#  Jodidi Lecture with Ron Haviv 

 



**All Jodidi Lectures are open to the public.**

The Jodidi Lecture is among the most prominent lecture series of the Weatherhead Center and is one of the most distinguished at the University. Established in 1955, the lecture series provides for the “delivery of lectures by eminent and well-qualified persons…for the promotion of tolerance, understanding and good will among nations, and the peace of the world.”

Visit the [Weatherhead Center YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@HarvardWCFIA) to view videos from the Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture Series and more. All Jodidi Lecture Series videos can be found in its [lecture series playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTcEVZEBVyEk0A5qTO8u-GTcamA5D7pJx).



 

##  Save the Date 

### October 22, 2026

**This event is open to the public.**

*Testimony*

Location: Tsai Auditorium, S010, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge.

Lecture: 5:00–6:30 p.m.

There will be a public viewing of exhibition and reception before the lecture, 4:00–5:00 p.m.

### Speaker Bio

Ron Haviv is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker and an award-winning photojournalist. He co-founded VII Photo Agency and The VII Foundation, where he currently serves as a director. He is dedicated to documenting conflict and raising human rights issues around the globe.

Haviv’s first photography book, *Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal*, was called “One of the best non-fiction books of the year,” by *The Los Angeles Times* and “A chilling but vastly important record of a people’s suffering” by *Newsweek*. His other monographs are *Afghanistan: The Road to Kabul*, *Haiti: 12 January 2010*, *The Lost Rolls,* and *Shadow of Memory*.

Haviv has produced an unflinching record of the injustices of war covering over twenty-five conflicts and his photography has had singular impact. His work in the Balkans, which spanned over a decade of conflict, was used as evidence to indict and convict war criminals at the international tribunal in The Hague. President George H. W. Bush cited Haviv’s chilling photographs documenting paramilitary violence in Panama as one of the reasons for the 1989 American intervention.

His work is in the collections of The Getty, Eastman House and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston amongst others and has been seen in numerous other museums and galleries, including the Louvre, United Nations, Council on Foreign Relations, Fotografiska, and the International Center of Photography.

Haviv has co-created multi-platform projects for Doctors Without Borders’ DR Congo: The Forgotten War and Starved for Attention, Unicef’s Child Alert for Darfur and Sri Lanka and the International Committee of the Red Cross’s World at War. His commercial clients include Ad Council, American Express, BAE, Canon USA, ESPN, IBM, and Volkswagen.

Haviv is the central character in six documentary films, including National Geographic Explorer’s *Freelance in a World of Risk*, in which he speaks about the dangers of combat photography, including his numerous detentions and close calls.

He has provided expert analysis and commentary on ABC World News, BBC, CNN, NPR, MSNBC, *NBC Nightly News*, *Good Morning America*, and *The Charlie Rose Show*. He has written opinion pieces for *The* *Washington Post* and *The New York Times* and spoken at [TEDx](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q0WSu3M-8o) along with numerous other lectures at universities and conferences.



 

##  Last Jodidi Lecture 

 



  [### The Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture with Atul Gawande

 ](/events/jodidi26-gawande)February 11, 2026

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 4:30PM - 6:00PM EST 

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 Tsai Auditorium (Room S010), CGIS South Building 

 

 In Person 

**The Mechanics of Public Man-Made Death: USAID’s Destruction At One Year**

**Speaker**: Atul Gawande

Open to the public / registration required



 

 

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