2023–2024

"Race, Radio, and White Reaction: Jim Crow's Final Years and the Origins of Christian Nationalism's Biggest Media Company" Speaker: Matthew Brooke, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University. Contacts: Clayton Covington claytoncovington@g...

"How Does the Media Find Room for Peace in a World of Nonstop Conflict?" Speakers: Jamil Simon, Founder and Director, Making Peace Visible. Andrea Muraskin, Journalist and Producer, Making Peace Possible podcast. Steven Youngblood, Associate Director...

“Next Best Move: Playing Chess and Not Checkers in the Geostrategic Landscape” Speaker: Eve M. McCloud, Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program. Colonel, United States Air Force. Contact: Walid Hammam walid_hammam@wcfia.harvard.edu

"In the Company of AI (Cultural Computation)" Speaker: Jeffrey Schnapp, Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature; Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University. Contact: Charles...

"Psychic Life and the City: Overcoming Homelessness and Mental Illness with Horses and Carriages" Speaker: Vincent LaLiberté, Psychiatrist and PhD Candidate in Anthropology, McGill University. Contact: Sadeq Rahimi Sadeq_Rahimi@hms.harvard.edu Attendance...

"Changing Geopolitics: The EU's Global Gateway in an Era of Competing Offers" Speakers: Karen Donfried, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Jutta Urpilainen, European Commissioner for International Partnerships. Cosponsored...

"Reframing Conflicts Over Natural 'Resources': The Rights of Nature as a Pathway for Consensus Building and Relational Planning and Resolution" Speakers: Lidia Cano-Pecharroman, PhD Candidate, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts...

"Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border" Speaker: Ieva Jusionyte, Watson Family University Associate Professor of International Security and Anthropology; Director of Graduate Admissions, Department of Anthropology, Brown...

"Negotiating Diversity in European Public Spaces" Presenter: Riva Kastoryano, Visiting Professor of Sociology and Government, Harvard University; Senior Research Fellow, Centre for International Studies and Research, Sciences Po. Chair: Jacqueline Bhabha...

"Mediated Animal-human Relations" Speaker: Natalie Ngai, Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication, Boston College. Contact: Laura Flynn lauraflynn@hks.harvard.edu Chair: Sheila Jasanoff, Faculty Associate. Pforzheimer Professor of Science and...