Events

As Ukraine’s military advances and Putin threatens to conduct nuclear strikes, President Biden said last week: “For the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, we have a direct threat to the use of nuclear weapons, if in fact things continue down the path they'd been going.”

Nina Khrushcheva, professor of international affairs at the New School and granddaughter of Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, David Ignatius, foreign affairs columnist at The Washington Post, and Graham Allison (AB '62 PhD '68), Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, will review lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis that illuminate the challenges the US now faces and can inform the choices President Biden is now considering.

EVENT CANCELLED

Please join the Institute of Politics, the Future of Diplomacy Project, and Harvard Kennedy School’s Ukraine Caucus in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum for a conversation with Dmytro Kuleba, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, moderated by Ambassador Paula Dobriansky (PhD '91), a Senior Fellow at the Future of Diplomacy Project. Seven months into Russia’s war of aggression, Ukraine faces multiple and ever-evolving diplomatic and security challenges to protect its territorial integrity. Minister Kuleba will discuss the conditions on the ground, the country’s current humanitarian and food security situation, the critical role of the U.S. and its European allies in supporting Ukraine’s resistance efforts, and the global implications of this conflict.

This event is co-sponsored by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, and the Harvard Kennedy School Ukraine Caucus.

Please register by 12:00 PM ET on Friday, September 23 if you would like the possibility of attending this event in-person. Registrants will be notified by 5:00 PM ET that day if a seat is available for them in the venue. If a seat is not available, registrants can stream the event live via our social media channels.

Please join the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship (PETR) for a JFK Jr Forum event on Brexit featuring Amanda Sloat, PETR Fellow, and Cathryn Cluver Ashbrook, PETR Executive Director. 

Join the Belfer Center's Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship in the John F. Kennedy Forum to hear about the current state of affairs between the U.S., Canada and Europe and about ways forward from Kurt Volker, Executive Director of the McCain Institute, Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference, Susan Glasser, Staff Writer at the New Yorker and Professor Nicholas Burns, Faculty Chair of the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship.

A Conversation with Pedro Morenés, Julianne Smith, David O’Sullivan, and Peter Wittig. Moderated by Nicholas Burns. Opening remarks by Douglas Elmendorf.

POSTPONED: Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Graham Allison discusses current events with 56th Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

A conversation about the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.