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Redrawing the Lines: Accountability and Effectiveness in Increasingly Diverse Police Departments Wednesday, November 18 at 5:30 p.m.
In the past year, officials examining problems in such locales as Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and Maywood, California have all contended that their work was greatly hindered by a police "code of silence" in which officers refused to speak candidly about the misdeeds of their colleagues. How common is this problem and, more importantly, how can it be addressed in ways that do not undermine police officers' ability to do their job in effective and appropriate ways? Sustainable Mega-Cities: Thursday, November 12, 4:00 p.m. Marcelo Ebrard, Mayor of Mexico City Marcelo Ebrard, who has served as head of the government for Mexico's Federal District since 2006, will discuss "Plan Verde" which seeks to transform the bustling capital city infamous for its traffic and smog into a healthy, more livable city via ambitious measures in seven key areas" land conservation, public space, water, mobility, air, waste and climate change, and energy. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Kennedy School's Environment and Natural Resources Program, the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, the Harvard University Center for the Environment and Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
Serving Emotionally Disturbed Youth: Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 5:30 p.m. Bruce Kamradt, Administrator, Milwaukee Children’s Mental Health Services/Wraparound Milwaukee Commentary by Julie Wilson, Harry Kahn Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Director, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Wraparound Milwaukee, which won the 2009 Annie E. Casey Innovations Award in Children and Family System Reform, is the first government-operated managed care service designed to treat emotionally disturbed youth in the home setting. The program, which serves an annual 1,300 youth with diagnosable mental health disorders such as depression, attention deficit disorder, or learning impairments that prevent normal functioning in home, school, or outside community settings attempts to reduce costly and arguably ineffective residential care options by offering a host of individualized treatments that allow youth to stay with their families. Care options and services include tutoring and after school programs, group care, recreation and camp, arts programs, and substance abuse treatment. In addition, the program encourages family members to play a more active role in the treatment process as members of the care planning team. Cosponsored by the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance, the Wiener Center for Social Policy, the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and Harvard’s Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management. The Taubman Center and its Affiliate Programs sponsor periodic conferences on a variety of subjects. Most of these conferences are open to the public; some are free; others have a registration fee. New Technologies and Interdisciplinary Research on Religion Conference co-sponsored by Political Economy of Religion Program, Taubman Center, Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the Center for Geographic Analysis, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard New technologies are permitting researchers from various disciplines to work together to access in various operational formats large quantities of data. For example, technologies such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software are innovative ways of collecting and merging together large amounts of data. Google Map and Google Earth are popular tools for spatial visualization that can interface with GIS. Text-mining, a technological tool relevant to the study of religion, draws on information retrieval and data mining creating patterns from large quantities of texts and making them available for scholarly analysis. The purpose of the two-day conference is to bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplines who are interested in applying these and other new technologies to their research on religion. Conference discussion will focus on the advantages and challenges of applying new technologies to research on religion. Harvard experts as well as scholars from other institutions will show-case their current work in various disciplines using new technologies and forms of analysis. Presentations will focus on combining the content of research on religion with database design, geo-referencing, social network analysis, text-mining, remote-sensing, and spatial-temporal analysis. Spatial–temporal analysis, text-mining, and social network analysis will be discussed as a means of extending and deepening research on religion. Tutorials will be held each day for small group, hands-on learning. A poster session will display a collection of relevant research activities related to the study of religion. The interdisciplinary nature of the conference presentations and discussion is critical to exploring promising new research pathways. Scholars working in different fields tend to be isolated from scholars working in other areas. This conference seeks to create a network of scholars working in different disciplines such as sociology, economics, history, political science, and regional studies to become aware of research already being done and define horizons for future research. What is unique about the new technologies is that they permit cross-disciplinary dialogue and collaboration. A main function of the conference will be to foster dialogue among scholars from various disciplines who work on religion and to initiate network-building and collaboration among scholars. Organizers of the Conference Rachel M. McCleary is Senior Research Fellow, Taubman Center, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and Research Fellow of the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago, a Master of Theological Studies from Emory University, and B.A. (double major) from Indiana University. McCleary conducts research on the political economy of religion. Her research focuses on cross-country studies on religion, religious beliefs and aspects of economic development. McCleary is currently editor of the Oxford University Press Handbook of the Economics of Religion (forthcoming 2010). Her books include Global Compassion: Private Voluntary Agencies and U.S. Foreign Policy since 1939 (Oxford University Press 2009), Dictating Democracy: Guatemala and the of End Violent Revolution (University Press of Florida, 1999–English; Artemis-Edinter 1999–Spanish), and Seeking Justice: Ethics and International Affairs (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992). Peter K. Bol is the Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. He led Harvard’s university-wide effort to establish support for geospatial analysis in teaching and research; in 2005 he was named the first director of the Center for Geographic Analysis. He also directs the China Historical Geographic Information Systems project, a collaboration between Harvard and Fudan University in Shanghai to create a GIS for 2000 years of Chinese history, and the China Biographical Database project, a collaboration between Harvard, Academia Sinica, and Peking University. He is the author of “This Culture of Ours” – Intellectual Transitions in T’ang and Sung China (1982) and Neo-Confucianism in History (2008) and various studies of China’s sociocultural history. Contact Information: Outside presenters: Harvard presenters: The conference will be open to anyone who wishes to attend. Past Conferences Confronting Crime and Violence in Latin America: Crafting a Public Policy Agenda Several Taubman Center faculty affiliates teach in the Kennedy School's executive education programs, which are intensive, multi-day programs. Admission is by application and the programs charge tuition, which covers housing, meals, and all materials. In limited instances the Kennedy School provides fellowships for qualified candidates who are unable to meet program costs through their organizational or personal resources. |
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