# Spring 2016, Volume 30 Number 2 ## expand\_more ![Image of Spring 2016 Cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/wcfia/files/cover_page_150.jpg?itok=3wJyO8dd) The spring 2016 issue of *Centerpiece* highlights the Center's recent activities, including updates on several of our programs, including [student programs](/publications/centerpiece/spring2016/prog_student "Student Programs"), the [Fellows Program](/publications/centerpiece/spring2016/prog_fellows), the [Program on U.S.-Japan Relations](/publications/centerpiece/spring2016/prog_usjapan), and [The Harvard Academy](/publications/centerpiece/spring2016/prog_academy). The [Message from the Director](/publications/centerpiece/spring2016/director) focuses on the multigenerational nature of the Center and four new projects for the upcoming academic year. The feature, “[Multiculturalism in Canada's Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora](/publications/centerpiece/spring2016/feature-hyndman)” by Jennifer Hyndman, visiting scholar with the Canada Program, examines everyday multiculturalism in the first- and second-generation Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada. And finally, the feature “[In Conversation with…](/publications/centerpiece/spring2016/feature_monson),” is an interview with Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music Ingrid T. Monson, in which she discusses her forthcoming book, *The Voice of Kenedougou*, and her longstanding interest in the hybrid nature of music. **Download:** [Spring 2016, Volume 30 Number 2](/file_url/6856) \[ PDF: 902KB \] ### [Message from the Director](/publications/centerpiece/spring2016/director) *by Michèle Lamont* **At the end of a busy year, looking forward to the fall.** It is impossible to forget that the Weatherhead Center is first and foremost a research center. One of the ways it fosters research is through collaboration between faculty, students—graduate and undergraduate—visitors, and postdocs.... ### [In Conversation with...Ingrid T. Monson](/publications/centerpiece/spring2016/feature_monson) *Interview by Meg Murphy and Megan Margulies* Ingrid Monson, Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music, has played the trumpet since she was ten years old. She found her way to jazz after observing that there was much less time spent counting bars of rest in jazz than in an orchestra.... ### [Multiculturalism in Canada's Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora](/publications/centerpiece/spring2016/feature-hyndman) *by Jennifer Hyndman* More than ever, multiculturalism is a contested concept and policy. After the recent attacks in Brussels, Paris, and Beirut—among other cities—immigration is increasingly and often erroneously linked to questions of national security, since the assailants are often born in Europe and are full EU citizens. In Europe, multiculturalism is said to have failed; in Canada, it lives on in both policy and practice. But for how long? And in what form?... ### At the Center - [Of Note](/publications/centerpiece/spring2016/of_note "Of Note") - [Photo Gallery | Director’s Series on Comparative Inequality and Social Inclusion](/file_url/6856) - [Photo Gallery | Spring 2016 Events](/file_url/6856) - [New Books](/publications/centerpiece/spring2016/new_books "New Books") - [New Faculty Associates](/publications/centerpiece/spring2016/new_faculty) - [Student Programs](/publications/centerpiece/spring2016/prog_student "Student Programs") - [Fellows Program](/publications/centerpiece/spring2016/prog_fellows "Fellows Program") - [Program on U.S.-Japan Relations](/publications/centerpiece/spring2016/prog_usjapan "Program on U.S.-Japan Relations") - [The Harvard Academy](/publications/centerpiece/spring2016/prog_academy) --- Attachments- [ picture\_as\_pdf Spring 2016, Volume 30 Number 2 ](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/wcfia/files/cpspring2016_lowres.pdf) --- See also:- [ Centerpiece ](/content-types/centerpiece) - [ Centerpiece: Spring 2016 ](/newsletter-issues/centerpiece-spring-2016)