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Tag: Harvard Kennedy School
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Arts & Culture
‘Losing Sight, But Gaining a Vision’
Gloria Hong ’15 won the Grand Jury Prize at the Girls Impact the World Film Festival for her short documentary, “Losing Sight, But Gaining a Vision” The film was made while Hong was enrolled in “African and African American Studies 109,” taught by Joanna Lipper.
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Nation & World
Not backing down
Speaking at the Harvard Kennedy School, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe talked about his country’s economic and political difficulties, during the first stop of his state visit to the United States.
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Nation & World
Reconnecting on education
Panelists across Harvard gather to consider how education should and will affect tomorrow’s global challenges.
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Health
Health as an economic engine
Finance ministers from Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Southeast Asia gathered at Harvard Art Museums on April 21 to discuss links between health care and economic performance.
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Nation & World
God and the White House
Longtime presidential adviser and Harvard Kennedy School Professor David Gergen engaged in a wide-ranging conversation on the complex intersections of religion, politics, and public life.
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Nation & World
Polite populism
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, a possible challenger to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic primary race for president, previewed his economic agenda at Harvard Kennedy School on April 16.
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Nation & World
Three strong women
IOP Fellows Martha Coakley, Kay Hagan, and Christine Quinn talk candidly about their battle-scarred campaign days and advise students on what it really takes to make it in politics.
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Nation & World
Albright, on negotiating
The value of a clear understanding of your country’s objectives and the power of personal relationships were among the insights former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright shared with a Harvard audience.
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Nation & World
Whither Iran
As negotiators worked beyond a deadline, experts at Harvard Kennedy School considered the possible outcomes of a deal, or no deal, with Iran over nuclear materials.
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Nation & World
Breaking down the Middle East
Harvard experts assess the rolling waves of violence and political upheaval across much of the Middle East and North Africa.
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Nation & World
Netanyahu, in the driver’s seat
Harvard Kennedy School Professor Stephen Walt assesses the Israeli election, in which Benjamin Netanyahu was triumphant.
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Nation & World
A siren call to action
Professor Jessica E. Stern, a leading terrorism expert, talks about the growing number of young, middle-class Westerners leaving home to join the Islamic State.
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Nation & World
America, still at top
Harvard political scientist Joseph Nye talks about America’s future as a global superpower in the 21st century.
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Nation & World
After Ferguson, the ripples across Harvard
Students across Harvard channel energy and anger from last semester’s “Black Lives Matter” protests into a call for discussions and changes at home.
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Nation & World
Tough days for MBTA
Jose Gomez-Ibanez, a transportation and infrastructure policy expert at Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, talks about the political and financial hurdles to smoothly running public transit systems.
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Nation & World
From prison to poverty
Harvard sociologist and Radcliffe fellow Bruce Western recently completed a study tracking 122 incarcerated men and women in the Boston area who were released back into society. Western’s research helps shed light on how poverty, along with unaddressed problems, helped shape his subjects’ lives.
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Science & Tech
Climate engineering: In from the cold
Harvard Professor David Keith says that two new reports by the National Academy of Sciences are likely to boost a deeper look at possible geoengineering options for climate engineering.
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Nation & World
2016 issues: Voter anger, distrust
Public opinion analyst Peter Hart sizes up the country’s mood and the primary field during a talk at the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy.
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Nation & World
The politics of jurisprudence
New political science research from faculty at Harvard Kennedy School and Stanford University quantifies the political makeup of the nation’s judiciary.
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Science & Tech
A lefty’s lament
A southpaw science writer comes to terms with research on handedness by the Kennedy School’s Joshua Goodman.
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Nation & World
Paris tragedy provides an opening for conversation
Following the attack in Paris, the Harvard Kennedy School asked Adjunct Professor Muriel Rouyer, a French citizen living in the United States, to provide her perspective on the events and what lies ahead for the citizens of France.
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Nation & World
A new chapter for Congress
Forty-seven Harvard alumni will be part of the 114th Congress, which began this week.
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Nation & World
U.S.-Cuba ties: In from the cold
Harvard faculty members react to the surprising news from President Barack Obama that the United States plans to end 50 years of diplomatic and economic sanctions against Cuba.
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Nation & World
Grading 10 top world leaders
The director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center evaluates a new survey of citizens from 30 countries, including China, and how they rank the performances of the world’s best-known political leaders.
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Nation & World
Deceiving with the truth
A recent HKS and HBS working paper studies the art of leveraging the truth to gain the upper hand in negotiations.
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Campus & Community
In racial protests, a continuing ripple effect
As protests around the nation continued in the wake of decisions by grand juries in Missouri and New York not to indict police officers in the deaths of two unarmed black men, hundreds of Harvard community members expressed their own anger, frustration, and desire for changes in the criminal justice system with a range of…
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Campus & Community
Pointing toward Athens 2.0
Harvard will partner with Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and The Boston Globe for a new, weeklong festival of big ideas and bold solutions next October.
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Nation & World
Journalism’s new world order
Game-changing political reporters John Heilemann and Mark Halperin are optimistic about the relentless changes happening in journalism.
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Nation & World
Slowly, shifts at the Vatican
It’s been an interesting few months for the Catholic Church, as key changes in both personnel and tone signal Pope Francis’ continued push toward greater inclusiveness.
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Nation & World
A price too high
The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg talks about how the Islamic State has fundamentally changed the nature of Middle East war coverage.
