2015

December 5, 2015 This conference is closed to the public. Over the past twenty-five years, two separate strands of research in political economy have developed. The first is the analysis of the impact of political institutions on political behavior and...

October 3, 2015 This conference is closed to the public. [ Conference Agenda ] A network of specialists on comparative slavery—called the Working Group—is based at Harvard, but includes colleagues from neighboring universities such as MIT, Boston...

September 18–19, 2015 This conference is closed to the public. This conference builds on the wide range of developments to Interactive Problem Solving (IPS) over the past decades, and addresses the challenges facing it. The sustainability of interactive...

February 27, 2015 [ Symposium agenda with links to audio and video of individual speed presentations ] The Harvard Research Symposium on the Nexus of Food, Agriculture, Environment, Health, and Society (Food+ Symposium) featured twenty-two Harvard faculty...

June 19–21, 2015 [ 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...

February 5–6, 2015 This conference is open to the public. [ Conference Program ] 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...

May 7–8, 2015 This conference is closed to the public. This conference will honor the career and contributions of Jorge I. Domínguez to the Weatherhead Center and Harvard University. Four topics will serve as the focus for a panel discussion: US-Latin...

May 1–2, 2015 This conference is open to the public. [ Conference Website ] In recent years, various regions have drawn growing interest in scholarly and popular debates. Clandestine migration overflows national borders along routes that often follow...

April 17–18, 2015 This conference is open to the public. In 2010, Emmanuel Akyeampong, Robert Bates, Nathan Nunn, and James Robinson were awarded a Weatherhead Initiative grant (2010–2012) to examine African poverty over the longue durée. The Initiative...