Meet Weatherhead Center faculty, graduate students, visiting scholars, fellows, staff, and IRoC members. Learn about Weatherhead Center grants and opportunities for undergraduates including:

• Summer travel grants for thesis research
• Research internships in France
• Study groups led by Weatherhead Center affiliates
• Winter-break grants for research and travel
• Research assistant positions to faculty, fellows, or postdocs
• IRoC events on campus
• Seminars on a wide range of international topics
• Grants for student groups

Refreshments will be served!

Contact:

Clare Putnam
cputnam@wcfia.harvard.edu

"International Development: An Interdisciplinary Conversation"

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Panel will be streamed on Facebook Live. If you cannot attend or watch it live, it will be available in the video section of our Facebook page afterward.

This event will bring together leading experts on the politics, economics, and history of international development to share the most exciting developments in their respective fields and to discuss how scholars of development in different disciplines can better talk to each other, and why they should. It will mark the publication of the new book, The Development Century: A Global History. Edited by Stephen J. Macekura and Erez Manela, this volume offers a cutting-edge perspective on how development has shaped the history of the modern world.

Speakers:

Melani Cammett, Chair, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies; Faculty Associate. Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University; Professor, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

David Engerman, Professor of History, Department of History, Yale University.

Stephen Macekura, Assistant Professor of History, Department of International Studies, Indiana University.

Erez Manela, Director, Graduate Student Programs; Faculty Associate. Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.

Dani Rodrik, Faculty Associate. Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School.

Contact:

Sarah Banse
sarahbanse@wcfia.harvard.edu

"Accompanying Unaccompanied Child Refugees: The Challenges Facing Advocates and Activists"

Speakers:

Jacqueline Bhabha, Faculty Associate. Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Department of Global Health and Population; Director of Research, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School.

Vidur Chopra, Postdoctoral Fellow; Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Sofia Kouvelaki, Executive Director, The Home Project, Athens, Greece.

Chair:

Melani Cammett, Chair, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies; Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate.
Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University; Professor, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Co-sponsored by the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School.

Contact:

Sarah Banse
sarahbanse@wcfia.harvard.edu

... Read more about Special Event: Panel Discussion

8:30AM – 9:00AM Breakfast

9:00AM – 10:00AM Roundtable on Agency and Institutions

Samuli Patala, Markus Latzke, Maarit Laihonen, Rolv Petter Amdam... Read more about SCANCOR-Weatherhead Conference

8:30AM–9:00AM Breakfast

9:00AM–9:15AM Welcome: Frank Dobbin and Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen

9:15AM–10:00AM Plenary Session

“Hijacked by the Imagined Future: On Organizational Mission and Identity Drift in a Non-Profit Organization”
Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen, Copenhagen Business School.
Sophie Marie Cappelen, Copenhagen Business School.... Read more about SCANCOR-Weatherhead Conference

Being Muslim Today: Building Bridges in an Age of Uncertainty

Speaker

Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies, American University in Washington, DC; Former Pakistani High...

“Superbugs Attack! How the World Can Contain the Threat of Antimicrobial Resistance”

Speaker

Steven Hoffman, Adjunct Professor of Global Health and Population, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director, Global Strategy Lab; Professor of Global Health, Law, and Political Science, York University; Scientific Director, Institute of Population & Public Health, Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

PLEASE NOTE: A light lunch will be served. To reserve your lunch and seats, please RSVP from the Harvard Kennedy School website.... Read more about Special Event

“The Nonmaterial Foundations of Identity Politics: Insights from Lebanon”

Speakers:

Melani Cammett, Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Dominika Kruszewska, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Contact:

Casey Petroff
petroff@g.harvard.edu

... Read more about Special Event | Comparative Politics Speaker Series

"Living Emergency: Israel's Permit Regime in the Occupied West Bank"

Speaker:

Yael Berda, Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University, Israel.

Commentators:

John Comaroff, Faculty Associate. Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, Departments of African and African American Studies and Anthropology; Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies, Harvard University.

Nadia Abu El-Haj, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University. 

Chair:

Michèle Lamont, Center Director; Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion. Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies; Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies, Departments of Sociology and African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Contact:

Kathleen Hoover
khoover@wcfia.harvard.edu... Read more about Book Launch with Yael Berda

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...

"Contested Realities: India’s Environmental Movement and the Politics of Change"

Speaker:

Sunita Narain, Director General, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi.

Panelists:

Sunil Amrith, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies, Department of History, Harvard University.

Jody Freeman, Archibald Cox Professor of Law and Director, Environmental Law Program, Harvard Law School.

David S. Jones, A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University.

Moderator:

Sheila Jasanoff, Faculty Associate. Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School.

Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute, Harvard University.

Contact:

Shana Ashar
shana_ashar@hks.harvard.edu

... Read more about Science and Democracy Lecture

"Reflections from the Field: A Conversation on the Theories and Practices Surrounding Migrant Rights in France"

Student Presenters:

Cassandra Agbayani, Harvard Kennedy School.
Mahnoor Ali, Harvard College.
Colleen Brady, Harvard Design School.
Christina Qiu, Harvard College.
Emile Radyte, Harvard College.
Nikitha Reddy, Harvard College.
Felipe Sarmiento Caldas, Harvard Kennedy School.

Download the PDF poster here

Moderators:

Jacqueline Bhabha, FXB Director of Research; Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University.

Theodore J. Gilman, Executive Director.

Magda Matache, Instructor, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University.

Myriam Zuber, Senior Program Manager, Field Education Internship Program, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University.

Co-sponsored by the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, and the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights, Harvard University.

Contact:

Myriam Zuber
mzuber@hsphs.harvard.edu

Film Screening: Colonization Road

In conversation with Ryan McMahon, Anishinaabe comedian, writer, media maker, and community activator.
With Charmaine Nelson, William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Canada Program. Professor of Art History, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University and Eli Nelson, Graduate Student Associate. PhD Candidate, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University. 

Cosponsored by the...

"'For this they Fight': Canadians in the Spanish Civil War"

Speaker:

Michael Petrou, 2018 Martin Wise Goodman Nieman Fellow, Nieman Foundation, Harvard University.

Contact:

Helen Clayton
canada@wcfia.harvard.edu

... Read more about Canada Program Special Event

In Conversation with Claire Messud

This event is free and open to the public. Book sale and signing to follow.

Michael Ondaatje is the author of five novels, a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. His novel...