Past Events

  • 2010 Oct 12

    Hot Topics from Indonesia

    3:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building, 4th floor

    MountainThe World’s Most Pressing Issues from the Perspective of the World’s Largest Majority-Muslim Democracy

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    About the Event
    Join us for public lectures about Indonesia by three visiting scholars: Chatib Basri contrasting Indonesia’s exports in 1998 and 2008, Jeffrey Winters comparing the oligarchies of Singapore and Indonesia, and Adam Schwarz assessing the economic consequences of low carbon emission goals in Indonesia. Light refreshments will be served. Lecture titles and speaker bios follow.

    “Should Indonesia Say Goodbye to an Export Facilitating Strategy?”
    Chatib Basri, Senior Lecturer of Economics, Universitas Indonesia.

    “Criminal Democracy and Authoritarian Legalism: Indonesian and Singaporean Oligarchies in Comparative Perspective”
    Jeffrey Winters, Associate Professor of Political Economy, Northwestern University

    “Green Growth in Indonesia”
    Adam Schwarz, Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company Asia... Read more about Hot Topics from Indonesia

  • 2010 Oct 08

    A Conversation With FEMA Deputy Administrator Richard Serino

    10:00am to 11:00am

    Location: 

    Fainsod Room, Littauer 324, Harvard Kennedy School

    Students and other interested members of the HKS community are invited to attend a conversation with Richard Serino, deputy administrator of FEMA. Appointed to his current position in October 2009, Serino has over 35 years of experience in the fields of emergency management and emergency medical services.

  • 2010 Sep 29

    Winner-Take-All Politics

    4:15pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South-010 (Tsai Auditorium), Concourse Level, 1730 Cambridge St.

    Winner-Take-All Politics coverAbout the Seminar
    Moderated by Professor Alex Keyssar, panelists Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson, Archon Fung, and Theda Skocpol will discuss the forthcoming book Winner-Take-All Politics (release date: September 14) by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson. The book argues that American politics has been a key factor, often overlooked in economic explanations, in explaining high levels of income inequality in the U.S. Learn more>>

  • 2010 Sep 29

    Conservation Finance Forum

    11:00am to 12:00pm

    Location: 

    Online Webinar

    TrailAggregation and Mitigation for Forest Conservation
    Bob Bendick, Director of U.S. Government Relations for The Nature Conservancy

    Join us for this Webinar featuring Bob Bendick, Director of U.S. Government Relations for The Nature Conservancy, based in Arlington, Virginia, and Leigh Youngblood, Executive Director of the Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust, based in Athol, Massachusetts.

    Leigh, an expert on aggregation, and Bob, who has recently co-authored a landmark report on mitigation, will be discussing those two strategies as rapidly evolving methods for financing the conservation of land and biodiversity habitat.

    Both strategies will also be considered in a presentation by a team from the Harvard Forest on the Wildlands and Woodlands Vision for New England on October 3 at the 2010 Land Trust Rally (Session B19 at 1:30 pm, Monday, 10/3/2010, in the Connecticut Convention Center, Hartford, CT).... Read more about Conservation Finance Forum

  • 2010 Sep 22

    Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War

    4:10pm to 5:30pm

    Location: 

    124 Mount Auburn, Suite 200-North, Room 226, Cambridge, MA

    Lucan WayLucan Way, University of Toronto

    About the Seminar
    Professor Lucan Way’s upcoming seminar is based on the findings of his recent book Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After The Cold War, co-authored with Steven Levitsky. Competitive authoritarianism-regimes that combine competitive elections with serious violations of democratic procedures-proliferated in the post-Cold War era. This book explains the rise and diverging fate of competitive authoritarian regimes since 1990. Based on a comparative study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and post-communist Eurasia, the book finds that extensive ties to the West facilitated democratization. By raising the external cost of abuse, linkage to the West brought democracy even where domestic conditions were unfavorable.... Read more about Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War

  • 2010 Sep 08

    Open House & Informational Session

    5:30pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Nye B, Taubman Building, 5th Floor

    Crisis Management teamCrisis Management Student Group & Program on Crisis Leadership

    About the Seminar
    Learn about various student activities and research and academic initiatives related to crisis leadership and disaster risk management. Leaders of the HKS Crisis Management Student Group and faculty and staff affiliated with the Program on Crisis Leadership will make brief presentations and be available to meet and talk with students. Light refreshments will be provided.... Read more about Open House & Informational Session

  • 2010 Sep 08

    Moving Away from Liberal Democracy

    4:10pm to 5:30pm

    Location: 

    124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Room 226, Cambridge, MA

    Participation, Representation, & Political Experimentalism in Brazil
    Thamy Pogrebinschi, State University of Rio de Janeiro 

    About the Seminar
    The national public policy conferences are arguably the largest and most innovative participatory experience currently being held in Brazil. Summoned by the Executive Branch, and organized at the national level along with civil society, such policy conferences have proven themselves successful enough to affect the policies drafted by the administration, and to influence the legislation enacted by the Congress. While redesigning the policy-making process, and changing the pattern of the state and civil society relationships, national policy conferences are perhaps the best example of Brazil’s pragmatic democracy: a strong commitment to political experimentalism, in which the false contradictions between representation and participation, and State and civil society, are dialectically superseded through a process of institutional redesign that moves the country away from liberal democracy.... Read more about Moving Away from Liberal Democracy

  • 2010 Sep 01

    Vietnam Policy Update

    (All day)

    Location: 

    Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

    Vietnam Policy UpdateThe Vietnam Program engaged a select group of provincial and national-level policymakers in policy dialogue through its Vietnam Policy Update (VPU) program held in partnership with the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. Vietnam faces a range of complex policy challenges in an international context fraught with uncertainty. Against this backdrop, Vietnamese policymakers are preparing the country's development strategy for the next ten years, which will be debated and adopted at the Party Congress in 2011. Over three days, VPU engaged the participants in a structured discussion with leading Vietnamese and international experts on a range of issues related to Vietnam’s socioeconomic development. Key topics included regional development strategies in an international context, geopolitical developments in East and Southeast Asia, the regional and global economic outlook, an analysis of Vietnam's competitiveness and economy, and infrastructure challenges.

  • 2010 Aug 30

    Ash Center Open House

    4:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    124 Mount Auburn Street, Suite 200-North, Cambridge, MA

    Kennedy SchoolThe Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation welcomes you to the 2010 Open House. Learn about the Ash Center’s resources for students, research, course offerings, and programs fostering excellence in democratic governance and innovation. Our faculty will be available to meet and answer questions during the event.

    Refreshments will be served.

  • 2010 Aug 12

    Mobilization and Member-based Organizations for Social Change

    1:00pm

    Location: 

    Online Webinar

    Power of Social Innovation Webinar Series
    Every sector of society has a role to play in social change, but none might be as important as citizens themselves. How can we best organize ourselves to drive innovation and reform? This webinar, sponsored by the Center’s Government Innovators Network, will feature two experienced organizers who are deftly growing their impact through two seemingly dissimilar platforms: Sara Horowitz, Freelancers Union and Maya Enista, Mobilize.org.

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