Events

What if racism, sexism, and ableism aren't just glitches in mostly functional machinery—what if they're coded into our technological systems?

Please join the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program for an AI Cyber Lunch Seminar featuring Meredith Broussard, Associate Professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University. In a talk entitled "Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech," Broussard will explore why neutrality in tech is a myth and how algorithms can be held accountable.

Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.

Registration: In-person attendance is limited to current Harvard ID holders. No RSVP is required. Room capacity is limited and seating will be on a first come, first served basis.

Members of the public are welcome to attend virtually via Zoom. Virtual attendees should register using the button below; upon registering, attendees will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link. 

Recording: Please be advised that this seminar will not be recorded.

Accessibility: Persons with disabilities who wish to request accommodations or who have questions about access, please contact Liz Hanlon (ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu) in advance of the session.

Please join the Belfer Center for a Director's Lunch with Neta C. Crawford, Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at University of Oxford,for a conversation on “The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War,” on April 5th from 12:15-1:30 PM in the Belfer Library (L369). This session will be moderated by Belfer Center Executive Director, Natalie Colbert.

This event is off the record and will be in-person for HUID holders only. Space is limited for this event, so please only RSVP if you plan to attend.

Speaker:  Ivan Arreguín-Toft, Associate, International Security Program

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is now over a year old, and every day Russian forces are either deliberately or systematically killing or torturing noncombatants. Is this a strategy? A plan to use Russia's available resources to achieve a specific military objective? Might it possibly be an artifact of a long history, since the Russian Civil War (1917–1923), of using armed force bluntly while ignoring the very possibility of "noncombatant" as a relevant category in warfare?

Everyone is welcome to join us online via Zoom! Please register in advance for this seminar: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIuce6spjsrHNNSH7GixtXqAjUbWSLdqHBO

The Project on Managing the Atom (MTA) invites you to attend a discussion of MTA Senior Research Associate Mariana Budjeryn’s book: Inheriting the Bomb: The Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023). Matthew Bunn will provide introductory remarks and Steve Miller will serve as a discussant during the session. For those attending in-person, light breakfast and refreshments will be served at 10:30am. The talk and webinar will begin at 11:00am EDT.

While this event is on the record, the event organizers prohibit any attendees, including journalists, from audio/visual recording or distributing parts or all of the event program without prior written authorization. 

Join us for an Energy Policy Seminar featuring Weila Gong, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and Joanna Lewis, Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor of Energy and Environment at Georgetown University. Drawing from a forthcoming paper, Gong and Lewis will give a talk on "China's Coal Transition: Policy Strategies, Policy Instruments, and Just Transition Process." Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.

Registration: No RSVP is required. Room capacity is limited and seating will be on a first come, first served basis. The seminar will also be streamed via Zoom. Virtual attendees should register using the button below; upon registering, attendees will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link. 

Recording: The seminar will be recorded and available to watch on this page (typically one week later). Those who register for this event will automatically receive a link to the recording as soon as it becomes available.

Accessibility: Persons with disabilities who wish to request accommodations or who have questions about access, please contact Liz Hanlon (ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu) in advance of the session.

Sponsors: The Belfer Center's Environment and Natural Resources Program, the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, the Harvard University Center for the Environment, the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability

During April 11-13, 2023, the Korea Project will convene the 4th Korean Security Summit at Harvard. Our theme of “Korea – An Oracle of Global Trends” continues the exploration of how quickly various Korea-related functional issues play out with global implications. This year, we'll be providing unique Korea-connected insights into global trends ranging from bolstering deterrence to navigating increasing control of critical technologies like chips to curbing cybercriminals’ revenue generation from crypto theft. On Day 1, we’ll have Opening Remarks by KIM Gheewhan (President, Korea Foundation), Eric Rosenbach (Co-Director, Belfer Center), and Prof. Nicholas Harkness (Director, Korea Institute) to formally announce the establishment of a new endowment fund for the Korea Project.

The Honorable Dr. PARK Jin (Minister of Foreign Affairs, ROK), will deliver Congratulatory Remarks. Top researchers of Korean security issues, senior ROK and U.S. practitioners, and next-generation scholars will provide key findings from their respective research work over the course of the Summit. YOU Kijun (Consul General, ROK Consulate General in Boston) will deliver Closing Remarks. Through the annual Summit series, the Korea Project continues to advance its mission of growing Korean security studies at Harvard and beyond.

The Belfer Center’s Korea Project acknowledges the generous support of the Korea Foundation. A light dinner will be served on all three days of the Summit.

Click HERE to RSVP for Day 1 (Apr. 11): “Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the U.S.-ROK Alliance”

Click HERE to RSVP for Day 2 (Apr. 12): “Navigating the Increasing Control of Critical Technologies”

Click HERE to RSVP for Day 3 (Apr. 13): “Curbing North Korea's Revenue Generation from Crypto Theft”

Please join the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program for an AI Cyber Lunch Seminar featuring Eva Galperin, Director of Cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Galperin will give a talk entitled "Who Deserves Cybersecurity? How We've Been Doing Cybersecurity All Wrong and How We Can Fix It."

Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.

Registration: In-person attendance is limited to current Harvard ID holders. No RSVP is required. Room capacity is limited and seating will be on a first come, first served basis.

Members of the public are welcome to attend virtually via Zoom. Virtual attendees should register using the button below; upon registering, attendees will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link. 

Recording: Please be advised that this seminar will not be recorded.

Accessibility: Persons with disabilities who wish to request accommodations or who have questions about access, please contact Liz Hanlon (ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu) in advance of the session.

Join the Intelligence Project for a session with Recanati-Kaplan Fellow Karly Winkler on artificial intelligence (AI) security and the risks it faces from cyber and other malicious attacks. This talk will introduce key types of attacks against AI systems across the AI development chain, such as poisoning, evasion, information inference and degradation/disruption. It will also discuss how Defense is investing in protecting their systems, where there are significant national security and potential threat-to-life risks.

This talk does not require a background in AI or cyber security and will focus on the kinds of problems we are trying to solve, why they’re important, and examples of interesting research and aspects of the AI ecosystem that need further investment and participation beyond the tech community.

This in-person event will take place on April 13th at 3PM in Bell Hall and will be open to Harvard Kennedy School faculty, students, fellows, and staff. Registration is required. Refreshments will be served.

Join us for an Energy Policy Seminar featuring Jahi Wise, Senior Advisor to the Administrator and Acting Director for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Wise will give a talk on "The Outlook for the EPA's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund." Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.

Registration: No RSVP is required. Room capacity is limited and seating will be on a first come, first served basis. The seminar will also be streamed via Zoom. Virtual attendees should register using the button below; upon registering, attendees will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link. 

Recording: The seminar will be recorded and available to watch on this page (typically one week later). Those who register for this event will automatically receive a link to the recording as soon as it becomes available.

Accessibility: Persons with disabilities who wish to request accommodations or who have questions about access, please contact Liz Hanlon (ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu) in advance of the session.

Sponsors: The Belfer Center's Environment and Natural Resources Program, the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, the Harvard University Center for the Environment, the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability

Join us for an Energy Policy Seminar featuring Carolyn Fischer, Research Manager of the Sustainability and Infrastructure Team in the Development Research Group of the World Bank. Fischer will give a talk on "Overlapping Policies with Tradable Performance Standards: Insights from Emissions Trading in China." Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.

Registration: No RSVP is required. Room capacity is limited and seating will be on a first come, first served basis. The seminar will also be streamed via Zoom. Virtual attendees should register using the button below; upon registering, attendees will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link. 

Recording: The seminar will be recorded and available to watch on this page (typically one week later). Those who register for this event will automatically receive a link to the recording as soon as it becomes available.

Accessibility: Persons with disabilities who wish to request accommodations or who have questions about access, please contact Liz Hanlon (ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu) in advance of the session.

Sponsors: The Belfer Center's Environment and Natural Resources Program, the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, the Harvard University Center for the Environment, the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability