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
2021–2022 Conferences & Special Events
Weatherhead Forum 2021–2022
International Comedy Night with Ronny Chieng
2022 Politics and Economics of International Finance (PEIF)
Explaining Poverty in the Middle East: The Economics and Politics of Solidarity
2022 Political Institutions and Economic Policy (PIEP)
Historicizing Consent: What Did it Mean to Agree in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World and Why Should We Care?
The Challenge and Opportunity of Climate Change for Political Science
Conference on Comparative Economic Growth
Food in the Global Welfare State
"Collective Vigilantism in Global Comparative Perspective" Special Issue Launch
Authoritarianism, Academic Freedom, and Historical Knowledge
Is Populism a Cause, or a Consequence, of Democratic Backsliding?
Conference Archives
2021
- 2021 Undergraduate Associate Thesis Conference
- 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
- The Challenge and Opportunity of Climate Change for Political Science
- 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