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Weatherhead Events

Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University

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Frequency: 1 episode/36d. Total Eps: 26

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University sponsors many special events throughout the year, including prominent lectureships and our regular Weatherhead Forum—our platform to address pressing topics of the day.

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Weatherhead Forum / The American Revolution in Global Perspective

Episode 26

Wednesday, March 4, 2026 • Duration 01:15:41

Speakers

Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor, Harvard University; Director, Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation, Harvard Kennedy School; Director, Democratic Knowledge Project-Learn, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
David Armitage, Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Department of History; Chair, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University.
Elisabeth Leake, Lee E. Dirks Professor in Diplomatic History, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

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Erez Manela, Acting Center Director (2025–2026); Director, Graduate Student Programs; Faculty Associate. Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.

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The Jodidi Lecture with Atul Gawande / The Mechanics of Public Man-Made Death: USAID’s Destruction At One Year

Episode 25

Wednesday, February 11, 2026 • Duration 01:30:57

Speaker

Atul Gawande, John and Cyndy Fish Chair in Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Samuel O. Thier Professor of the Practice of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; writer, The New Yorker.

Chair

Erez Manela, Acting Center Director (2025–2026); Director, Graduate Student Programs; Faculty Associate. Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.

All events hosted or sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. Events here are also available to watch on video at our YouTube channel.

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The Manshel Lecture with Ben Rhodes / American Foreign Policy in the Trump Era

Episode 16

Thursday, February 6, 2025 • Duration 01:30:40

Speaker

Ben Rhodes, American writer, political commentator, and a former deputy national security advisor for strategic communications and speechwriting under President Barack Obama.

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Melani Cammett, Center Director; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity Politics. Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University.

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Weatherhead Forum / What's Next? Breaking Down the US Presidential Election Results

Episode 15

Wednesday, November 6, 2024 • Duration 01:19:20

Speakers

Joshua D. Kertzer, John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Pippa Norris, Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics, Harvard Kennedy School.
Daniel Ziblatt, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Department of Government; Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.

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Melani Cammett, Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity Politics; Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University.

All events hosted or sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. Events here are also available to watch on video at our YouTube channel.

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The Jodidi Lecture with Tjada D'Oyen McKenna / Cope, Adapt, Thrive: Ensuring Our Shared Future on a Hot and Hostile Planet

Episode 14

Thursday, October 24, 2024 • Duration 01:14:37

Speaker

Tjada D'Oyen McKenna, Chief Executive Officer of Mercy Corps

Moderator

Melani Cammett, Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity Politics; Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University.

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Special Event / Richard English Book Talk: Does Counter-Terrorism Work?

Episode 13

Wednesday, October 23, 2024 • Duration 01:05:29

Speaker

Richard English, Weatherhead Center Advisory Committee Member; Professor of Politics at Queen's University Belfast; Director, Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice.

Moderator

Melani Cammett, Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity Politics. Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University.

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Weatherhead Forum / Geopolitical Stakes of the 2024 US Presidential Election

Episode 12

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 • Duration 01:15:49

Speakers

Timothy Colton, Chair, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies; Faculty Associate. Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Ziad Daoud, Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative at Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy ‎School. Chief ‎Emerging Markets Economist, Bloomberg. (Daoud is replacing Tarek Masoud, who can no longer participate in this event.)
Diana Durán Nuñez, Neiman Fellow, Harvard University. Bogotá-based journalist, formerly for TV news magazine LosInformantes on Caracol Televisión in Colombia.
Rana Mitter, S.T. Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School.

Chair

Melani Cammett, Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity Politics; Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University.

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Special Event / Pernicious Prejudice: Scholarly Approaches to Antisemitism and Islamophobia

Episode 11

Wednesday, May 1, 2024 • Duration 01:37:19

Speakers

Jeffrey Kopstein, Director, Center for Jewish Studies; Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Irvine.
Nazita Lajevardi, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Michigan State University.
Kassra A.R. Oskooii, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware.
Sabine von Mering, Director, Center for German and European Studies; Professor of German and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University.

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Eric Beerbohm, Professor of Government; Director, Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University.

Moderator

Melani Cammett, Center Director; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity Politics. Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University.

All events hosted or sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. Events here are also available to watch on video at our YouTube channel.

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International Book Blitz 2024

Episode 10

Monday, April 22, 2024 • Duration 47:55

Speakers

Christina Davis, Director, Program on US-Japan Relations. Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University. Discriminatory Clubs: The Geopolitics of International Organizations (Princeton University Press, 2023)

Ya-Wen Lei, Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University. The Guilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China (Princeton University Press, 2023)

Michèle Lamont, Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion. Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies; Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies, Departments of Sociology and African and African American Studies, Harvard University. Seeing Others—and How It Can Heal a Divided World (Simon and Schuster, 2023)

Merilee Grindle, Edward S. Mason Professor of International Development, Emerita, Harvard Kennedy School. In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico’s Ancient Civilizations (Harvard University Press, 2023)

Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business Administration, Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit, Harvard Business School. Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia (Oxford University Press, 2023)

Sugata Bose, Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History. Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Department of History, Harvard University. Asia after Europe: Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century (Harvard University Press, 2024)

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Weatherhead Forum / The War in Israel/Palestine Series / Part 5: Peace Activism

Episode 9

Wednesday, March 27, 2024 • Duration 01:35:46

Speakers

Alon-Lee Green, National Co-Director, Standing Together.
Rula Hardal, Palestinian CEO, A Land for All.
Mohammad Kundos, Principal, Hand in Hand School, Kfar Saba, Israel.
Oded Leshem, Senior Research Associate, Psychology of Intergroup Conflict and Conciliation Lab, Hebrew University.

Chair

Melani Cammett, Weatherhead Center Director. Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University.

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