The Fletcher School - Events Calendar

03/02 ISSP LUNCHEON LECTURE "Meeting the Proliferation Challenge"

12:00 PM on Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Dr. Robert G. Joseph Senior Scholar at the National Institute for Public Policy

Location: Cabot 703

Contact: Linda Batista
Email: linda.batista@tufts.edu

03/03 SWAIC Lecture/Lunch by Professor Andrew Wilder,F'89

11:30 AM on Wednesday, March 3, 2010

The SWAIC Program is pleased to welcome back to Fletcher Professor Andrew Wilder. This event is a combination lecture/lunch. Please sign up in Cabot 603 to attend this event.

Location: Cabot 702-Fletcher

Contact: bernadette Kelley-Leccese
Email: bernie.kelley-leccese@tufts.edu

03/03 Pizza Lunch with Dean Sheehan

12:30 PM on Wednesday, March 3, 2010

This is a decidedly informal lunch, an opportunity to chat with Dean Sheehan, for him to learn a little more about you, and an opportunity for you to express concerns or ask questions about anything related to the School. Attendance is limited to a maximum of about 8 students per lunch to ensure that there is a chance for more than a cursory conversation. RSVP to sarah.strong@tufts.edu

Location: Cabot 407

Contact: Sarah Strong
Email: sarah.strong@tufts.edu

03/03 Roundtable Discussion on U.S. Role in Rebuilding Haiti

7:00 PM on Wednesday, March 3, 2010

What should the role of the U.S. be in rebuilding Haiti? Does the U.S. have a special historical obligation to help Haiti recover and rebuild? How can U.S. and international relief and development efforts be most effective and build upon local Haitian mechanisms of development and recovery? Join members of the Tufts faculty, Haitian scholars, and a U.S. Lieutenant Colonel for an interactive panel discussion about the appropriate role of the United States in Haiti's recovery. The program will include statements by each of the speakers, a panel discussion, and a Q&A session. An outcome paper with key takeaways, recommendations, and guiding principles will be published after the event. Speakers include LTC Dale R. Buckner, SSC Fellow at the Fletcher School; Alix Cantave, UMass Boston and Tufts UEP Program Lecturer and Associate Director of William Monroe Trotter Institute; Peniel Joseph, Tufts Professor of African-American History; and Katrina Swett, Tufts Professor of U.S. Forei

Location: Cabot ASEAN Auditorium

Contact: Helaina Stein
Email: helaina.stein@tufts.edu

03/04 Considering Copenhagen: Rethinking Climate Policy

5:30 PM on Thursday, March 4, 2010

The Considering Copenhagen Panel will bring together four experts on climate change policy to consider the results of the negotiations in Copenhagen with a particular focus on identifying the analytical gaps and research needs to inform international climate change policy going forward. The distinguished speakers include: Timothy E. Wirth, President, United Nations Foundation Adrian Fernandez Bremauntz, President, Instituto Nacional de Ecologia, Mexico Jim Watson, Director, Sussex Energy Group, Co-leader, Tyndall Centre Climate and Energy Programme, UK Dan Reifsnyder, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environment and Sustainable Development, US

Location: Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall

Contact: Mieke van der Wansem
Email: Mieke.Wansem@tufts.edu

03/04 Social Hour

6:00 PM on Thursday, March 4, 2010

An opportunity to socialize and enjoy some refreshments. If your department or student organization would like to sponsor this Social Hour, please contact Sarah Strong at sarah.strong@tufts.edu.

Location: Cabot Hall of Flags

Contact: Sarah Strong
Email: sarah.strong@tufts.edu

03/08 ISSP LUNCHEON LECTURE "II Marine Expeditionaray Force Global Footprint in Support of US National Se

12:00 PM on Monday, March 8, 2010

Lieutenant General Dennis J. Hejlik Commanding General, II Marine Expeditionary Force

Location: Cabot 703

Contact: Linda Batista
Email: linda.batista@tufts.edu

03/08 Fletcher Writers and Bloggers Network Roundtable

12:30 PM on Monday, March 8, 2010

Location: Cabot 205

Contact: Joshua Gross
Email: joshua.gross@tufts.edu

03/09 Pizza Lunch with Dean Sheehan

12:30 PM on Tuesday, March 9, 2010

This is a decidedly informal lunch, an opportunity to chat with Dean Sheehan, for him to learn a little more about you, and an opportunity for you to express concerns or ask questions about anything related to the School. Attendance is limited to a maximum of about 8 students per lunch to ensure that there is a chance for more than a cursory conversation. RSVP to sarah.strong@tufts.edu

Location: Cabot 407

Contact: Sarah Strong
Email: sarah.strong@tufts.edu

03/10 On-the-Job Training in the Turbulent Middle East: Assessing Obama's First Year

5:30 PM on Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Part of the Fares Lecture Series Spring 2010 Speaker:Rami Khouri Director, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut; Editor at large, The Daily Star newspaper(Beirut); Fares Center Visiting Scholar Spring 2010, Tufts University

Location: Cabot Intercultural Center Room 702

Contact: Omar A. Dauhajre
Phone: 617.627.6560
Email: fares-center@tufts.edu

03/11 Social Hour

6:00 PM on Thursday, March 11, 2010

An opportunity to socialize and enjoy some refreshments.

Location: Cabot Hall of Flags

Contact: Sarah Strong
Email: sarah.strong@tufts.edu

03/15 Pizza Lunch with Dean Sheehan

12:30 PM on Monday, March 15, 2010

This is a decidedly informal lunch, an opportunity to chat with Dean Sheehan, for him to learn a little more about you, and an opportunity for you to express concerns or ask questions about anything related to the School. Attendance is limited to a maximum of about 8 students per lunch to ensure that there is a chance for more than a cursory conversation. RSVP to sarah.strong@tufts.edu

Location: Cabot 407

Contact: Sarah Strong
Email: sarah.strong@tufts.edu

03/18 Social Hour

6:00 PM on Thursday, March 18, 2010

An opportunity to socialize and enjoy some refreshments.

Location: Cabot Hall of Flags

Contact: Sarah Strong
Email: sarah.strong@tufts.edu

03/23 Symposium: MDGs and Human Rights

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Symposium: MDGs and Human Rights Are the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and human rights complementary or conflicting? What are the consequences for the road to 2015 and beyond? Leading scholars and practitioners come together at Harvard on 22-23 March to discuss. Time and place: Mar 22, 2010 - Mar 23, 2010, Harvard University Add to calendar Keynote speakers include: Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights & Director, Realizing Rights Selim Jahan, Director, Poverty Practice, United Nations Development Programme Thomas Pogge, Professor, Yale University Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Professor, New School University, New York Otaviano Canuto, Vice President, World Bank Jean-Pierre Chauffour, Lead Economist, International Trade Department, World Bank Gay J. McDougall, UN Indendent Expert on Minority Issues Philip Alston, Professor, New York University School of Law (TBC) Symposium Agenda Registration There is no conference fee. Due to capacity r

Location: Harvard Law School

Contact: Kaitlyn Hennigan
Email: khennigan@law.harvard.edu

03/29 The 2009/10 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought

Monday, March 29, 2010

The Global Development and Environment Institute (GDAE), which is jointly affiliated with the Fletcher School and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, created the Leontief Prize in 2000 in memory of Nobel Prize-winning economist and GDAE advisory board member Wassily Leontief. The award recognizes economists whose work combines theoretical and empirical research that promotes a more comprehensive understanding of social and environmental processes.

Location: Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall

Contact: Lauren Denizard
Email: lauren.denizard@tufts.edu

03/29 Leontief Prize Ceremony

5:00 PM on Monday, March 29, 2010

Tufts University's Global Development And Environment Institute will award its Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought to Bina Agarwal of Delhi University in India and Daniel Kahneman of Princeton University. The award ceremony will take place March 29 at 5:00 pm at Tufts University and will feature lectures by the prize winners on the topic, "Development and Well-Being in Times of Crisis." The awards ceremony and Leontief Prize lectures will take place on Tufts University's Medford Campus, in the Coolidge Room of Ballou Hall, at 5:00 pm on March 29.

Location: Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall

Contact: Lauren Denizard
Phone: 617-627-3530
Email: Lauren.Denizard@tufts.edu

04/01 Pizza Lunch with Dean Sheehan

12:30 PM on Thursday, April 1, 2010

This is a decidedly informal lunch, an opportunity to chat with Dean Sheehan, for him to learn a little more about you, and an opportunity for you to express concerns or ask questions about anything related to the School. Attendance is limited to a maximum of about 8 students per lunch to ensure that there is a chance for more than a cursory conversation. RSVP to sarah.strong@tufts.edu

Location: Cabot 407

Contact: Sarah Strong
Email: sarah.strong@tufts.edu

04/01 Social Hour

6:00 PM on Thursday, April 1, 2010

An opportunity to socialize and enjoy some refreshments. If your department or organization would like to sponsor this Social Hour, please contact Sarah Strong at the email below.

Location: Cabot Hall of Flags

Contact: Sarah Strong
Email: sarah.strong@tufts.edu

04/03 Fiesta Latina Culture Night

9:00 PM on Saturday, April 3, 2010

Location: Dewick Dining Hall

Contact: Sarah Strong
Email: sarah.strong@tufts.edu

04/05 A Charles Francis Adams Lecture with Scottish Minister Jim Mather

12:30 PM on Monday, April 5, 2010

TITLE OF LECTURE: Scotland's Constitutional Approach to Independence BACKGROUND OF SPEAKER: Born in March 1947, Jim Mather MSP was educated at Paisley Grammar, Greenock High School and Glasgow University, where he studied accountancy, law and economics. In 1964, he became an apprentice chartered accountant, going on to work in the computer industry, latterly running his own business, before entering politics. From 2000 until 2004, he was the party's National Treasurer. At the 2003 Scottish Parliament election, Jim was elected as a Highlands and Islands MSP. As Shadow Enterprise and Economy Minister, he was a member of the SNP's Shadow Cabinet. Mr. Mather became the MSP for Argyll and Bute at the 2007 Scottish Parliament election and was appointed Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism. He has been involved in the development and promotion of the Economic Case for Independence and is a Director of Business for Scotland. He is married with two children. REGISTR

Location: Chase Center

Contact: Karen Mollung
Phone: 74963
Email: Karen.Mollung@tufts.edu

04/06 Pizza Lunch with Dean Sheehan

12:30 PM on Tuesday, April 6, 2010

This is a decidedly informal lunch, an opportunity to chat with Dean Sheehan, for him to learn a little more about you, and an opportunity for you to express concerns or ask questions about anything related to the School. Attendance is limited to a maximum of about 8 students per lunch to ensure that there is a chance for more than a cursory conversation. RSVP to sarah.strong@tufts.edu

Location: Cabot 407

Contact: Sarah Strong
Email: sarah.strong@tufts.edu

04/08 Social Hour

6:00 PM on Thursday, April 8, 2010

An opportunity to socialize and enjoy some refreshments.

Location: Cabot Hall of Flags

Contact: Sarah Strong
Email: sarah.strong@tufts.edu

04/13 Pizza Lunch with Dean Sheehan

12:30 PM on Tuesday, April 13, 2010

This is a decidedly informal lunch, an opportunity to chat with Dean Sheehan, for him to learn a little more about you, and an opportunity for you to express concerns or ask questions about anything related to the School. Attendance is limited to a maximum of about 8 students per lunch to ensure that there is a chance for more than a cursory conversation. RSVP to sarah.strong@tufts.edu

Location: Cabot 407

Contact: Sarah Strong
Email: sarah.strong@tufts.edu

04/14 Mosques, Malls and Monarchs: The New/Old Power Balance inside the Arab World

5:30 PM on Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Part of the Fares Lecture Series Spring 2010 Speaker: Rami Khouri Director, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut; Editor at large, The Daily Star newspaper(Beirut); Fares Center Visiting Scholar Spring 2010, Tufts University

Location: Cabot Intercultural Center Room 702

Contact: Omar A. Dauhajre
Phone: 617.627.6560
Email: fares-center@tufts.edu

04/15 Social Hour

6:00 PM on Thursday, April 15, 2010

An opportunity to socialize and enjoy some refreshments.

Location: Cabot Hall of Flags

Contact: Sarah Strong
Email: sarah.strong@tufts.edu

04/21 The Palestinian Exile and the Babylonian Exile: Reflections on the Arab-Israeli Conflict after 62 Ye

5:30 PM on Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Part of the Fares Lecture Series Spring 2010 Speaker: Rami Khouri Director, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut; Editor at large, The Daily Star newspaper(Beirut); Fares Center Visiting Scholar Spring 2010, Tufts University

Location: Cabot Intercultural Center Room 702

Contact: Omar A. Dauhajre
Phone: 617.627.6560
Email: fares-center@tufts.edu

04/22 Social Hour

6:00 PM on Thursday, April 22, 2010

An opportunity to socialize and enjoy some refreshments.

Location: Cabot Hall of Flags

Contact: Sarah Strong
Email: sarah.strong@tufts.edu

04/22 Fletcher Follies

7:00 PM on Thursday, April 22, 2010

Location: ASEAN Auditorium

Contact: Joshua Haynes
Email: joshua.haynes@tufts.edu

04/27 Blowing Hard and Shining Bright: Discussion of the rapid growth and future prospects for wind and so

12:20 PM on Tuesday, April 27, 2010

The renewable energy industry has experienced incredible growth over the last decade, creating a wide range of professional opportunities for individuals with diverse skill sets. The International Business Center Global Speaker Series with support from The Fletcher Energy Consortium is pleased to welcome Raimund Grube, F'99 President & COO of Element Power. Element Power has wind and solar operations throughout North America and Europe. Mr. Grube will discuss the rise of wind & solar power, the current marketplace dynamics and regulatory levers, and the range of professional opportunities in Renewable Energy well suited for Fletcher graduates. Please visit EventBrite for RSVP.

Location: Cabot Intercultural Center, 7th Floor

Contact: Angela Borseti
Email: angela.borseti@tufts.edu

04/27 Raimund Grube, CEO, Element Power* Tuesday, April 27th 12:20p.m. - 2:00p.m. The Cabot Intercultu

12:20 PM on Tuesday, April 27, 2010

04/29 ISSP LUNCHEON LECTURE

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Brigadier General Smith

Location: Cabot 703

Contact: SIGN UP IN CABOT 609
Email: linda.batista@tufts.edu

04/29 Social Hour

6:00 PM on Thursday, April 29, 2010

An opportunity to socialize and enjoy some refreshments.

Location: Cabot Hall of Flags

Contact: Sarah Strong
Email: sarah.strong@tufts.edu