Robert J. Blendon is currently the Richard L. Menschel Professor and Senior Associate Dean...

• Location:
  T102
• Date:
  Monday, April 9, 2012
• Time:
  12:30 PM

Alec Ross: "Using Digital Skills for Careers in Government"

Discussion with Alec Ross, Senior Adviser, Innovation in the Office of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Moderated by Susan Crawford, Visiting Stanton...

• Location:
  Wiener Auditorium, Taubman Building, Ground Floor
• Date:
  Monday, April 9, 2012
• Time:
  2:30 PM

The Grand Energy Transition: Robert A. Hefner, founder and owner GHK

Robert Hefner will introduce clips from the new film, "The GET", based on his 2009 book, followed by a moderated panel discussion...

• Location:
  L140
• Date:
  Monday, April 9, 2012
• Time:
  4:00 PM

The Center for Economic Opportunity: NYC's Innovative Solution to Fighting Urban Poverty

The Center for Economic Opportunity (CEO), this year’s Innovations in American Government Award winner, works to design, implement, and evaluate anti-poverty programs....

• Location:
  124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200-North
• Date:
  Monday, April 9, 2012
• Time:
  4:10 PM

STUDY GROUP: China and America—On a Political Collision Course? 2012’s Foreign Policy Impact on Asia, Africa and the World

With IOP Resident Fellow Steven Schrage and guest Ambassador Richard Williamson—Co-Chair (with Madeleine Albright) U.S.-China High-Level Political Party Leaders Dialogue, Former Ambassador...

• Location:
  Faculty Dining Room
• Date:
  Monday, April 9, 2012
• Time:
  4:15 PM

STUDY GROUP: All Politics Is Social: Digital Diplomacy: Beyond our Borders?

• Location:
  L166
• Date:
  Monday, April 9, 2012
• Time:
  4:15 PM

Summer Research Assistants wanted to work on HKS Project on "Innovation & Access to Technologies for Sustainable Development"

The Harvard Kennedy School project on "Innovation and Access to Technologies for Sustainable Development" is seeking paid research assistants for the summer...

• Location:
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 10, 2012
• Time:
  12:00 AM

Summer Research Assistants wanted to work on HKS Project on "Innovation & Access to Technologies for Sustainable Development"

The Harvard Kennedy School project on "Innovation and Access to Technologies for Sustainable Development" is seeking paid research assistants for the summer...

• Location:
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 10, 2012
• Time:
  12:00 AM

Augmenting Suspension in Nuclear Facilities

MTA/ISP Fellow David Nusbaum will discuss the techniques necessary for an "augmented suspension" of nuclear facilities as a way of strengthening safeguards....

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

Riding the Tiger: Challenges of China’s Municipal Finance in the 21st Century

From 1980 to 2011, the number of people living in Chinese cities increased by 500 million. This is urbanization on a...

• Location:
  79 John F. Kennedy Street, Littauer 140
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 10, 2012
• Time:
  11:40 AM

Maria Hinojosa: “Stories from the Frontlines of the New America: Detention, Deportation and the Power of Democratic Resistanc

Speaker Series with Maria Hinojosa, anchor and managing editor of her weekly NPR show, Latino USA, and anchor of the Emmy Award...

• Location:
  Taubman 275
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 10, 2012
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Public Speaking Workshop: The Art of the Ask: How to Effectively Ask for Money, presented by Ian Palmquist, MC/MPA 2012

Donations from individuals are the lifeblood of the nonprofit world. So how do you get major donors to open their wallets?...

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

The Rift Revealed: The Search for Inclusion in Kenya’s Financial Landscape

The rapid take up of mobile money transfer services in Kenya has ignited enthusiasm globally about the potential for financial service delivery...

• Location:
  124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 200-North, Room 226
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 10, 2012
• Time:
  4:10 PM

STUDY GROUP: The Politics of Education: Save Our Schools: A National Call to Action

• Location:
  Hauser/BL4
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 10, 2012
• Time:
  4:15 PM

STUDY GROUP: Class Warfare: America’s Safety Net Programs: What Can We Learn from Europe?

• Location:
  Malkin Penthouse
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 10, 2012
• Time:
  4:15 PM

Democratic Development and Democratic Decay

All political orders are subject to decay over time for at least two reasons: first, institutions created to meet one set...

• Location:
  Wiener Auditorium, Taubman Building, HKS
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 10, 2012
• Time:
  5:30 PM

Right to Water Study Group. Topic: "Professor Steve Caton discusses 'Water Issues in Yemen'"

Please join the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Program for its next study group at which Steve Caton, Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies at...

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 10, 2012
• Time:
  6:00 PM

The Economy and Politics of the American Presidential Election: Is It the Economy, Stupid?

A conversation with: MIKE MURPHY, Republican Political Consultant and PAUL VOLCKER, Former Chairman of President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board This event is open to...

• Location:
  Starr Auditorium
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 10, 2012
• Time:
  6:00 PM

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

• Location:
  Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building, Lobby
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 11, 2012
• Time:
  10:10 AM

HKS Fund Student Thank-a-Thon

Come to the Study for 30 minutes on Wednesday, 11 April, to get FREE lunch and get to know alumni when...

• Location:
  The Study (Conference Room, Taubman T202)
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 11, 2012
• Time:
  11:30 AM

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

Please join the next meeting of  the Poverty, Human Rights and Development in Latin America Study Group at which Independent Development Projects...

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room (R-219)
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 11, 2012
• Time:
  4:00 PM

STUDY GROUP: Why Study America? How Have Politics and Public Policy Issues Kept the U.S. Disunited?

• Location:
  L166
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 11, 2012
• Time:
  4:15 PM

STUDY GROUP: Defining Your Path to Public Service: tThe Politics of Healthcare Delivery: A Case Study of Struggles and Progre

• Location:
  Faculty Dining Room
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 11, 2012
• Time:
  4:15 PM

Middle East Film Series: Mabul or The Flood (Israel, 2011)

Everything is complicated in Yoni's life. He's almost 13, real gifted, but physically undeveloped and struggles daily to grow up before his...

• Location:
  Wiener Auditorium, Taubman Building, Ground Floor, Harvard Kennedy School
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 11, 2012
• Time:
  6:00 PM

"North Korea-What's Next?" a Seminar with Siegfried S. Hecker.

Following a provocative 2010, the year 2011 was one of diplomatic rapprochement by North Korea. Yet, Pyongyang continued to increase its nuclear...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library- Littauer 369
• Date:
  Thursday, April 12, 2012
• Time:
  10:00 AM

Graduating students: "Show What You Can Do" for the HKS Fund!

Graduating HKS Students: Stop by the "Show What You Can Do" Table in the Forum from 10:30 to 2:30 on Monday,...

• Location:
  Forum
• Date:
  Thursday, April 12, 2012
• Time:
  10:30 AM

Broken Homes and Broken Promises: Making the Case of Comprehensive Domestic Violence Policy Reform

Daniel Manne, WAPPP Fellow The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) declared that all women in the U.S. had the right...

• Location:
  WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, T-102
• Date:
  Thursday, April 12, 2012
• Time:
  11:40 AM

Financial Regulatory Reform: Innovation in Regulatory Design and Implementation

This seminar will be given by Diana Farrell, Director, McKinsey Center for Government. Following the financial crisis and the ensuing Great Recession, revamping...

• Location:
  Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
• Date:
  Thursday, April 12, 2012
• Time:
  11:45 AM

Bankers, Bureaucrats, and the Bond Market: A Financial History of the Russian Revolution, 1900–1917

Speaker: Hassan Malik, Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy, International Security Program Coffee & Tea Provided Link to seminar description: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/5766/ Sponsored by...

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

Writing Workshop: "Interviewing" with Morgan McVicar, MC/MPA 2003, HKS Writing Consultant, Adjunct Professor in Journalism, B

"Interviewing" Whether you are the interviewer or the interviewee, preparation is essential to a successful interview. But what does that entail? How do...

• Location:
  Taubman Building, Room 275
• Date:
  Thursday, April 12, 2012
• Time:
  2:40 PM

The Economic Situation in the European Union: An Address by Former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi

In 1999, Prodi was appointed president of the European Commission, the executive body of the European Union. During his presidency, the euro...

• Location:
  Wiener Auditorium, Taubman Building, HKS
• Date:
  Thursday, April 12, 2012
• Time:
  4:10 PM

STUDY GROUP: The Making of the President 2012: Selecting the Vice President

• Location:
  L166
• Date:
  Thursday, April 12, 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 12, 2012
• Time:
  6:00 PM

A Public Address by General Martin E. Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

A public address by General Martin E. Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff....

• Location:
  JFK Jr. Forum
• Date:
  Thursday, April 12, 2012
• Time:
  6:00 PM

CID Friday Speaker Series with James Salo and Alex Lamb

James Salo, Senior Vice President, and Alex Lamb, Vice President, TruCost are this week's guest speakers. Valuing the environmental impacts of companies...

• Location:
  Perkins Room, 4th Floor Rubenstein, HKS
• Date:
  Friday, April 13, 2012
• Time:
  11:45 AM

Friday Library Workshop - Organize Your Research with Zotero

Use Zotero to organize and insert citations into your papers. Learn how to save citations from the web, HOLLIS, and databases...

• Location:
  Instruction Room
• Date:
  Friday, April 13, 2012
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Labor Rights, Human Rights and a Critical Sociology of Law: Three Way Stretch

The Sexuality, Gender, and Human Rights Program is pleased to host Richard Weiner, Professor of Political Science at Rhode Island College, to discuss...

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room (R-219)
• Date:
  Friday, April 13, 2012
• Time:
  2:00 PM

"The Eurozone Crisis," a Belfer Center Director's Seminar with Martin Wolf

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Director's Seminar with Financial Times Chief Economics Commentator Martin Wolf, CBE,...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library (L369)
• Date:
  Friday, April 13, 2012
• Time:
  2:00 PM

HKS Got Talent?

As part of the “HKS Got Talent?” show, a Kennedy School community event for faculty, staff and students, there will be...

• Location:
  JFK Jr. Forum
• Date:
  Friday, April 13, 2012
• Time:
  4:00 PM