Conferences

October 5 through November 30, 2026

This event is open to the public but the CGIS South building doors are locked and require Harvard ID access to open. 

May 3, 2027

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...

March 6, 2027

This conference is closed to the public and is by invitation only.

Politics and Economics of International Finance (PEIF) is a continuing series of annual one-day PEIF conferences that brings together scholars interested in economic and...

February 4–5, 2027

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...

November 13, 2026

This event is closed to the public.

The Broken Link: How Weak Political Oversight of Bureaucrats Undermines Service Delivery and Electoral Accountability.

November 6, 2026

This event is closed to the public.

The upcoming book, with the working title Extraordinary Violence, Ordinary Life: Politics and the Social Rules of Peace, focuses on the role of political elites in shaping social norms around interethnic...

October 29–30, 2026

The first day is open to the public. The second day is closed to the public.

This event convenes judges, litigators, and scholars from Africa, Europe, and Latin America for a comparative examination of the evolving relationship between...

October 22, 2026

This event is open to the public. Register to attend. There will be a public viewing of the exhibition and reception before the lecture. 

September 18, 2026

This conference is open to the public. 

The fields of international, global, and transnational history have been flourishing in recent decades. Akira Iriye, the longtime Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard who passed...

September 2, 2026

This conference is open to nonpresenting participants with advance registration. For more details, please visit the conference website. 

This pre-APSA conference is designed to bring together scholars working on democratic resilience...