Events

October 21, 2010 — When Eric Pooley started writing The Climate War three years ago, he didn’t think the book was going to be a “whodunit.” At the time, he recalled, the climate-change debate was shifting from scientific questions to matters of politics and economics — “‘Is this real?’ to ‘What the heck are we […]

October 19, 2010 – Kelman Seminar with Robert Rotberg, World Peace Foundation, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; and Gwen Thompkins, NPR. Co-sponsored by the Program on Negotiation; the Nieman Foundation for Journalism; the Shorenstein Center; the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; and Boston area members of the Alliance […]

October 19, 2010 – Tracy Kidder, A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence at the Shorenstein Center; author of The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, Old Friends, Hometown, Mountains Beyond Mountains, My Detachment and Strength in What Remains.

October 19, 2010 — Tracing the path of the Democratic Party from the sweep of the 2008 elections to the possible “tidal wave” facing the 2010 midterm elections, Ari Berman, political correspondent for The Nation, spoke to the Shorenstein Center about his new book, Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape […]

October 13, 2010 – A conversation with Tracy Kidder, A.M. Rosenthal Writer in Residence at the Shorenstein Center; author of the following books of narrative nonfiction: The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, Old Friends, Hometown, Mountains Beyond Mountains, My Detachment and Strength in What Remains. Moderated by Darcy Frey. Co-sponsored with Harvard Writers at Work.

October 12, 2010 — Shorenstein Center Director Alex S. Jones introduced David Holtzman as “one of the most authoritative voices” in the area of digital privacy. Holtzman is the former CTO of Network Solutions and author of Privacy Lost: How Technology Is Endangering Your Privacy. Holtzman opened his Shorenstein Center talk by asking the audience […]

October 7, 2010 – Environmental Filmmaking Workshop with Chris Palmer, MPA ’79, Director, Center for Environmental Filmmaking.

October 7, 2010 — Twenty-six days out from the 2010 midterm elections, Peter D. Hart looked at whether Democrats should expect a “Category 3 or 5 Hurricane.” The chairman of Peter D. Hart Research Associates and one of the leading U.S. analysts of public opinion survey research spoke at a Shorenstein Center event co-sponsored with […]

October 6, 2010 — David L. Halberstam died doing what he loved, hunting down a story. The intrepid author, reporter, and Harvard graduate who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Vietnam War, which called into question the American military strategy in the conflict, died in a 2007 car crash. He was 73, […]

October 4, 2010 — Jaron Lanier, partner architect at Microsoft Research and innovator in residence at the Annenberg School of the University of Southern California, led a Shorenstein Center discussion about “Seeing Through the Fog of Digital Fads.” Lanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget … A Manifesto, explained that what is needed in […]