Academic Year 2023-24

See internal calendar for details and speakers. Contact: Walid Hammam | Director, Weatherhead Scholars Program ( scholarsprogram@wcfia.harvard.edu)

“Children of Violence: Victims in the Shadow of Conflict” Experiences of political violence sometimes shape the political identities of victims and their descendants. But there is a great deal of variation across contexts. What kinds of experiences of...

WSP Seminar with Fellow Lúcio Vinhas de Souza — “One Damn Thing after Another: A Hundred Years of Monetary Policy and Multiple Crises around the World” The title of this talk refers to the sheer number (and scale) of crisis that the global economy and the...

“ Climate Change and Security. The Urgent Need to Adapt Methods, Concepts, and Institutional Mechanisms to Address a Global Polycrisis”

Hendrik Ohnesorge (WSP fall 2022) will present his new edited volume, Soft Power and the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy (Manchester University Press, 2023). This volume explores the role of soft power in US foreign policy past, present and future. It...

“The European Court of Justice and France’s 1958 Constitution” William Phelan, a 2023 visiting scholar, is associate professor of political science at Trinity College Dublin, and Jean Monnet Chair in EU Politics and Law. His research focuses on...