2009 Holiday Cocktail Party on Dec 17th, 2009

 
Unfortunately, the event we were planning to have at the Centre Pompidou this coming Thursday (17 December) will not take place due to the current strike which has been taking place for the past month. 

We apologize for this sad news as we were hoping to celebrate with all of you the end of 2009 !
We will reschedule the event as soon as things clarify, tentatively in the Spring of 2010.
All signed up guests will be fully reimbursed by Amiando. You will receive a credit on your credit card within a week. Please let us know if you haven't received a reimbursement by the end of December.

Google's Chief Economist Hal Varian on Nov 25th, 2009

Speaker Series with Hal R. Varian, Chief Economist of Google  Wednesday November 25th, 2009, 7-9 pm France-Amériques, 9 avenue Franklin Roosevelt - 75008. Paris    IN ENGLISH. The discussion will be followed by a glass of champagne. These days nearly every economic transaction involves a computer in some form or other. What does this mean for economics? Hal Varian argues that the ubiquity of computers enables new and more efficient contractual forms, better alignment of incentives and more sophisticated data extraction and analysis. It creates an environment for controlled experimentation and it allows for unprecedented personalization and customization. He reviews some of the long and rich history of these phenomena and describes some of their implications for current and future practices.

Wine Tasting for recent graduates, November 19th, 2009

The Harvard Recent Graduates will be indulging in a informative wine tasting on Thursday November 19th at Ô Chateau, located at 52, rue de l'Arbre Sec, 75001 Paris.
Space is limited to 30 people.

Evening Printmaking Workshop in the Studio of Harvard Artist Jonathan Shimony Saturday, 24 October 2009

Evening Printmaking Workshop in the Studio of Harvard Artist Jonathan Shimony
Saturday, 24 October 2009, 18:00 – 21:00
Gentilly (94)

Want to produce your own original artwork? Why not get your hands dirty trying some of the noble techniques of printmaking? Share an evening of discovery of this fine art in an informal, creative atmosphere.
On Saturday 24 October, Harvard Club members and guests will be welcomed to the Gentilly studio of artist Jonathan Shimony AB’87, for a practical printmaking workshop and buffet dinner.
A short lecture on the history of printmaking and the materials and techniques of various processes will be given by Jonathan. Participants will then be invited to choose from several possible relief and etching techniques and will be taught how to make their own printing plates. A wide choice of colors and papers will be available to enable the participants to print their works in several different ways.
No prior experience in drawing or printing is necessary.
The evening will end with a buffet dinner in the studio. Each participant is asked to bring a bottle of wine or two bottles of another beverage.
Participation is limited to 20 persons. The workshop is appropriate for adults and for children of 8 years and older.

University of Chicago Event: International Harper Lecture in Paris : "Le Héros Imaginaire", Tuesday, October 20, 2009

The University of Chicago kindly invites our members and friends to the upcoming International Harper Lecture event sponsored by the University Of Chicago Alumni Club Of Paris. This event will take place on Tuesday, 20 October, at The University of Chicago Center in Paris, and will include a faculty conference and cocktail reception.
This faculty lecture will be presented by Alain Finkielkraut, Thomas Pavel and Christian Schiaretti, and moderated by Gérald Garutti, and is entitled: “Le héros imaginaire”.
This event is free, and open to all. WAlumni, friends and guests may register online at:
Registration: https://www.kintera.org/site/apps/ka/rg/ecreg.asp?c=mjJXJ7MLIsE&b=5517383&en=inLDIKNkE5KHJIPgG6IFIVPtG8JKISOlE8IMJUNkFaKJIJPpHjINLWMzGrH
Event Details: http://specialevents.uchicago.edu/paris/docs/ParisPDF.pdf?msource=INTL09
http://alumniandfriends.uchicago.edu/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=mjJXJ7MLIsE&b=4725657&ct=7563449

General Assembly, September 29, 2009

Our Annual General Assembly will be held on September 29, 2009
Dues-paying members of the HCF will receive a personal invitation.

4th of July Picnic

4th of July Picnic
On Saturday, July 4th, the Harvard Club of France is holding a potluck picnic!
We will provide light refreshments and board games--bring your own sandwiches and something to share!

Where: Champ de Mars, Eiffel Tower
When: Saturday July 4th, 2pm
Why: 4th of July! And to network with the Harvard community in Paris

Dust off your Harvard t-shirts and caps--we'll be wearing Harvard gear so you can find us (if you don't have a t-shirt, wear Crimson).

The Honorable Pierre Lellouche appointed Minister of State responsible for European Affairs

The Honorable Pierre Lellouche appointed Minister of State responsible for European Affairs

Harvard alumnus Pierre Lellouche LLM'74, SJD'79  was appointed Minister of State responsible for Foreign Trade on 14 November 2010.  Pierre Lellouche was Minister of State for European Affairs from June 2009 to November 2010 and was previously France's Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Born in Tunisia, Pierre Lellouche studied at Lycée Condorcet in Paris. He is a graduate of Faculté de Droit de Paris X-Nanterre (1972) and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (1973).

He was elected deputy of Sarcelles in 1993 and has been deputy of Paris since 1997. He has been Paris City Council Member since 2001.

Very active in the international affairs field, Pierre Lellouche was the president of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly from 2004 until 2006.

He has been director of the Nuclear Threat Initiative and a member of the Trilateral Commission. He recently was the French negotiator concerning the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), finally implanted in Cadarache in France.

He is the author of several books on domestic and international politics, including his last book L'allié indocile : La France et l'OTAN, de la Guerre froide à l'Afghanistan, Éditions du Moment, 2009.

Pierre Lellouche is a frequent speaker at Harvard events in France and a strong supporter of the activities of the Harvard community in France. He was an Arthur Sachs Scholar.

We wish him the best in his new role in the French Government.

HCF Event : Jacques Attali on June 5, 2009

Speakers Series event with Dr. Jacques Attali on “The crisis and beyond”
Date & Time: Friday, June 5th, 7.30 -  9.30pm
Place: The Embassy of the Republic of Singapore, 16, rue Murillo, 75008 Paris
Price : Members                         8 €      (Dues-paying Harvard Club of France members)
           Non-members & guests:  15 € 
Our friend His Excellency the Ambassador of Singapore Burhan Gafoor (KSG MPA ’97) has kindly offered to host our next Speakers Series event with Dr Jacques Attali at the Embassy of the Republic of Singapore in Paris.
Dr. Attali will present the analysis of the financial crisis he laid out in his recent book “La crise, et après” and will comment on how the crisis is actually unfolding in the course of 2009.

Harvard / Columbia Bowling, May 28, 2009

 
Harvard / Columbia Bowling
Come for a fun and relaxing evening of bowling.
Help the Harvard Club win against the Columbia University Club in this yearly event!
Venue : Bowling Montparnasse, 25 rue du Commandant Mouchotte, 75014 Paris, métro Gaîté
Time : Thursday May 28, 7:30 pm (play begins at 8:00 pm)

Annual Meeting of the Harvard Law School Association of Europe, May 22-24

The Harvard Law School Association of Europe (HLSAE) organizes each year a meeting during Ascension weekend with the participation of a Harvard Law School Professor as guest of honor.
This year, the HLSAE meeting will take place in Marseilles on May 22-24. The guest of honor from Harvard Law School will be Professor Morton Horwitz, Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Law who will talk about a very interesting subject: the “Future of Regulation”.This informal conference, plus the vibrant atmosphere of Marseilles, the lovely creeks to visit, the delicious local cuisine and pleasant wines to sample, in the company of former Harvard Alumni, young and less young, should make this reunion another hit!
For those of you who qualify as former alumni of the Law School, you will find the last circular letter inviting for this event.There are still a few hotel rooms available at the rates negotiated by the Association, so don’t hesitate but please register! You will find all details about hotel booking and registering with the Association in the attached 2^nd circular letter. Please note that the deadline has been postponed to April 10.
For more information, please contact:
Anne-Marijke Morgan de Rivery LL.M ‘80President of the Harvard Law School Association of Europewww.hlsae.eu

15th Annual Cocktail Mixer on the Seine, May 13, 2009

 

The Harvard Club of France

cordially invites graduates of the University Clubs of

Harvard Business School  -  the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird)  -  the American University of Paris  -  Boston University  -  Brown University  -  Bryn Mawr  -  the University of California at Berkeley  -  Cambridge University  -  Carnegie Mellon University  -  the University of Chicago  -  Columbia University  -  Columbia Business School  -  Cornell University  -  Dartmouth College  -  Duke University  -  France Amériques Jeunes  -  Georgetown University  -  Haverford College  -  Johns Hopkins University  -  the Kellogg School of Management  - IESE Business School  -  Middlebury Alumni Group  -  MIT  -  Mount Holyoke College  -  NYU  -  Oxford University  -  Princeton University  -  Sarah Lawrence College  -  Smith College  -  Stanford University  -  Stanford Business School  -  Stern Business School  -  Wesleyan  -  the University of San Diego  -  University of Michigan Alumni in France - University of Pennsylvania  -  University of Texas  - University of Virginia  -  Wellesley College  -  Wesleyan University and Yale University

to attend our

                                                                                            

15^th

Annual Cocktail Mixer

on the Seine

on board the péniche La Balle au Bond

3 Quai Malaquais Paris 75006      

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

from 7:30 to 10:30 pm

Price:  39 Euros

Event Details:

·         All alumni are welcome to participate in this unique mingling opportunity.

·         Guests are also welcome.  Feel free to invite other alumni or friends who might be interested in the event.

·         The price includes wine, soda & other non-alcoholic beverages as well as light snacks.

·         Expected turnout:  100 to 200, with representation from participating schools.

Directions:

·         The péniche is located on the Left Bank between the Pont des Arts and the Pont du Carousel.  The closest metro stops are Pont Neuf, St. Germain des Prés, Mabillon, Palais-Royal-Musée-du-Louvre, and Louvre-Rivoli.

HCF Event with Amory Lovins, May 11, 2009

"Profitable solutions to climate change, oil dependence and nuclear proliferation"
How to address some of society’s most pressing problems without breaking the bank? Out-of-the-box thinking by Amory Lovins and the Rocky Mountain Institute generates intriguing, feasible solutions that deliver both profit and sustainability. Come learn about how each of us may be living in just a decade or two—the picture is brighter than you may think!
Amory Lovins, a physicist, is among the world’s most innovative thinkers about energy and its links with resources, security, development, and environment. A Harvard and Oxford dropout and former Oxford don, he advises major firms and governments worldwide, and has briefed 19 heads of state. He is Founder, Chairman and Chief Scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute (www.rmi.org). Lovins’ work in 50+ countries has been recognized by (among others) the “Alternative Nobel,” Blue Planet, Volvo, Onassis, Nissan Prizes and the Benjamin Franklin Medal. He was a “Genius Grant” (Rockefeller Fellowship) winner and a Time Magazine “Hero for the Planet”.Natural Capitalism (1999, with Paul Hawken and L.H. Lovins, www.natcap.org), one of Amory Lovins’ 29 books, is newly published this year in France (Editions Scali). It synthesizes much of Rocky Mountain Institute’s trailblazing work on advanced resource productivity and innovative business strategies. For more information about Amory Lovins' work, please consult the following links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amory_Lovins    and www.rmi.org  
More about the Rocky Mountain Institute at : http://rmi.org/

Venue : France Amériques, May 13, 7-9pm

Dinner Talk with Marie Mendras, May 6, 2009

Join us for a Journey to Georgia ! 


Thanks to the help of Ambassador Mamuka Kudava, Georgia's representative in France, we are delighted to invite you to attend a dinner talk given by Professor Marie Mendras, Professor at the London School of Economics and at Sciences Po in Paris on : Russia's Foreign Policy in 2009 A Harvard graduate, Marie Mendras is also the author of "Russie. L'envers du pouvoir" (Odile Jacob, 2008).The event will take place at "La Maison Georgienne", a fabulous restaurant near Odéon.

HBS Club de France event : lunch with Jacques Marseille, April 10, 2009

Jean Burelle, President of the HBS Club of France, kindly invites our members to join them at a lunch debate with Jacques Marseille.

Jacques Marseille nous parlera de son dernier livre, paru fin janvier 2009, « l’Argent des Français. Les chiffres et les mythes ».

La crise financière a agi comme une piqûre de rappel sur une hantise séculaire des Français : leur pouvoir d’achat baisserait, la pauvreté exploserait… Les Français sont fâchés avec la réalité économique. C’est ce que pense Jacques Marseille qui va à l’encontre d’idées reçues : les Français râlent mais n’ont jamais été aussi prospères. Pour réconcilier les Français avec l’argent, Jacques Marseille propose des mesures-chocs. Son livre qui veut aller au-delà des mythes suscite la polémique.
Venue : Cercle de l'Union Interalliée, 12.30pm

Measuring Health Care Quality at Institut Montaigne on April 9, 2009

"Measuring Health Care Quality"

Conference and "get together" with Denise Silber,  eHealth specialist, co-hosted by the HCF and Institut Montaigne


What do we really know about the quality of the health care we receive? Which systems most closely measure the results of healthcare providers? Are the principles of quality management applicable to medicine? How does Information Technology play into the picture? These questions are of vital interest to all. So please come join us as we welcome guest speaker, Denise Silber, HBS MBA '79, at the Institut Montaigne on April 8 2009.

Denise Silber, an eHealth expert and entrepreneur, and American in Paris, is the founder of Basil Strategies consultants, providers of eHealth and eMarketing services., as well as the Association for the Quality of Healthcare on the Net. Public speaker and author, Denise has written three reports on healthcare quality for the Institut Montaigne. The most recent publication "Measuring Health Care Quality" provides 1) an impressive set of data regarding the failure of healthcare systems around the world to apply the highest standards of care and 2) some simple proposals for the way forward



The event will start with the conference at 6:30pm, to be followed immediately by a small cocktail.  
Venue : Institut Montaigne

France Amériques luncheon with Lord Robertson , March 27, 2009

France Amériques luncheon with Lord Robertston on "European-U.S. Defense Relations in the First year of the Obama Presidency"

Lord Robertson is a Senior Counsellor with the COHEN GROUP
former Secretary General, NATO (1999-2003)Minister of Defense, UK (1997-1999)
Member, House of Commons, UK (1978-1999)
Venue : France Amériques, March 27, 12pm.  Registration through France Amériques

"TEACHING OLD MUSIC AT THE NEW HARVARD: BEETHOVEN'S NINTH SYMPHONY THEN AND NOW", March 24, 2009

"TEACHING OLD MUSIC AT THE NEW HARVARD: BEETHOVEN'S NINTH SYMPHONY THEN AND NOW"
featuring Thomas Kelly
Harvard's Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music
and author of  "First Nights:  Five Musical Premieres" & "First Nights at the Opera"

Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 7pm
at France-Amériques
9 avenue Franklin Roosevelt - 75008 Paris

Prof. Thomas Kelly teaches the popular Core Curriculum course, "First Nights", which is the inspiration for this event.  The course seeks to situate musical works in their historical context and thus see them in a new light. Prof. Kelly received his B.A. from Chapel Hill, and spent two years on a Fulbright in France studying musicology, chant, and organ. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard and has taught at Wellesley, Smith, Amherst, and Oberlin, where he directed the Historical Performance Program and served as acting Dean of the Conservatory. He was named a Harvard College Professor in 2000 and the Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music in 2001.  Prof. Kelly's main fields of interest are medieval music and original performance practice. He won the Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society for The Beneventan Chant (Cambridge University Press, 1989). His most recent books include First Nights: Five Musical Premieres (Yale University Press, 2000) and First Nights at the Opera (Yale, 2004). He likewise lectures at the Smithsonian and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
For more information about Prof. Kelly's work, please consult the following links :http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2004/11/02/overture_no_1/
http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/11.18/first_night.html

Lunch with Harvard Provost Steven E. Hyman on March 16, 2009

Crossing Frontiers: The Intellectual Landscape of the 21st Century
Lunch event with Harvard Provost Steven E. Hyman on March 16, 2009.
Steven E. Hyman, MD is Provost of Harvard University and Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. From 1996 to 2001, he served as Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the component of the US National Institutes of Health charged with generating the knowledge needed to understand and treat mental illness. Before serving as Director of NIMH, Dr. Hyman was Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Director of Psychiatry Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, and the first faculty Director of Harvard University's Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative. In the laboratory he studied the molecular biology of neurotransmitter action. Dr. Hyman is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He currently serves as Editor of the Annual Review of Neuroscience. He received his BA from Yale College in 1974 summa cum laude, and his MA from the University of Cambridge in 1976, which he attended as a Mellon fellow studying the history and philosophy of science. He earned his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1980.
Venue : Cercle de l'Union Interalliée

Yale Club dinner with Professor Christopher Szpilman on the History of Judo, February 16, 2009

The Yale Club of France kindly invite our members to a dinner on February 16, 2009. 
Prof. Szpilman (Yale PhD '93) is currently writing a biography of Kano Jigoro (1860-1938), the inventor of judo and the ideas he represented. Prof. Szpilman contents that the success of Judo, which was "invented" in the last two decades of the 19th c.,  was not "marketed" simply as a sport, but as an effective vehicle for modernization of Japan. Kano also argued that judo, as a traditional and authentic but (paradoxically) quintessentially modern Japanese martial art, would help the Japanese preserve their Japanese identity against the wave of sweeping Westernization.  
Professor Szpilman is an expert on modern Japanese history and is a Professor of Modern History at the Kyushu Sangyo Faculty of International Studies in Japan. He has published numerous books and articles
Wladyslaw Szpilman, Professor Christopher Szpilman's father, is the author of "The Pianist", a best seller listed in 1999. Roman Polanski's film "The Pianist," which was based on Wladyslaw Szpilman's book, won The Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2002 and three Oscars.

France Amériques Valentine's Day dinner, February 14, 2009

France Amériques invites our members to an exceptional gastronomic dinner on Valentine's day.

Dinner with Insead Dean Frank Brown, February 9, 2009

PharMBA kindly invites our members to a dinner in Paris with J Frank Brown, author of Global Business Leader.
J Frank Brown, will be speaking about business leadership in challenged times. There will be a focus on healthcare, since this talk is given to the professional association PharMBA. JFB a grad of Wharton, is Dean of Insead and previously with PWC.

Wine Tasting for recent graduates, February 5, 2009

The Harvard Recent Graduates will be indulging in a informative wine tasting on Thursday February 5th at Ô Chateau, located at 52, rue de l'Arbre Sec, 75001 Paris.
Space is limited to 30 people.

Harvard Club of Belgium dinner with the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Jan 22, 2009

The Harvard Club of Belgium invites our members to a dinner with H.E. Shaukat Aziz, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan. The event will take place in the presence of Minister Karel De Gucht, Minister of Foreign Affairs. H.E. Shaukat Aziz will speak about the current situation in Central Asia and more specifically about “Pakistan today, staying out of the storm, on the front line”.
H.E. Shaukat Aziz was the Prime Minister of Pakistan from 2004 to 2007. He became Finance Minister in November 1999 and was handpicked by President Musharraf for the position of Prime Minister after the resignation of Zafarullah Khan Jamali on June 6, 2004. He became Prime Minister on August 28, 2004 and served until November 15, 2007. He became the first Prime Minister of Pakistan to complete a full term in office. Before moving into politics, Mr. Aziz held various top positions at Citibank. He left Citibank as Executive Vice-President of Citibank worldwide to become Pakistan’s Prime Minister.

Inauguration Watch, Jan 20, 2009

Come watch the swearing in and acceptance speech of 44th President Barack Obama at Carr's Irish Pub.  Television coverage will start at 4:30 pm on Tuesday January 20th, 2009.

Carr's is located at 1, rue du Mont Thabor, 75001. Metro: M° Tuileries

France Amériques conference on "La santé en France", Jan 19, 2009

France Amériques conference on "La santé en France" on January 19 (7pm) with Professeur André Vacheron, Président honoraire de l'Académie de Médecine.

Colloque at the Assemblée Nationale, Jan 19, 2009

Colloque présidé par Louis Giscard d'Estaing, président du groupe d'amitié France Etats-Unis de l'Assemblée nationale : "Quelles relations transatlantiques avec la présidence Obama?", Jan 19, 2009
Programme here
Registration card here

Benjamin Franklin Birthday Celebration / Annual General Meeting of AmCham on January 15 with Luc Chatel, Jan 15, 2009

Benjamin Franklin Birthday Celebration / Annual General Meeting of AmCham on January 15 (6.30pm) with Luc Chatel, Secrétaire d'État chargé de l'industrie et de la consommation et porte-parole du gouvernement. The event takes place at the Residence and in the presence of US Ambassador to France Craig R. Stapleton.

HBS Club of France lunch-debate on the "The political and economic consequences of the American elections and the new Administration" on Jan 15, 2009

Jean Burelle, President of the HBS Club of France, kindly invites us to a lunch-debate on January 15, 2009 at the Cercle de l'Union Interalliée on the topic of :

The political and economic consequences of the American elections and the new Administration
 
This event is organized by former Ambassador of France to the United States of America and former President of the HBS Club François Bujon de l'Estang who invited two journalists who will provide their views of this matter :
- Steve Erlanger, Bureau Chief of the New York Times in Paris
- Anne Toulouse, Correspondant of Radio France International in Atlanta

Remembering former HCF President Francine Aigrain

In Memoriam

It is with great sadness that we report the death of Francine Bogart Aigrain AB'45, Past President and active member in club affairs for many years. Francine is survived by sons Yves and Jacques and daughter Mireille, 12 grandchildren and 1 greatgrandchild.

Francine's late husband, Pierre Aigrain (1924-2002), elected Membre de l'Académie des sciences, section Physique, was Professeur émérite à l'université Denis Diderot and Ancien Secrétaire d'État à la Recherche. Pierre spoke on several occasions for the Club and both Francine and Pierre participated in many club events.

Francine Aigrain had a tremendous impact on the Harvard Club of France in many ways, not the least of which its gender balance. The Club, created before WW I, was a men's club up until the 1960s, when women were integrated. It was Francine who initiated a Radcliffe circle in Paris in the 1960's acquainted as she was with Edwina Morgulis Racine AB'32 (Mme. Pierre Racine) and other Radcliffe graduates. Meetings were held in her own home, the five or six participants after a time realized they were not numerous enough to support real club activities. Francine lobbied with club president Albert Ross and the women joined the men. Francine became Secretary for the club, contributed enormously to its growth and development, and became its first woman president (1976-1982). Francine was a dynamic leader, doubling membership (hand-typing 900 envelopes) and enhancing the club program with speaker and cultural events.

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