Fall 2025 Photo Gallery

Weatherhead Orientation

Before the start of the fall semester every year, the Weatherhead Center hosts an orientation for the incoming year's affiliates. This year, affiliates gathered on August 25 and 26 for our 2025–2026 orientation that started with introductions, followed by informative panels by library professionals, staff, and faculty, and concluded with a BBQ for all affiliates and their families. Credits (left to right): Kristin Caulfield, Lauren McLaughlin, Bethany Versoy 

A speaker addresses an audience seated in a formal room with chandeliers and wooden floors; a red Weatherhead Center banner stands beside the podium.
Five people sit at a conference table, listening attentively, with laptops and water bottles in front of them; a presentation slide reads "Cluster Alumni."
Two people stand outdoors holding plates of food at a gathering. Other attendees and food condiments are visible in the background.

Weatherhead Forum

The Weatherhead Forum is our platform to address pressing topics of the day, and the pathbreaking Weatherhead research being done in those areas. Speakers include faculty affiliates and expert practitioners. All forum events are chaired by Acting Center Director Erez Manela. Photos below, from left to right:

Left: The Weatherhead Forum titled “From Victory to Uncertainty: The Postwar Order After Eighty Years” was held on September 17. It featured Margaret Macmillan, Rana Mitter, and Stephen Wertheim. Credit: Lauren McLaughlin

Center: The Weatherhead Forum titled “The Legacy of Joseph S. Nye, Jr.” was held on October 15. It featured Graham T. Allison, Jr., Carla Dirlikov Canales, Christina L. Davis, and Jake Sullivan. Credit: Lauren McLaughlin

Right: The Weatherhead Forum titled “Now What? Foreign Policy and the State of Democracy One Year After Election” was held on November 5. It featured speakers Bart Bonikowski, Fredrik Logevall, and Pippa Norris. Credit: Lauren McLaughlin

Two people sit in a classroom watching a video call with four participants projected on a large screen at the front of the room.
Six people participate in a virtual meeting, each in individual locations, appearing in separate windows with bookshelves and office backgrounds visible behind them.
Screenshot of a virtual meeting with four people in separate video call windows, each seated indoors with bookshelves in the background.

Syria in Transition

On October 23, the Weatherhead Center hosted a conversation between Center Director Melani Cammett and Hind Kabawat, Minister of Social Affairs and Labour, Syrian Arab Republic. They discussed post-Assad Syria’s difficult transition, highlighting immense institutional and social challenges but emphasizing dialogue, inclusivity, diaspora engagement—and long-term, capacity-building efforts to create a democratic and socially protective state for all Syrians. Credits: Bethany Versoy

Two women are having a conversation seated in brown leather chairs, with a table and glasses of water between them.
Close up of Melani Cammett at the podium, looking off to the left.
Several people stand in line in front of the microphone, among a crowded lecture hall.
A crowded lecture hall with two women seated in conversation at the front.
Close up of Hind Kabawat as she rests her head in her hand, listening to a speaker off screen.

Canada Program

The Canada Program hosted two special events in addition to their regular full semester: 

Left: A conversation with Justice Rosalie Abella (center) was held on October 20, with broadcaster Steve Paikin (left), and Ayelet Shachar (right), William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies. Credit: Lauren McLaughlin

Right: On November 12, the program hosted a conversation with Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations in New York Bob Rae. He is standing with Marlene Gaynair, William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow. Credit: Erin Goodman

Three people in business attire sit at a conference table having a discussion, with water bottles and papers in front of them.
An older man in a suit and tie and a younger woman in a black outfit stand side by side in a classroom, smiling at the camera. There are desks, water bottles, and chalkboards behind them.

Other Events

First row (left): Former Graduate Student Associate Amy Catalinac (left), associate professor of politics at New York University, with Clare Putnam (right), student programs coordinator, after Catalinac’s talk on “Dominance Through Division: Group-based Clientelism in Japan,” for the Program on US-Japan Relations seminar held on October 6. Credit: Lauren McLaughlin

First row (right): On October 14, alumni from the 2024–2025 Weatherhead Scholars Program gather for a mini reunion after their alumni panel “The Effect of U.S. Democracy Promotion Retrenchment on Global Autocratization: Theory and Evidence from Israel and Turkey.” Credit: Erin Goodman

Second row (left): Hind Kabawat (center, in black-and-white sweater), Minister of Social Affairs and Labour, Syrian Arab Republic, meets with Harvard students and Professor Adam Mestyan (far right) on October 24. Courtesy of Adam Mestyan

Second row (right): Center Director Melani Cammett speaks at the 2025 GSNIC conference “Intergroup Norms After Violent Conflict: Insights from Research and Practice,” held on September 19–20 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Credit: Masha Froliak 

Two women standing indoors, smiling at the camera; one wears a black blazer and orange top, the other wears a red and white striped shirt, with a framed map on the wall behind them.
Eight adults standing together and smiling inside a restaurant with wooden and brick walls, art on the wall, and dining tables in the foreground.
A group of thirteen people stands indoors in front of a framed artwork, smiling at the camera. The setting appears to be a hotel or restaurant lobby.
A woman speaks to an seated audience in a room with green bookshelves and a banner reading "Fakultet Politickih Nauka Univerzitet u Sarajevu."

 

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