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Weatherhead Forum / The American Revolution in Global Perspective04 Mar 202601:15:41
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.

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The Jodidi Lecture with Atul Gawande / The Mechanics of Public Man-Made Death: USAID’s Destruction At One Year11 Feb 202601:30:57
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.

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The Manshel Lecture with Ben Rhodes / American Foreign Policy in the Trump Era06 Feb 202501:30:40
Speaker
  • Ben Rhodes, American writer, political commentator, and a former deputy national security advisor for strategic communications and speechwriting under President Barack Obama. 
Chair
  • 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 Results06 Nov 202401:19:20
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.
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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The Jodidi Lecture with Tjada D'Oyen McKenna / Cope, Adapt, Thrive: Ensuring Our Shared Future on a Hot and Hostile Planet24 Oct 202401:14:37
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?23 Oct 202401:05:29
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 Election09 Oct 202401:15:49
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 Islamophobia01 May 202401:37:19
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. 
Chair
  • 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.

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International Book Blitz 202422 Apr 202400:47:55
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 Activism27 Mar 202401:35:46
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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Weatherhead Forum / The War in Israel/Palestine Series / Part 4: A Dialogue16 Feb 202401:16:24
Speakers Moderator
  • Michael Sandel, Faculty Associate. Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Chair
  • Melani Cammett, Weatherhead Center Director. Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University.

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Weatherhead Forum / The War in Israel/Palestine Series / Part 3: Geopolitical Dimensions14 Feb 202401:29:36
Speakers
  • F. Gregory Gause, Professor of International Affairs and John H. Lindsey ’44 Chair, Bush School of Government & Public Service, Texas A&M University.
  • Peter Krause, Associate Professor of Political Science, Boston College.
  • Adel Hamaizia, Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School.
  • Dahlia Sheindlin, public opinion expert and political analyst; PhD, Tel Aviv University.
Chair
  • Melani Cammett, Weatherhead Center Director. Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University.

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Weatherhead Forum / Algorithmic Power: The Role of AI in Foreign Policy28 Jan 202601:14:52
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.

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Weatherhead Forum / The War in Israel/Palestine Series / Part 2: Scenarios for Peace31 Jan 202401:28:12
Speakers
  • Diana Buttu, Palestinian-Canadian lawyer, former spokesperson for the Palestine Liberation Organization. (NOTE: Diana Buttu could not attend this event due to illness.)
  • Leila Farsakh, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston.
  • Yuval Feinstein, Former Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Scholars Program. Chair; Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Haifa. 
  • Shai Feldman, Raymond Frankel Chair in Israeli Politics and Society, Crown Center for Middle East Studies and Raymond Frankel Professor of Politics at Brandeis University.
Chair
  • Melani Cammett, Weatherhead Center Director. Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University.

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Weatherhead Forum / The War in Israel/Palestine Series / Part 1: A Primer with Derek Penslar04 Dec 202300:12:21
Speaker
  • Derek Penslar, Faculty Associate. William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Department of History; Director, Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University.
Chair
  • Melani Cammett, Weatherhead Center Director. Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University.

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Weatherhead Forum / The War in Israel/Palestine Series / Part 1: A Primer with Yael Berda04 Dec 202300:12:27
Speaker
  • Yael Berda, Former Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Fellow, Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School; Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Chair
  • Melani Cammett, Weatherhead Center Director. Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University.

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The Jodidi Lecture with Dame Louise Richardson / How Can Universities Address the Crisis in Democracy?08 Nov 202301:23:24
Speaker
  • Dame Louise Richardson, President, Carnegie Corporation of New York.
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 / Peacebuilding: A Matter of Trust (and the Benefits of a Bowl of Soup)04 Oct 202301:29:10
Speaker
  • Peter Sheridan, Chief Executive, Co-operation Ireland.
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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Weatherhead Forum / Militants to Peacemakers: A Conversation from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Lebanon20 Sep 202301:37:25
Speakers
  • Assaad Chaftari, Activist and Vice President, Fighters for Peace; Former Senior Intelligence Official, Christian Militia, Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990).
  • Dženana Šabić Hamidović, National Project Officer, International Organization for Migration.
  • Spasoje Kulaga, Founder and President, Pravi Požar Association, Bosnia; Former Member, Army of Republic of Srpska.
  • Luciano Kaluza, Diplomat; Master of International Relations and Economic Diplomacy; Former Consul General of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • Asim Parlić, Activist; Former Councillor, Zavidovići Municipal Council; Former Member, Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • Mirko Zečević-TadićI, Activist; President, Retired War Invalids 108 Brigade; Former Member, Croatian Defence Council.
Chair
  • 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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The Manshel Lecture with Walter Russell Mead / The Crisis of Pax Americana12 Nov 202501:32:13
Speaker
  • 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.

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Weatherhead Forum / Now What? Foreign Policy and the State of Democracy—One Year Later05 Nov 202501:15:00
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.

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Weatherhead Forum / The Legacy of Joseph S. Nye, Jr.15 Oct 202501:13:23
Speakers
  • 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.

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Weatherhead Forum / From Victory to Uncertainty: The Postwar Order After Eighty Years17 Sep 202501:16:21
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.

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International Book Blitz 202505 May 202500:55:04
Speakers

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. The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa (Princeton University Press, 2024)

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Special Event / Trade and Inflation in a Fragmented World16 Apr 202501:05:53
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.

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Weatherhead Forum / Syria and Shifting Power Dynamics in the Middle East19 Feb 202501:25:58
Speakers
  • Ibrahim Al-Assil, Senior Fellow, Middle East Institute.
  • Marwa Daoudy, Seif Ghobash Chair in Arab Studies; Associate Professor of International Relations, Georgetown University.
  • Qutaiba Idlbi, Resident Senior Fellow, Syria, Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East Programs, Atlantic Council.
  • Leila Molana-Allen, Special Correspondent, PBS Newshour.
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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