All Weatherhead conferences and workshops are by invitation only, unless otherwise noted. Because plans do change, for updated information throughout the year, please visit our website regularly or contact Sarah Banse, events manager.
Conferences & Special Events
2023–2024 Conferences & Special Events
Weatherhead Forum 2023–2024
Weatherhead Spotlight 2023–2024
Decolonization’s Discontents: Dissent and Opposition in the Aftermath of Independence
Special Event with Peter Sheridan | "Peacebuilding: A Matter of Trust (and the Benefits of a Bowl of Soup)"
International Comedy Night with Alingon Mitra
2023 Political Institutions and Economic Policy (PIEP)
Law, Regions, and Ports: Toward Imagining Alternative Futures
2024 Weatherhead Center Undergraduate Thesis Conference
2024 Politics and Economics of International Finance (PEIF)
AALIMS-Harvard Conference on the Political Economy of the Muslim World
International Book Blitz 2024
Conference Archives
2024
2023
- 2023 Political Institutions and Economic Policy (PIEP)
- 2023 Politics and Economics of International Finance (PEIF)
- 2023 Weatherhead Center Undergraduate Thesis Conference
- Conference on Comparative Economic Growth
- Conference on Religion and Public Life in Africa and the African Diaspora: Religion and Human Flourishing
- Decolonization’s Discontents: Dissent and Opposition in the Aftermath of Independence
- Early Modern Workshop on Ways of Knowing Consent in Early Modern Europe
- International Comedy Night with Alingon Mitra
- Law, Regions, and Ports: Toward Imagining Alternative Futures
- Special Event with Peter Sheridan | "Peacebuilding: A Matter of Trust (and the Benefits of a Bowl of Soup)"
- Weatherhead Forum 2022–2023
- Weatherhead Forum 2023–2024
- Weatherhead Spotlight 2022–2023
- Weatherhead Spotlight 2023–2024
2022
- 2021 Political Institutions and Economic Policy (PIEP)
- 2022 Political Institutions and Economic Policy (PIEP)
- 2022 Politics and Economics of International Finance (PEIF)
- 2022 Undergraduate Associate Thesis Conference
- Disability Climate Justice and Building Forward Better
- Empire, Nation, Federation: South Asia’s Freedom in Global Perspective
- Historicizing Consent: What Did it Mean to Agree in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World and Why Should We Care?
- International Comedy Night with Zarna Garg
- Weatherhead Forum 2021–2022
- Weatherhead Forum 2022–2023
- Weatherhead Spotlight 2022–2023
2021
- 2021 Undergraduate Associate Thesis Conference
- 2022 Climate Pipeline Project
- Conference on International Economics
- Global Food+ 2021
- International Comedy Night with Ronny Chieng
- The Anticolonial Transnational: Networks, Connections, and Movements in the Making of the Postcolonial World
- Weatherhead Forum 2020–2021
- Weatherhead Forum 2021–2022
2020
2019
- 2019 Political Institutions and Economic Policy (PIEP)
- 2019 Politics and Economics of International Finance (PEIF)
- 2019 Weatherhead Center Undergraduate Thesis Conference
- A Prospective Retrospective | The Successful Societies: Mobilizing the Social Sciences to Understand Collective Well-Being
- Ethical Engagement in Conflict Research
- International Comedy Night with Cristela Alonzo
- Interpreting Energy Dependence in Eurasia
- Sacred Groves & Secret Parks: Orisha Landscapes in Brazil and West Africa
- The Future of Geography
- The Oxford Handbook of Politics in Muslim Societies
- Weatherhead Forum 2018–2019
- Weatherhead Forum 2019–2020
- What's Wrong with Democracy? — The Challenges and Promise of Democracy in the Middle East, South Asia, and the US
- Whose Health is it Anyway? Mental Health and Decision-Making in the CRPD Era
2018
- 2018 Political Institutions and Economic Policy (PIEP)
- 2018 Politics and Economics of International Finance (PEIF)
- 2018 Weatherhead Center Undergraduate Thesis Conference
- Changing Middle Classes: Comparative and Global Perspectives
- Food in the Global Welfare State: Consumer Subsidies as Social Protection Conference
- Gender Inequality: It's about Time
- Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion on International Development
- International Book Blitz
- International Comedy Night with Hari Kondabolu
- Unelected Power: Book Talk by Paul Tucker
- Weatherhead Forum 2017–2018
- Weatherhead Forum 2018–2019
2017
- 2017 Political Institutions and Economic Policy (PIEP)
- 2017 Politics and Economics of International Finance (PEIF)
- 2017 Weatherhead Center Undergraduate Thesis Conference
- Challenges and Opportunities to the Atlantic Basin in a Globalized World
- Comparative Inequality Conference
- Director's Lunch Seminar
- Europe on Credit: Narratives of Speculation, Decline, and Responsibility
- Global Food+ 2017: 24 Speed Talks at the Nexus of Food, Agriculture, Environment, Health, and Society
- International Comedy Night
- Michael Ondaatje: Writers Speak
- Next-Generation International Security Scholars Conference
- Report Launch | Making Politics Work for Development
- State Capacity in Comparative Perspective
- The Canadian Model of Diversity: Contemporary Challenges and Opportunities
- The Shanghai Conference on Africa and China
- This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate with Naomi Klein
- Weatherhead Forum 2017–2018
2016
- 2016 Political Institutions and Economic Policy (PIEP)
- 2016 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Conference in Talloires, France
- 2016 Weatherhead Center Undergraduate Thesis Conference
- Director's Lunch Seminar
- Mobilized Contention: The State-Protest Movement Nexus
- Politics and Economics of International Finance 2016 (PEIF)
- Soccer as a Global Phenomenon
- Social Inclusion and Poverty Eradication
- The Cambridge History of the Indian Ocean
- The Maccabean Moment
- Weak Institutions in Latin America: New Theoretical and Empirical Approaches
2015
- 2015 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Conference in Talloires, France
- 2015 Weatherhead Center Undergraduate Thesis Conference
- Africa's Development in Historical Perspective
- Conference to Celebrate the Contributions of Jorge I. Domínguez
- Harvard Research Symposium on the Nexus of Food, Agriculture, Environment, Health, and Society
- Intractable Conflicts: The Future of Interactive Problem-Solving (IPS) Workshops in Theory and Practice
- New Research on the Slave Trade
- Political Institutions and Economic Policy 2015 (PIEP)
- Spaces, Scales, and Routes: Region Formation in History and Anthropology
2014
- 2014 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs conference in Talloires, France
- 2014 Weatherhead Center Undergraduate Thesis Conference
- Conference on International Migration Policy and Law Analysis (IMPALA)
- Harvard Academy Alumni Reunion Conference
- Identity, Sovereignty, and Global Politics in the Building of Baghdad
- Innovation and Access to Technologies for Sustainable Development: A Global Systems Perspective
- Our Divine Double
- Political Institutions and Economic Policy (PIEP Fall 2014)
- Sacred Politics: The State and Islam in the Contemporary Middle East
- The Transformation of Intractable Conflicts: Perspectives and Challenges for Interactive Problem Solving
- Why People Migrate? The Diverse Mechanisms of Mexico-U.S. Migration
2013
- 2013 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs conference in Talloires, France
- 2013 Weatherhead Center Undergraduate Thesis Conference
- Global Challenges of Electoral Integrity
- Local States of Play: Land and Local Capitalism in China
- Mexico 2012 Public Opinion and Election Conference: The 2012 Public Opinion Panel Project
- Northeast Universities Development Consortium Conference
- Political Institutions and Economic Policy (PIEP Fall 2013)
- The Global E.P. Thompson: Reflections on the Making of the English Working Class after Fifty Years