MONDAY, MARCH 31

12:00pm to 1:15pm ET / Hybrid

Program on US-Japan Relations Seminar

Associates’ Panel: Social Policy Agenda and Innovations

Speakers: Masami Fujioka, Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations. Principal Deputy Director, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan.

Nagisa Osaki, Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations. Secretary, Secretariat of the House of Representatives, Japan.

Minato Sato, Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations. Judge, Fukuoka District Court, Japan.

Discussant: Daniel Aldrich, Professor, Political Science and Public Policy, Northeastern University.

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12:00pm to 1:30pm ET / In Person

Political Violence Workshop

Contesting Repression in Divided Democracies: Can Counternarratives Reduce Support for Police Violence?

Speakers: Yanilda González, Faculty Associate (on leave 2024–2025). Ford Foundation Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.

Natán Skigin, Raphael Morrison Dorman Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program. PhD, Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame.

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12:15pm to 2:00pm ET / Hybrid

Science, Technology, and Society Seminar: STS Circle at Harvard

Smart is Power: U.S. Cities and Urban Mobilization in the Digital Age

Speaker: Nicole West Bassoff, PhD Candidate in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.

Moderator: Lou Lennad, PhD Candidate in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.

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3:00pm to 4:15pm ET / In Person

Seminar in International Economics

Unpacking Aggregate Welfare in a Spatial Economy

Speaker: Masao Fukui, Assistant Professor of Economics, Boston University.

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3:45pm to 5:45pm ET / In Person

Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History Seminar

Knowledge Capitalism: The Historical Evolution of Contemporary Capitalism

Speaker: Ernesto Domínguez López, Professor of History and Political Sciences, Center for Hemispheric and United States Studies, University of Havana, Cuba.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 1

12:00pm to 1:20pm ET / Hybrid

Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Studies

The Future of the Border Under Trump 2.0

Speakers: Stephanie L. Canizales, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley; Director, Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative.

Chappell Lawson, Associate Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Emily Ryo, Charles L. B. Lowndes Distinguished Professor of Law & Professor of Sociology, Duke University.

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12:00pm to 1:30pm ET / Hybrid

Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop

Structured Luck: Downstream Effects of the US Diversity Visa Program

Speaker: Onoso Imoagene, Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, New York University Abu Dhabi.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2

3:45pm to 5:45pm ET / In Person

HIGHS: Harvard International and Global History Seminar

“The Great Marketplace”: African Development in a Neoliberal World

Speaker: Vivien Chang, Postdoctoral Fellow in US Foreign Policy and International Security, Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College.

Comment: Quinn Slobodian, Professor of International History, Boston University.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 3

12:15pm to 1:45pm ET / In Person

Weatherhead Scholars Program Seminar

Health Disparities and Covid-19: Case from South Korea

Speaker: Jaehyun Nam, Sang-Kee Kim Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Scholars Program. Associate Professor, Department of Social Welfare, Pusan National University.

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4:30pm to 5:45pm ET / In Person

Alberto Alesina Seminar on Political Economy

Noisy Screening and Brinkmanship

Speaker: Germán Gieczewski, Assistant Professor of Politics, Princeton University.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 4

12:30pm to 6:15pm ET / In Person

Unraveling Injustice and Power Structures

On April 4th, 2025, we will mark International Roma Day with the 13th Roma conference at Harvard University, Unraveling injustice and power structures. The event aims to unpack and reframe the enduring reproduction of the artificial hierarchy imposed between white Europeans and European Roma people, situating it within the broader global theoretical frameworks related to racism, casteism, racialization, and socio-cultural hierarchies and oppressions. Unraveling injustice and power structures will contribute to and expand upon ongoing global dialogues on racialization.

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1:15pm to 2:45pm ET / In Person

Seminar in Economic History

The Price of Housing in the United States, 1890-2006

Speaker: Allison Shertzer, Economic Advisor and Economist, Research Department, Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank.

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