"India's Democracy: Electoral Vibrancy, Liberal Deficits"

Speaker:

Ashutosh Varshney, Director of the Center for Contemporary South Asia, Sol Goldman Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Brown University.

Moderator:

Scott Mainwaring, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor for Brazil Studies, Harvard Kennedy School.

Co-sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School.

Contact:

Teresa Acuna
Teresa_Acuna@hks.harvard.edu

... Read more about Democracy in Hard Places Initiative

"Is Demography Destiny? Japan in Comparative Perspective"

Speakers:

Mary Brinton, Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Initiative on Gender Inequality. Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Yoshio Higuchi, Professor, Department of Business and Commerce, Keio University.

Margarita Estevez-Abe, Visiting Senior Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Associate Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.

Paul Chang, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jenni Ting
wting@wcfia.harvard.edu

... Read more about Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Symposium

"The Canadian Model of Diversity: Contemporary Challenges and Opportunities"

Canadian society has several aspects that make study of it crucial to understanding global challenges in the twenty-first century. These include migration issues, religious diversity, and the struggle of Aboriginal peoples and minority nations in quest for recognition. The aim of this conference is to analyze the Canadian experience through all its diversity, and to emphasize the decisive contributions of Canadian scholars in these different fields.

Please visit the conference website for additional details including the schedule and full list of speakers.

Conveners:

Paul May, William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Canada Program. PhD, Political Science, Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

Michèle Lamont, Center Director; Executive Committee; Steering Committee; 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:

Helen Clayton
canada@wcfia.harvard.edu

No tickets are required. This event is free and open to the public.

Break down barriers and create common ground! Join us for a dose of international-themed humor with comedian Nemr Abou Nassar and the Harvard College Stand-Up Comic Society.

About Nemr

...

We warmly welcome students of Harvard College to our annual Open House for Undergraduates.

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

"Organizations, Institutions, and Nation-States"

10:30-11:00AM Breakfast
61 Kirkland Street

11:00AM-12:15PM Organizations and Career Processes
“When Professionals Meet the Crowd: A Study of Journalists Co-producing News with Readers”
Elena Raviola, Copenhagen Business School and University of Gothenburg.

“Why are so Many COOs Promoted to CEO?”
Yamin Xie, Hanken School of Economics.

12:15PM-12:30PM
Relocate to William James Hall, Room 1550

12:30PM-1:45PM Lunch

1:45PM-3:30PM Negotiating Roles of Societal Sectors
“Some Assumptions About the Relationship Between Higher Education, the Labor Market, Vocational Education and the Political System”
Ivar Bleiklie, University of Bergen.

“Forms of Social and Economic Value Creation and Co-evolutionary Structural Transformations”
Seija Kulkki, Aalto University.

“Decline of the Welfare State: Merging the Public and Private Sector”
Antoinette Hetzler, Lund University.

3:45PM-5:00PM Roundtable: Organizations, Institutions, and Nation-States
Guro Refsum Sanden, Tiina Ritvala, Ivar Bleiklie, Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist, University of Gothenburg

5:00-7:00PM Dinner

"Organizations, Institutions, and Nation-States"

9:30AM-10:00AM Breakfast

10:00AM-11:00AM Roundtable: Organizational Theory and Transnationalism
Samuli Patala, Elena Raviola, Antoinette Hetzler

11:15AM-1:00PM Cross-Border Coordination
“Catalyzing Institutional Work: Building a Bridge over Troubled Waters”
Tiina Ritvala, Aalto University.

“What can Foreign Policy Analysis Offer Research on National Reservations on the Use of Force (“Caveats”) in Coalition Operations?”
Gunnar Fermann, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

“Discretionary Power on the Front Line: A Bottom-up Perspective on Corporate Language Management”
Guro Refsum Sanden, Copenhagen Business School.

1:00PM-2:00PM Lunch

2:00PM-3:45PM Theorizing Institutions
“Translating New Ideas into the Field of Organizational Studies”
Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist, University of Gothenburg.

“The Role of Verbal and Visual Text in the Process of Institutionalization”
Dennis Jancsary, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business.

“Legitimacy Under Institutional Change: How Incumbents Appropriate Clean Rhetoric for Dirty Technologies”
Samuli Patala, Aalto University.

4:00PM-5:00PM Reflections on Scancor-Weatherhead
Seija Kulkki, Dennis Jancsary, Yamin Xie, Gunnar Fermann

5:00-7:00PM Dinner

"Editorial Aspirations: Human Integrity at the Frontiers of Biology"

Please visit the workshop website for a list of speakers and the full agenda.

Contact:

Shana Ashar
shana_ashar@hks.harvard.edu

Chair:

J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Assistant Professor of Biology and Society, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Biology and Society, Arizona State University; the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School; the Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School; with support from the Oswald DeN. Cammann Fund; and the Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School.

"Understanding Emotion in the Context of Intractable Intergroup Conflict"

Speaker:

Eran Halperin, Professor, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel.

Please note: RSVP by April 19 REQUIRED

Sponsored by the Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School. Co-sponsored by Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict, Harvard University, the Management, Leadership, and Decision Science Area, Harvard Kennedy School, and the Middle East Initiative, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

"Refuge's Resource Environments: A Research Outline"

Speaker:

Fethi Keles, Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Social Protection, Transnational Studies Initiative, Harvard University.

“Whether to Weather: A Case Study of Drought Displacement in the Colombian Countryside”

Speaker:

Brianna Castro, PhD Student, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Contact: 

Yueran Zhang
yueranzhang@g.harvard.edu... Read more about Joint Transnational Studies Initiative and Politics and Social Change Workshop

"Communism's Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes"

Speaker:

Joshua A. Tucker, Professor of Politics and affiliated Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies and Data Science, New York University; Director, Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia; Co-director, Social Media and Political Participation (SMaPP) Laboratory, New York University; Co-author of the award winning Monkey Cage blog at the Washington Post. 

About the Speaker 

Joshua A. Tucker is Professor of Politics and...

A climate change storytelling thesis project about the Republic of Kiribati by Mattea Mrkusic, Kenneth I. Juster Fellow 2015–2016, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard College, Special Concentrator in Human Rights and the Environment.

Project and podcast available at www.collapsethedistance.com.
Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center and the Harvard University Asia Center. 

"Trudeau and Trump: A Balancing Act for Canada"

Speaker:

Roland Paris, University Research Chair in International Security and Governance, the University of Ottawa.

Contact:

Helen Clayton
canadawcfia@gmail.com... Read more about Canada Program Special Event

"Walking on Thin Ice: Entrepreneurship in Nunavik (Arctic Québec)"

Speaker:

Nathan Cohen-Fournier, Masters Student of International Business, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

Contact:

Helen Clayton
canadawcfia@gmail.com... Read more about Canada Program Special Event

The FXB Center for Health and Human Rights will host the Fifth Annual Roma Conference, "Culture Beyond Borders: The Roma Contribution", at Harvard University to mark International Roma Day. The event will bring together academic, literary, artistic, and student communities to explore the contributions of the Roma community to global culture, arts, and material production.

Co-sponsored by the Berklee College of Music; the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies; the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights; the Mahindra Humanities Center; the Department of Music; and the Provost’s Fund for Interfaculty Collaboration, Harvard University.

Contact:

Margareta Matache
mmatache@hsph.harvard.edu... Read more about Special Event: Culture Beyond Borders: The Roma Connection Conference