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The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs welcomes individuals with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you would like to request accommodations or have questions about the access provided, please get in touch with the person listed as the contact on the individual event listing in advance of your participation or visit. Requests for Sign Language interpreters and/or CART providers should be made at least two weeks in advance, if possible. Please note that the Weatherhead Center will make every effort to secure services, but that services are subject to availability.

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Seminar in Economic Development

September 14, 2026
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3:00PM - 4:15PM EDT
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Human Capital and the Organization of Production in Low-Income Countries

Speaker: Tommaso Porzio, Daniel W. Stanton Associate Professor of Business, Columbia Business School.

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Seminar in International Economics

September 14, 2026
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4:35PM - 5:50PM EDT
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Morris and Sophie Chang Building, Room E52-324

Optimal Tariffs under Geopolitical Risk: A Theory of Strategic De-risking

Speaker: Ina Simonovska, Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, Davis.

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Workshop in Economic Sociology

September 16, 2026
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4:00PM - 5:30PM EDT
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William James Hall, Room 1550

Constructing Compromise: Regional Coalition-Building, Local Developmental Politics, and BART Extensions after 1999

Speaker: Rachel Y. Kim, PhD Candidate in Sociology, Harvard University.

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Politics and Social Change Workshop

September 17, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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William James Hall, Room 450

Infrastructures of Intimacy: Technology, Gender, and Family Formation in the Digital Era

Speaker: Zehra Yildirim, PhD Candidate in Sociology, Harvard University.

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Middle East Seminar

September 17, 2026
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4:30PM - 6:00PM EDT
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CGIS Knafel, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)

The Ravaging of Arab Statehood and the Renewal of Resistance: Lessons from Jordan and Lebanon

Speaker: Rami Khouri, Journalist, media analyst, and author; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Arab Center Washington, DC; Founding Director and Distinguished Public...

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Histories Beyond Borders in the Age of Nationalist Resurgence

September 18, 2026
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9:45AM - 5:15PM EDT
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Belfer Case Study Room (Room S020), CGIS South

This event is open to the public. Registration is required to attend the conference. 

This one-day conference seeks to examine, through the lens of Akira Iriye’s scholarly legacy, recent advances in the field of international history, broadly conceived...

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Friday Morning Seminar in Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health

September 18, 2026
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10:00AM - 12:00PM EDT

American Indian Traditional Healing: Expressions of Alter-Native Psy-ence

Speaker: Joseph P. Gone, Professor of Anthropology and of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard University; Faculty Director, Harvard University Native American Program.

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Workshop on Culture, History, & Society

September 18, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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William James Hall, Room 1550

Family Formation and the Racial Division of Reproductive Labor: Evidence from the Great Migration, 1910-1940

Speaker: Hero Ashman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Race, Inequality and Social Equity Studies (CRISES), Harvard University.

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Seminar in International Economics

September 21, 2026
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4:30PM - 5:45PM EDT
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Littauer Center of Public Administration, M-16

Quantifying the Sensitivity of Quantitative Trade Models

Speaker: Ed Wiles, Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Tuesday Seminar in Latin American Politics

September 22, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:20PM EDT
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CGIS South, S216

Panel: Anti-Incumbent or Pro-Right? Colombia's 2026 Election and the Road Ahead

Speakers: Sandra Borda, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Global Studies, Universidad de Los Andes.

Sergio Clavijo, Lecturer Faculty of Economics and Law...

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Workshop in Economic Sociology

September 23, 2026
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4:00PM - 5:30PM EDT
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William James Hall, Room 1550

Who Gets to Use Their College Skills? Skill-Job Alignment and Earnings Inequality Among College Graduates

Speaker: Aleksei Opacic, PhD Candidate in Sociology, Harvard University.

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