Events Calendar

Digital Communications Workshop: Using Social Media to Launch your Campaign or Organization presented by Morra Aarons-Mele, M

Digital Communications Workshop presented by Morra Aarons-Mele, MC/MPA 2008, Founder of Women Online Using Social Media to Launch your Campaign or Organization: You want...

• Location:
  Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building, Lobby
• Date:
  Monday, March 19, 2012
• Time:
  10:10 AM

Federal Tax Return Filing Workshop for International Students

International Tax session presented by Paula Singer from Windstar. Lunch will be provided....

• Location:
  Weiner Auditorium
• Date:
  Monday, March 19, 2012
• Time:
  11:30 AM

The Healthcare Trilemma: Insurance, Quality and Cost

*Lunch provided by the Health Policy PIC* Professor Chandra is an economist and a Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard...

• Location:
  T401
• Date:
  Monday, March 19, 2012
• Time:
  11:30 AM

Simultaneously Mitigating Near-Term Climate Change and Improving Human Health and Food Security

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

• Location:
  Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS
• Date:
  Monday, March 19, 2012
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Pharma's Key Opinion Leaders: Valuing Conflicts of Interest and Independence

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

• Location:
  124 Mt. Auburn Suite 100
• Date:
  Monday, March 19, 2012
• Time:
  12:15 PM

STUDY GROUP: All Politics Is Social led by IOP Resident Fellow Farai Chideya

With guest John Keefe from WNYC....

• Location:
  L166
• Date:
  Monday, March 19, 2012
• Time:
  4:15 PM

STUDY GROUP: The Stakes of 2012 Politics & Policy: 2012 Foreign Policy: Iran, Afghanistan, China and Issues Shaping Your Worl

• Location:
  Faculty Dining Room
• Date:
  Monday, March 19, 2012
• Time:
  4:15 PM

Whither Europe? Lessons, Risks, and the Way Forward

Second in a semester-long series of lectures, "Whither Europe? Lessons, Risks, and the Way Forward" presents Elias Papaioannou, assistant professor of economics,...

• Location:
  Allison Dining Room, Taubman Building (5th floor), Harvard Kennedy School
• Date:
  Monday, March 19, 2012
• Time:
  4:30 PM

MEI Speaker Series: Compassionate Communalism: Welfare and Sectarianism in Lebanon

With Melani Cammett, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Middle East Studies Program at Brown University. Melani Cammett is Associate...

• Location:
  Bell Hall, Belfer Building, Fifth Floor, Harvard Kennedy School
• Date:
  Monday, March 19, 2012
• Time:
  5:00 PM

Regulatory Policy Program Seminar: Stressed Out--Macroprudential Principles for Stress Testing

Anil Kashyap, Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business will present this...

• Location:
  Nye A, 5th Floor, Taubman Building
• Date:
  Tuesday, March 20, 2012
• Time:
  11:45 AM

Jeanne Cummings: "The Influence and Role of Donors and Super Pacs in the 2012 Presidential Campaign."

Speaker Series with Jeanne Cummings, Government Team Deputy Editor, Bloomberg News, Washington, D.C....

• Location:
  Taubman 275
• Date:
  Tuesday, March 20, 2012
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Right to Water Study Group. Topic: 'The Ethics of Evapotranspiration'

Please join us for the next meeting of the Right to Water Study Group for a discussion of 'The Ethics of...

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room
• Date:
  Tuesday, March 20, 2012
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Writing Workshop: Write and Publish Book Reviews - presented by Greg Harris, HKS Writing Consultant

Writing Workshop: Write and Publish Book Reviews presented by Greg Harris, HKS Writing Consultant Get into print while developing yourself as a professional! ...

• Location:
  Littauer Building, Room 332
• Date:
  Tuesday, March 20, 2012
• Time:
  4:10 PM

AF/PAK: The Way Ahead, with COL Dave Brigham, Carlotta Gall, & Pir Zubair Shah

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, March 20, 2012
• Time:
  4:10 PM

JOINT STUDY GROUP: The Politics of Education AND Class Warfare

Special Topic: Who Can Impact Educational Access and Quality?...

• Location:
  L166
• Date:
  Tuesday, March 20, 2012
• Time:
  4:15 PM

"The Faith Debate: The Role of Religion in Politics"

A panel conversation with: Anna Greenberg, Senior Vice President, Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Richard Parker, Lecturer in Public Policy; Senior Fellow of the Shorenstein Center Charles...

• Location:
  JFK Jr. Forum
• Date:
  Tuesday, March 20, 2012
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Communications Workshop: "Public Policy Research Using Harvard Library Databases"

Public Policy Research WorkshopHKS Librarians will highlight essential electronic resources for finding public policy literature.  The workshop will focus on how to...

• Location:
  Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building, Lobby
• Date:
  Wednesday, March 21, 2012
• Time:
  10:10 AM

Hauser Center Nonprofits in China Seminar

• Location:
  Bell Hall, (5th floor), Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School of Governme
• Date:
  Wednesday, March 21, 2012
• Time:
  11:30 AM

Securitization: The Good, the Bad, and the Future

This seminar will be given by Mark Fagan, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. The process of transforming future cash-flows...

• Location:
  Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building
• Date:
  Wednesday, March 21, 2012
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Coping Strategies of Indonesian Humanitarian Volunteers: Personal, Organizational, Cultural, and Policy Dimensions

In this brownbag presentation, HKS Indonesia Research Fellow Nelden Djakababa will discuss her research on post-traumatic growth and psychological well being of...

• Location:
  124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106
• Date:
  Wednesday, March 21, 2012
• Time:
  12:00 PM

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

Please feel free to join us for our upcomming session in which Yael Marciano, 2012 fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International...

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room
• Date:
  Wednesday, March 21, 2012
• Time:
  4:00 PM

An Inside Job: Indonesia’s Path to Constitutional Democracy

After the fall of Suharto in 1998, Indonesia pursued an unusual course of democratization. It was insider-dominated and gradualist, and it involved...

• Location:
  124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200-North
• Date:
  Wednesday, March 21, 2012
• Time:
  4:10 PM

STUDY GROUP: Defining Your Path to Public Service: Public Service with Nonprofits that Fix Holes in the Safety Net

• Location:
  Faculty Dining Room
• Date:
  Wednesday, March 21, 2012
• Time:
  4:15 PM

STUDY GROUP: Why Study America? Led by IOP Fellow George Nethercutt

• Location:
  L166
• Date:
  Wednesday, March 21, 2012
• Time:
  4:15 PM

"Cinema Komunisto"

“How does a country choose the story to tell about itself?” is the central question addressed by the Serbian filmmaker Mila Turajlic...

• Location:
  Tsai Auditorium (S010), CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St.
• Date:
  Wednesday, March 21, 2012
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Geospatial Science and Technology: Integrating Science, Policy, and Societal Needs

This seminar will discuss the geospatial science, technology, and policy frameworks that reciprocally drive and constrain each other, the obstacles they create,...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library (L-369)
• Date:
  Thursday, March 22, 2012
• Time:
  10:00 AM

Trafficking & Modern Slavery Student Policy Group. Topic: 'The Public Health Paradigm'

Please join us for meeting 6 of the Student Policy Group on Trafficking & Modern Slavery. This session's topic will be...

• Location:
  RSVP for venue
• Date:
  Thursday, March 22, 2012
• Time:
  11:30 AM

Entrepreneurial Women? Exploring the Role of Gender in Short-Term and Long-Term Entrepreneurship

Lakshmi Balachandra, WAPPP Fellow; Visiting Assistant Professor, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Northeastern University Entrepreneurship has been shown to have profound public policy effects due to...

• Location:
  WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, T-102
• Date:
  Thursday, March 22, 2012
• Time:
  11:40 AM

City Week Panel: Strengthening Cities Through Experiential Learning

Cities have been called “our species’ greatest invention,” but they also can be places of poverty, decay, and corruption.  In this session,...

• Location:
  Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building
• Date:
  Thursday, March 22, 2012
• Time:
  11:45 AM

In Search of Lost Time: Can Temporality Provide Insight into the Conflict in the Middle East?

Speaker: Ehud Eiran, former International Security Program Associate and Research Fellow Coffee and tea provided. Link to seminar description: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/5737/ Sponsored by the International...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Thursday, March 22, 2012
• Time:
  12:15 PM

Hauser Center Brown Bag: Paying for Outcomes and Social Impact Bonds in Baltimore

Speaker: Christa Velasquez, Visiting Fellow, Initiative for Responsible Investment...

• Location:
  Weil Town Hall (BL1), Belfer Building Main Entrance (Lobby Level) Harvard K
• Date:
  Thursday, March 22, 2012
• Time:
  12:30 PM

Special Right to Water Study Group Event: Fieldtrip to Cambridge Water Department

As a special event on this, World Water Day 2012, the Right to Water Study Group is taking a fieldtrip to...

• Location:
  Depart from HKS
• Date:
  Thursday, March 22, 2012
• Time:
  12:30 PM

Briefing on the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit

Associate Professor Matthew Bunn will provide a briefing on the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit taking place in Seoul on March 26th and...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library (Littauer 369)
• Date:
  Thursday, March 22, 2012
• Time:
  2:00 PM

Writing Workshop: "Revision/Self-Editing" with Morgan McVicar, MC/MPA 2003, HKS Writing Consultant, Adjunct Professor in Jour

"Revision/Self-editing" To revise is to "see again." Revision is the most difficult and the most important part of the writing process. Ideally,...

• Location:
  Taubman Building, Room 275
• Date:
  Thursday, March 22, 2012
• Time:
  2:40 PM

Translating a New CEO's Leadership Vision into Action: The Case of Catholic Relief Services with Dr. Carolyn Y. Woo, Presiden

Translating a New CEO’s Leadership Vision into Action: The Case of Catholic Relief Services with Dr. Carolyn Y. Woo, President and CEO,...

• Location:
  Weil Town Hall, Belfer L-1, ground floor, Harvard Kennedy School
• Date:
  Thursday, March 22, 2012
• Time:
  3:30 PM

The Malcolm Wiener Lecture in International Political Economy, Delivered by Jean-Claude Trichet

A public address by former European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet. The event will be moderated by Lawrence Summers, President Emeritus of Harvard...

• Location:
  JFK Jr. Forum
• Date:
  Thursday, March 22, 2012
• Time:
  6:00 PM

CID Friday Speaker Series with Rubayat Khan

"The Transformative Potential of Predictive Modeling in Development" with Rubayat Khan, MPAID...

• Location:
  Perkins Room, 4th Floor Rubenstein, HKS
• Date:
  Friday, March 23, 2012
• Time:
  11:45 AM

Human Rights Student Film Series: The Frontline documentary 'The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan'

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

• Location:
  Fainsod Room (L-324)
• Date:
  Friday, March 23, 2012
• Time:
  2:00 PM