This in-person event is part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Civil Discourse Initiative and is open to Harvard ID holders. It will be livestreamed and available for viewing on our YouTube channel.

The panel will focus on how leading social scientists conceptualize, measure, and study key forms of prejudice in the US context, focusing specifically on antisemitism and Islamophobia. The event will bring together top scholars who are at the forefront of studying these important and pernicious phenomena using rigorous, evidence-based data, methods, and sources.... Read more about Pernicious Prejudice: Scholarly Approaches to Antisemitism and Islamophobia (In Person)

Crisis in Sri Lanka: The Past, Present, and Future of Political Turmoil and Resistance, Part 1

In the midst of unprecedented economic and political upheaval in Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka is working to support its path toward recovery after securing an IMF bailout last year. Yet, these compounding crises draw on a history of contested social, political, and economic decisions, including responses to the 2020 Easter Bombings and a decades long armed conflict that ended in 2009. Resistance to governance and decisionmaking have taken many forms. Who has led this recovery, how has it fallen short, and who has been historically left out of this process?

Join us for the first session of our series “Crisis in Sri Lanka” which will feature the following three speakers: Mario Arulthas, Madura Rasaratnam, & Kate Cronin-Furma.

For full details and to register, visit the Mittal Institute website.... Read more about Crisis in Sri Lanka, Part 1 (In Person)

"Climate Change, Public-Private Partnerships, and Social Equity: Lessons from Bangladesh"

For up-to-date information and registration, please visit the symposium website.

The Benazir Bhutto Leadership Program of ClassACT HR73 brings a Fellow or Fellows from majority-Muslim countries for one year in the Mason Fellows Program at Harvard Kennedy School. Our current Fellow, Nazmul Haque has a long and successful career developing public-private partnerships in response to climate change in his native country, Bangladesh. This is the third one-day symposium that ClassACT has sponsored in collaboration with Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the first sponsored with Harvard’s The Salata Institute for Climate & Sustainability.

Cosponsored by Class Act HR73, The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, Harvard University.

Contact:

Sarah Banse
​​​​​​​sarahbanse@wcfia.harvard.edu... Read more about Class Act HR73 Symposium on Climate Change

This conference is open to the public.

This event is a space for cross-disciplinary thinking about the multi-valent concepts of territory, law, and infrastructure in a world of multiple “crises,” with an eye toward design logics for alternative futures. The broader workshop panels take ports as a heuristic that is particularly amenable to comparative socio-legal inquiry inviting engagement with a range of pressing topics spanning logistics, infrastructure, labor, regional planning and design, ecological crisis, development, sovereignty, and governance, to name...

This conference is open to the public.

This event is a space for cross-disciplinary thinking about the multi-valent concepts of territory, law, and infrastructure in a world of multiple “crises,” with an eye toward design logics for alternative futures. The broader workshop panels take ports as a heuristic that is particularly amenable to comparative socio-legal inquiry inviting engagement with a range of pressing topics spanning logistics, infrastructure, labor, regional planning and design, ecological crisis, development, sovereignty, and governance, to name...

"How China is Reshaping U.S.-India Relations and the Quad"

Speaker:

Kenneth I. Juster, Advisory Committee. Distinguished Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Former US Ambassador to India.

Moderator:

Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor, Harvard Law School; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.... Read more about Critical Issues Confronting China Series (Hybrid)

"The Tagore-Einstein Conversation, July 1930: A Humanist Interpretation"

Speaker:

Saranindranath Tagore, Associate Professor of Philosophy, National University of Singapore.... Read more about South Asia's Freedom in Global Perspective (In Person)

"Black Activism and Brazilian University Affirmative Action in the Digital Age"

Speaker:

Gladys Mitchell-Walthour, Dan Blue Chair of Political Science, North Carolina Central University.

Chair:

Sidney Chalhoub, Faculty Associate. Chair, Department of History; David and Peggy Rockefeller Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Departments of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

"GRiSTS 2023 | Idols of Progress: Technoscience Between Trust and Ethics"

For conference details, including how to register, please visit the conference website.

The GRiSTS Conference invites students from any discipline to discuss the relations of S&T to policy, politics and governance in modern societies. By sharing their work, students from universities across the Northeast connect to a growing network of STS research and mentoring in areas of shared intellectual interest and practical concern. Fostering these connections will allow young researchers to better appreciate their own academic contributions and professional roles, as well as build inclusive, yet critical, understandings of S&T in global society.

The Conference for Graduate Research in STS (GRiSTS) is coordinated by students in the Program on Science, Technology, and Society at Harvard with help from students across the GRiSTS network.

GRiSTS is institutionally supported by the Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

Contact:

Lou Lennad
loulennad@g.havard.edu

"GRiSTS 2023 | Idols of Progress: Technoscience Between Trust and Ethics"

For conference details, including how to register, please visit the conference website.

The GRiSTS Conference invites students from any discipline to discuss the relations of S&T to policy, politics and governance in modern societies. By sharing their work, students from universities across the Northeast connect to a growing network of STS research and mentoring in areas of shared intellectual interest and practical concern. Fostering these connections will allow young researchers to better appreciate their own academic contributions and professional roles, as well as build inclusive, yet critical, understandings of S&T in global society.

The Conference for Graduate Research in STS (GRiSTS) is coordinated by students in the Program on Science, Technology, and Society at Harvard with help from students across the GRiSTS network.

GRiSTS is institutionally supported by the Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

Contact:

Lou Lennad
loulennad@g.havard.edu

"GRiSTS 2023 | Idols of Progress: Technoscience Between Trust and Ethics"

For conference details, including how to register, please visit the conference website.

The GRiSTS Conference invites students from any discipline to discuss the relations of S&T to policy, politics and governance in modern societies. By sharing their work, students from universities across the Northeast connect to a growing network of STS research and mentoring in areas of shared intellectual interest and practical concern. Fostering these connections will allow young researchers to better appreciate their own academic contributions and professional roles, as well as build inclusive, yet critical, understandings of S&T in global society.

The Conference for Graduate Research in STS (GRiSTS) is coordinated by students in the Program on Science, Technology, and Society at Harvard with help from students across the GRiSTS network.

GRiSTS is institutionally supported by the Harvard University Center for the Environment and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

Contact:

Lou Lennad
loulennad@g.havard.edu

... Read more about Fourth Annual Conference on Graduate Research in Science and Technology Studies (In Person)

This event is free and open to the Harvard community and guests. No tickets required; seating is on first available basis. This event is part of Harvard Worldwide Week.

Get a fresh new perspective on the world. Join us for a dose of international-themed humor with comedian Alingon Mitra and the Harvard College Stand-Up Comic Society, in our seventh annual International Comedy Night. 

About Alingon Mitra

Alingon is a stand-up comedian and comedy writer living in New York. He has written for the Daily Show with Trevor Noah on Comedy Central and was also staffed on Adam Ruins Everything for TruTV. He has done stand-up on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Conan, Late Night with Craig Ferguson, and Adam Devine's House Party. After becoming a semi-finalist on Last Comic Standing, Alingon won the coveted “Comic Comeback” award to appear in the season finale. He was selected to be a new face at Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal in 2015. Alingon graduated from Harvard, where he was a writer for the illustrious Harvard Lampoon.... Read more about Special Event | International Comedy Night with Alingon Mitra (In Person)

"Peacebuilding: A Matter of Trust (and the Benefits of a...

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
warmly welcomes you to the
Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture

"How Can Universities Address the Crisis in Democracy?”
 

This event will be in person and streamed live on our YouTube channel. Please plan on being seated by 3:45 p.m. as the event will start promptly at 4:00 p.m. There will be a reception open to the public following the lecture, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Dame Louise Richardson looks at the forces driving the global decline in democratic governments and the national decline in democratic practices. She says higher education has the ability to generate solutions, optimism, and trust. Richardson, a former vice-chancellor of Oxford University and principal and vice-chancellor of St. Andrews University, explains the role universities must play to close the diploma divide; teach tolerance; encourage participation, access, inclusivity, and freedom of speech; and act as sources for reliable and open knowledge, and fact-based information. She also warns that they can’t do it alone.

... Read more about Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture with Dame Louise Richardson

The Weatherhead Center would like to welcome its incoming and returning affiliates to the 2023–2024 academic year. Please see your program coordinators for events and schedules particular to your group.