The West Wing ’s Bradley Whitford (“Josh Lyman") joined moderator Lawrence O’Donnell, MSNBC host and former writer and executive producer of The West Wing, for a panel discussion on the making of the popular political drama. They were joined by Janel ...

Palestinian human rights activist and Executive Committee Member of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, addressed the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum on the current challenges to achieving peace in the contentious region. Moderated by Harv ...

Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab joined David Gergen at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum for a conversation about proactive solutions for many of the long-term problems the world is currently facing including poverty, i ...

Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach for America (TFA) and co-founder and current CEO of Teach For All, discussed efforts to engage TFA alumni in the fight for educational equity in the United States with HKS Dean David Ellwood. Kopp spoke on social entrepreneurs ...

Harvard University Professor of Ukrainian History, Serhii Plokhii, joined Belfer Center Director of Defense & Intelligence Projects BG Kevin Ryan (US Army retired), and Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow Eugene B. Kogan in a conversation abo ...

Controversial libertarian author Charles Murray discussed his latest book, Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010, with founder and editor of The Weekly Standard, William Kristol at the JFK Jr. Forum.  Murray touched on the effects of income i ...

Susan Hockfield delivered the 2014 Godkin Lecture on the role universities will play in shaping the future. She discussed how biology combined with engineering and physical sciences can revolutionize technology and the necessity of a national movement tha ...

Cello virtuoso Yo-Yo Ma discussed the importance of culture and cultural education through music.  In conversation with David Gergen, he described how his Harvard concentration of anthropology has served as a guiding framework for his approach in both mus ...

Matthew Bunn, Co-Principal Investigator for the Project on Managing the Atom, Laura Holgate, Senior Director at the National Security Council, and Samantha Pitts-Kiefer, Senior Program Officer at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, discussed how to prevent nuc ...

At the 2014 Goldsmith Awards, Candy Crowley accepted the Goldsmith Career Journalism Award and gave the keynote address for the ceremony. She focused on the role that social media and the 24/7 media cycle has played in the field of journalism and highligh ...