Events Calendar

HKS Open House

The open house is open to prospectives who wish to learn more about degree programs offered at HKS. The schedule...

• Location:
  Cambridge, MA
• Date:
  Monday, November 3, 2008
• Time:
  9:00 AM

Reinventing Development Cooperation: Japan's New "Science and Technology Diplomacy" Initiative

• Location:
  Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
• Date:
  Monday, November 3, 2008
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Private Government: When is a Market Solution Not a Market Solution?

Joint research with Leah Brooks, Department of Economics, University of Toronto This...

• Location:
  CPL Library
• Date:
  Monday, November 3, 2008
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Reinventing Development Cooperation: Japan's New "Science and Technology Diplomacy" Initiative

• Location:
  Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
• Date:
  Monday, November 3, 2008
• Time:
  12:00 PM

CANCELLED: Lunch Discussion with Carol Dumaine

• Location:
  124 Mount Auburn St., Suite 160
• Date:
  Monday, November 3, 2008
• Time:
  12:15 PM

Luncheon Discussion with DOE's New Deputy Director for Energy and Environmental Security, Office of Intelligence and Counteri

• Location:
  124 Mount Auburn St., Suite 160
• Date:
  Monday, November 3, 2008
• Time:
  12:15 PM

CANCELLED: LUNCH Discussion with Carol Dumaine

• Location:
  124 Mount Auburn St., Suite 160
• Date:
  Monday, November 3, 2008
• Time:
  12:15 PM

STUDY GROUP: Led by IOP Fellow Nicco Mele and Mike Krempasky, conservative blogger, founder of RedState.com, Director of the

Nov. 3 – New Media & the Conservative Movement Guest: Mike Krempasky, conservative blogger,...

• Location:
  L-166
• Date:
  Monday, November 3, 2008
• Time:
  4:00 PM

STUDY GROUP: Led by IOP Fellow Mary Margaret Graham with Stephen Cambone, former Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence a

November 3 The...

• Location:
  L-FDR (faculty dining room)
• Date:
  Monday, November 3, 2008
• Time:
  4:00 PM

The Consequences of Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library; Littauer 369
• Date:
  Tuesday, November 4, 2008
• Time:
  9:30 AM

The End of the Trail: What We Know

Maralee Schwartz is the Visiting Edward R. Murrow Lecturer on the Practice of the Press and Public...

• Location:
  Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275
• Date:
  Tuesday, November 4, 2008
• Time:
  12:00 PM

STUDY GROUP: Led by IOP Fellow Mary Margaret Graham and Thomas Twetten, former Deputy Director of Operations at the CIA

November 4 Covert Action – a Policy Tool with Thomas Twetten, former Deputy Director of Operations at the...

• Location:
  L-FDR (faculty dining room)
• Date:
  Tuesday, November 4, 2008
• Time:
  4:00 PM

STUDY GROUP: Led by IOP Fellow Alex Castellanos

ELECTION DAY!...

• Location:
  L-166
• Date:
  Tuesday, November 4, 2008
• Time:
  4:00 PM

IOP Election Night Party In The Forum!

***LOTTERY FOR TICKETS CLOSED*** Winners will be notified on the evening of Friday, October 31....

• Location:
  John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
• Date:
  Tuesday, November 4, 2008
• Time:
  7:00 PM

A Million Home Foreclosures: How Could it Happen? What Should be Done?

A Million Home Foreclosures:  ...

• Location:
  Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
• Date:
  Wednesday, November 5, 2008
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Why Are There So Few Nurses in Egypt? An Economic Analysis

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Wednesday, November 5, 2008
• Time:
  12:15 PM

Study Group: Led by IOP Fellow Jennifer Donahue

The day after the Election - what happened? Why? The implications of our new President-elect...

• Location:
  L-FDR (faculty dining room)
• Date:
  Wednesday, November 5, 2008
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Study Group: Led by IOP Fellow Maleeha Lodhi and General Ehsan ul Haq , former Director General, Inter Services Intelligence

The prolonged conflict in Afghanistan has increasingly spilled over and spread across Pakistan’s border regions mostly inhabited by Pashtuns who straddle the...

• Location:
  L-166
• Date:
  Wednesday, November 5, 2008
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Harvard University information session at Howard University

Harvard's graduate schools, including Harvard Kennedy School, are hosting an information session at Howard University. Attendees will be able to learn about graduate...

• Location:
  Howard University
• Date:
  Wednesday, November 5, 2008
• Time:
  5:00 PM

China Salon - China's Innovation Strategy

Speaker: DUAN Peijun, China's Central Party School—Dean of teaching-research section of strategy study, Executive director of Research Center for Social Development and Deputy...

• Location:
  L130, Littauer Building, 79 JFK St
• Date:
  Wednesday, November 5, 2008
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Harvard Toastmasters Club

The Harvard Toastmasters Club is a group of students from throughout Harvard University who meet weekly to improve their public speaking and...

• Location:
  Littauer Building, Room 332
• Date:
  Wednesday, November 5, 2008
• Time:
  6:45 PM

An Overview of the SEC's Examination Program and its Priorities for Fiscal Year 2009

An Overview of the SEC's Examination Program and its Priorities for...

• Location:
  Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
• Date:
  Thursday, November 6, 2008
• Time:
  12:00 PM

The Security Implications of Geo-Strategic Interaction of Science and Technology Activities in East Asia

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369
• Date:
  Thursday, November 6, 2008
• Time:
  12:15 PM

The Security Implications of Geo-Strategic Interaction of Science and Technology Activities in East Asia

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Thursday, November 6, 2008
• Time:
  12:15 PM

"Was Weber Right After All? Economic Effects of the Protestant Reformation in the German Lands."

• Location:
  Littauer Center (North Yard) Room M-16
• Date:
  Thursday, November 6, 2008
• Time:
  12:30 PM

Challenges Surrounding Public Health: a public address by the European Commissioner for Health

• Location:
  Lower Level Conference Room, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland St
• Date:
  Thursday, November 6, 2008
• Time:
  2:15 PM

Study Group: Led by IOP Fellow Tom Vilsack and Greg Abel, president of MidAmerican Energy Holding Company

WEEK SIX – NOVEMBER 6, 2008: ENERGY POLICY    After the election attention will turn to what policies the next administration ought...

• Location:
  L-166
• Date:
  Thursday, November 6, 2008
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Energy & Environment PIC Student Presentation - Electric Vehicles

Refreshments funded by KSSG...

• Location:
  L332
• Date:
  Thursday, November 6, 2008
• Time:
  6:00 PM

CID Friday Graduate Student Luncheon Seminar Series

Join CID's weekly Friday Graduate Student Luncheon Seminar with Willy Foote, Founder and President of Root Capital (www.rootcapital.org), a non-profit social investment...

• Location:
  Perkins Room, 4th Flr Rubenstein Bldg, CID
• Date:
  Friday, November 7, 2008
• Time:
  11:45 AM

Can Cities Shrink to Greatness? Sustainable Design and (Un)Development in Cities

In this time of economic calamity and widespread job contraction, local governments are being squeezed by lower tax revenues and...

• Location:
  Taubman 275
• Date:
  Monday, November 10, 2008
• Time:
  12:00 PM

HKS to attend APSIA Tokyo graduate school fair

Harvard Kennedy School will attend the APSIA graduate school fair in Tokyo, Japan. The fair is free and open to the...

• Location:
  Tokyo, Japan
• Date:
  Monday, November 10, 2008
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Election 2008: The campaign, the transition and the Obama Administration

A Special Forum Election 2008: The Campaign, The...

• Location:
  JFK, Jr. Forum
• Date:
  Monday, November 10, 2008
• Time:
  6:00 PM

HKS to visit Capetown, South Africa

Alexandra Martinez, assistant dean and director of admissions, is hosting a reception in the America's Cup room at the Commodore Hotel, located...

• Location:
  Capetown, South Africa
• Date:
  Tuesday, November 11, 2008
• Time:
  6:00 PM

HKS Green Team Meeting

• Location:
  Taubman Building, Room 275
• Date:
  Wednesday, November 12, 2008
• Time:
  10:00 AM

Election 2008 Recap

Gloria Borger joined CNN as a senior political analyst in September 2007. She appears frequently on the daily political program The Situation...

• Location:
  Kalb Seminar Room, Taubman 275
• Date:
  Wednesday, November 12, 2008
• Time:
  11:00 AM

Foreign Policy Challenges for the New American President

• Location:
  Taubman 275 / KALB
• Date:
  Wednesday, November 12, 2008
• Time:
  12:00 PM

New Leaders in Philanthropy Seminar Series

• Location:
  Bell Hall, Belfer 5th Floor
• Date:
  Wednesday, November 12, 2008
• Time:
  12:00 PM

60th Anniversary of UDHR Speaker Series: Article 9 - Fatima Tlisova

The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy will celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) with a...

• Location:
  Carr Center Conference Room, Rubenstein 219
• Date:
  Wednesday, November 12, 2008
• Time:
  12:00 PM

NYPD Intelligence Briefing

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Wednesday, November 12, 2008
• Time:
  3:00 PM

Special Study Group: Led by IOP Fellow Nicco Mele and Cyrus Krohn, Director, RNC E-Campaign

Guest: Cyrus Krohn, former publisher of Slate Magazine and RNC eCampaign Director For the final two guests of the study group, we...

• Location:
  L-166
• Date:
  Wednesday, November 12, 2008
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Study Group: Led by IOP Fellow Maleeha Lodhi and Ambassador Munir Akram, former Pakistan Permanent Representative to the UN.

Pakistan and Afghanistan: Uneasy neighbours and the imperative of cooperation The Pakistan-Afghanistan relationship, rooted...

• Location:
  L-166
• Date:
  Wednesday, November 12, 2008
• Time:
  4:00 PM

Iran, the UAE and the Financial War on Terror

• Location:
  Fainsod Room, Littauer 324
• Date:
  Wednesday, November 12, 2008
• Time:
  4:30 PM

Harvard Kennedy School Info Session in New York City

Harvard Kennedy School is hosting an information session at the Hilton Times Square, located at 234 W. 42nd Street. All prospective students...

• Location:
  New York, NY
• Date:
  Wednesday, November 12, 2008
• Time:
  5:00 PM

Risk Society's Cosmopolitan Moment

• Location:
  Tsai Auditorium (Room S-010)
• Date:
  Wednesday, November 12, 2008
• Time:
  5:00 PM

HKS to attend APSIA Seoul graduate school fair

Harvard Kennedy School will attend the APSIA graduate school fair in Seoul, Korea. The fair is free and open to the...

• Location:
  Seoul, Korea
• Date:
  Wednesday, November 12, 2008
• Time:
  6:00 PM

Film: Persepolis

• Location:
  Wiener Auditorium, Taubman building, Ground Floor, Harvard Kennedy School
• Date:
  Wednesday, November 12, 2008
• Time:
  6:00 PM

HKS to visit Johannesburg, South Africa

Alexandra Martinez, assistant dean and director of admissions, will host a reception in the Koi room at the Hyatt Regency Hotel/Rosebank, located...

• Location:
  Johannesburg, South Africa
• Date:
  Wednesday, November 12, 2008
• Time:
  6:30 PM

Energy & Environment PIC Student Presentation - George Anjaparidze MPP 2009

Refreshments funded by KSSG...

• Location:
  L-382
• Date:
  Wednesday, November 12, 2008
• Time:
  6:30 PM

Harvard Toastmasters Club

The Harvard Toastmasters Club is a group of students from throughout Harvard University who meet weekly to improve their public speaking and...

• Location:
  Littauer Building, Room 332
• Date:
  Wednesday, November 12, 2008
• Time:
  6:45 PM

Evolution of the Gender Wage Gap in Ukraine: Do Minimum Wages Matter?

Ina Ganguli, Public Policy PhD candidate, Harvard Kennedy School; Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Center for International Development As Ukraine moved from a socialist...

• Location:
  Taubman 401
• Date:
  Thursday, November 13, 2008
• Time:
  11:40 AM

Shock Jocks - Hate Speech and Talk Radio

Rory O'Connor is an author, blogger, journalist and filmmaker. He is co-founder and president of the...

• Location:
  Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor, Taubman Building
• Date:
  Thursday, November 13, 2008
• Time:
  12:00 PM

The Character of Harms: Operational Challenges in Control - Malcolm Sparrow

The Character of Harms:  ...

• Location:
  Bell Hall, 5th Floor Belfer Building
• Date:
  Thursday, November 13, 2008
• Time:
  12:00 PM

Domestic-Level Rivalries, Territorial Disputes, and Civil War

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369
• Date:
  Thursday, November 13, 2008
• Time:
  12:15 PM

Domestic-Level Rivalries, Territorial Disputes, and Civil War

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Thursday, November 13, 2008
• Time:
  12:15 PM

Back to the Future: EPA Revisited

Belfer Center Directors' Seminar on "Back to the Future: EPA Revisited" with Mary Gade, Gade Environmental Group Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008 Time: 3:00-...

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library L369
• Date:
  Thursday, November 13, 2008
• Time:
  3:00 PM

Back to the Future: EPA Revisited

• Location:
  Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
• Date:
  Thursday, November 13, 2008
• Time:
  3:00 PM

Spheres of Influence: Women in Post-War Bosnia

• Location:
  Guido Goldman Room
• Date:
  Thursday, November 13, 2008
• Time:
  4:15 PM

"The Trial of Saddam Hussein"

Film: "The Trial of Saddam Hussein"Razzaq al-Saiedi; MC/MPA '09, HKS Miranda Sissons; Deputy Director of Middle East program, International Center for Transitional Justice Thursday, November 135:00pm Film,...

• Location:
  Taubman Nye BC
• Date:
  Thursday, November 13, 2008
• Time:
  5:00 PM

Summer Internship Fund Auction

The Summer Internship Fund is a student and staff partnersip careated to give Harvard Kennedy School Students the opportunity to gain experience...

• Location:
  John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
• Date:
  Thursday, November 13, 2008
• Time:
  5:00 PM

CID Friday Graduate Student Luncheon Seminar Series

Join CID's weekly Friday Graduate Student Luncheon Seminar with Dan Erikson, Director of Caribbean Programs and Senior Associate, US Programs at the...

• Location:
  Perkins Room, 4th Flr Rubenstein Bldg, CID
• Date:
  Friday, November 14, 2008
• Time:
  11:45 AM