Events

Please join the Center for Public Leadership for a discussion on climate policy with Joseph Aldy, Professor of the Practice of Public Policy at HKS. Drawing on his experience with the 2008 presidential transition, Aldy will discuss the role of transition teams and the prospect for a climate-oriented economic stimulus bill in the event of a Biden victory. The program will be hosted by Rand Wentworth who teaches "Environmental Politics" at HKS and moderated by Emily Fry MPP 2021.

MORE ABOUT JOSEPH ALDY:
Joe Aldy is a leading environmental economist whose research focuses on climate change policy and energy policy. Aldy was previously Special Assistant to the President for Energy and Environment in the Obama Administration (2009-2010) when he served on the presidential transition team and negotiated with Capitol Hill to include $90 billion for green goals in the Recovery Act.

* RSVP by 9:00 AM ET on Thursday, 10/8.

Speaker: Thomas Cavanna, Assistant Research Professor, Center for Strategic Studies, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University

After decades of engagement, European leaders have recently adopted an increasingly defensive stance vis-à-vis China. Experts are thoroughly debating the implications of this pushback for the United States. But less attention has been given to the deeper historical and geopolitical dimensions of the matter: What does China's rise in Europe mean for U.S. grand strategy?

Everyone is welcome to join us via Zoom! Register in advance for this meeting:  https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrcOGqqzsiHdOyZkV41u_yqYbdbXbuDWiN

Please join the Future of Diplomacy Project for a conversation with Rahul Gandhi, Member of Parliament of India and former President of the Indian National Congress Party, about Indian domestic politics and the U.S.-India partnership. This seminar will be moderated by Faculty Chair, Nicholas Burns and is open to Harvard affiliates or by invitation only.

PLEASE NOTE: This seminar will be conducted via Zoom. Please register in advance for this meeting and use your @harvard.edu email address:

https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEuc-2rpj0qG9dLrh4VgYDmb8mf_rq7IIED

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

At a time when American diplomacy is riven by partisan politics – and historical knowledge is on the decline in both the public and the government – join the Belfer Center's Applied History Project for our Fall 2020 Applied History Series. The Applied History Series celebrates recent publications of leading members of Harvard’s Applied History Working Group. These distinguished historians and public servants have studied the past to illuminate the most pressing challenges faced today.

A Project on Managing the Atom (MTA) seminar with Wilfred Wan, Researcher in the WMD Programme at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR).

The seminar is open to the public.  Please RSVP below for access to the Zoom link.

The Intelligence Project will host a webinar with Jonathan Evans, Baron Evans of Weardale, former Director General of the British Security Service (MI5), Bernard Hudson, former Chief of Counterterrorism for the Central Intelligence Agency, and Thomas S. Warrick, former Deputy Assistant Director for Counterterrorism Policy, US Department of Homeland Security

This session will be off-the-record and open to the Harvard Community. Advanced 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 7th Session, the first in the series, will focus on Indigenous Youth Leadership. Engaging young people in a dialogue about their aspirations and needs for taking charge for resilience leadership. 

The Arctic Resilience Forum (ARF), hosted by the Icelandic Chairmanship of the Arctic Council and co-organized by the Sustainable Development Working Group of the Arctic Council and the Arctic Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, will offer participants the opportunity to strengthen cooperation on resilience-related work as well as  discuss resilience best practices and experiences from Arctic Council Working Groups’ and the broader community of circumpolar experts and knowledge holders.

Join Belfer Center Director Ash Carter for a conversation with Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission, on the prospects for transatlantic cooperation in the digital age. As the European Union rolls out new visions for data usage and privacy, artificial intelligence and ethical governance, and online platform regulation, the discussion will focus on the bloc’s new strategies to become a world leader in technology.

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In this presentation, Vivien Schmidt will discuss her new book Europe's Crisis of Legitimacy: Governing by Rules and Ruling by Numbers in the Eurozone (Oxford University Press, 2020), in which she argues that the European Union's crisis of legitimacy is a result of its management of the 2010 Eurozone crisis. Schmidt argues that the EU's approach to mitigate the crisis by 'governing by rules and ruling by numbers' not only caused havoc in the economy but fueled political discontent across the region.