Harvard Club of Ottawa
What happened in the US election and why? What does it mean for the US and Canada? On November 12, join fellow alums as we process the results of the 2020 US election! Our esteemed panelists will include: David Shribman is an American-Canadian journalist and author who has written for the Washington Star, the New York […]
We invite all club members to join us for this wonderful event with the award-winning film and television producer Zarqa Nawaz, creator of Little Mosque on the Prairie. She will share what inspires her to choose her projects, or rather why they choose her. Most recently she is developing a comedy called ZARQA (trailer: https://zarqanawaz.com/), […]
How it worked and why it mattered The Harvard Club of Ottawa would like to invite you to the following event. On Monday, March 8th, International Women's Day, we will be honoured to have as our guest panelists, Maureen O’Neil and the Honourable Monique Begin, on the topic "Fifty years since the Royal Commission […]
Dr Mark Carney is UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance and Prime Minister Johnson’s Finance Adviser for COP26. He was previously Governor of the Bank of England (from 2013 to 2020), and Governor of the Bank of Canada (from 2008 to 2013). Dr Carney has been nominated as a candidate for the Harvard […]
A Livestream Concert Please join the Harvard Club of Ottawa for a Sunday afternoon of classical music with duo AnNat (Anna Klochkova, violin, and Natalia Bibik-Chabukiani, piano), followed by a Zoom reception. The program will include music from Mozart, Brahms and Debussy. Date: Sunday, March 28th 2021 4:00pm EST Natalia Bibik-Chabukiani is a graduate of […]
The Harvard Club of Ottawa Book Club is pleased to host the 2020 Taylor Prize winner for non-fiction: local writer, historian, political commentator, and lawyer, Mark Bourrie. Join us virtually on Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 7:00pm to discuss his book, Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson. The story is at once familiar, touching Canada's shores and […]
TOMORROW: Join us on June 9 at 7pm for a chat with Harvard alum Dr. Melanie Adrien! Dr. Adrien co-founded Be the Choice, an organization dedicated to making breast cancer treatment info accessible & participatory. Register at:
Can Western Democracies Contain Rising Authoritarianism from the East? In this lecture, Dr. Fitz-Gerald discusses how democratic countries (typically hesitant to use "hard power") can cope with authoritarianism rising from the East, where "hard power" is a dominant strategy. Dr. Fitz-Gerald will explore this theme by looking at a number of contemporary issues, such as: […]
Our river clean-up is this Sunday (Oct 24)! Join us at 10:30am in front of The Bridge Public House restaurant (1 Donald St., at the Rideau Sports Centre). We'll clean up the nearby shore of the Rideau River. Then we have a 11:30am patio reservation at the restaurant!
Come meet alumni from Harvard, Oxford, Columbia, Cornell, the London School of Economics, and other top universities! Free hors d’oeuvres will be served.
Craving something sweet? Join us at 7:30pm on Zoom to learn how to make and decorate traditional Hungarian Christmas cookies!