Open Seminars

Open Seminar / The Canada Seminar, chaired by the William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, examines Canadian social, economic, cultural, and political issues in their domestic and international dimensions. Presentations are made...

Open Seminar / Cosponsored by the Department of Government, this seminar serves as a forum for discussing new research in the field of comparative politics through methodologically diverse presentations on political developments in many regions.

Open Seminar / The main focus of this seminar is on cultural politics across nations in the era of globalization and on the use of culture as a soft power strategy in international relations. Policy makers and scholars in a variety of fields explore...

Open Seminar / This workshop provides budding scholars of culture with an opportunity to discuss their work in progress, interact with leading researchers in the field, and think through central theoretical and methodological issues in research on culture...

Open Seminar / Cosponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and Harvard Medical School, the Friday Morning Seminar has met every year since 1984, hosting international scholars who work on sociopolitical and cultural aspects of...

Open Seminar / The Global Political Thought Seminar focuses on pluralizing and globalizing the discipline of political theory and political thought. Invited scholars interrogate these disciplines and explore the promises and the limitations of the...

Open Seminar / The Harvard International and Global History Seminar (HIGHS) is a forum for cutting-edge work in the fields of international and global history. This seminar, organized at the Department of History and generously supported by the...

Open Seminar / This seminar, planned in collaboration with the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, explores conflict-resolution efforts domestically and worldwide and considers ways to strengthen the capacity to prevent, resolve, and transform...

Open Seminar / Cosponsored by the Department of Government, this seminar serves as a forum for discussing new research in the field of International Relations (IR). This series features methodologically diverse presentations of ongoing research from...

Open Seminar / South Asia’s economic and strategic relevance has grown significantly in recent years. While scholars often note India’s economic resurgence and South Asia’s struggle with terror, the region offers much more that is of enormous intellectual...

Open Seminar / Cosponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies since 1975, this seminar has focused on the political, economic, and social conditions in the Middle East. Through presentations by scholars and practitioners, this seminar addresses the...

Open Seminar / The Political Violence Workshop brings together graduate students and faculty from the Boston area who are working on issues related to political violence and international security, including revolutions, coups, civil wars, ethnic conflict...

Open Seminar / The Program on US-Japan Relations holds a weekly hybrid seminar that is open to the University community and the general public. Speakers include leading faculty and experts from Harvard and other universities in the United States, Japan...

Open Seminar / The Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Circle at Harvard is a weekly colloquium series fostering interdisciplinary conversations about contemporary issues in science and technology. This series engages junior and senior scholars and...

Open Seminar / Cosponsored by the MIT Department of Economics, this weekly lecture series covers a wide range of topics in the field. Economists based in the Boston area and at universities and institutions around the world are invited to present their...

Open Seminar / In continuous operation for about seventy-five years, this seminar, cosponsored by the Department of Economics, has become a key forum for those interested in long-term economic change, economic growth, and development. Every year, the most...

Open Seminar / This seminar covers a broad spectrum of recent theoretical and empirical research on international trade, capital markets, monetary arrangements, and sovereign debt. It meets weekly and is attended by graduate students and faculty, mostly...

Open Seminar / Cosponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University, and the Afro-Latin American Research Institute, this seminar brings together Harvard faculty and...

Open Seminar / This graduate-faculty research seminar is designed to bring together interested faculty and students on a continuing basis to cover topics on global history. It is part of History 2950A/B, Approaches to Global History, and includes both...

Open Seminar / Meeting at MIT and Harvard in alternating weeks during the academic year, presenters and participants represent a diverse array of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. What we share is a commitment to engage the array of...

Open Seminar / This workshop invites graduate students and faculty in the disciplines of anthropology, economics, history, political science, psychology, and sociology to present work on historical topics. The primary methodological goal is to initiate a...