Centerpiece: Fall 2013

Kenneth I. Juster Fellows The Weatherhead Center is pleased to announce its 2013–2014 class of Juster Fellows. Now in its third year, this grant initiative is made possible by the generosity of the Center’s Advisory Committee Chair, the Honorable Kenneth...

Members of the Weatherhead Center community and the Canada Program were saddened to learn of the passing of Richard Simeon, the William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies and Canada Seminar Chair in 1998 and again from 2006 to 2008...

Outsiders No More? Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation By Jennifer L. Hochschild, Jacqueline Chattopadhyay, Claudine Gay, and Michael Jones-Correa, eds. Outsiders No More? brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to consider pathways...

Weatherhead Center Faculty Associate Holds Film Screening in Italy Michael Herzfeld, professor of anthropology and curator of European ethnology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology had a screening of his film, Roman Restaurant Rhythms...

Eighteen Harvard College students received summer 2013 travel grants from the Weatherhead Center to support their thesis research on topics related to international affairs. Since their return in August, the Weatherhead Center has encouraged these...

By Kyle Jaros The boom of big cities across China in recent years reflects not only market forces unleashed by reform and liberalization but also renewed—and, in some cases, intensified—state intervention in the economy. Policymakers in some provinces...

In the New York Times Sunday Review on October 25, 2013, we were pleased to see an opinion piece by Chris P. Nielsen and Mun S. Ho entitled “ Clearing the Air in China.” Marshaling only the data that a short piece can allow, the article advocated the...

The fall 2013 issue of Centerpiece focuses on the Center's recent activities, including program events, the Warren and Anita Manshel Lecture in American Foreign Policy, and the Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture Series. The feature, “ Forging a...

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs mourns the loss of Robert Richardson Bowie, the Center’s founding director, who passed away on Saturday, November 2, 2013, at the age of 104. Robert Bowie was born on August 24, 1909, and was a highly...