2014

March 27–29, 2014 This conference is closed to the public. This conference is held in honor of Professor Herbert C. Kelman, who developed a method of conflict management known as “Interactive Problem Solving Workshops,” and involves representatives who...

December 12, 2014 This conference is closed to the public. There are diverse mechanisms that lead individuals to migrate. These mechanisms are studied in various migration theories developed in multiple disciplines. In neo-classical economics, higher...

December 6, 2014 This conference is closed to the public. [ Conference Program ] Over the past 25 years, two separate strands of research in political economy have developed. The first is the rigorous analysis of the impact of political institutions on...

November 7, 2014 This conference is closed to the public. In the second and third centuries of the Common Era, we witness the sudden appearance of a peculiar figure in the religious imagination of the Eastern Mediterranean: the divine twin or double. We...

October 16–17, 2014 This conference is closed to the public. [ Conference Program ] Governments adopt a variety of approaches to regulating immigration and make adjustments to these policies frequently. But currently there exist no comprehensive, cross...

October 3, 2014 This conference is closed to the public. Malika Zeghal’s book, Sacred Politics: The State and Islam in the Contemporary Middle East, illuminates the modern state’s ineluctable engagement with religion and its consequences by reflecting on...

September 18–20, 2014 This conference is closed to the public. [ Conference Program ] In 1984, Dean Henry Rosovsky and the founding benefactor, Ira Kukin, agreed on the terms for Kukin’s gift for the Harvard Academy. Since the founding, over one hundred...

September 18–20, 2014 This conference is open to the public but registration is required. Please contact Phillip Baker to register (baker.phillip@gmail.com). [ Conference Program ] Using the history of urban development in Baghdad as a starting point...

February 6–8, 2014 [ WCFIA Undergraduate Thesis Conference Website ] This conference is open to the public. The Weatherhead Center Spring Thesis Conference will feature the thesis research findings of the Center’s Undergraduate Associates. The conference...

June 13–15, 2014 [ 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...