2018-2019

9:00AM-9:30AM Breakfast 9:30AM-11:00AM Nation/Identity Jesper Strandgaard, Copenhagen Business School “Inventing Culinary Heritage and Collective Identity” By Sophie Marie Cappelen & Jesper Strandgaard, Copenhagen Business School Tiina Ritvala, Aalto...

9:00AM-9:30AM Breakfast 9:30AM-9:45AM Welcome Jesper Strandgaard & Frank Dobbin 9:45AM-11:45AM Labor/Segmentation Seppo Poutanen, University of Turku “Digital Platform Work in the Intersection of Markets and Networks: Some Results from the Study of...

"In Krishna's Mouth: Wonder, Ethics and Creativity in South India" Speaker: Tulasi Srinivas, Professor of Anthropology, Religion and Transnational Studies, Emerson College. Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard...

"Political Parties, Bureaucracy, and Public Policy" "Membership Networks and Electoral Resilience: The Case of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party" Daniel Koss, Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Assistant Research...

"Southeast Asia and the Great Powers: Hedging, Balancing, and Rivalry" Speaker: Amy Searight, Senior Adviser and Director, Southeast Asia Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies. Moderator: Christina Davis, Acting Director, Program on U.S...

"Trade and Investment in U.S.-Japan Relations" "Japanese Foreign Direct Investment Location in the U.S.: A Home-Country Firm Bandwagon Effect" Remy Magnier Watanabe, Associate Professor, University of Tsukuba; Academic Associate, WCFIA Program on U.S...

"Agency and Automation: Digital Disobedience and Its Infrastructure" Speaker: Robin Celikates, Associate Professor of Political and Social Philosophy, University of Amsterdam; Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University. Moderator: Tito...

"Overcoming Political Polarization" Speakers: Robert Putnam, Malkin Research Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University. Jane Mansbridge, Charles F. Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, Harvard Kennedy School. Arturo...

Presented by the Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion. 8:30–9:00 Continental breakfast (provided) 9:00–9:30 Introductory remarks Michèle Lamont, Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Robert I. Goldman...

"Engaging Enemies in the 'War on Terror'" Speaker: Matt Waldman, Senior Lecturer, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; Adviser to the United Nations Envoy for Yemen. Contact: Donna Hicks dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu Chair: Donna Hicks, Associate.