GSAS Alumni Day

Saturday, April 2, 2011

You are warmly invited to attend the Graduate School’s lively annual celebration! Hear faculty symposia from across the disciplines, and enjoy a collegial luncheon at the Harvard Faculty Club!

Featuring a keynote address by Professor Kenneth Rogoff, a premier thinker on matters related to national and global economic policies. Rogoff is a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and section chief at the International Finance Division of the US Federal Reserve Bank. Co-author of the recent bestseller This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, and sought after by policymakers around the world, Rogoff will explore our current fiscal dilemmas in a talk entitled “From Financial Crash to Debt Crisis.”

You can read selections from Rogoff's economic analysis in a series of op-ed commentaries, collectively titled The Unbound Economy.

Registration is now closed.

9:15-10 a.m.	Registration and Continental Breakfast Emerson Hall Lobby
10 a.m.	Welcoming Remarks Emerson Hall 105 ALLAN M. BRANDT Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine, Professor of the History of Science Keynote Address: From Financial Crash to Debt Crisis KENNETH ROGOFF Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy
12-1:15 p.m.	Luncheon Harvard Faculty Club
1:15-2:45 p.m.	Symposia I (select one) High-Throughput Science HANSPETER PFISTER Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science Counter-insurgency and the Resurgence of Empire CAROLINE ELKINS Professor of African and African-American Studies and of History Computer Assisted Conceptualization GARY KING Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor, Department of Government; Director, Institute for Quantitative Social Science
3:15-4:45 p.m.	Symposia II (select one) How Can We Prevent Blindness? From Basic Science to the Clinic CONSTANCE CEPKO Professor of Ophthalmology, Professor of Genetics Punishment and Inequality in America BRUCE WESTERN Professor of Sociology All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age SEAN KELLY Professor of Philosophy
4:45-5:30 p.m.	Reception Harvard Faculty Club

A block of rooms for Alumni Weekend has been reserved at the Sheraton Commander Hotel. For more information, please click here. Parking is available on Alumni Day at the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street.

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