Weatherhead Events

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. Follow the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:Weatherhead Center WebsiteEpicenter WebsiteFacebookLinkedInInstagramBlueskySimplecastYouTube

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. Follow the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:Weatherhead Center WebsiteEpicenter WebsiteFacebookLinkedInInstagramBlueskySimplecastYouTube

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. Follow the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:Weatherhead Center WebsiteEpicenter WebsiteFacebookLinkedInInstagramBlueskySimplecastYouTube

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. 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. Follow the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:Weatherhead Center WebsiteEpicenter WebsiteFacebookLinkedInInstagramBlueskySimplecastYouTube

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. Follow the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:Weatherhead Center WebsiteEpicenter WebsiteFacebookLinkedInInstagramBlueskySimplecastYouTube

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. 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. Follow the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:Weatherhead Center WebsiteEpicenter WebsiteFacebookLinkedInInstagramBlueskySimplecastYouTube

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. Follow the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:Weatherhead Center WebsiteEpicenter WebsiteFacebookLinkedInInstagramBlueskySimplecastYouTube

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) 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. Follow the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:Weatherhead Center WebsiteEpicenter WebsiteFacebookLinkedInInstagramBlueskySimplecastYouTube

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. Follow the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:Weatherhead Center WebsiteEpicenter WebsiteFacebookLinkedInInstagramBlueskySimplecastYouTube

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. 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. Follow the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:Weatherhead Center WebsiteEpicenter WebsiteFacebookLinkedInInstagramBlueskySimplecastYouTube

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. 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. Follow the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:Weatherhead Center WebsiteEpicenter WebsiteFacebookLinkedInInstagramBlueskySimplecastYouTube

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. 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. Follow the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:Weatherhead Center WebsiteEpicenter WebsiteFacebookLinkedInInstagramBlueskySimplecastYouTube

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. 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. Follow the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:Weatherhead Center WebsiteEpicenter WebsiteFacebookLinkedInInstagramBlueskySimplecastYouTube

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.                           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. Follow the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:Weatherhead Center WebsiteEpicenter WebsiteFacebookLinkedInInstagramBlueskySimplecastYouTube

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. 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. Follow the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:Weatherhead Center WebsiteEpicenter WebsiteFacebookLinkedInInstagramBlueskySimplecastYouTube

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. 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. Follow the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:Weatherhead Center WebsiteEpicenter WebsiteFacebookLinkedInInstagramBlueskySimplecastYouTube

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) 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. Follow the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:Weatherhead Center WebsiteEpicenter WebsiteFacebookLinkedInInstagramBlueskySimplecastYouTube

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. 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. Follow the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:Weatherhead Center WebsiteEpicenter WebsiteFacebookLinkedInInstagramBlueskySimplecastYouTube

Speakers Moshe Halbertal, Gruss Professor of Law, New York University School of Law; John and Golda Cohen Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His books include Maimonides: Life and Thought, On Sacrifice, and The Beginning of Politics: Power in the Biblical Book of Samuel (coauthored with Stephen Holmes).  Sari Nusseibeh, professor of philosophy, emeritus; former president, Al Quds University; former representative of the Palestinian National Authority in Jerusalem. His books include Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life, What is a Palestinian State Worth?, and The Story of Reason in Islam. 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. 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. Follow the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:Weatherhead Center WebsiteEpicenter WebsiteFacebookLinkedInInstagramBlueskySimplecastYouTube

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. 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. Follow the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:Weatherhead Center WebsiteEpicenter WebsiteFacebookLinkedInInstagramBlueskySimplecastYouTube

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. 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. Follow the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:Weatherhead Center WebsiteEpicenter WebsiteFacebookLinkedInInstagramBlueskySimplecastYouTube

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. 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. Follow the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:Weatherhead Center WebsiteEpicenter WebsiteFacebookLinkedInInstagramBlueskySimplecastYouTube

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. 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. Follow the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:Weatherhead Center WebsiteEpicenter WebsiteFacebookLinkedInInstagramBlueskySimplecastYouTube

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. 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. Follow the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:Weatherhead Center WebsiteEpicenter WebsiteFacebookLinkedInInstagramBlueskySimplecastYouTube

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. 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. Follow the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:Weatherhead Center WebsiteEpicenter WebsiteFacebookLinkedInInstagramBlueskySimplecastYouTube

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. 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. Follow the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:Weatherhead Center WebsiteEpicenter WebsiteFacebookLinkedInInstagramBlueskySimplecastYouTube