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Pelosi touts health care bill
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November 16, 2009
Harvard Kennedy School professor Robert Stavins will work behind the scenes at the 2009 U.N. summit on climate change with his Harvard-led initiative on global warming.
Standing at center-right in America
Norman Coleman Jr. states his case: America is a center-right nation, and the party that understands that wins elections.
Even while extolling the virtues of public service, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick focused on the pitfalls of public life during remarks in an Oct. 22 Harvard Kennedy School forum on “Inspiring Public Service.”
'Human Rights as Public Service'
The Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy celebrated its 10th anniversary in a forum Oct. 21 that examined what has been achieved in the past decade and what remains to be done.
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Noted Turkish scholar Baskin Oran explores Western impact and Turkey in a six-part lecture series.
Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich offers a list of “fundamental realities” facing the United States in the coming years in a talk at Harvard this week, as well as a list of ways to best confront them.
Terry McAuliffe, a visiting fellow this year at the Institute of Politics, uses a Harvard stage to look at the future of the Democratic Party.
Uribe pushes for improved relations
Álvaro Uribe, president of the Republic of Colombia, expounded on his administration’s accomplishments in a speech at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum on Sept. 25.
Odinga optimistic about Africa’s democratic future
Kenya Prime Minister Raila Odinga expresses optimism about Kenya’s democratic future.
Lt. Dan Choi — West Pointer, Iraq infantry veteran, Arabic linguist, and Baptist minister — speaks out against “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy after getting the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard’s first Service to Humanity award.
Honoring Nations 2009, a two-day symposium sponsored by the Harvard Kennedy School, calls on national experts and elders to share innovations in tribal governance.
To honor the signing of the Constitution, a panel of experts examined the legacy of the historic document, followed by a discussion with retired Supreme Court Associate Justice David Souter.
In a rare double ambassadorial appearance to Harvard, moderated by Graham Allison, ambassadors Han Duck-soo of South Korea and Kathleen Stephens of the United States reflect on the U.S.-South alliance, and what might put it at risk.
The Institute of Politics hosts the first public discussion of Michael Sandel’s new book, “Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?” coming out later this month.
Four HKS graduates took part in a panel on public service on Sept 2. The alumni discussed their time at HKS and their work in both the public and private sectors.
The Kennedy School will offer a new course this fall on disaster recovery, largely focusing on New Orleans and the work the School has done there in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Shorenstein Center announces Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence Program
The Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy has created a new program for writers, named in honor of A.M. Rosenthal.
Working to lift the fog of war
Thousands of miles from his Harvard lab, Kit Parker is lugging a gun and his engineer’s sensibilities through the mountains south of Kabul, in Afghanistan’s Wardak and Logar Provinces.
BBC Radio’s prestigious Reith Lectures delivered by Sandel
Harvard Professor Michael Sandel, chosen by the BBC to deliver its Reith Lectures for 2009, can be heard on the BBC Web site.
The two men sit close, knees almost touching, in a mud-walled hut in the Congolese village of Katokota.
Still ‘two cultures’ but who’s on top?
Fifty years ago a simple lecture sparked a global debate with lasting implications. On May 7, 1959, British physicist and novelist C.P. Snow declared that the gap between “two cultures,” that of the sciences and the humanities, was a destructive divide hampering the effort to find solutions to the problems of the world.
Religion key to foreign policy, says HKS speaker
As President Obama and his new administration seek to redirect U.S. foreign policy back toward more emphasis on diplomacy and less on the use of force, they should not overlook Orthodox Christianity as a resource.
Sandel to Deliver BBC’s prestigious Reith Lectures
Michael Sandel, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, has been chosen by the BBC to deliver its Reith Lectures for 2009. Sandel’s lectures, titled “A New Citizenship,” will address the prospect for a new politics of the common good.
Nieman presents Louis M. Lyons Award to Fatima Tlisova
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard will present the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism to current Nieman Fellow Fatima Tlisova Thursday (May 7).
Multimedia Features
Congo: Panzi-HHI partnership
Harvard's partnership with a Congolese hospital seeks to understand the causes of the violence against women that hangs like a toxic cloud over a huge swath of this enormous country in Africa’s midsection.
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May 7, 2009
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South Africa: Edendale Hospital
Video / Apr 17, '08
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Doctor of Laws
Video / Dec 1, '08
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