WCFIA Orientation

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Mon - Tue, Aug 27 to Aug 28, 8:45am - 7:00pm

Monday, August 27

8:00–8:45 Continental Breakfast
Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, 2nd floor, Library

9:00–9:45 Weatherhead Center Annual Photograph
From the Harvard Faculty Club, please go directly to the steps of Memorial Church (Rain plan: Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Building, consult folder map).

10:00-12:00 Welcome Address and Introduction of Affiliates
Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, 2nd floor, Library
Beth A. Simmons
Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University, Department of Government
Steven B. Bloomfield
Executive Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

12:00–2:00 Individual Program Orientations and Lunches
Harvard Academy 12:00–2:00, Harvard Faculty Club, Room 10
Fellows Program 12:00–2:00, Harvard Faculty Club, Room 4
U.S.-Japan Relations 12:00–2:00, Harvard Faculty Club, East Dining Room

2:15–3:30 Harvard Libraries Workshop, Basics Session
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Conference Room, K262
Chaired by Shinju Fujihira, Associate Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
Diane Sredl
Data Reference Librarian, Lamont Library
Sue Gilroy
Head of Reference Services, Lamont Library

3:30–3:45 Break

3:45–5:00 Harvard Libraries Workshop, “Advanced” Session
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Conference Room, K262
Chaired by Shinju Fujihira, Associate Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
Diane Sredl
Data Reference Librarian, Lamont Library
Sue Gilroy
Head of Reference Services, Lamont Library

Tuesday, August 28

All sessions, unless noted otherwise, take place in the CGIS Knafel Building,
1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Conference Room, K262.

9:00–10:30 International Relations
Jeffry A. Frieden
Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Department of Government
Ted Bestor
Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology and Japanese Studies
Dustin Tingley
Assistant Professor of Government

10:30–11:00 Break

11:00–12:30 Security Studies
J. Bryan Hehir
Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life, Harvard Kennedy School
Alastair Iain Johnston
The Governor James Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs, Department of Government
Erez Manela
Professor of History, Department of History; Director, Graduate Student Programs;
Director, Program on Global Society and Security

12:30–1:30 Lunch (provided)

1:30–2:30 Harvard University: An Overview
Steven B. Bloomfield

2:45–4:45 Harvard: An Insiders’ Walking Tour
Steven B. Bloomfield
Gather in the CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, in the 2nd floor lobby of the Weatherhead Center.
(Wear comfortable shoes; rain or shine.)

5:00–7:00 Weatherhead Center Reception & Barbecue
For all Weatherhead Center affiliates, families, and friends.
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Fisher Family Commons, ground floor.