2025–2026

Measurement and the Making of a Chronic Absentee at Franklin High Speaker Simone Ispa-Landa, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University. Faculty Sponsors Orlando Patterson, Faculty Associate. John Cowles Professor...

What Drives Political Attention? Speaker Aakaash Rao, PhD Candidate in Economics, Harvard University. Contact Eliza Rakaseder erakaseder@fas.harvard.edu

Workplace Segregation and the Structure of Racial Earnings Inequality in the US Speaker Clem Aeppli, PhD Candidate in Sociology, Harvard University. Faculty Sponsor Frank Dobbin, Faculty Associate. Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences...

Capital Services in Global Value Chains Speaker Xiang Ding, Assistant Professor of Economics, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Contact Polina Barker polinabarker@fas.harvard.edu This seminar is organized jointly with Macroeconomics...

Familiar Strangers: Evidence from Referral-Based Hiring Experiments in India Speaker Kartik Srivastava, PhD Candidate, Harvard Kennedy School. Chair Emily Breza, Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Frederic E. Abbe Professor of Economics, Department of...

Dreamscapes of British Biotechnology circa 1980 Speaker Alistair Sponsel, Oral Historian and Curator of Life Sciences, Science History Institute; Lecturer in History, Tufts University. Chair Sheila Jasanoff, Faculty Associate. Pforzheimer Professor of...

Coercive Growth: Forced Resettlement and Ethnicity-Based Agglomeration Speaker Shanon Hsu, Visiting Scholar, Economics Department, Harvard University. Contact: Eliza Rakaseder erakaseder@fas.harvard.edu

The Legacy of Joseph S. Nye, Jr. This session is open to the public and will be recorded. Registration is required for this Zoom webinar. Joseph S. Nye, Jr. served as director of the Weatherhead Center, then named the Center for International Affairs...

Now What? Foreign Policy and the State of Democracy—One Year Later This session is open to the public and will be recorded. Registration is required for this Zoom webinar. Last year brought the reelection of US President Donald Trump—and the start of the...

From Victory to Uncertainty: The Postwar Order After Eighty Years This session is open to the public and will be recorded. Registration is required for this Zoom webinar. This year we mark eighty years to the end of World War II, which birthed an...