53 Events

Book cover for America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy

Twelve Books

Seminar - Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

Robert Zoellick — America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy

Wed., Oct. 7, 2020 | 5:30pm - 6:30pm

Online

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.

Book cover for Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?

Harvard University Press

Seminar - Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

Alexander Keyssar — Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?

Wed., Sep. 30, 2020 | 5:30pm - 6:30pm

Online

In the midst of the most hotly contested election in generations – when citizens and scholars alike struggle to understand the stresses straining our political system – join the Belfer Center's Applied History Project for our Fall 2020 Applied History Series.  By consulting distinguished public servants and historians, this speaker series illuminates today's world by looking to lessons from the past.

Book cover for JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956

Random House

Seminar - Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

Fredrik Logevall — JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956

Wed., Sep. 23, 2020 | 5:30pm - 6:30pm

Online

At a moment when America's global leadership is in doubt – and when reasoned statecraft is needed more than ever – join the Belfer Center's Applied History Project for our Fall 2020 Applied History Series.  By consulting distinguished public servants and historians, this speaker series illuminates today's world by looking to lessons from the past.

Tamir Pardo, JFK IOP Forum

Harvard Kennedy School IOP

Seminar - Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

[AT CAPACITY] A Discussion with Former Mossad Director Tamir Pardo

Mon., Nov. 18, 2019 | 12:15pm - 1:30pm

Littauer Building - Belfer Center Library, Room 369

The Intelligence Project will host a lunch with Tamir Pardo, Former Director of Mossad, from 12:00-1:15pm in the Belfer Center Library. Graham Allison will moderate. 

Lunch will be provided on a first come, first served basis. Please RSVP. Admission Policy: Harvard students, staff, faculty, fellows, alumni, and affiliates.

Seminar - Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

General Jim Mattis and Graham Allison: "Applying History in Statecraft"

Thu., Oct. 31, 2019 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Taubman Building - Nye A, B, & C, 5th Floor

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a discussion with General Jim Mattis, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.), 26th United States Secretary of Defense, on “Applying History in Statecraft.” The conversation will be moderated by Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard Kennedy School.

Conference - Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

The Ethics & Morality of Intelligence

Tue., May 7, 2019 | 8:00am - 6:00pm

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED. The Ethics of Intelligence is a full day conference hosted by the Intelligence Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. 

The conference will consist of four panels, a working lunch, and a reception. The morning sessions will focus on the purpose, role, and constraints of intelligence as a lever of statecraft while the afternoon sessions with address the moral and ethical questions raised by the means of intelligence. 

The conference is open to all and free to attend. However, advanced registration is required.

Location: The Wadsworth Room, Charles Hotel, 1 Bennett St, Cambridge MA