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Tag: Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
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Nation & World
One way of putting it
Harvard scholars offer their picks for the word that sums up 2023
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Help with Zoom or help with zoom
Either way, Cory Gillis, Weatherhead administrator and amateur bike mechanic, has his colleagues covered
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Resolving ethnic, religious violence
The roughly three-year initiative is designed to further understanding of ethnic and religious violence while advancing solutions.
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U.S. clean energy transition soon ‘to be on steroids’
Former Biden climate adviser Gina McCarthy brings insider’s view of status of battle against warming to Smith Center
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The snappy book talk: ‘When does that happen in academia?’
Harvard scholars had seven minutes to explain their work to an audience. Some actually managed it.
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Speaking from experience on what makes a global killer
COVID-19 isn’t going away, but one day may be as severe as the common cold, says epidemiologist Larry Brilliant.
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Weatherhead fellow aims to pair social justice, sports
Ex-pro soccer player Justin Morrow, founder of Black Players for Change, focuses on raising diversity in leadership roles.
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Dangers lurk in wake of U.S. pullout in Afghanistan
The shrinking U.S. Mideast presence and a growing Chinese influence are a bad mix, scholars say at a Harvard panel.
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A diet that’s healthy for people and the environment
Walter Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, takes a closer look at a diet that is as healthy for you as it is the planet,
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10 years later: Was the Arab Spring a failure?
Ten years later, Arab scholars and analysts on campus take a closer look at the uprising known as the Arab Spring.
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Ezra Vogel, leading expert on East Asia, dead at 90
Ezra F. Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, died Dec. 20 at Mount Auburn Hospital due to complications from surgery. He was 90. A remarkable contributor…
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Battle for LGBTQ rights amid the pandemic
As part of Worldwide Week at Harvard, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs hosted “Rethinking Resistance Politics in Troubling Times: Transnational Queer Solidarity During COVID-19,” an online panel discussing recent work examining the international situation.
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From a royal palace to ivy halls: A dissident’s view of the Arab Spring
Morocco’s Prince Moulay Hicham el Alaoui relinquished his title to press for democratic principles. In an Epicenter article, he assessed the Arab Spring.
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A stand-up stands up for migrants and immigration
Cristela Alonzo weaves the experiences of her difficult-yet-joyful upbringing into stand-up humor.
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Water, life, and climate change in South Asia
In his latest book, Sunil Amrith, the Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies and chair of the Department of South Asian Studies, describes the ageless link between water and prosperity in South Asia and examines the new challenges of climate change.
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Picturing history through a personal lens
Wonik Son has examined post-World War II humanitarian images for what they say about injury and disability and where they fit into history, including his own.
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Mothers of stillborns face prison in El Salvador
Shortly after passing a total abortion ban in 1997, El Salvador became the first Latin American nation to incarcerate women who suffered stillbirths and other obstetrical emergencies for the crime of homicide. Sociologist Jocelyn Viterna analyzes the cultural dynamics that transformed a “pro-life” movement into a political system that revoked women’s rights.
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The upper-class tool kit
Upper-class parents have tools to help their children succeed in a changing world and improve their social status, advantages not readily available to poorer families, according to a panel at a Harvard conference.
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Ziblatt receives Wilson Foundation Award
Daniel Ziblatt, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, has been chosen as the recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, a top accolade in political science, for his book “Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy.”
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Poverty and past failures provide lessons in giving back
Wendell Adjetey, a postdoc fellow at the Weatherhead Center, is paying it forward with a foundation that helps the most marginalized peoples of the African Great Lakes region get an education.
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Her app for a socio-medical goal: Anthropology without borders
Margot Mai ’18 came to Harvard to pursue biology and pre-med, only to discover anthropology and change her concentration in her sophomore year.
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The pressures on academic freedom
Academic freedom is an important pillar of open societies, but at a Harvard forum, two panelists worried that aspects of it are being targeted both globally and in the U.S.
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Daily life and death on the U.S.-Mexico border
Using her training as a first responder, Harvard anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte offers a front-line perspective on the tensions at the border between Mexico and the U.S.
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Lamont wins Erasmus Prize
Michèle Lamont, Harvard’s Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, professor of sociology, professor of African and African-American studies, and director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, has been awarded the Erasmus Prize.
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Crime, fear, and loathing
In their book “The Truth about Crime,” Harvard Professors Jean and John Comaroff consider how shifts in attitudes toward criminality have contributed to the fear of other people, to racial violence, and to public distrust of government.
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Pick climate or economics
To make a difference on climate change, author Naomi Klein says, government and business would have to shift their ways, and likely won’t.
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Focus on the future of food
At the Global Food+ 2017 summit, a panel heard 24 capsule discussions on the future of food in key areas, along with concerns about how to feed the world.
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The borders between us
In a new book, Harvard historian Charles Maier explores the boundaries that both separate and bind modern societies.
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ClassACT casts a mold for leadership
The classmates of Benazir Bhutto ’73 have established an international leadership program in her name.
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Taking the stigma out of poverty
A two-day workshop will examine how poverty leads to social exclusion, and how to reduce it.
