6 • Turkey.

“THE POLLSTERS” A podcast taping with two of the country's leading pollsters.

MILLENNIALS: RUNNING FOR OFFICE, SERVING IN OFFICE

TECH AND POLITICS: GETTING A JOB

WORKING IN THE NATION’S CAPITAL Adams House Lower Common Room, 26 Plympton Street, Cambridge, MA

U.S. Representative Joaquin Castro joined David Gergen for a conversation on the House Foreign Affairs and Armed Services Committees. He spoke of the Latino population in the United States as an aspirational community working its way up the American socioeconomic ladder, and was hopeful for a compromise between both parties in Congress for a path to citizenship. He also elaborated on his theory of the American infrastructure of opportunity, including good schools, healthcare, and an economy built around well paying jobs. Douglas Elmendorf, Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, introduced the program.

We will discuss trends affecting millennials—both the world they will graduate into and how they are shaping the world.

Seminar VI: Art as Experience: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Mar 31

Peter Maurer

President, International Committee of the Red Cross

Michael Ignatieff

Edward R. Murrow Professor of the Practice of Politics and the Press, HKS

Jacqueline Bhabha (Moderator)

Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, HSPH
Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer, HLS
Director of Research, FXB Center for Health & Human Rights

 

 

Panelists Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, and Michael Ignatieff, the Edward Murrow Professor of the Practice of Politics and the Press at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, joined moderator Jacqueline Bhabha, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, for a panel discussion to reflect on the issues of humanitarian intervention in the Syrian crisis. The panelists discussed the changing dynamic of delivering humanitarian aid in a highly politicized environment, as well as the challenges of understanding the risks and needs of the millions of people affected by the war.

Peter MaurerPresident, International Committee of the Red Cross

Who knew?  One of the biggest impediments to progress in government is the steps we take to keep from making a mistake, or taking the blam

A Discussion Moderat