2026–2027

A Conversation on the Joy of Intellectual Travel: Pursuing Japanese and Comparative Legal Studies Speaker Curtis J. Milhaupt, William F. Baxter-Visa International Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; Senior Fellow, by courtesy, Freeman Spogli Institute...

Metrics that Mislead: How Accountability Policy Undermines School Community Speaker Simone Ispa-Landa, Associate Professor of Sociology and Human Development & Social Policy, Northwestern University. Faculty Sponsors Orlando Patterson, Faculty Associate...

Panel: Brazil Election Speakers David J. Samuels, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota. Fernando Bizarro, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Boston College. Fernando...

Grafting Speaker Ezra Oberfield, Dick and Dale Reis Johnson Dean's Professor of Economics, Cornell University. Contact Polina Barker polinabarker@fas.harvard.edu This seminar is organized jointly with MIT and cosponsored by the Department of Economics at...

Constitutional Scholarship as Diffuse Expertise: A Dialogue between Law and STS Speaker Jan Komárek, Donatio Universitatis Carolinae Chair, Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague. Chair Sheila Jasanoff, Faculty Associate. Pforzheimer Professor of...

African Pharmakon: The Asylum as Shrine from Slavery to the Return West Africans were far from passive victims of European-imposed psychiatric concepts and institutions. Rather, they enchanted the British colonial asylum in Accra (contemporary Ghana) by...

What Happened to College? How Politics Broke Higher Education and What We Can Do to Fix It Speaker Neil Gross, Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology, Colby College. Faculty Sponsors Frank Dobbin, Faculty Associate. Henry Ford II Professor of the Social...

The Case Against Asylum: The Catch-22 of Refugee-Antipathy Discourse Speaker Danilo Mandic, Associate Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Harvard University. Contact Hannah Castner hcastner@g.harvard.edu

Abortion Politics and Democratic Backsliding: Lessons from Latin America Abortion is a polarizing political issue across the American continent, yet US-focused scholars seldom interrogate the consequences of abortion politics for democratic institutions...

Pastoral Warfare: Animals as Weapons of Israel’s Settler Ecologies Speaker Irus Braverman, SUNY Distinguished Professor and the Teresa Miller Professor of Law, University at Buffalo, SUNY. Chair Sheila Jasanoff, Faculty Associate. Pforzheimer Professor of...