Events

James S. Snyder, HKS/MEI Senior Fellow, in conversation with Moshe Halbertal, Biblical scholar specializing in the legacy of Maimonides, and Anthony Roth Costanzo, American countertenor who portrayed Akhenaten in the Philip Glass opera “Akhenaten” in the Metropolitan Opera’s 2019-2020 season. This event is part of the fall 2020 MEI series, James Snyder in Conversation: A series of dialogues on art, culture, politics, and the possibilities for transcending conflict through cultural connection in the modern Middle East.

A Project on Managing the Atom (MTA) seminar with Abolghasem Bayyenat, Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow with MTA and the International Security Program.

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Alan Bersin and Chappell Lawson join Juliette Kayyem and the Homeland Security Project to discuss what it means to "secure the homeland" in the twenty-first century. They will share their insights from time serving in government to draw lessons from the first two decades of U.S. government efforts to secure the homeland and address some of the most salient challenges of homeland security today.

The Intelligence Project will host a webinar with author Chris Whipple on Wednesday, October 14 from 12:00-1:15pm. This session will be open to the public. Advance registration required. Please RSVP below for access to the Zoom link.

The Arctic Resilience Forum will be convened every Wednesday from 11:30am – 1:00pm (Eastern Time) over a series of ten weeks.  The online series will engage the broadest audience possible in conversations about how to build the resilience of Arctic communities and ecosystems across a variety of focus areas. 

This October 14th Session, the second in the series, will focus on Arctic Food Security, an issue which lies at the foundation of resilience as it relates to caloric and nutritional needs as well as important cultural practices around food production, harvesting, and consumption.

Please join the Future of Diplomacy Project for a seminar on U.S. global leadership, strengthening America’s national security, and the need to revive and rebuild American diplomacy and the State Department with U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA). This conversation will be moderated by Faculty Chair, Nicholas Burns.

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

https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAofu2pqzMuHNHg2uu6nzCGLm0T4fkGoNpy

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The recent killings of unarmed Black Americans and the ensuing protests have yet again highlighted the racial injustices and structural inequalities that remain a major part of life in the United States. Institutions across the U.S. nuclear community—including the Project on Managing the Atom—have issued statements condemning systemic racism and recognizing the need to counter racial injustices. To further these discussions, this panel will focus on often-overlooked issues of racial inequalities in the nuclear field. Contributors to the panel will discuss race in the context of global nuclear governance, the nuclear disarmament movement, and nuclear weapons testing.

This event is sponsored by the Project on Managing the Atom.

The Arctic Innovation Lab is a project designed to promote solution-oriented discussions on the changing Arctic region. 

Come hear new ideas for a better Arctic and vote for your favorite one!

Opening remarks by Kenneth A. Howery, U.S. Ambassador to Sweden and Co-Founder of Paypal and the Founders Fund

Join the Belfer Center's Economic Diplomacy Initiative (EDI) for a conversation with Yan Xuetong, Distinguished Professor and Dean of the Institute of International Relations at Tsinghua University, on the evolution of U.S.-China digital and technological competition. The event will be moderated by Aditi Kumar, Executive Director of the Belfer Center, and Chris Li, Research Fellow with EDI.

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Dr. Abdulkhaleq Abdulla is a retired professor of Political Science, a former Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics, and author of several books, including The Gulf Moment. This event is part of the series, USA 2020: The View from the Arab World, co-hosted by MEI Faculty Director Tarek Masoud and MEI Visiting Fellow Karim Haggag.