Events

February 3, 2016 — Bob Schieffer, Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow, veteran CBS reporter, and former moderator of “Face the Nation,” discussed this week’s Iowa Caucuses, and looked ahead to the upcoming primaries and general election. Establishment Republicans are beginning to realize that Donald Trump and Ted Cruz can no longer be “laughed off,” […]

Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution featuring speakers: Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Photographer; 2016 Ruth Cowan Nash Nieman Fellow Susan Hackley, Managing Director, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School; Project Founder, A Child’s Guide to War This series is sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; the Nieman Foundation for Journalism; Program […]

Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution featuring speakers: Yavuz Baydar, Turkish journalist and former Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Fall 2014) Lenore Martin, Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Emmanuel College This series is sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; the Nieman Foundation […]

This event is restricted to students. Attendance capacity is 30 people. If we exceed capacity, we will take people on a first-come first-served basis. We will notify you either way by November 19 if you can attend. Please click here to register. David Ignatius writes a twice-a-week foreign affairs column for The Washington Post and […]

Voices in Leadership Event Series at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health  Live webcast. Those with Harvard ID are invited to attend in person — RSVP here to enter the random lottery for a seat. To watch the live webcast online, no registration is needed; visit the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health […]

November 17, 2015 — The Shorenstein Center closed its fall semester event series with a conversation with the fall 2015 Joan Shorenstein Fellows: David Ensor, former director of Voice of America, Marie Sanz, Lima, Peru bureau chief, AFP, and Paul Wood, foreign correspondent, BBC. The panel discussion focused on the November 13 terrorist attacks in […]

“Our criminal justice system isn’t as smart as it should be.” — President Obama, July 15, 2015 This summer, President Obama addressed the 106th NAACP convention to lay out the reasons we need to reform the criminal justice system. The numbers speak for themselves. The U.S. has 2.2 million prisoners, up 400% since 1977. The U.S. has […]

As a bestselling author, 2015 MacArthur fellow, and national correspondent for The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates has emerged as one of the foremost thinkers about race and racial issues in America. His book, Between the World and Me, winner of the 2015 National Book Award,  has brought a personal and powerful voice to bear on the centuries-old legacy of violence inflicted […]

November 10, 2015 — Former fellow and TV news producer Richard N. Kaplan returned to the Shorenstein Center to discuss the 2016 election, including the debates and the role of the media, and the need for serious journalism. Kaplan has worked for CBS, ABC, CNN and MSNBC, and served as executive producer for Walter Cronkite, […]

November 6, 2015 — A panel of experts discussed the benefits and drawbacks of polling at the Shorenstein Center, continuing the conversation sparked by the previous night’s Theodore H. White Lecture on “The Press and the Polls,” delivered by Jill Lepore. Panelists included: Candy Crowley, former anchor and political correspondent, CNN and Fall Fellow, Harvard […]