Events

Former Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd joins Professor Graham Allison and New York Times Beijing Bureau Chief and Shorenstein Fellow Jane Perlez for a conversation on the future of U.S.-China strategic competition and world order.

Join us for “Digital Currency Wars: A National Security Crisis Simulation,” a live simulation of a White House National Security Council meeting during a major national security crisis.

Watch recap here.

Join Anand Giridharadas author of Winners Take All, in conversation with Belfer Center Executive Director Aditi Kumar on the perils of philanthropy and policy in the hands of the global elite.

Robert S. McNamara Lecture on War and Peace

• Lecture title: TBD
• Presented by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
• Moderated by Zoe Marks
• Lecture (open to public) on Tuesday, October 15, 2019
• Location is JFK Jr. Forum, Littauer Center for Public Policy, 79 JFK Street, First Floor

S.T. Lee Lecture

• Lecture title: A Flawed Giant: Zhou Enlai and China’s Prolonged Rise
• Presented by Chen Jian
• Moderated by Fredrik Logevall
• Lecture (open to public) on Monday, October 7, 2019
• Location is JFK Jr. Forum, Littauer Center for Public Policy, 79 JFK Street, First Floor

Kara Swisher, Editor-at-Large of Recode, discusses the intersection of technology and public purpose with former Secretary of Defense and current Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Ash Carter.

IOP Resident Fellow, S’14 and Belfer Fellow Farah Pandith, Anti-Defamation League George Selim, Harvard Kennedy School’s Eric Rosenbach, and Juliette Kayyem '91 consider how to combat domestic and international extremism.

Join digital HKS and the Institute of Politics, in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, for a conversation on the effect of AI on labor policy and the future of work in the U.S. with confirmed panelists Jason Furman, Dean David Weil (Brandeis University), and Mary L. Gray (Microsoft Research), and moderator David Eaves. (event video available here)

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. 

Former UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon (MPP ‘85) and former Acting Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Susan Thornton, will discuss the negotiations for peace and security on the Korean Peninsula. This forum event will be moderated by Ambassador Nicholas Burns, Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations and Faculty Chair of the Future of Diplomacy Project.