Centerpiece: Fall 2015

The fall 2015 issue of Centerpiece highlights the Center's recent activities, including a high-profile visit from His Highness the Aga Khan, who delivered the 2015 Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture on the topic of " The Cosmopolitan Ethic in a...

Producing research within our walls and diffusing it beyond As casual observers of the social science scene at Harvard have been quick to notice, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has been bustling with activity this fall. Our events have...

His Highness the Aga Khan “The Cosmopolitan Ethic in a Fragmented World” Delivered on November 12, 2015 at Memorial Church Bismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim Mark Elliott, Vice Provost Michèle Lamont, Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs...

Seventeen Harvard College students received summer 2015 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...

Economics Rules by Dani Rodrik In the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession, economics seems anything but a science. In this sharp, masterfully argued book, Dani Rodrik, a leading critic from within, takes a close look at economics to...

WCFIA Faculty Associate Sven Beckert's Empire of Cotton is a Nominee for the Cundill Prize Laird Bell Professor of History Sven Beckert was nominated for the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature for his new book, Empire of Cotton: A Global History...

Iceberg Alley: Outports in Transition Iceberg Alley’s outports—the small, isolated communities situated along the remote, rugged coast of Canada’s Newfoundland and Labrador province—have subsisted on local and ocean-based economies. But these outports...

2015–2016 Kenneth I. Juster Fellows The Weatherhead Center is pleased to announce its 2015–2016 class of Juster Fellows. Now in its fifth year, this grant initiative is made possible by the generosity of the Center’s Advisory Committee Chair, the...

The Program on U.S.-Japan Relations collaborated with two Harvard faculty members, Peter Galison (Joseph Pellegrino University Professor, Department of History of Science) and Robb Moss (Harvard College Professor and Chair of the Department of Visual and...