Upcoming Events:
Tuesday, Sept. 29: Information Session with LUNCH (Pound 108, noon)
Thursday, Oct. 1: Student Government Pub Night at Queen’s Head 5:30-7:00 pm (free beer and wine).
1Ls: Come early (at 5:00 pm) to meet your Student Government and learn more about elections!
Friday, Oct. 2: Student Government candidacy statements due at 11:59 pm.
Wednesday, Oct. 7 – Friday, Oct. 9: Student Government Elections
A quick look at our recent accomplishments:
And better than ever! The first Student Gov Pub Night this year will be at Queenshead on Thursday, October 1, from 5:30 to 7:00 (we’re mixing things up, keeping it real…you know how it goes). We’ll send out a reminder email but mark it in your calendars now!
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Tired of studying for finals? Go on a date – or twelve. Here’s a report from HGC rep Nilab Rahyar ’10:
Single? Want the chance to meet other single Harvard graduate students?
Try Speed Dating!
When: Thursday, May 7th
Appetizers and sign-in begins at 6:30pm–Please arrive on time. We need
everyone there for dates to begin.
Where: Vinalia Restaurant Lounge and Wine Bar
101 Arch Street
Boston, MA 02110
(Near Park St. and Downtown Crossing Stations)
www.vinaliaboston.com
Cost: $10 (via pay pal)
Registration Details: Due to the popularity of these events, and to make the
registration process more fair, everyone who registers for opposite sex speed
dating will be placed in a lottery for a spot at the event. We will notify you
if you have been randomly selected by email on Monday, May 4th. If you
are not selected you will be refunded your registration fee. We hope that this
change ensures that even if you’re not at your computer the moment registration
opens, you still have an equal chance of going to the event!
Dating: Round robin style, 2.5 minute dates. We have space for opposite and
same-sex speed daters.
Sign up online at: http://harvardspeeddating.com/ Registration ***opens*** on
Friday, May 1. Enjoy!
For questions about speed dating contact:harvardspeedating@yahoo.com
Brought to you by the Harvard Graduate Council
Cheers,
Ashley
UPDATE: Dodgeball was a huge success: lots of beer was drunk, balls were thrown, and beers were thrown…
Sixteen teams competed, and congrats to the winning team: “Wish this were softball.”
The HLS Student Government is pleased to announce the return of a great institution: DODGEBALL.
Friday, April 24, you will have license to drink (free) beer and then throw red balls off of your classmates.
Get your teams together. We have room for 16 teams made up of fifteen or more players. The tournament will be a one-afternoon event near the Hark. The opening round will start at about 3:30. The Championship Game should be finished by 7:30.
We understand that getting 15 people together may be difficult, so we will allow you to submit partial teams of either 5 or 10 players. These partial teams will be grouped together to form the proper number. Because of the time and space constraints, priority will be given to the full 15 player teams.
The sign ups will start Thursday, April 15 at noon, first come first serve. We will send another email that morning with these registration details, but have your teams ready!
Tonight’s Hark Pub will be cosponosored by SALSA. Be sure to come out for some great food and great drinks.
The Harvard Graduate Council is sponsoring two events in the immediate future:
1. A talk with Steven Pinker, entitled “Language as a Window into Human Nature.” Thursday, April 9th, at 7 PM in the Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall.
2. Harvard Graduate Leaders Summit. Monday, April 13th, 5:30 PM in Paine Hall. This will be a gathering of more than 140 leaders of student groups from across HLS’s campuses. Register here (free dinner included): http://www.harvardleaderssummit.com/
David
Here’s yet another great event that you might want to know about.
Brian
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2009 International Arbitration Conference at Harvard Law School
The Organizing Committee of Harvard Law School’s International Arbitration Conference would like to invite you for a one-day conference on Saturday, April 4, 2009 at Austin Hall at Harvard Law School. This year’s conference is entitled “Overcoming the Future Challenges to International Arbitration”.
The speakers will include Mr. Brian King, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Ms. Anne Marie Whitesell, Of Counsel at Dechert and the former Secretary General of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, and more than 10 other academics and partners from various universities and International Arbitration Law firms from around the world.
There will be lots of great discussion, free food (starting with a sumptuous breakfast) and many opportunities to network.
Don’t have a job yet? Well, come learn about one of the growing fields of law in this contracting economy. It is well known that 6 months to 1 year after a major crisis, there is a spike in domestic and international litigation. If you speak more than one language, this could be the job for you. Join the partners for a satisfying lunch at Harkness Commons South.
More information at: http://www.law.harvard.edu/calendar/?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eventid%3d83448822
and: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=593181819&ref=ts#/event.php?eid=75600761971
More than 800 students have voted in the student government election, and here are the results. Congratulations to the 2009-2010 Student Government!
President: Brian Aune ‘10
Vice-President: Jennifer Dein ‘11
Treasurer: Hrishi Hari ‘11
Student Advocate: Marissa Ronk ‘11
Internal Affairs Coordinator: Ilana Ettinger ‘11
3L Representatives
Sheila Lopez ’10
Andrea Miller ’10
Jessica Nachman ’10
Peter Ostrovski ’10
Maxine Perkins ‘10
Nilab Rahyar ‘10
2L Representatives
Jon Kurland ‘11
Sam Matthew ‘11
Pablo Ros ‘11
Will Scharf ‘11
SEVEN
SEVEN is a groundbreaking work of theater that captures the remarkable lives of a diverse and courageous group of women leaders around the world. A collaboration by seven playwrights, the play is based on personal interviews with seven women who have triumphed over enormous obstacles to bring about major changes in their home countries. SEVEN is one of the most inspirational plays being performed around the world right now and will be performed right here in Burden Auditorium for the Harvard Community. The same actors will be performing SEVEN at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC on March 19th! Find out more at www.sevenplay.org.
In addition to the performers, we are fortunate to be able to have the women leaders present for the event for a panel session after the hour long performance.
The performance will be open to the Harvard Community – you can secure a ticket ($7) at:
Here’s an event for tomorrow night that is sponored by the HGC that sounds like a lot of fun:
Brian
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It’s a (pre-emptive) St. Patrick’s Day Celebration…
“Your Lucky Night”
Thursday, March 12th
9 o’clock pm
McFadden’s Restaurant and Saloon (near Faneuil Hall)
148 State Street, Boston
http://www.mcfaddensboston.com/
*NO cover charge
*FREE pint of Guinness for first 100 to arrive
LIVE Irish music 9:30-10:30pm
Grab a buddy and join us at one of Boston’s most dynamic establishments for a
night of Irish-themed revelry. Come early to get your FREE pint o’ Guinness and
stay to enjoy the lively music and pleasant company.
Brought to you by Harvard Graduate Council
There is a great event being put on today by the Program on Law and Social Change that promises to bring together several of HLS’ top minds. See the information below for details.
Brian
“Event: Open conversation on comparative “modes” of social change with HLS professors (Wednesday, Feb. 25, 5:00-6:30pm, Austin East), followed by refreshments and mingling.
Dear Law & Social Change-ers,
We are very excited to announce our first formal event of the semester! Our Program of Study thinks about law and social change not only along subject matter lines (like the environment, religious freedom, or criminal justice) but also according to different modes of action (like institutional reform, social movements, and litigation). Last semester, at a focus group discussion with our faculty co-directors, Professors Martha Minow and Ben Sachs, students expressed a great interest in exploring the comparative utility of these various modes of social change. (You can find a description of the Program of Study at http://www.law.harvard.edu/academics/degrees/jd/pos/lawsocchange/index.html).
Next Wednesday’s event will bring together over 15 HLS professors and students in our Program to explore this topic. Professors who have already expressed an intention to participate include Larry Tribe, Charlie Nesson, Mark Tushnet, Bill Rubenstein, Carol Steiker, Lucie White, Rachel Brewster, Phil Heymann, Bill Stuntz, Yochai Benkler, Brian Price, Phillip Malone, Joe Singer, Terry Fisher and Jed Shugerman.
Professors Minow and Sachs will start the conversation and then invite comments with an emphasis on four topics:
(1) reflections on distinctive modes of effective law and social change work;
(2) narratives of effective law and social change efforts;
(3) lines of research that shed light on this topic; and
(4) comments on how students who are interested in law and social change can and should spend their time in law school.
Profs. Minow and Sachs have generously offered to provide refreshments after the discussion so that faculty and students can continue the conversation in a more casual setting. If there is a good chance (about 70%) that you will attend the event, please let us know by Monday (2/23) at noon so that we can purchase an appropriate quantity of food and drink. Please RSVP to ahalegua@law.harvard.edu.
This promises to be an extremely exciting event and a very electrifying start to our semester. We hope that you will be part of it!”
The Committee on Sports and Entertainment Law is hosting a symposium on March 13 and 14 entitled:
Resisting the Recession:
Growth Opportunities for Sports in an Economic Downturn
The keynote speaker will be Andrew Zimbalist. Admission is free. See the following link for more info:
http://csel.wordpress.com/spring-2009-symposium/
Brian
The following update is from one our HGC Reps, Annie Levin:
Here’s the report from tonight’s meeting:
1. The Advocacy Committee is restructuring, becoming one larger committee rather than several smaller ones, in order to better coordinate advocacy issues. The committee would like at least one representative from each school; we need to determine which of our reps will serve on that committee.
2. Every year the HGC sponsors a “Presidents’ Summit” for the student government presidents from each grad school. This year, they are thinking of combining it with the Harvard College “Club President Summit” in April. More details at the next meeting.
3. There is potentially a “town hall” meeting in the works, to allow graduate students to voice concerns with a high-ranking Harvard official. Date and time (and Harvard official) still pending.
4. The Events Committee is working on a “Developing Dialogues” event to bring students from different schools together in an academic setting. Ideas of speakers and topics are welcome from all HGC reps.
5. There is a speed dating event next Wednesday, March 4. The following advertisement should be made available to the student body:
Single? Want the chance to meet other single Harvard graduate students?
Try Speed Dating!
When: Wednesday, March 4th
Appetizers begin at 6:30pm–Please arrive on time. We need everyone there for
dates to begin.
Where: Vinalia Restaurant Lounge and Wine Bar
101 Arch Street
Boston, MA 02110
(Near Park St. and Downtown Crossing Stations)
www.vinaliaboston.com
Cost: $10 (via pay pal)
Registration Details: Due to the popularity of these events, and to make the
registration process more fair, everyone who registers for opposite sex speed
dating will be placed in a lottery for a spot at the event. We will notify you
if you have been randomly selected by email on Saturday February 28th. If you
are not selected you will be refunded your registration fee. We hope that this
change ensures that even if you’re not at your computer the moment registration
opens, you still have an equal chance of going to the event!
Dating: Round robin style, 2.5 minute dates. We have space for opposite and
same-sex speed daters.
Sign up online at: http://harvardspeeddating.com/
For questions about speed dating contact: harvardspeeddating@gmail.com
Brought to you by the Harvard Graduate Council
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The Events Committee is also planning more speed dating events, a St. Patrick’s Day party, and an end of the year party.
The HGC is sponsoring Beer School tonight and Queen’s Head. And while it’s not free, it still looks like a pretty good opportunity to try some great beer. Details below.
Brian
“BEER SCHOOL WEDNESDAY 5 PM!
Come grab your tickets for HARPOON BEER SCHOOL, Wednesday at 5 pm at the Cambridge Queen’s Head!
Harpoon will be bringing and speaking about their signature 100 Barrel and Leviathan Series, as well as their Celtic Ale and our very own 1636. Tickets are $10 at the bar, grab them any time during the day.
$10 buys you at least 4 frosty beverages with matched food to go with each. Tickets are going fast, so grab yours today!”