Weatherhead Events

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...

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 Degree...

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 eve...

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 writ...

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; S...

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 , Actin...

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, De...

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, G...

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 Co...

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 Unive...

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...

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 o...

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. C...

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 Harva...

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 Affa...

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...

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 , Directo...

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

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 Affair...

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...

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, Te...

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...

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 Governme...

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 Affai...

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...