# Conferences & Special Events All Weatherhead conferences and workshops are by invitation only, unless otherwise noted. Because plans do change, for updated information throughout the year, please visit our website regularly—especially [our calendar](/calendar "Upcoming Events")—or contact [Sarah Banse](mailto:sarahbanse@wcfia.harvard.edu), events manager. [### Weatherhead Forum 2025–2026 ](/conferences/25-26-weatherhead-forum)**September 17, October 15, November 5, January 28, March 4** **Forum events are open to the public. Registration is required.** The Weatherhead Forum is our platform to address pressing topics of the day, and the pathbreaking Weatherhead research being done in... ![Close-up of a black and white globe with the words "Weatherhead Forum" in white.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/weatherhead-forum-generic-image.jpg?h=920929c4&itok=57hm10sQ) [### Syria in Transition ](/conferences/25-syria-in-transition)**October 23, 2025** **This event is open to the public. See event listing for more information, including how to register.** Since December 2024, when the Assad regime was ousted from power, Syria has been in the midst of monumental change. Both domestic and... ![A group of people waving Syrian flags staring into the sun.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/SyriaInTransition-HKabawat-HarvardSites-Image%20Only.png?h=78eca49f&itok=QUeofWli) [### Manshel Lecture with Walter Russell Mead ](/conferences/25-manshel-lecture-walter-russell-mead)**November 12, 2025** **This event is open to the public. A public reception will follow the lecture. See event listing for more information, including how to register.** The Warren and Anita Manshel Lecture in American Foreign Policy was established at the Center... ![Illustration of American flag broken in half, set against a duotone beige/black background.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/HarvardSites-Manshel2025-WRMead.png?itok=XuKYYw_d) [### Designers of Mountain and Water ](/conferences/26-designers-of-mountain-and-water)**February 5–6, 2026** **This conference is open to the public.** Organized by the Korea Institute and the Graduate School of Design, this project gathers world-leading practitioners of landscape architecture from Northeast and Southeast Asia to explore the future... ![Graphic shows conference title set against duotone blue background.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-07/Academic%20Conference%201%20%282%29.png?h=920929c4&itok=YaqRB3fx) [### 2026 Undergraduate Thesis Conference ](/conferences/26-undergraduate-thesis-conference)**February 5–6, 2026** **This conference is open to the public.** The Weatherhead Center Undergraduate Thesis Conference features the thesis research findings of the Center’s Undergraduate Associates. The conference entails a series of two-hour panels chaired by... ![Monochromatic yellow photo of a female student wearing a soccer jersey and posing in front of a domed building. The words "Undergraduate Thesis Conference February 5–6, 2026" and a duotone graphic W are overlaid.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-01/UGThesis2026-Digital%20Screens-1920x1080.png?itok=mo134LkX) [### Jodidi Lecture with Atul Gawande ](/conferences/26-manshel-lecture-atul-gawande)**February 11, 2026** **This event is open to the public. See event listing for more information, including how to register.** The Jodidi Lecture is among the most prominent lecture series of the Weatherhead Center and is one of the most distinguished at the... ![A digital collage displays statistics on child and adult deaths from various diseases due to discontinued funding, with bold numeric data and text boxes overlapping across the image.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-01/Jodidi2026-AGawande-HarvardSites-Event-Image%20Only.png?h=17682de6&itok=mCVuchvp) [### 2026 Politics and Economics of International Finance (PEIF) ](/conferences/26-politics-and-economics-international-finance-peif)**March 7, 2026** **This conference is closed to the public and is by invitation only. The 2026 conference is held at Columbia University.** Politics and Economics of International Finance (PEIF) is a continuing series of annual one-day PEIF conferences that brings... ![Graphic shows conference title set against duotone red background.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-07/Academic%20Conference%202%20%281%29.png?h=920929c4&itok=TGy0py0-) [### International Book Blitz 2026 ](/conferences/26-international-book-blitz)**May 4, 2026** **This event is for Weatherhead affiliates or by invitation only.** Celebrate the end of the academic year at our fourth International Book Blitz. At this popular event, open to all Weatherhead affiliates, a panel of Weatherhead Center Faculty... ![Event graphic shows event details alongside six colorful book covers.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/BookBlitz%202026-Digital%20Screens%201920x1080.png?itok=Qas4ktX8) ## Contact **Sarah Banse** *Events Manager.* 1737 Cambridge Street, Room K217 Cambridge, MA 02138 \[ [Map](http://goo.gl/maps/GxyRd) \] p: (617) 495-9006 f: (617) 495-8292 ## Conference Archives ### 2025 expand\_more [### Syria in Transition ](/conferences/25-syria-in-transition) [### Manshel Lecture with Walter Russell Mead ](/conferences/25-manshel-lecture-walter-russell-mead) [### Weatherhead Forum 2025–2026 ](/conferences/25-26-weatherhead-forum) [### Manuscript Workshop | Why Do Ethnic Parties Flourish or Die? The Microfoundations of Identity Politics in Pakistan’s Megacity ](/conferences/25-manuscript-workshop-why-do-ethnic-parties-flourish-or-die) [### Book Workshop | A Political Economy of the Middle East, 5th ed. ](/conferences/25-book-workshop-political-economy-middle-east) [### Regional Inequality and Innovation Workshop ](/conferences/25-regional-inequality-and-innovation-workshop) [### European Early Modern Colonial Law ](/conferences/25-european-early-modern-colonial-law) [### 2025 Politics and Economics of International Finance (PEIF) ](/conferences/25-peif) [### Special Event with Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan: Trade and Inflation in a Fragmented World ](/conferences/25-sebnem-kalemli-ozcan) [### International Book Blitz 2025 ](/conferences/25-international-book-blitz) [### 2025 Undergraduate Thesis Conference ](/conferences/25-weatherhead-center-undergraduate-thesis-conference) [### Manshel Lecture with Benjamin Rhodes ](/conferences/25-manshel-lecture-benjamin-rhodes) [### Weatherhead Forum 2024–2025 ](/conferences/24-25-weatherhead-forum) [### Central America’s Democratic Crisis: Drivers of Backsliding and Sources of Resilience ](/conferences/25-central-americas-democratic-crisis) [### African Landscape Architectures: Alternative Futures for the Field ](/conferences/25-african-landscape-architecture) [### 17th Annual Political Economy of International Organizations Conference ](/conferences/25-17th-annual-political-economy-international-organizations-conference) ### 2024 expand\_more [### 2024 Politics and Economics of International Finance (PEIF) ](/conferences/24-peif) [### 2024 Weatherhead Center Undergraduate Thesis Conference ](/conferences/24-weatherhead-center-undergraduate-thesis-conference) [### AALIMS-Harvard Conference on the Political Economy of the Muslim World ](/conferences/24-aalims-harvard) [### Information Warfare, Hybrid Threats, and Nuclear Risk: The Hidden Threats of a Digital Age ](/conferences/24-information-warfare) [### International Book Blitz 2024 ](/conferences/24-international-book-blitz) [### International Comedy Night with Katie Boyle ](/conferences/24-international-comedy-night) [### Jodidi Lecture with Tjada D'Oyen McKenna ](/conferences/24-jodidi-lecture-tjada-doyen-mckenna) [### Manuscript Workshop | The Future That Was: Third World Feminism and the Crisis of Authoritarianism ](/conferences/24-the-future-that-was) [### Pernicious Prejudice: Scholarly Approaches to Antisemitism and Islamophobia ](/conferences/24-pernicious-prejudice) [### Richard English Book Talk: Does Counter-Terrorism Work? ](/conferences/24-richard-english-book-talk) [### The Future of Warfare ](/conferences/24-the-future-of-warfare) [### The Politics of Victimization: Citizenship, Agency, and Contestation Among Victims of Violence ](/conferences/24-politics-victimization) [### Weatherhead Forum 2023–2024 ](/conferences/23-24-weatherhead-forum) [### Weatherhead Forum 2024–2025 ](/conferences/24-25-weatherhead-forum) ### 2023 expand\_more [### 2023 Political Institutions and Economic Policy (PIEP) ](/conferences/23-piep) [### 2023 Politics and Economics of International Finance (PEIF) ](/conferences/23-peif) [### 2023 Weatherhead Center Undergraduate Thesis Conference ](/conferences/23-weatherhead-center-undergraduate-thesis-conference) [### Conference on Comparative Economic Growth ](/conferences/23-conference-comparative-economic-growth) [### Conference on Religion and Public Life in Africa and the African Diaspora: Religion and Human Flourishing ](/conferences/23-religion-public-life-africa-and-african-diaspora) [### Decolonization’s Discontents: Dissent and Opposition in the Aftermath of Independence ](/conferences/24-decolonizations-discontents) [### Early Modern Workshop on Ways of Knowing Consent in Early Modern Europe ](/conferences/23-early-modern-workshop-ways-knowing-consent-early-modern-europe) [### International Comedy Night with Alingon Mitra ](/conferences/23-international-comedy-night) [### Law, Regions, and Ports: Toward Imagining Alternative Futures ](/conferences/23-laws-regions-and-ports) [### Special Event with Peter Sheridan | "Peacebuilding: A Matter of Trust (and the Benefits of a Bowl of Soup)" ](/conferences/23-peter-sheridan-lecture) [### Weatherhead Forum 2022–2023 ](/conferences/22-23-weatherhead-forum) [### Weatherhead Forum 2023–2024 ](/conferences/23-24-weatherhead-forum) [### Weatherhead Spotlight 2022–2023 ](/conferences/22-23-weatherhead-spotlight) [### Weatherhead Spotlight 2023–2024 ](/conferences/23-24-weatherhead-spotlight) ### 2022 expand\_more [### 2021 Political Institutions and Economic Policy (PIEP) ](/conferences/21-piep) [### 2022 Political Institutions and Economic Policy (PIEP) ](/conferences/22-piep) [### 2022 Politics and Economics of International Finance (PEIF) ](/conferences/22-peif) [### 2022 Undergraduate Associate Thesis Conference ](/conferences/22-undergraduate-associate-thesis-conference) [### Disability Climate Justice and Building Forward Better ](/conferences/22-disability-climate-justice-and-building-forward-better) [### Empire, Nation, Federation: South Asia’s Freedom in Global Perspective ](/conferences/22-empire-nation-federation) [### Historicizing Consent: What Did it Mean to Agree in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World and Why Should We Care? ](/conferences/22-historicizing-consent-what-did-it-mean-agree-late-medieval-and-early-modern-world-and-why) [### International Comedy Night with Zarna Garg ](/conferences/22-international-comedy-night) [### Weatherhead Forum 2021–2022 ](/conferences/21-22-weatherhead-forum) [### Weatherhead Forum 2022–2023 ](/conferences/22-23-weatherhead-forum) [### Weatherhead Spotlight 2022–2023 ](/conferences/22-23-weatherhead-spotlight) ### 2021 expand\_more [### 2021 Undergraduate Associate Thesis Conference ](/undergraduate-associate-thesis-conference-2021) [### 2022 Climate Pipeline Project ](/conferences/21-challenge-and-opportunity-climate-change-political-science) [### Conference on International Economics ](/conferences/21-conference-on-international-economics) [### Global Food+ 2021 ](/conferences/21_global-food-symposium) [### International Comedy Night with Ronny Chieng ](/conferences/21-international-comedy-night-ronny-chieng) [### The Anticolonial Transnational: Networks, Connections, and Movements in the Making of the Postcolonial World ](/conferences/21-anticolonial-transnational) [### Weatherhead Forum 2020–2021 ](/conferences/20-21-weatherhead-forum) [### Weatherhead Forum 2021–2022 ](/conferences/21-22-weatherhead-forum) ### 2020 expand\_more [### 2020 Politics and Economics of International Finance (PEIF) ](/conferences/20-peif) [### International Comedy Night (in the Afternoon) with Noam Shuster ](/conferences/20-international-comedy-night-noam-shuster) [### Political Science of Lynching in Global Comparative Perspective ](/conferences/20-political-science-lynching-global-comparative-perspective) [### Symposium on the Political Economy of Development ](/conferences/20-symposium-political-economy-development) [### Weatherhead Forum 2019–2020 ](/conferences/19-20-weatherhead-forum) [### Weatherhead Forum 2020–2021 ](/conferences/20-21-weatherhead-forum) ### 2019 expand\_more [### 2019 Political Institutions and Economic Policy (PIEP) ](/conferences/19-piep) [### 2019 Politics and Economics of International Finance (PEIF) ](/conferences/19-politics-and-economics-international-finance-peif) [### 2019 Weatherhead Center Undergraduate Thesis Conference ](/conferences/19-weatherhead-center-undergraduate-thesis-conference) [### A Prospective Retrospective | The Successful Societies: Mobilizing the Social Sciences to Understand Collective Well-Being ](/conferences/19-prospective-retrospective-successful-societies) [### Ethical Engagement in Conflict Research ](/conferences/19-ethical-engagement) [### International Comedy Night with Cristela Alonzo ](/conferences/19-international-comedy-night-cristela-alonzo) [### Interpreting Energy Dependence in Eurasia ](/conferences/19-interpreting-energy-dependence-eurasia) [### Sacred Groves & Secret Parks: Orisha Landscapes in Brazil and West Africa ](/conferences/19-sacred-groves-and-secret-parks) [### The Future of Geography ](/conferences/19-future-of-geography) [### The Oxford Handbook of Politics in Muslim Societies ](/conferences/19-oxford-handbook-politics) [### Weatherhead Forum 2018–2019 ](/conferences/18-19-weatherhead-forum) [### Weatherhead Forum 2019–2020 ](/conferences/19-20-weatherhead-forum) [### What's Wrong with Democracy? — The Challenges and Promise of Democracy in the Middle East, South Asia, and the US ](/conferences/19-whats-wrong-democracy) [### Whose Health is it Anyway? Mental Health and Decision-Making in the CRPD Era ](/conferences/19-whose-health-is-it-anyway) ### 2018 expand\_more [### 2018 Political Institutions and Economic Policy (PIEP) ](/conferences/18-political-institutions-and-economic-policy-piep) [### 2018 Politics and Economics of International Finance (PEIF) ](/conferences/18-peif) [### 2018 Weatherhead Center Undergraduate Thesis Conference ](/conferences/18_undergraduate) [### Changing Middle Classes: Comparative and Global Perspectives ](/conferences/18-changing-middle-classes-comparative-and-global-perspectives) [### Food in the Global Welfare State: Consumer Subsidies as Social Protection Conference ](/conferences/18-food-global-welfare-state) [### Gender Inequality: It's about Time ](/conferences/18-gender-inequality) [### Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion on International Development ](/conferences/18-interdisciplinary-panel-discussion-international-development) [### International Book Blitz ](/conferences/18-international-book-blitz) [### International Comedy Night with Hari Kondabolu ](/conferences/18-international-comedy-night-hari-kondabolu) [### Unelected Power: Book Talk by Paul Tucker ](/conferences/18-unelected-power-book-talk-paul-tucker) [### Weatherhead Forum 2017–2018 ](/conferences/17-18-weatherhead-forum) [### Weatherhead Forum 2018–2019 ](/conferences/18-19-weatherhead-forum) ### 2017 expand\_more [### 2017 Political Institutions and Economic Policy (PIEP) ](/conferences/17-piep) [### 2017 Politics and Economics of International Finance (PEIF) ](/conferences/17_politics-and-economics-international-finance-peif) [### 2017 Weatherhead Center Undergraduate Thesis Conference ](/conferences/17_undergraduate) [### Challenges and Opportunities to the Atlantic Basin in a Globalized World ](/conferences/17_challenges-and-opportunities-atlantic-basin-globalized-world) [### Comparative Inequality Conference ](/conferences/17_comparative-inequality-conference) [### Director's Lunch Seminar ](/conferences/16-17_directors-lunch-seminar) [### Europe on Credit: Narratives of Speculation, Decline, and Responsibility ](/conferences/17_europe-credit-narratives-speculation-decline-and-responsibility) [### Global Food+ 2017: 24 Speed Talks at the Nexus of Food, Agriculture, Environment, Health, and Society ](/conferences/17_global-food-symposium) [### International Comedy Night ](/conferences/17-international-comedy-night) [### Michael Ondaatje: Writers Speak ](/conferences/17-michael-ondaatje) [### Next-Generation International Security Scholars Conference ](/conferences/17-international-security) [### Report Launch | Making Politics Work for Development ](/conferences/17_making-politics-work-for-development) [### State Capacity in Comparative Perspective ](/conferences/17-state-capacity-comparative-perspective) [### The Canadian Model of Diversity: Contemporary Challenges and Opportunities ](/conferences/17-canadian-model-diversity) [### The Shanghai Conference on Africa and China ](/conferences/17-shanghai-africa-china) [### This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate with Naomi Klein ](/conferences/17_naomi-klein) [### Weatherhead Forum 2017–2018 ](/conferences/17-18-weatherhead-forum) ### 2016 expand\_more [### 2016 Political Institutions and Economic Policy (PIEP) ](/conferences/16_political-institutions-and-economic-policy-piep) [### 2016 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Conference in Talloires, France ](/conferences/16_talloires) [### 2016 Weatherhead Center Undergraduate Thesis Conference ](/conferences/16_undergraduate) [### Director's Lunch Seminar ](/conferences/16-17_directors-lunch-seminar) [### Mobilized Contention: The State-Protest Movement Nexus ](/conferences/16_mobilized_contention) [### Politics and Economics of International Finance 2016 (PEIF) ](/conferences/16_PEIF) [### Soccer as a Global Phenomenon ](/conferences/16_soccer-global-phenomenon) [### Social Inclusion and Poverty Eradication ](/conferences/16_social-inclusion-and-poverty-eradication) [### The Cambridge History of the Indian Ocean ](/conferences/16_cambridge-history-indian-ocean) [### The Maccabean Moment ](/conferences/16_maccabean-moment) [### Weak Institutions in Latin America: New Theoretical and Empirical Approaches ](/conferences/16_weak-institutions-latin-america) ### 2015 expand\_more [### 2015 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Conference in Talloires, France ](/conferences/15_talloires) [### 2015 Weatherhead Center Undergraduate Thesis Conference ](/conferences/15_undergraduate) [### Africa's Development in Historical Perspective ](/conferences/15_africa_development_historical) [### Conference to Celebrate the Contributions of Jorge I. Domínguez ](/conferences/15_jorge_dominguez) [### Harvard Research Symposium on the Nexus of Food, Agriculture, Environment, Health, and Society ](/conferences/15-Harvard-Food-Plus-Research) [### Intractable Conflicts: The Future of Interactive Problem-Solving (IPS) Workshops in Theory and Practice ](/conferences/15_intractable_conflicts) [### New Research on the Slave Trade ](/conferences/15_new-research-slave-trade) [### Political Institutions and Economic Policy 2015 (PIEP) ](/conferences/15_piep) [### Spaces, Scales, and Routes: Region Formation in History and Anthropology ](/conferences/15_spaces_scales_routes) ### 2014 expand\_more [### 2014 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs conference in Talloires, France ](/conferences/14_talloires) [### 2014 Weatherhead Center Undergraduate Thesis Conference ](/conferences/14_undergraduate) [### Conference on International Migration Policy and Law Analysis (IMPALA) ](/conferences/14_impala) [### Harvard Academy Alumni Reunion Conference ](/conferences/14_harvard_academy_alumni) [### Identity, Sovereignty, and Global Politics in the Building of Baghdad ](/conferences/14_identity_sovereignty_baghdad) [### Innovation and Access to Technologies for Sustainable Development: A Global Systems Perspective ](/conferences/14_sustainable_development) [### Our Divine Double ](/conferences/14_author_cstang) [### Political Institutions and Economic Policy (PIEP Fall 2014) ](/conferences/14_dec_piep) [### Sacred Politics: The State and Islam in the Contemporary Middle East ](/conferences/14_author_mzeghal) [### The Transformation of Intractable Conflicts: Perspectives and Challenges for Interactive Problem Solving ](/conferences/14_intractable_conflicts) [### Why People Migrate? The Diverse Mechanisms of Mexico-U.S. Migration ](/conferences/14_why_people_migrate) ### 2013 expand\_more [### 2013 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs conference in Talloires, France ](/conferences/13_talloires) [### 2013 Weatherhead Center Undergraduate Thesis Conference ](/conferences/13_undergraduate) [### Global Challenges of Electoral Integrity ](/conferences/13_global_electoral_integrity) [### Local States of Play: Land and Local Capitalism in China ](/conferences/13_author_mrithmire) [### Mexico 2012 Public Opinion and Election Conference: The 2012 Public Opinion Panel Project ](/conferences/13_mexico) [### Northeast Universities Development Consortium Conference ](/conferences/13_neudc) [### Political Institutions and Economic Policy (PIEP Fall 2013) ](/conferences/13_piep) [### The Global E.P. Thompson: Reflections on the Making of the English Working Class after Fifty Years ](/conferences/13_global_epthompson) ## Valuing Accessibility 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.