# Fall 2024, Volume 39 Number 1 ![Fall Centerpiece cover.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-05/Cover.png?itok=hkAa0NLV) **Download**: [Fall 2024, Volume 39 Number 1](/file_url/6911) \[ PDF: 1.5 MB \] or [view online](https://indd.adobe.com/view/86c7e3e3-c6e1-4996-b0d7-1073d074c96b) The Fall 2024 issue of *Centerpiece* highlights recent activities at the Weatherhead Center, including events, publications, awards, and more. Weatherhead's executive director, Erin Goodman, shares Center updates in the [Message from the Executive Director](/publications/centerpiece/fall2024/executive-director "Message from the Executive Director") column. Our annual feature, [Dispatches: Undergraduate Researchers in the Field](/publications/centerpiece/fall2024/dispatches "Dispatches: Undergraduate Researchers in the Field"), includes the summer research experiences of four students. This year's essays center around students who traveled to Jamaica, the Republic of Georgia, Rwanda, and India. Our second feature is an excerpt from our fall [Jodidi Lecture](/publications/centerpiece/fall2024/feature_jodidi "Cope, Adapt, Thrive: Ensuring Our Shared Future on a Hot and Hostile Planet"), delivered by Mercy Corps CEO (and Harvard alumna) Tjada D'Oyen McKenna. McKenna spoke about the inextricable links between climate change and conflict around the world—and how both pose threats to our shared humanity. We also include updates on our [student programs](/publications/centerpiece/fall2024/prog_student "Student Programs"), including the inaugural Herbert C. Kelman Fellows, along with an [exciting new global scholars network](/publications/centerpiece/fall2024/prog_gsnic "Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity Politics") that is the result of participation between our Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity Politics and the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. ### Message from the Executive Director One thing that has come into stark relief this fall is that there are disparate perspectives on the issues confronting our nation and our world, including perceptions of threats to democracy, the environment, immigration, and shifting international alliances. At the Weatherhead Center, we pride ourselves on presenting pluralistic and innovative approaches to these issues. We do so by supporting cross-disciplinary collaborations through our six research clusters; welcoming visiting affiliates from all over the world and from different ideological backgrounds; and striving to organize events and activities that are balanced in their collective viewpoints... [ Read Letter arrow\_circle\_right ](https://prod-wcfia.drupalsites.harvard.edu/publications/centerpiece/fall2024/executive-director) ![Erin Goodman headshot.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_1_1__480x480/public/2025-04/goodman_erin-sq-crop.jpg?itok=gC1gx-lq) ### Photo Gallery We had a busy fall 2024 semester! Check out some of the photos from our many events. [ View photo gallery arrow\_circle\_right ](https://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/publications/centerpiece/fall2024/photo_gallery) ![Weatherhead staff sitting in chairs laughing at comedian performing offstage.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_1_1__480x480/public/2025-05/IMG_4729ed-3000px.jpg?h=f51c0f0a&itok=3_6tS2Ck) [### Dispatches: Undergraduate Researchers in the Field ](https://prod-wcfia.drupalsites.harvard.edu/publications/centerpiece/fall2024/dispatches)Feature ![A woman with long dyed braids is leaning out of a car and looking down the road toward a sunset.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/wcfia/files/dispatches_feature_-_image_only.png?itok=IpcAUlQT) [### Cope, Adapt, Thrive: Ensuring Our Shared Future on a Hot and Hostile Planet ](https://prod-wcfia.drupalsites.harvard.edu/publications/centerpiece/fall2024/feature_jodidi)Feature ![Tjada D'Oyen McKenna and Melani Cammett are seated in leather chairs and smiling at someone in the audience (off camera).](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/wcfia/files/tocimages-jodidi-2630px.jpg?itok=X4Wohd5a) ## At the Center emoji\_events [### Of Note ](/publications/centerpiece/fall2024/of_note)Awards and accolades given to Weatherhead affiliates book [### New Books ](/publications/centerpiece/fall2024/newbooks)Recent publications written by Weatherhead affiliates person [### Student Programs ](/publications/centerpiece/fall2024/prog_student)Meet our new Juster Fellows and our inaugural Kelman Fellows science [### Identity Politics Cluster ](/publications/centerpiece/fall2024/prog_gsnic)Global Scholars’ Network on Identity and Conflict ## Recently on Epicenter - [Christian Feminists from Abroad Confront US Sexual Politics](https://epicenter.wcfia.harvard.edu/blog/christian-feminists-abroad-confront-us-sexual-politics) - [How Digitization is Changing Urban Politics](https://epicenter.wcfia.harvard.edu/blog/how-digitization-changing-urban-politics) - [Rare Films from Socialist Yugoslavia](https://epicenter.wcfia.harvard.edu/podcast/ep16-rare-films-from-socialist-yugoslavia) - [Survival and Self-Determination in Northeast Syria](https://epicenter.wcfia.harvard.edu/blog/survival-and-self-determination-northeast-syria) - [Student Protests and Lessons from the Anti-Apartheid Movement](https://epicenter.wcfia.harvard.edu/blog/student-protests-and-lessons-anti-apartheid-movement) - [Cities in Bangladesh Must Refocus to Combat Climate Change](https://epicenter.wcfia.harvard.edu/blog/cities-bangladesh-must-refocus-combat-climate-change) - [Migrants Bring Opportunity to Boston and Beyond](https://epicenter.wcfia.harvard.edu/podcast/ep15-migrants-bring-opportunity-to-boston-and-beyond) --- Attachments- [ picture\_as\_pdf Centerpiece-Spring2025-lowres\_0.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/2025-05/Centerpiece-Spring2025-lowres_0.pdf) --- See also:- [ Centerpiece ](/content-types/centerpiece) - [ Centerpiece: Fall 2024 ](/newsletter-issues/centerpiece-fall-2024)