2015–2016

"The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter: Reflections on Conflict and Reconciliation with Justice Albie Sachs" Speaker: Albie Sachs, Former Judge, the Constitutional Court, South Africa; Art of Change Fellow, the Ford Foundation. Co-sponsored by the...

"The UN in 2016: Challenges and Expectations" Speaker: Ion Jinga, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Romania to the United Nations. Contact: Jessica Barnard jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu Chair: Manuel Muniz, Director, Program on Transatlantic Relations.

"Exile as Imperial Practice: Penal Transportation in Western Siberia, 1870-1900" Zhanna Popova, Global Fellow, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History (spring 2016). PhD Candidate, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. "Aging Population...

"Only Exclusions to Offer: The Construction of Colonial Citizenship in France's Early Third Republic" Kelly Brignac, PhD Candidate in History, Department of History, Harvard University. "Seeing the Economy Whole: Input-Output Analysis in the Age of...

“Lawren Harris and the Idea of North: A Conversation” Speakers Andrew Hunter, Fredrik S. Eaton Curator, Canadian Art, Art Gallery of Ontario. Matthew Teitelbaum, Ann and Graham Gund Director, Museum of Fine Arts. Alison Mountz, William Lyon Mackenzie King...

"The Monumentality of Linear Landscape" This symposium is being held in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition " Crossing Kazakhstan: The Monumentality of Linear Landscape." The event will feature two presentations, each of which considers the...

“On the Transnational Destruction of Cities: What Japan and the US Learned from the Bombing of Britain and Germany in World War II” Speaker: Sheldon Garon, Nissan Professor in Japanese Studies; Professor of History and East Asian Studies, Princeton...

"Economic Growth and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in the 21st Century" Speaker: The Honorable Yoshimasa Hayashi, Member, House of Councillors; Former Minister of Defense; former Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Contact: Jenni Ting...

"Scaling up Technology Delivery Systems for Food Security" Speaker: Chandra Madramootoo, Visiting Scholar, Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; James McGill Professor, Bioresource Engineering, McGill...

"Political Consequences of the Eurozone Crisis" Speakers: David Marsh, Director, Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum. Marina Costa Lobo, Professor of Political Science, University of Lisbon. Jonathan Hopkin, Reader in Comparative Politics...