2016

Academic Year 2016–2017 These events are closed to the public. The Director's Lunch Seminar provides an opportunity for various affiliates of the Weatherhead Center, such as the graduate student affiliates, members of The Harvard Academy, Fellows, members...

December 3, 2016 This conference is closed to the public. This is a multiyear attempt to bring together scholars of political economy from the two broad traditions that make up that enterprise—the analysis of the impact of political institutions on...

November 17–18, 2016 This conference is open to the public. Social exclusion and poverty are interrelated in multiple and complex ways, depending on the context in which they occur. Poverty is not only about income or material deprivations, but also...

October 14–15, 2016 This conference is open to the public. The interregional arena of the Indian Ocean has emerged as a connected—if not unified—field of historical study. While the case for integration had been strongly suggested by historical...

April 14–16 This conference is open to the public but registration is required. [ Visit the conference website for more information and registration ] “Soccer as a Global Phenomenon” is organized around the theme of tension between the globalizing impulse...

February 4–5, 2016 This conference is open to the public. [ Conference Website ] The Weatherhead Center Spring Thesis Conference will feature the thesis research findings of the Center’s Undergraduate Associates. The conference entails a series of two...

June 17–19, 2016 [ The WCFIA Talloires Conference Website ] This conference is closed to the public. The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs organizes annually a gathering of international participants in Talloires, France, to address current...

May 9–10, 2016 This conference is closed to the public. Over the last three decades, scholars of comparative political institutions have taken advantage of the variation generated by the spread of democratic institutions in the developing world to deepen...

May 6–7, 2016 This conference is closed to the public. “Mobilized Contention: The State-Protest Movement Nexus” focuses on government funding and control of social movements, nongovernmental organizations, and rebel groups—both inside and outside their...

April 2, 2016 This conference is closed to the public. This meeting on the Politics and Economics of International Finance (PEIF) is the second in a possible continuing series of annual one-day PEIF conferences. The goal is to bring together scholars...