Event Archive
"Medical Polarization: How Politics Infects the Doctor's Office and What to Do About It"
Free and Open to the Public
Chaired by Professor Andrea Campbell and featuring Professor Julianna Pacheco of the University of Iowa with a panel including Alister Martin, Timothy Callaghan, Michael Stein, Elaine Hernandez, and Wes Boyd
MIT, University of Iowa, Mass General Hospital, Boston University, Boston University, Indiana University, Harvard University
June 5, 2026 2:30PM Wong Auditorium, Tang Center, 2 Amherst St (enter at the corner of Amherst St. and Wadsworth St. and go up one flight of stairs; elevator on the right)
The Effect of Childhood Environment on Political Behavior
Jacob Brown
Boston University
May 13, 2026 12:00PM
May 13, 2026
12:00PM
Private Sector Debt, Politics, and Sovereign
Professor Mark Manger
University of Toronto
May 8, 2026 12:00PM Millikan Room, E53-482
Lobbying and Legislative Representation
Hye Young You
Princeton University
May 6, 2026 12:00PM Millikan Room, E53-482
CTRL Your Shift: Clustered Transfer Residual Learning for Many Small Datasets
Professor Kirk Bansak
University of California, Berkeley
May 1, 2026 12:30PM Millikan Room, E53-482
To Reflect or Deflect: Assessing Internal Accountability in the U.S. Military
Heidi Urben
Georgetown University
April 29, 2026 12:00PM
April 29, 2026
12:00PM
Dual Citizenship & Dueling Loyalties: Evidence from West Africa
Fiona Shen Bayh
University of Maryland
April 21, 2026 12:00PM Millikan Room, E53-482
How Dictators Recruit Talent
David Szakonyi
The George Washington University
April 7, 2026 12:00PM E53-482 Millikan Room
Coalitions for Quality? Building State Capcacity in Modern Education Systems
Jane Gingrich and Daniel Roberts
Oxford University and Harvard
April 3, 2026 1:00PM Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 27 Kirkland Street
Symbolic Transitional Justice and Linked Party Support
Laia Balcells
Georgetown University
March 31, 2026 12:00PM Millikan Room, E53-482
MIT Center for International Studies Event: Geopolitics of the Strait of Hormuz
Moderator: Richard Nielsen, Panelists: Caitlin Talmadge, Dafna Rand, Nader Habibi and Ali Kadivar
MIT, MIT, MIT, Brandeis, Boston College
March 30, 2026 3:00PM
March 30, 2026
3:00PM
The Third Nuclear Age: Will Our Luck Finally Run Out?
Alexandra Bell
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
March 18, 2026 12:00PM E40-496
We the People? In Support of Expatriates' Right to Political Participation
Avia Pasternak
University of Maryland
March 13, 2026 3:30PM E53-485
Incidental Representation: How Special Interests Can Advance the Public Good
Gautam Nair and Gunnar Trumbull
Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School
March 13, 2026 1:30PM Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 27 Kirkland Street
March 13, 2026
1:30PM
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 27 Kirkland Street
Fragmenting Commercial Governance:
The Political Economy of Place-Based Industrial Policy in Africa
Professor Michael Allen
Stanford University
March 13, 2026 12:00PM Millikan Room, E53-482
The Landscape of Space Security and Competition
Kari Bingen
Center for Strategic and International Studies
March 11, 2026 12:00PM E40-496
Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro
Brown University
March 11, 2026 12:00PM The Richard J. Samuels Conference Room, E40-460
Disrupting the Dominant Party: The Personalization of Autocratic Rule
Chris Carter
University of Virginia
March 10, 2026 12:00PM Millikan Room, E53-482
Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States
Emilie Connolly
Brandeis University
March 6, 2026 3:30PM E53-485
March 6, 2026
12:30PM
The Navy We Need: Maritime Dominance in a World of Interlocking Supply Chains
Paul DeLuca
Rand Corporation
March 4, 2026 12:00PM E40-496
Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft
Jon R. Lindsay
Georgia Institute of Technology
February 25, 2026 1:30PM E40-496