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Weatherhead Events

Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University

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Frequency: 1 episode/37d. Total Eps: 27

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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https://wcfia.harvard.edu/
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https://epicenter.wcfia.harvard.edu/
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https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674278332
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https://www.youtube.com/@HarvardWCFIA
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International Book Blitz 2026

Episode 27

Monday, May 11, 2026 • Duration 37:19

Speakers

Eram Alam, Faculty Associate. Associate Professor, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University. The Care of Foreigners: How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare (Johns Hopkins University, 2025)
Bruno Carvalho, Faculty Associate (on leave 2025–2026). Codirector, Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative; Professor, Departments of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University. The Invention of the Future: A History of Cities in the Modern World (Princeton University Press, 2026)
Ian Kumekawa, Anniversary Fellow, Center for History and Economics, Harvard University; Lecturer in History, MIT. Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Barge (Penguin Random House, 2025)
Taeku Lee, Faculty Associate. Bae Family Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University. Billionaire Backlash: The Age of Corporate Scandal and How It Could Save Democracy (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Gabrielle Oliveira, Faculty Associate. Jorge Paulo Lemann Associate Professor of Education and of Brazil Studies, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Now We Are Here: Family Migration, Children’s Education, and Dreams for a Better Life (Stanford University Press, 2025)
Daniel Lord Smail, Faculty Associate. Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History; Interim Chair, Department of History, Harvard University. Magdalena Coline: A Life Beyond Slavery in Mediterranean Europe (Princeton University Press, 2025)

Moderator

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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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.

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 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

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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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Weatherhead Forum / Algorithmic Power: The Role of AI in Foreign Policy

Episode 24

Wednesday, January 28, 2026 • Duration 01:14:52

Speakers

Marc Aidinoff, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University.
Carmem Domingues, AI specialist; former White House Senior AI Technical Advisor.
Ofrit Liviatan, Lecturer on Law and Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Bruce Schneier, American cryptographer, computer security professional, privacy specialist, and writer. Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.

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 Walter Russell Mead / The Crisis of Pax Americana

Episode 23

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 • Duration 01:32:13

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Walter Russell Mead, Alexander Hamilton Professor of Strategy and Statecraft, Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education, University of Florida. Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship, Hudson Institute. Columnist, Wall Street Journal.

Chair

Erez Manela, Acting Center Director (2025–2026); Director, Graduate Student Programs; Executive Committee; Steering Committee; 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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Weatherhead Forum / Now What? Foreign Policy and the State of Democracy—One Year Later

Episode 22

Wednesday, November 5, 2025 • Duration 01:15:00

Speakers

Bart Bonikowski, Associate Professor of Sociology and Politics, New York University.
Fredrik Logevall, Faculty Associate. Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School; Professor, Department of History, Harvard University.
Pippa Norris, Faculty Associate. Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics, Harvard Kennedy School.

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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Weatherhead Forum / The Legacy of Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

Episode 21

Wednesday, October 15, 2025 • Duration 01:13:23

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Graham T. Allison, Jr., Faculty Associate. Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School.
Carla Dirlikov Canales, Advisory Committee. Fellow, Social Innovation and Change Initiative, Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School.
Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on US-Japan Relations; Faculty Associate. Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Jake Sullivan, Kissinger Professor of the Practice of Statecraft and World Order, Harvard Kennedy School; Senior Fellow, Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire.

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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Weatherhead Forum / From Victory to Uncertainty: The Postwar Order After Eighty Years

Episode 20

Wednesday, September 17, 2025 • Duration 01:16:21

Speakers

Margaret Macmillan, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Toronto; Emeritus Professor of International History, Oxford University.
Rana Mitter, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School.
Stephen Wertheim, Senior Fellow American Statecraft Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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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International Book Blitz 2025

Episode 19

Monday, May 5, 2025 • Duration 55:04

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Yamini Aiyar, Advisory Committee. President and Chief Executive, Centre for Policy Research; Visiting Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University.Lessons in State Capacity for Delhi’s Schools (Oxford Academic, 2024)

Theresa S. Betancourt, Salem Professor in Global Practice; Director, Research Program on Children and Adversity (RPCA), Boston College School of Social Work. Shadows into Light: A Generation of Former Child Soldiers Comes of Age (Harvard University Press, 2025)

Jennifer L. Hochschild, Faculty Associate. Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, Department of Government; Professor, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University; Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Race/Class Conflict and Urban Financial Threat (Russell Sage Foundation, 2025)

Tyler Jost, Assistant Professor of Political Science, International & Public Affairs, Department of Political Science; Watson Institute Assistant Professor of China Studies, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University. Bureaucracies at War: The Institutional Origins of Miscalculation (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

Serhii Plokhy, Faculty Associate. Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Department of History; Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University. Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone (W. W. Norton, 2024)

Malika Zeghal, Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University. (Princeton University Press, 2024)

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Special Event / Trade and Inflation in a Fragmented World

Episode 18

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 • Duration 01:05:53

Speaker

Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Weatherhead Center Advisory Committee Member. Schreiber Family Professor of Economics; Director, Global Linkages Lab, Brown University.

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.

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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