2012

  • 2012 Apr 26

    Opportunities and Dilemmas Faced by Chinese Rural Development in China’s Urbanization Wave

    4:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA

    A Panel Discussion with a Beijing Zhenggezhuang Village Entrepreneur

    Language: Chinese
    Light Dinner Served

    About the Seminar
    What are the opportunities and dilemmas faced by Chinese rural villages and farmers taking part in China’s massive urbanization wave? What is the impact of Chinese rural land policies on China’s rural development and urbanization? What will the development path and model be for Chinese rural villages in the future? This panel will include in-depth discussion from the perspectives of village, local government, and academic institutions.... Read more about Opportunities and Dilemmas Faced by Chinese Rural Development in China’s Urbanization Wave

  • 2012 Apr 24

    Equity in Health Care Delivery in Indonesia: Gaps and Governance

    4:10pm to 5:30pm

    Location: 

    124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA

    About the Speaker
    Anuraj Shankar is a senior research scientist at Harvard School of Public Health’s Department of Nutrition. Shankar is also principal investigator for the Higher Education Network Ring Initiative (HENRI) which trains Indonesian scientists and public health professionals specifically in integration, analysis, and use of country-level data for improved public health decision making. By broadening the capacity to meaningfully utilize data at the country level, HENRI hopes to enhance the impact of health programs and provide needed acceleration toward Millennium Development Goals (MDG) four and five, improving both maternal health and reducing newborn and child mortality.

  • 2012 Apr 24

    General and Flag Officer Homeland Security Executive Seminar

    Tue Apr 24 (All day) to Fri Apr 27 (All day)

    Executive Education Course

    About the Course
    The General and Flag Officer Homeland Security Executive Seminar is designed by the Ash Center’s Program on Crisis Leadership.

    The United States faces a continuing necessity to be prepared for and capable of responding to a major disaster – be it a massive seismic event, a major hurricane, a pandemic outbreak, or a terrorist event. Much of the thinking about how to organize a response to such an event imagines a highly centralized operation. However, much of our recent history with major events suggests an alternative approach to crisis response.

    Instead of hierarchical command from a single location, we need to prepare for a response involving operations by many different organizations and agencies, including federal, state, and local government, nonprofit organizations like the Red Cross and Salvation Army, and private sector organizations like Wal-Mart and Home Depot, as well as community groups. Such a response is inherently decentralized.... Read more about General and Flag Officer Homeland Security Executive Seminar

  • 2012 Apr 23

    Boston Teacher Residency: An Innovative Model for Recruiting, Preparing, and Retaining Educators in the Boston Public Schools

    4:10pm to 5:30pm

    Location: 

    124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA

    Marcie Osinsky, Boston Teacher Residency Curriculum Director
    Co-sponsored by the Program on Education Policy and Governance, HKS

    About the Seminar
    Boston Public Schools’ Boston Teacher Residency program attracts and retains a diverse group of high quality teachers to drive up academic achievement in the highest-need areas of Boston.


    Boston Teacher Residency presents before the National Committee in 2011

    Aspiring teachers, called residents, participate in a year-long apprenticeship, working with experienced teachers and taking courses to earn a master’s degree. Graduates receive ongoing support for their first three years of teaching. Boston Teacher Residency reports an 80 percent three-year retention rate of its graduates compared to a 53 percent district three-year teacher retention rate before the program’s inception in 2003. Academic achievement is also up: the program is part of a set of district initiatives contributing to a seven percent increase in the student graduation rate since 2006. Boston Teacher Residency co-founded Urban Teacher Residency United which has supported replication of the residency model in 14 cities around the country.... Read more about Boston Teacher Residency: An Innovative Model for Recruiting, Preparing, and Retaining Educators in the Boston Public Schools

  • 2012 Apr 18

    Countdown to the 18th Congress: Lessons from the Bo Xilai / Wang Lijun Affair

    12:15pm to 1:15pm

    Location: 

    CGIS North Building, Room K262, 1737 Cambridge St.

    Richard Baum, University of California Los Angeles
    Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

    About the Seminar
    This will be an informal roundtable discussion of current elite politics in China, in view of the recent dismissal of Chongqing Communist Party chief Bo Xilai and the intrigue surrounding the actions of then vice-mayor and public security chief Wang Lijun.

    Panel discussants:

    • Alastair Iain Johnston, Governor James Alpert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs

    • Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science

  • 2012 Apr 17

    Deleterious Me: Whole Genome Sequencing, 23andMe, and the Crowd-Sourced Health Care Revolution

    5:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Emerson Hall, Room 105

    Anne Wojcicki with panel discussion by Archon Fung, Jeremy Greene, Sanford Kwinter, and Jonathan Zittrain
    Moderated by Sheila Jasanoff

    Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment, the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. More>>

    About the Science and Democracy Lecture Series
    Once a semester, the STS Program, with co-sponsorship from other local institutions, hosts an installation in its Science and Democracy Lecture Series. The series aims to spark lively, university-wide discussion of the place and meaning of science and technology, broadly conceived, in democratic societies. We hope to explore both the promised benefits of our era’s most salient scientific and technological breakthroughs and the potentially harmful consequences of developments that are inadequately understood, debated, or managed by politicians, institutions, and lay publics.... Read more about Deleterious Me: Whole Genome Sequencing, 23andMe, and the Crowd-Sourced Health Care Revolution

  • 2012 Apr 17

    Harvard in the Delta: Reflecting on Five Years of the Community Development Project

    4:10pm to 5:30pm

    Location: 

    124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA

    Carolyn McAdams, Mayor, Greenwood, MS; Carl Allen, MPP 2010; and James Solomon, MPP 2012

    About the Seminar
    Since 2008, HKS students have engaged the residents of Baptist Town, a rural community in Greenwood, MS, in local community development efforts. The all student-led Community Development Project has grown in unexpected directions but always offered unique service-learning opportunities along the way. At this seminar, the panel will address topics and themes including Baptist Town’s forthcoming revitalization plan, a crowd-sourced grant program supported by Dreamworks Pictures (who filmed part of The Help in Baptist Town), the intersection between Harvard students and local politics, and what the future holds for CDP.... Read more about Harvard in the Delta: Reflecting on Five Years of the Community Development Project

  • 2012 Apr 17

    Community-Powered Disaster Recovery: A Brownbag Presentation by Recovers.Org

    12:00pm

    Location: 

    Taubman 301, Harvard Kennedy School

    Caitria O’Neill and Morgan O’Neill, Recovers.Org

    About the Seminar
    Recovers.Org provides free software and support to recovering areas immediately after a disaster. In this brownbag presentation, the organization’s co-founders will discuss how the services Recovers.Org provides allows towns to capture the goodwill of people post-disaster – and turn it into action – amidst the chaos that frequently characterizes early relief and recovery efforts. They will speak about their motivations for creating the organization – and the successes and challenges they’ve experienced since Recovers.Org launched.... Read more about Community-Powered Disaster Recovery: A Brownbag Presentation by Recovers.Org

  • 2012 Apr 12

    The Economic Situation in the European Union

    4:10pm to 5:30pm

    Location: 

    Wiener Auditorium, Taubman Building, HKS

    Romano ProdiRomano Prodi, Professor-at-Large, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, Former Italian Prime Minister and President of the European Commission

    About the Seminar
    The economic and financial difficulties of Europe are well known. Big deficits and public debts in some of its member states, and a consequent need of fiscal austerity in a situation of slow growth and recession, might potentially contribute to the deterioration of the overall economic situation. While some European countries are going to face further difficulties, on average European Union member states have better deficits and public debts than the United States.

    In this seminar, Romano Prodi will argue that the reason why financial markets have punished only European economies lies in the division that existed within Europe on what to do in Greece.... Read more about The Economic Situation in the European Union

  • 2012 Apr 10

    Democratic Development and Democratic Decay

    5:30pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Wiener Auditorium, Taubman Building, HKS

    Francis FukuyamaFrancis Fukuyama, Stanford University

    About the Seminar
    All political orders are subject to decay over time for at least two reasons: first, institutions created to meet one set of environmental circumstances are “sticky” and fail to adapt when the environment changes; second, patrimonialism, the default mode of human sociability that favors friends and family, often reasserts itself in periods of extended peace and stability.

    Is the U.S. or China more likely to experience political decay in the coming decades? China builds on a long historical tradition of high-quality centralized bureaucratic government, but never historically developed either rule of law or formal accountability to check executive power. The United States, on the other hand, stands out among modern liberal democracies for the number of checks and balances it imposes on decision making. Both systems display rigidities and signs of creeping patrimonialism. In the end it is Fukuyama’s view that the self-corrective mechanisms built into the US system will make it more sustainable, but only if the nation is able to adapt institutionally.... Read more about Democratic Development and Democratic Decay

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