Harvard Club of Ottawa

Duet AnNat Recital
2021-03-28 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Toronto)
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 Rimsky-Korsakov conservatory in St Petersburg and the daughter of renowned Ukrainian composer Valentin Bibik. Anna Klochkova is a graduate of the Nizhny Novgorod conservatory and has extensively toured in Europe.

The event will be live streamed with pro audio quality via proprietary link on YouTube, which will be communicated to participants.

Tickets can be purchased on the Eventbrite page below.The proceeds from this event will benefit the musicians.

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In conversation with Mark Carney: How to build a better world post-COVID
2021-03-25 10:00 - 11:00
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 Board of Overseers, with the elections taking place this April. His greatly anticipated book, Value(s) Building a Better World for All, is going to be published on March 16th 2021.

Throughout his illustrious career, he has faced some of the greatest economic and societal challenges in recent history: the global financial crash, Brexit while at the Bank of England, and the health and economics crisis brought on by Covid-19. He is a long-time and well-known advocate for sustainability, specifically with regard to the management and reduction of climate risks. He brings together his vast international experience and expertise in his new book Value(s) Building a Better World for All.

Dr Carney was born in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada. He received a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard University in 1988 and went on to receive a master’s degree and doctorate in Economics from Oxford University. In this event, the Harvard Club of Ottawa is pleased to welcome Dr Carney back to Ottawa and to discuss the ideas presented in his new book Value(s) Building a Better World for All. He argues for the radical, foundational change that is required to build an economy and society based not on market values but on human values. In this conversation, he will discuss the key ideas from his book and how they can be applied to building a better world post-COVID.

To register for this virtual Zoom event: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIsc-iqrT4rH9Sdl6O7l0gcbeJyR_epOBEN

Fifty years since the Royal Commission on the Status of Women
2021-03-08 19:00 - 20:00
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 on the Status of Women: How it worked and why it mattered”. Both women played an instrumental role in the historic commission. This will be a wonderful opportunity to reflect on what the Commission did, how far we’ve come since its report, and how far there is yet to go.

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This is a zoom event held on Monday, March 8th 20217:00-8:00pm (ET) .

We look forward to connecting with you soon.

AGM with Zarqa Nawaz
2021-01-26 14:00 - 16:00
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/), publishing a book called The Rise and Fall of D.I.C.K., and developing a heist comedy entitled Essential Service.

The Club’s Annual General Meeting will also take place at this event. There will be a vote on our new board and an update about early 2021 programming.

The event will be held on Zoom on Tuesday January 26th at 7:00pm.

Please register through eventbrite below. Registered participants will receive a link to access the Zoom meeting on the day of the event.

Membership Renewal
Thank you to everyone who has already renewed their membership. For those who would like to renew or become a member, please use the following link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/97001101907

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Reflections on the 2020 US Election
2020-11-12 19:00 - 20:30
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 Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Boston Globe, where he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995. He has also served as Executive Editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and as a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and McGill University. His column on American politics appears regularly in the Globe and Mail.

Michael Kergin is a Canadian career diplomat who served as Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister and the 19th Canadian ambassador to the United States (from October 2000 until February 2005). He is currently a Senior Advisor to Bennett Jones LLP.

To register for this free online event, please visit Eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/reflections-on-the-2020-us-election-tickets-126754483071

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ZOOM LINK FOR THE EVENT WILL BE EMAILED TO ALL REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS ON NOVEMBER 11.
