Events Calendar

The Evolution of Pakistan's Nuclear Posture

Speaker: Pervez Hoodbhoy, Professor of Nuclear and High-energy Physics, Quaid-e-Azam University Coffee & tea provided Link to seminar description: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6058/ Sponsored by Project on...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Monday, April 22, 2013
• Time:
  10:00 AM

Business and Vision in Today’s World: A leadership conversation with Ofra Strauss

RSVP required.Ofra Strauss is one of Israel’s business leaders, serving as Chairperson of the Board of Strauss Group.  Strauss Group, Israel’s second-largest...

• Location:
  Darman Room, Center for Public Leadership, Taubman Buidling, 1st Floor
• Date:
  Monday, April 22, 2013
• Time:
  10:40 AM

Evaluating Licensing Agreements for Technology Diffusion at the U.S. National Labs

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

• Location:
  Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS
• Date:
  Monday, April 22, 2013
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Bringing Human Services Technology into the 21st Century

The Ash Center at the Harvard Kennedy School, the American Public Human Services Association (APHSA), the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and Case...

• Location:
  Online Webinar
• Date:
  Monday, April 22, 2013
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Barbara Jordan Award for Women's Leadership

This award honors one graduating student at Harvard Kennedy School for her/his commitment to building community and serving as a role model...

• Location:
• Date:
  Monday, April 22, 2013
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Jane Mansbridge Research Award

Faculty advisors are encouraged to nominate those outstanding research papers (PAE, SYPA, etc.) whose analysis of an organization or topic is focused...

• Location:
  Nominations submitted by email to megan_farwell@hks.harvard.edu
• Date:
  Monday, April 22, 2013
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Holly Taylor Sargent Prize for Women's Advancement

This prize will be awarded to a member of the Harvard Kennedy School community (faculty, staff or student) who has done...

• Location:
  Nominations submitted by email to megan_farwell@hks.harvard.edu
• Date:
  Monday, April 22, 2013
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Vocabularies of Method: Pragmatism and the History of Science

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

• Location:
  Pierce 100F, 29 Oxford Street
• Date:
  Monday, April 22, 2013
• Time:
  12:15 PM

CID Speaker Seminar Featuring: Sabina Alkire

Sabina Alkire directs the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), a research centre within the Department of International Development, University of...

• Location:
  CID Perkins Room, Rubenstein 415, HKS
• Date:
  Monday, April 22, 2013
• Time:
  2:00 PM

Entrepreneurial Leadership: Naturally Powered (ZICO-pure coconut water samples will be provided!)

Mark Rampolla is the Founder and CEO of ZICO Beverages, the pioneer of the explosive coconut water category.  Launched in 2004, ZICO...

• Location:
  Darman Seminar Room, Center for Public Leadership, 1st Floor, Taubman Build
• Date:
  Monday, April 22, 2013
• Time:
  3:00 PM

The Future of the GOP

Closing Arguments  What to watch for in the coming months……..*******Final Study Group Session for Spring 2013*******...

• Location:
  Littauer 166
• Date:
  Monday, April 22, 2013
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Iran, Mossadegh and the 1953 Coup

Christopher de Bellaigue has worked as a journalist in South Asia and the Middle East, writing for the Economist and the...

• Location:
  NYE-B, Fifth Floor, Taubman Building
• Date:
  Monday, April 22, 2013
• Time:
  4:15 PM

Harvard Kennedy School visits Atlanta

Alexandra Martinez, Assistant Dean for Student Diversity and Inclusion will host a reception in recognition of the National Forum for Black Public...

• Location:
  Hyatt Regency, Atlanta
• Date:
  Monday, April 22, 2013
• Time:
  4:30 PM

Equitable Food Initiative: Emerging Lessons From Collaboration on Food Justice

This session of the INGOs study group will look at an interesting example of multi-stakeholder collaboration to promote food justice. The Equitable...

• Location:
  Belfer L4
• Date:
  Monday, April 22, 2013
• Time:
  4:30 PM

What Are Foundations For?

Are foundations “total scandals” in the words of Judge Richard Posner? Foundations are rarely held under normal electoral or market accountability standards,...

• Location:
  Land Hall, HKS
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 23, 2013
• Time:
  11:30 AM

Note NEW TIME: Fracking China: Energy Security

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 23, 2013
• Time:
  3:30 PM

Note NEW TIME: Fracking China: Energy Security

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 23, 2013
• Time:
  3:30 PM

Turning the Corner: Strategic and Budgetary Choices for U.S. Defense

Turning the Corner: Strategic and Budgetary Choices for U.S. Defense A public address byAshton B. Carter United States Deputy Secretary of Defense Moderated byGraham...

• Location:
  John F. Kennedy Jr Forum
• Date:
  Tuesday, April 23, 2013
• Time:
  6:00 PM

The Future of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime

Speaker: Wilfred Wan, research fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program Coffee & tea provided Link to seminar description: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6059/ Sponsored by Project...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 24, 2013
• Time:
  10:00 AM

OBAMA'S DILEMMA: How the Media Influence Public Debate on the Keystone XL Pipeline Decision

The controversy over the United States approval of the Keystone XL pipeline has become a long-running drama, with media coverage having a...

• Location:
  Nye A, Fifth Floor Taubman Building
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 24, 2013
• Time:
  4:00 PM

The Chevron Case in Ecuador: Maria Aguinda's Fight to Bring a Major Corporation to Justice

The Carr Center's Latin America Program is proud to sponsor this presentation by Andres Snaider and Chris Jochnick: "The Chevron Case in Ecuador:...

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room (R-219)
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 24, 2013
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy

Kelsey Jack, Tufts University. “Contracting for Environmental Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa.”...

• Location:
  Harvard Kennedy School Room Littauer-382
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 24, 2013
• Time:
  4:10 PM

Military Film Series: 12 O'Clock high

Belfer Center’s Defense and Intelligence Projects presents a showing of the Academy Award winning film, 12 O’Clock High, in Trustman Lecture Hall,...

• Location:
  L150 Trustman Hall, Harvard Kennedy School
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 24, 2013
• Time:
  4:30 PM

Is a New Progressive Movement Upon Us?: Lessons from a Century of Social Justice Leadership, a lecture by author Peter Dreier

Please join us for an insightful and thought-provoking lecture at which Peter Dreier, distinguished educator, activist and author, will explain why the...

• Location:
  Malkin Penthouse
• Date:
  Wednesday, April 24, 2013
• Time:
  6:30 PM

Energy and the Arab Awakening

A panel discussion with distinguished experts from Saudi Arabia on the Kingdom's policies in the Middle East, as seen through the prisms...

• Location:
  Allison Dining Room
• Date:
  Thursday, April 25, 2013
• Time:
  10:00 AM

Female Managers and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Private Sector Firms

Matt Huffman, Associate Professor of Sociology; Director, Demographic and Social Analysis (DASA) Program, University of California, Irvine Although a great deal of empirical...

• Location:
  WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman Building, Room 102
• Date:
  Thursday, April 25, 2013
• Time:
  11:40 AM

A Conversation with David Vitale

Please join the Program on Education Policy & Governance for a conversation with David Vitale, the board chair of Chicago public schools....

• Location:
  Bell Hall, Belfer Center
• Date:
  Thursday, April 25, 2013
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Beyond Harvard: Public Policy Research as HKS Alumni

Join us to explore the various types of free information sources available for your research. Academic Search Alumni Edition, a database provided...

• Location:
  Instruction Room
• Date:
  Thursday, April 25, 2013
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Better Than The Truth: Extra-factual Sources of Threat Conception and Proliferation

Speaker: Kelly M. Greenhill, research fellow, International Security Program Coffee & tea provided Link to seminar description: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6056/ Sponsored by the International Security Program...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Thursday, April 25, 2013
• Time:
  12:15 PM

The Art of the Ask: Surefire Strategies for Effective Fundraising, Public Speaking Workshop with Ian Palmquist, MC/MPA 2012

Donations from individuals are the lifeblood of the nonprofit world.  How do you get donors to open their wallets? It's all about...

• Location:
  Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building, Lobby
• Date:
  Thursday, April 25, 2013
• Time:
  1:10 PM

Global Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Defense Programs—National and Global Efforts and Challenges

Speaker: Andrew C. Weber, Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, & Biological Defense Programs Coffee & tea provided Link to seminar description: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/6068/ Sponsored...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Thursday, April 25, 2013
• Time:
  2:30 PM

Navigating a Multispecies World: A Graduate Conference on the Species Turn

Thursday, April 25, 2013 2.45-7.30PM Room 1550, William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street Friday, April 26, 2013 8.45-5.30PM Bell Hall, 5th floor,...

• Location:
  Day 1: William James Hall, 1550, Day 2: Bell Hall, Belfer Building
• Date:
  Thursday, April 25, 2013
• Time:
  2:45 PM

What Should Foreign Policy Makers Learn (or not) From History?

The Harvard Seminar on History and Policy invites you to our April 25 seminar, featuring: -Michael Ignatieff, Professor of Practice, Harvard Kennedy...

• Location:
  Belfer Building, Bell Hall (B-500)
• Date:
  Thursday, April 25, 2013
• Time:
  4:10 PM

Peking Tom Perspectives: Seminar in Honor of Richard Baum

As a leading scholar on China public policy and a professor of public policy at UCLA, Richard Baum was author of...

• Location:
  Land Hall, 4th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS
• Date:
  Thursday, April 25, 2013
• Time:
  4:10 PM

The New Digital Age: Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman Google Inc.,

With a welcome by David Ellwood, Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy, Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School Please RSVP. Thank...

• Location:
  Wiener Auditorium, Ground Floor, Taubman Building
• Date:
  Thursday, April 25, 2013
• Time:
  4:10 PM

Designing International NGO Governance. Frontline with Faculty Series.

Alnoor Ebrahim will speak on the challenges of designing the governance structures of international NGOs engaged in policy advocacy. He will discuss...

• Location:
  Belfer, Weil Town Hall, Lobby Level, Harvard Kennedy School
• Date:
  Thursday, April 25, 2013
• Time:
  4:15 PM

Community Event Featuring: José Antonio Ocampo

"The Economic Development of Latin America Since Independence"" José Antonio Ocampo, Professor, SIPA, Columbia University José Antonio Ocampo is Professor, Director of...

• Location:
  m (R-415), 4th Floor Rubenstein, HKS
• Date:
  Thursday, April 25, 2013
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Implementing PerformanceStat: Lessons From the Field

Featuring Mayor Joseph Curtatone of Somerville; John Mattingly, former commissioner of the New York City Administration for Children’s Services; and Beth Blauer,...

• Location:
  Weil Town Hall
• Date:
  Thursday, April 25, 2013
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Policy Doctrine After the Arab Awakening

A public address by His Royal Highness Prince Turki Al Faisal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Prince Turki was Director General of...

• Location:
  Wiener Auditorium, Taubman Building,
• Date:
  Thursday, April 25, 2013
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Jim Tull: "Humanitarian Negotiations for Frontline UN Staff"

On a day-to-day basis front line humanitarian workers at the United Nations do a job that is always difficult, and sometimes...

• Location:
  Rubinstein 20, ground floor
• Date:
  Friday, April 26, 2013
• Time:
  11:40 AM

CID Speaker Series Featuring: Guy Stuart

• Location:
  Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor Rubenstein, HKS
• Date:
  Friday, April 26, 2013
• Time:
  11:45 AM

Harvard Health Equity and Leadership (HEAL) Conference

A collaboration between the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS). Motivated by...

• Location:
  Harvard School of Public Health, Kresge Building
• Date:
  Saturday, April 27, 2013
• Time:
  12:00 PM