Dates and Events 2008
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January 2008
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28th, Monday: Start of Spring Semester 2008
February 2008
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6th, Wednesday, 10:00 am: Wer bringt den Wandel im Weißen Haus? Expertenstimmen zum Super Tuesday more
12th, Tuesday, 06:30 pm: Lecture by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi on "The European Union as Transformation Agent"
more
15th, Friday, 06:00 pm: EU and American Approaches to Democracy Promotion: Comparisons and Contrasts (internal event) more
16th, Saturday, 10:00 am: Meet the Hertie School of Governance at the EU Studies Fair in Brussels more
17th, Sunday: Informationsmesse
zum Thema
"Karriere in internationalen Organisationen und EU-Institutionen"
more
27th, Wednesday: Dr. Amar Bhattacharya: "Reforming Voice and Representation at the Bretton Woods Institutions: A Global Governance Perspective"
more
March 2008
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5th, Wednesday, 11:00 am: Guest Lecture: Professor Mathias König-Archibugi (LSE) will speak on "Is global democracy possible?" more
7th, Friday: Special session of Quantitative Applications in Policy Evaluation with Professor Anibal Perez-Linan (internal event) more
20th, Thursday, 02:00 pm: Professor Jan Zielonka of Oxford University presents his book 'Europe as Empire: the Nature of the Enlarged European Union' (internal event)
more
21st, Friday: Public holiday
24th, Monday: Public holiday
April 2008
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9th, Wednesday, 12:00 pm: Brown Bag Lunch with Fritz Scharpf: "Constitutionalism Beyond the State" (internal event) more
10th, Thursday, 07:00 pm: HSoG Forum: An Ecological Market Economy -- Utopia or Realistic Model for the Future? With Reinhard Bütikofer, Federal Chairman of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, and Sascha Müller-Kraenner of The Nature Conservancy more
16th, Wednesday, 11:00 am: HSoG meets... S.E. Luiz Felipe de Seixas Corrêa, Brazilian Ambassador to Germany more
17th, Thursday, 11:00 am: Guest Lecture by Marc Morje Howard (Georgetown University) on "Varieties of Citizenship in the European Union" (internal event) more
18th, Friday, 02:00 pm: Joint HSoG-WLU student conference on Global Public Goods and Multi-Level Governance more
24th, Thursday, 12:00 pm: HSoG meets... Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble, Federal Minister of the Interior (internal event, held in German) more
24th, Thursday, 04:00 pm: Opening Event of the International Conference "10 Years of the European Monetary Union" more
25th, Friday: YPSilon – Hertie School’s Young Professionals Series: Hertie students meet with Hill & Knowlton Communications GmbH: Hardy Herlt, Senior Consultant, and Ulrike Gregor. (Internal event)
28th, Monday, 02:00 pm: Sven Giegold, Economist-Representative of BUND to the Council of Attac Deutschland Share e.V., speaks on successful internationally coordinated campaign tactics of transnational networks and organisations in Room 00.17 (internal Event).
May 2008
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1st, Thursday: Public holiday
9th, Friday: Last day of SS 2008
12th, Monday: Public holiday
12th, Monday - 18th, Sunday: Exam week
19th, Monday, 01:00 pm - 23rd, Friday: Oral defense of master's theses (internal event)
22nd, Thursday, 01:00 pm: Brown Bag Lunch with Oran Young, Arild Underdal,
and Andreas Rechkemmer: "Navigating the Sustainability Transition: Implications for Governance. Lessons from the IHDP" (internal event)
more
28th, Wednesday, 03:30 pm: "The End of the West? Transatlantic Challenges and the 2008 US Elections" more
29th, Thursday, 10:00 am: HSoG meets... H. Em. Ammar Al- Hakim, Vice President of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC) more
June 2008
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6th, Friday, 02:00 pm: Verwaltungspolitisches Kolloquium: 'Echte' Kommunalisierung von öffentlichen Aufgaben more (in German)
12th, Thursday, 10:00 am: Conference "Democracy in Spaces of Conflict Between Deliberation, Participation and Representation" more (in German)
18th, Wednesday, 07:00 pm: Geschlechtergerechte Friedens- und Sicherheitspolitik: "Brauchen wir einen Aktionsplan zur Umsetzung der UN-Resolution 1325?" more (in German)
19th, Thursday, 12:30 pm: Faculty lunch with Dean David Ellwood of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (internal event)
19th, Thursday, 02:00 pm: HSoG meets... Dean David Ellwood of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University more
23rd, Monday, 03:30 pm: WirtschaftsWoche Streitgespräch: "Soziale Marktwirtschaft - Modell mit Zukunft oder von der Vergangenheit überholt?" more
July 2008
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4th, Friday, 02:00 pm: Verwaltungspolitisches Kolloquium: "Wie Staat und Bürgergesellschaft in Europa zusammenarbeiten - Ergebnisse einer international vergleichenden Bürgerbefragung" more (in German)
August 2008
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31st, Sunday: End of academic year
September 2008
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1st, Monday: start of Academic Year 2008/2009
1st, Monday - 5th, Friday: MPP Orientation Week
5th, Friday, 04:00 pm: Inauguration of the MPP Class of 2010 and EMPM with keynote address by Professor Richard Higgott (University of Warwick) more
6th, Saturday, 07:00 pm: HSoG Alumni Dinner
8th, Monday: start of Fall Semester
15th, Monday, 06:00 pm: Establishing Command Responsibility for War Crimes: lecture by Professor Terry Karl (Stanford University) more
16th, Tuesday, 06:00 pm: Overcoming the Resource Curse: Why Transparency is Not Enough: lecture by Professor Terry Karl (Stanford University), in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation more
17th, Wednesday, 02:00 pm: Executive Education 2008 / 2009 launch with Dr. Wolfgang Clement, former German Federal Minister of Economics and Labour more
24th, Wednesday, 12:00 pm: Schlossplatz³ launches issue 5: Water (internal event)
25th, Thursday: Board of Trustees meeting, Initiative Deutsche Sprache
29th, Monday, 01:00 pm: HSoG meets… Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework for the Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC): The Bali Road Map: Progress to Date and the Challenges Lying Ahead
October 2008
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3rd, Friday - 4th, Saturday: Balancing Federal Systems: Implications for Politics and Policy: annual conference, International Political Science Association (IPSA) more
3rd, Friday: public holiday
8th, Wednesday, 11:00 am: HSoG meets... Hael Al-Fahoum, General Delegate, Palestine - Ambassador Series
more
9th, Thursday - 11th, Saturday: The Decline and Rise of Public Spaces: international conference, in cooperation with CivWorld @ Demos (New York) and the support of the US Embassy (Berlin) more
16th, Thursday, 11:00 am: HSoG Speaker Series: James Vreeland, The International Monetary Fund
22nd, Wednesday: signing of the cooperation agreement between the Hertie School of Governance and the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) more
22nd, Wednesday, 06:00 pm: Democracy Without Borders? Global Challenges to Liberal Democracy: book presentation by Marc Plattner, Editor, Journal of Democracy
24th, Friday, 01:15 pm: HSoG Speaker Series: William Roberts Clark, Monetary Institutions, Electoral Cycles, and the Survival of Leaders
29th, Wednesday, 11:00 am: HSoG meets... Yoram Ben-Zeev, Ambassador, Israel - Ambassador Series more
30th, Thursday, 06:00 pm: Finanzmarktkrise und Realwirtschaft: keynote speech by Prof. Dr. Norbert Walter as part of the Industrietagung 2008 (organised by DIW Berlin)
November 2008
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4th, Tuesday, 11:59 pm: HSoG US Election Night
6th, Thursday, 01:00 pm: US Elections 2008: discussion with Prof. Andrea Römmele, Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn, and Parag Khanna (New America Foundation) - chaired by Patrik Schwarz, Die Zeit more
9th, Sunday - 10th, Monday: Divided, United - Germany Between Self-Assertion and Alliance Discipline: Deutschlandforschertagung 2008, with keynote address by German Foreign Minister Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in cooperation with the German Federal Agency for Civic Education more
13th, Thursday, 06:00 pm: Convergence of Environmental Policies in Europe: lecture by Prof. Dr. Katharina Holzinger (University of Konstanz, Germany) more
19th, Wednesday, 11:00 am: HSoG Plenary
20th, Thursday, 04:00 pm: HSoG Speaker Series: Markus Jachtenfuchs, The Architecture of Multi-Level Governance: European Integration and the Regulation of Taxation
December 2008
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3rd, Wednesday, 07:00 pm: Durchdacht: Das politische Gespräch an der Hertie School of Governance: Abgestürzt: Die Finanzkrise - Ausdruck einer allgemeinen Krise des Kapitalismus?: discussion with Prof. Dr. Kurt Biedenkopf more
4th, Thursday, 04:00 pm: HSoG Speaker Series: Xinyuan Dai, What Does the Compliance Gap Tell Us About Global Governance?
5th, Friday - 7th, Sunday: HSoG Model United Nations: Simulating the Security Council on the Conflict in East Timor, 1999 more
12th, Friday: last day of classes
25th, Thursday - 26th, Friday: public holiday
