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.
The Case Against Asylum: The Catch-22 of Refugee-Antipathy Discourse
Speaker: Danilo Mandic, Associate Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Harvard University.
African Pharmakon: The Asylum as Shrine from Slavery to the Return
Speaker: Nana Osei Quarshie, Assistant Professor, Yale University.
Constitutional Scholarship as Diffuse Expertise: A Dialogue between Law and STS
Speaker: Jan Komárek, Donatio Universitatis Carolinae Chair, Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague.
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...
Habit Formation in Labor Supply
Speaker: Heather Schofield, Assistant Professor, SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University.
Grafting
Speaker: Ezra Oberfield, Dick and Dale Reis Johnson Dean's Professor of Economics, Cornell University.
End of Russian Empire 2.0
Speaker: Lech Wałęsa, Former President of Poland (1990-1995); Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient.
Women and Peacebuilding
Speakers: Ayşe Betül Çelik, Avila Kilmurray, Jadranka Miličević
Open to the public / registration required
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 Limongi...
The Shadow Sides of Rootedness. How Geographic Stability Across Generations Fosters Radical-Right Attitudes
Speaker: Andreas Wimmer, Lieber Professor of Sociology and Political Philosophy, Department of Sociology, Columbia University.
Panel on Ethnographic Writing
Speakers: Felicity Aulino, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Robert R. Desjarlais, Professor of Anthropology, Sarah Lawrence College.
Sharika Thiranagama, Professor of Anthropology...
Metrics that Mislead: How Accountability Policy Undermines School Community
Speaker: Simone Ispa-Landa, Associate Professor of Sociology and Human Development & Social Policy, Northwestern University.
