The Mechanics of Public Man-Made Death: USAID’s Destruction At One Year

Speaker: Atul Gawande, John and Cyndy Fish Chair in Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Samuel O. Thier Professor of the Practice of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; writer, The New Yorker. 

Cope, Adapt, Thrive: Ensuring Our Shared Future on a Hot and Hostile Planet

Speaker: Tjada D’Oyen McKenna, CEO, Mercy Corps

How Can Universities Address the Crisis in Democracy?

Speaker: Dame Louise Richardson, President, Carnegie Corporation of New York
Moderator: Melani Cammett, Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University

Related Links

• Transcript of Jodidi Lecture delivered by Dame Louise Richardson and Melani Cammett

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

Speaker: Larry Brilliant, Epidemiologist, technologist, philanthropist, and author
Moderator: Erez Manela, Acting Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; professor of history at Harvard University

Related Links

• Transcript of Jodidi Lecture delivered by Larry Brilliant and Erez Manela
• Harvard Gazette: "Speaking from Experience On What Makes a Global Killer"

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad in Conversation with Jennifer Leaning

Speaker: Nadia Murad, 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and founder of Nadia's Initiative
Moderator: Jennifer Leaning, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Cosponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

Related Links

• Transcript of Jodidi Lecture delivered by Nadia Murad and Jennifer Leaning
• Harvard Gazette, "Nadia Murad: The Making of an Activist"
• Nadia's Initiative
• Nadia Murad's book, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight against the Islamic State

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

Speaker: Nancy Fraser, Henry A. & Louise Loeb Professor of Political & Social Science at the New School for Social Research

Related Links

• Transcript excerpt of Jodidi Lecture delivered by Nancy Fraser

Insidious Threats to Academic Freedom in the US and Abroad

Speakers: Craig Calhoun, Advisory Committee; President, Berggruen Institute
Michael Ignatieff, Advisory Committee; President, Central European University

Related Links

• Transcript of Jodidi Lecture delivered by Craig Calhoun and Michael Ignatieff
• Harvard Gazette, "The Pressures on Academic Freedom"
   

The Cosmopolitan Ethic in a Fragmented World

Speaker: His Highness the Aga Khan

Cosponsored by the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program

Related Links

• Transcript of Introduction by Professor Ali Asani
• Transcript of Jodidi Lecture delivered by His Highness the Aga Khan
• Transcript of Conversation with Professor Diana L. Eck
• Photo Gallery | Fall 2015 Centerpiece: Jodidi Lecture

In the Media

• The Harvard Gazette, "A Call to Build on Differences"
• The Huffington Post, "Aga Khan: We Can Achieve A More Cooperative World If We Understand Our Differences, Not Erase Them"
• The Huffington Post, "Aga Khan at Harvard: Islam and the Cosmopolitan Ethic in a Fragmented World"
• Cambridge Chronicle, "Muslim Leader Calls for Embracing Diversity at Harvard Speech"
• Harvard Magazine, "The Harvard Remarks of the Aga Khan"

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

Speaker: Avraham Burg, Israeli Author, Political Leader, and Activist; Former Speaker of the Knesset; Chairman, Jewish Agency for Israel.

Islam and Peace-Building in West Africa

Speaker: Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, Sultan of Sokoto, Nigeria

Related Links

• "Exploring Islam in Nigeria: Panel discussion precedes visit by Sultan of Sokoto," Harvard Gazette article.

Individual Rights—Universal Peace

Speaker: Thorbjørn Jagland, Chairman, Norwegian Nobel Committee; Secretary General, European Council

Related Links

• "The Harvard Foundation Honors Jagland," Harvard Gazette article.

2008

“The Future of Peacekeeping”
Jean-Marie Guéhenno
United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations
(Delivered at the Center's annual conference in Talloires, France.)

2008

“Ireland and the EU: Promoting Peace and Prosperity at Home and Abroad”
Bertie Ahern
Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland
Transcript (HTML)

2005

“Zambia & Africa in the 21st Century”
Levy Mwanawasa
President of the Republic of Zambia

2004

“The Geneva Initiative: A Realistic Utopia Creating a Window of Opportunity in a Wall of
Separation”
Amram Mitzna
Member of the Israeli Knesset and Labor Party candidate for Israeli Prime Minister

2003

“Facing the Challenges of Development in Peru”
Beatriz Merino
President of the Council of Ministers of Peru

2002

“International Terrorism: What International Criminal Law Can Do”
Richard J. Goldstone
Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa

1994

“India’s Approach to Economic Policy Reform”
P.V. Narasimha Rao
Prime Minister of India

1987

“Democracy in India”
Rajiv Gandhi
Prime Minister of India

1986

“The Role of Non-violent Action in National Security”
Corazón Aquino
President of the Philippines

1986

“The Prospects for Peace in the Middle East”
Abba Eban
Former Israeli Foreign Minister

1985

“The United Nations’ Potential in Shaping Tomorrow’s World”
Javier Pérez de Cuellar
United Nations Secretary-General

1983

“Third World Debt and Global Recovery”
A.W. Clausen
Former Head, World Bank

1981

“Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey”
V.S. Naipaul
Novelist; 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature

1980

“Equity and Security: The Challenges to American Foreign Policy”
Zbigniew Brzezinski
US National Security Advisor

1980

“The Revolutions in Southeast Asia”
Prince Norodom Sihanouk
Former Chief of State, Cambodia

1978

René Levesque
Premier, Québec

1973

“Has the Atlantic Alliance a Future?”
Raymond Aron
Professor of Sociology of Modern Civilization, Collège de France

1968

Lee Kuan Yew
Prime Minister of Singapore

1968

Andreas Papandreou
Minister, First Ministry of State, Greece

1964

“Democracy in Germany”
Fritz Erler
Leader, Social Democratic Party, Germany

1958

Geoffrey Barraclough
Stevenson Research Professor, University of London

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