Jodidi Lecture

2023 Nov 08

Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture with Dame Louise Richardson

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Loeb House, 17 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
warmly welcomes you to the
Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture

"How Can Universities Address the Crisis in Democracy?”
 

This event will be in person and streamed live on our YouTube channel. Please plan on being seated by 3:45 p.m. as the event will start promptly at 4:00 p.m. There will be a reception open to the public following the lecture, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Dame Louise Richardson looks at the forces driving the global decline in democratic governments and the national decline in democratic practices. She says higher education has the ability to generate solutions, optimism, and trust. Richardson, a former vice-chancellor of Oxford University and principal and vice-chancellor of St. Andrews University, explains the role universities must play to close the diploma divide; teach tolerance; encourage participation, access, inclusivity, and freedom of speech; and act as sources for reliable and open knowledge, and fact-based information. She also warns that they can’t do it alone.

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2023 Mar 29

Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Memorial Church, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
warmly welcomes you to the
Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture

“Helping Bend the Arc at the Hinges of History: A Conversation with Larry Brilliant”

Free and open to the public. No tickets required. Masking is encouraged. This event will be in person and streamed live on our YouTube channel. Please plan on being seated by 3:45 p.m. as the event will start promptly at 4:00 p.m.


American epidemiologist, technologist, philanthropist, and author Larry Brilliant embodies optimism like few others. A hippie doctor in the 1960s, he spent time at an ashram in India to find spirituality during a tumultuous time. As predicted by his guru, he and his team would change the world. Under the auspices of the World Health Organization they made millions of house calls in India with the goal to eradicate smallpox—and they succeeded.... Read more about Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture

2018 Nov 05

Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Belfer Case Study Room (S020)

Graphic for Jodidi Lecture with Nancy Fraser

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
warmly welcomes you to the
Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture 

“Democracy’s Crisis: On the Political Contradictions of Financialized Capitalism”

The event is free and open to the public, and will be streamed live through the WCFIA Facebook page. For more information about the Jodidi Lecture, see our page on the Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture Series

Speaker

Nancy FraserHenry A. & Louise Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research.... Read more about Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture

2018 Mar 21

Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Belfer Case Study Room (S020)

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
warmly welcomes you to the
Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture 

“Insidious Threats to Academic Freedom
in the US and Abroad”

The lecture will consist of brief opening remarks from each speaker. A twenty-minute exchange between the speakers will follow, and a Q&A will conclude. The event is free and open to the public, and will be streamed live through the...

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2015 Nov 12

Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Memorial Church, One Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138

Tickets for this event have sold out! Watch the live stream.

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
and the
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program
warmly welcome you to the
Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture 

His Highness the Aga Khan

“The Cosmopolitan Ethic in a Fragmented World”

Photo of His Highness the Aga Khan

His Highness the Aga Khan is the 49th hereditary Imam (spiritual leader) of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, a global, multiethnic community whose members comprise a wide diversity of cultures, languages, and nationalities. The Aga Khan succeeded his grandfather, Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan, as Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims in 1957 at the age of twenty. He has emphasized the view of Islam as a thinking, spiritual faith: one that teaches compassion and tolerance and that upholds the dignity of man.

Since taking on his role, the Aga Khan has been committed to improving the quality of life of the most vulnerable populations, while emphasizing the need to uphold human dignity as well as respect for tolerance and pluralism. His Highness accomplishes this through the work of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), a group of private, international, and nondenominational agencies working to improve living conditions and opportunities for people in specific regions of the developing world.

After the lecture there will be a conversation with:

Diana L. Eck

Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies and Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University; Member of the Faculty of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School; Harvard College Professor; and Director, Pluralism Project at Harvard University.

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2013 Nov 12

Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Tsai Auditorium (S010)

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs warmly welcomes you to the Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture.

"Israel and Palestine: From Iconic Conflict to Iconic Solution or, Is It Time for New Paradigms?"

Speaker:

Avraham Burg, Israeli Author, Social Activist, and Former Politician; Former Speaker of the Knesset; Chairman, Jewish Agency for Israel.

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