Events

The Boston Tech Hub Faculty Working Group, hosted by former Secretary of Defense and Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Director Ash Carter and Harvard SEAS Dean Frank Doyle, will convene its third and final session of the spring semester on the topic of increasing STEM expertise in the federal government. The session will examine the problem with insufficient scientific and technological expertise in the American federal legislative and executive branches, the types of expertise each body needs to be effective, and potential solutions to mitigate the problem.

Speaker: Lt. Col. William C. Smith, Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom

How do leaders motivate Airmen to give their best to perform this unsung duty, day after day, for years at a time? A recent study found clarity of purpose to be the basis of verifiable mission success, purposeful leadership, and esprit de corps, which suggests that clearly communicating the higher purpose of their work to Airmen would help them find meaning in their tasks. A sense that their work is meaningful, the result of internalizing a higher purpose, underpins the safety and security cultures critical to a successful nuclear enterprise. The speaker will build on their findings by introducing five leadership concepts, identifying the particular importance each plays in providing a credible nuclear deterrent, and offering an effective method for implementation. These principles have broad application to organizational leadership as a whole, and if collectively and effectively implemented, would provide the bedrock for safe, secure, and effective nuclear operations.

Everyone is welcome to join us online via Zoom! Please register in advance for this seminar:
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvdO-sqT4oH9VljkvSrgNBBGATIdqGjGBY

A webinar with Christiana Parreira, Pre-doctoral Research Fellow at the Middle East Initiative and PhD candidate in Political Science at Stanford University.

Moderated by MEI Faculty Chair, Professor Tarek Masoud.

This seminar will be conducted via Zoom Webinar. Please register in advance:

https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcudO2urjwiHtwW4WkoBolmHZxdp7kd6Yqk 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Please join the Future of Diplomacy Project for a conversation with our two Fisher Family Fellows from 2019-2020: Tzipi Livni, former Foreign Minister of Israel and former Chief Negotiator for Israel, and Dr. Saeb Erakat, Chief Palestinian Negotiator and Head of the Negotiations Affairs Department. The two former chief negotiators from both the Israeli and Palestinian sides will discuss their past experience together at the negotiation table and will also address challenges and opportunities for a future peace settlement. This seminar will moderated by Faculty Chair, Nicholas Burns. It is open to Harvard faculty, fellows, students, and staff only and strictly off the record. 

PLEASE NOTE: This seminar will be conducted via Zoom. Please register in advance for this meeting:

 https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYocemurjwjGtIHxgPPx25kfPdjy4e_rcBg

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Please join the Future of Diplomacy Project for a discussion about the role that foreign policy will play in the upcoming U.S. presidential election in November 2020 with Senior Fellow, Jake Sullivan, former national security adviser to Vice President Joe Biden and Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State. This seminar will be moderated by Professor Nicholas Burns.

PLEASE NOTE: This seminar will be conducted via Zoom. Please register in advance for this meeting:

https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJModOqorTMrG91m4FS__fhvjFRPSvlS1ID0

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The Intelligence Project will host a webinar with Belfer Center Senior Fellows Rolf Mowatt-Larssen and David Ignatius, on Wednesday May 20th from 11:15am-12:30pm. 

This session will be off-the-record. Priority registration will be given to Harvard students, staff, faculty, fellows, and affiliates. Please register below for access to the zoom link.

A Project on Managing the Atom (MTA) seminar with Rebecca Hersman, Director of the Project on Nuclear Issues and senior advisor for the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Please join the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, in an online conversation at Harvard University about his first 100 days in office and the current political crisis in Kosovo. This event will be moderated by Nicholas Burns, Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations and Faculty Chair of the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School. It is co-sponsored by the Harvard College Albanian Students Association, the Future of Diplomacy Project, and the Harvard Political Union.

PLEASE NOTE: This webinar will be conducted via Zoom. Please register in advance for this meeting here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. This is open to Harvard affiliates or by invitation only.

Brothers Daniel and Patrick Lazour perform songs from their musical, We Live in Cairo, which premiered at the American Repertory Theater last May, as well as their other original music.

This event will be conducted via Zoom Webinar. Please register in advance:

https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_q1pakqgit_KC-RVLFSx_Iw

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Speaker: Stephen Herzog, Stanton Nuclear Security Predoctoral Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom

Arms control has languished as a field of academic inquiry, despite a renaissance in nuclear security studies and significant advances in understanding proliferation. Few studies have attempted to emulate past academic shaping of arms control agreements and outcomes, with particularly limited emphasis on multilateral efforts. This is a problematic situation as the world looks beyond bilateral U.S.–Russian arms control toward the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty (FMCT), Middle East Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (MENWFZ), and even the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). The speaker attempts to fill this gap by offering a theory of state entry into multilateral nuclear arms control agreements.

Everyone is welcome to join us online via Zoom! Please register in advance for this seminar:
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtc-mrqz8jH9coGNTF7bloNM75UeKB3bJW