2008–2009

Special Series on International Relations of East Asia "Stabilizing the U.S.-Japan-China Triangle" Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Speaker: Mike M. Mochizuki, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, and Japan-U.S...

“The Impact of Potatoes on Population Growth and Urbanization after Columbus: A Historic Natural Experiment” Speaker: Nathan Nunn, Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard University

"Trade-Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on IT and Innovation" Speaker: John Van Reenen, Professor of Economics, London School of Economics

"Major Powers and Minor Literatures: The Cultural Politics of World Literature" Speaker: David Damrosch, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University; Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

"Rethinking the Conflicts in the Middle East: Can the New U.S. Administration Play a Constructive Role?" Speaker: Scheherezade Faramarzi, Reporter, Associated Press in Lebanon; and Nieman Fellow, Harvard University

"Life in the Mountains: Images of the Past, Lessons for the Future" Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. Speaker: Scott Schnell, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Iowa

"Institutions and Development: Rethinking Neoliberalism and its Alternatives" Speaker: Peter Kingstone, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, and Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Connecticut

"How Western Can a Country Be WithoutDemocrats?" Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Speaker: Soli Ozel, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Kadir Has University, Istanbul; Columnist "Haber Turk"; Fisher Family...

"The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Critical Choices for the Next Administration" Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Speaker: Shai Feldman, Swartz Director, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, and Professor of Politics, Brandeis University

The Weatherhead Centerfor International Affairs invites undergraduates in any concentration to athesis workshop about the decision to write a thesis, choosing a thesis topic,and other related issues – such aswriting a prospectus and choosing a thesis...