II GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY SEMINAR

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1 II GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY SEMINAR In collaboration with the Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government Directors MARTA REY-GARCÍA University of A Coruña SEBASTIÁN ROYO Suffolk University 79 JOHN F. KENNEDY STREET ROOM NYE A HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL September 2017

2 OBJECTIVES The goals of this Seminar are to explore the latest developments impacting civil societies internationally, and specifically in the intersection of the four seminar themes: 1) challenges and opportunities faced by civil societies across the world; 2) new trends in civil society organizations governance; 3) the interface between civil society, the business sector and government; and 4) social innovation as impact of civil society in response to pressing glo bal problems. PROGRAM Monday 18 th : 09:00 WELCOME 10:30 Johanna Mair Professor of Organization, Strategy and Leadership at the Hertie School of Governance Innovation and Scaling for Impact How effective social enterprises do it 12:30 Lunch break 14:00 Peter Hall Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University A Broken Social Contract? The Roots of Populism and its Challenges for Europe. 16:00 Alnoor Ebrahim Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University Measuring Social Change TUESDAY 19 th 09:00 Julie Battilana Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, and Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School. Becoming a change maker. 11:00 Grzegorz Ekiert Professor of Government, Harvard University Civil society research - analytical and empirical terrain. 13:00 Lunch break 15:00 Field visit: MIT s social innovation initiatives WEDNESDAY 20 th 09:00 Michele Lamont Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies; Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies, Harvard University The Recognition Gap: Making Sense of Trump s Triumph through the Transformation of Symbolic Boundaries 11:00 Field visit: Oxfam 13:00 Lunch break 14:00 Practitioners Social Innovation & Change Initiative (SICI) 16:00 John Ruggie Berthold Beitz Professor of International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Corporate Responsibility and New Governance Models

THURSDAY 21 th 09:00 Beth Simmons Andrea Mitchell University Professor of Law and Political Science, University of Pennsylvania Borders and Boundaries in International Relations 11:00 Wrap-up Session

Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School.

3 THURSDAY 21 th 09:00 Beth Simmons Andrea Mitchell University Professor of Law and Political Science, University of Pennsylvania Borders and Boundaries in International Relations 11:00 Wrap-up Session 12:00 End of the Seminar Biographies of Lecturers JULIE BATTILANA is a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School. She currently teaches the second-year Power and Influence course and in previous years has taught the first-year Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD) course in the MBA program. She also teaches in the doctoral program and in executive education offerings. Professor Battilana s research examines the process by which organizations or individuals initiate and implement changes that diverge from the taken-for-granted norms in a field of activity. ALNOOR EBRAHIM is a Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. His research and teaching focus on the challenges of performance management, accountability, and governance facing organizations with a social purpose. His research examines the challenges of performance measurement, accountability, and governance facing organizations with a social purpose. He teaches courses on Leadership, International Business Strategy, and Managing NGOs and Social Enterprises. He also co-chairs the Schwab Social Entrepreneurs executive education program at the Harvard Kennedy School. * Program might be subject to changes

GRZEGORZ EKIERT is Professor of Government, Director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and Senior Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.

His current projects explore civil society development in new democracies in Central Europe and East Asia and patterns of transformations in postcommunist world.

HALL is Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, a Faculty Associate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and Co-Director of the Program on Successful Societies for the

He is currently working on issues in the methods of political science, the political response to economic challenges in postwar Europe, and the impact of social institutions on inequalities in

4 GRZEGORZ EKIERT is Professor of Government, Director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and Senior Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. His teaching and research interests focus on comparative politics, regime change and democratization, civil society and social movements, and East European politics and societies. His current projects explore civil society development in new democracies in Central Europe and East Asia and patterns of transformations in postcommunist world. He is also faculty associate of Davis Center for Russian Studies, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Member of the Club of Madrid Advisory Committee. PETER A. HALL is Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, a Faculty Associate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and Co-Director of the Program on Successful Societies for the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He has co-edited or authored several books as well as over seventy articles on European politics, public policy-making, and comparative political economy. He is currently working on issues in the methods of political science, the political response to economic challenges in postwar Europe, and the impact of social institutions on inequalities in population health. MICHELE LAMONT is Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies at Harvard University. She is the recipient of the 2017 Erasmus prize for her contributions to the social sciences in Europe and the rest of the world. A cultural and comparative sociologist, Lamont is the author of a dozen books and edited volumes and over one hundred articles and chapters on a range of topics including culture and inequality, racism and stigma, academia and knowledge, social change and successful societies, and qualitative methods. Lamont is Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; and Co-director of the Successful Societies Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. In , she is serving as President of the American Sociological Association. JOHANNA MAIR is Professor for Organization, Strategy and Leadership at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. Her research focuses on how novel organisational and institutional arrangements generate economic and social development. Mair is also the Distinguished Fellow at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and Academic Editor of the Stanford Social Innovation Review. She is the academic co-director of the Social Innovation and Change Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School and has held visiting positions at Harvard Business School and INSEAD. She serves on the board of foundations and organisations and advises companies, governments and social impact investors on social innovation.

JOHN RUGGIE is the Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, Affiliated Professor in International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, and

Trained as a political scientist, Ruggie has made significant intellectual contributions to the study of international relations, focusing on the impact of globalization on global rule making.

5 JOHN RUGGIE is the Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, Affiliated Professor in International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, and Faculty Chair of the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative. Trained as a political scientist, Ruggie has made significant intellectual contributions to the study of international relations, focusing on the impact of globalization on global rule making. Ruggie has long been involved in practical policy work. From he was United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Strategic Planning a post created specifically for him by then Secretary-General Kofi Annan. His responsibilities included establishing and overseeing the UN Global Compact, and proposing and gaining General Assembly approval for the Millennium Development Goals. From 2005 to 2011 he served as the Secretary-General s Special Representative for Business and Human Rights. In that capacity he developed the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which the UN Human Rights Council endorsed unanimously. BETH SIMMONS is Andrea Mitchell University Professor of Law and Political Science, University of Pennsylvania. She researches and teaches international relations, international law and international political economy. She is currently conducting research in three areas: global performance assessments as informal governance mechanisms in international affairs; international border crossings, and international and transnational crime. Simmons has spent a year working at the International Monetary Fund, directed the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard, and has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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