CID Events :: Fall, 2009
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Friday October 2, 2009
CID Graduate Luncheon Seminar Series
11:45am-1:00pm
"Fighting Poverty with Evidence"
Speaker: Marc Shotland, Senior Project Manager, Poverty Action Lab
Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, Harvard Kennedy School
Monday, October 5, 2009
HSPH Pop Center Seminar: Building Social Capital through Microfinance
4:30-6:00pm
Speaker: Rohini Pande, Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Harvard Center for Population Studies, 9 Bow Street, Harvard Square
Wednesday October 7, 2009
CID Community Event
"Carving out your path at McKinsey"
4-5:30pm
Speaker: Gretchen Phillips, Director of Agriculture Livelihood Programs, PRADAN (formerly of McKinsey 2004-2009) and MPA/ID alum '04.
Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, Harvard Kennedy School
Friday October 9, 2009
CID Graduate Student Luncheon Seminar
"Creating Agents for Change - TCF Stories"
11:45am-1:00pm
Speaker: Ahsin Saleem, Founder and Director, Citizens Foundation - Pakistan
Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, Harvard Kennedy School
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Public Address: Health Reform in an Era of Pandemics: Implications for Health Security
6:00pm
Speaker: The Honorable Julio Frenk, Dean of Harvard School of Public Health
JFK Forum, 1st Floor Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations Panel: The Obama Administration’s Global Development Policy: Enhancing Coherence and Effectiveness
4:00pm
Moderator: Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School
Panelists: Paul O’Brien, Director of Aid Effectiveness at Oxfam America and Lant Pritchett, HKS Professor of the Practice of International Development
Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Weil Town Hall (Belfer Building- HKS)
Thursday, October 15 to December 1, 2009
Workshop Series: Human Rights Policy Analysis Tools and Practices
Conducted by Andrea Rossi at the HKS Carr Center, in collaboration with CID Mexico Program
Website: Measurement and Human Rights Training Series
Applications due October 12
Friday October 16, 2009
CID Graduate Luncheon Seminar Series
"The Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative: Defining barriers to adoption in developing countries"
11:45am-1:00pm
Speaker: Kelsey Jack, Sustainability Science Program Fellow and Doctoral Student
Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, Harvard Kennedy School
"A Window to the World" CID Photo Contest – Deadline extended to October 23, 2009
CID accepts submissions of pictures taken from places students have visited during the summer.
First Prize - $200; Second Prize - $100; Third Prize - $50.
Winning plus selected pictures will be exhibited at the Harvard Kennedy School and on the CID website. Submission until October 16 at awindowtotheworld@gmail.com. To enter, email JPEGs with your contact information and brief facts on where and when you took the photo. We suggest you limit your submission to 6 of your best photos.
Friday October 23, 2009
CID Graduate Luncheon Seminar Series
"Situating New Roles for Oil Companies in Cross-Sector Partnerships for Development in Nigeria's Niger Delta"
11:45am-1:00pm
Speaker: Charles Akinola, Mason Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School; Founder/CEO Enterprise for Development International-Nigeria
Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, Harvard Kennedy School
Friday, October 30, 2009
International Development Communications Workshop: The Video Camera as Field Notebook
Sponsored by HKS Communications and the Committee on African Studies
1:10pm – 3pm
Speakers: Charles Mann, development economist, formerly at HKS and founder of www.DevComWorkshop.org; Michael Sheridan and Franco Sacchi
Taubman Building, 5th Floor, Room C "Nye C," Harvard Kennedy School
Friday October 30, 2009
CID Graduate Luncheon Seminar Series
"Grim Reality - Reflections on Aid to Afghanistan"
11:45am-1:00pm
Speaker: Matt Waldman, 2009-2010 Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, Harvard Kennedy School
Friday November 6, 2009
CID Graduate Luncheon Seminar Series
"Fighting the World's Fight - reflections from the field"
11:45am-1:00pm
Speaker: Stace Lindsay, Founder, Fusion Venture Partners
Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, Harvard Kennedy School
Tuesday November 10, 2009
CID Event
Title: Service and Leadership: Change You Can Make Happen
4:00pm-5:30pm
Speaker: Roopal Shah, Executive Director, Co-founder of Indicorps
Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, Harvard Kennedy School
Friday November 13, 2009
CID Graduate Luncheon Seminar Series
11:45am-1:00pm
Patrick Shields, Director, Global Recruitment Specialists (former recruiting head for CARE)
Note New Location TBA
* This is a joint event with the Office of Career Advancement
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
CID Community Event
6:00pm-7:30pm
“Hungry for Agricultural Development: Networking Panel on Internship and Career Opportunities”
Speakers:
Fainsod Room (L-324), 3rd Floor, Littauer Building, Harvard Kennedy School
Friday November 20, 2009
CID Graduate Luncheon Seminar Series
11:45am-1:00pm
“The African Growth Opportunity Act: Does it really present opportunities for Rwanda?”
Speaker: Jaime Frias, Senior Associate, OTF Group
Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, Harvard Kennedy School
Friday, November 20, 2009
SEMINAR: Fostering Knowledge Sharing in Resource Management and Adaptation to Global Change in Brazil
1:00pm | Info
Speaker: Edmundo Barrios, research fellow, CID. Coffee and tea provided.
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project, Belfer Center Library, Littauer-369
Thursday December 3, 2009
Carr Center Talk
4:00pm-6:00pm
"Why We Need to Understand What Drives Change in Rural Afghanistan"
Speaker: Naysan Adlparvar, Doctoral Candidate Working in Afghanistan
Moderator: Matt Waldman, Carr Center Fellow
Carr Center Conference Room (R-219) 2nd Floor, Rubenstein Building, Harvard Kennedy School
Friday December 4, 2009
CID Graduate Student Luncheon Seminar
11:45am-1:00pm
"Salted Fish Don't Lay Eggs"
Speaker: Terry Parnell, Advisor at East West Management Institute's Biodiversity and Grassroots Advocacy, Cambodia
Co-sponsored by HKS Southeast Asia Caucus
Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor, Rubenstein Building, Harvard Kennedy School
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