June 24, 2014 – Author, scholar, journalist, former politician and Professor of Practice Michael Ignatieff has been named to the Edward R. Murrow Chair of Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). His full-time appointment begins July 1, and he will serve as a faculty affiliate at the School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics

May 21, 2014 – Discussion with Aneesh Chopra, former (and first) U.S. Chief Technology Officer. Co-sponsored with the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government.

April 28, 2014 – “Putin, Crimea—Back to the USSR? Approaches to Prevent, Resolve and Transform Conflict in US-Russian Relations.” Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution with Bruce Allyn, Senior Fellow at the Harvard Negotiation Project and Adjunct Faculty member at the University of Oregon Law School; and Jill Dougherty,  Joan Shorenstein Fellow and former CNN foreign

April 10, 2014 – “Partisanship in the Non-Partisan Press: The Implications of Media Bias for Democracy.” Partisan Media Seminar Series with Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania; and Jesse Shapiro, Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. Moderator: Thomas Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government