Centerpiece: Spring 2017

The following Harvard faculty accepted invitations to be WCFIA Faculty Associates during the 2016–2017 academic year: Pierre Bélanger, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design. The intersection of territory...

2016–2017 Graduate Student Associates Undergraduate Associates 2017–2018 The following students have been appointed Undergraduate Student Associates for the 2017–2018 academic year and have received grants to support travel in connection with their senior...

In 2017, the Canada Program is commemorating fifty years of Canadian Studies at Harvard, thanks to the William Lyon Mackenzie King Endowment. Since 1967, the program has hosted visiting Canadianist scholars in the social sciences and humanities, presented...

Three Faculty Associates Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Congratulations to three WCFIA Faculty Associates on their election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Torben Iversen, Marc Melitz, and Jonathan Zittrain are part of...

Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy By Daniel Ziblatt How do democracies form and what makes them die? Daniel Ziblatt revisits this timely and classic question in a wide-ranging historical narrative that traces the evolution of modern...

A Lifetime in the Pursuit of Peace Interview by Michelle Nicholasen Although we now think of it as a failed effort, the 1993 Oslo Accord forever changed the nature of the Middle East conflict. It marked the first time Israelis and Palestinians recognized...

International Institutions In an Era of Populism, Nationalism, and Diffusion of Power Robert O. Keohane, Professor of International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University Delivered on December 12, 2016...

I am wrapping up my second year as director of the Weatherhead Center, which has been an intense period: this fall was consumed by the external review, and this spring by the implementation of many recommendations from the review committee. The staff and...

The spring 2017 issue of Centerpiece highlights the Center's recent activities, including updates on student programs and the Canada Program. In the Message from the Director, Michèle Lamont outlines the busy year after starting to implement external...