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The Watson Institute sponsors and co-sponsors over 100 seminars, workshops, and conferences each year.
Many of these are summarized 
on this site; others can be listened to 
or viewed 
, as indicated. A calendar of upcoming events is available here.
Browse by event type:
- Africa Group Colloquium Series
- Anthropology, Art and Activism Seminar Series
- Borderlands: The Shatter-Zone of Empires
- Brown Legal Studies Seminar
- Caribbean Forum
- Center for Latin American Studies Faculty Colloquium
- Center for Latin American Studies Film Series
- Center for Latin American Studies Lecture Series
- Chong Wook Lee and Vartan Gregorian Distinguished Lecture
- Colloquium on Comparative Research
- Commencement Forum
- Corporate Power in Global Environmental Governance
- Directors Lectures Series on Contemporary International Affairs
- European Politics Seminar Series
- Global Ethics Seminar Series
- Global Security Seminar Series
- Illicit Flows Speaker Series
- Innovating Global Security Lecture Series
- Lecture Series on South Asia
- Lectures on Globalization and Inequality
- Middle East and Islamic Studies Seminar Series
- Moving Boundaries: Inequalities, Histories and the Making of Post-Colonial South Asia Lecture and Film Series
- Occupation/Liberation/Collaboration Film Series
- Political Economy Seminar Series
- Population and Environment in China and its Global Implications
- Seminar
- Social Entrepreneurship Seminar
- Stephen A. Ogden Jr. '60 Memorial Lecture
- Study Group
- The Hannah Arendt Seminars
- The Middle East a Year from Baghdad's Fall: Is There a Democracy Domino Effect?
- The Next Generation of Corporate Responsibility
- The Peter Green Lectures on the Modern Middle East
- War, Peace and the Media Screening Series
Middle East Studies Capstone Presentations
May 12 2008
Seminar
Parag Khanna -- Geopolitics versus Globalization? Or Two Sides of the Same Coin?
May 08 2008
Innovating Global Security Lecture Series
Political Science Honors Thesis Presentations
May 06 2008
Seminar
Bryan Mealer -- DR Congo: A Reporter's Journey Through a Forgotten War
May 01 2008
Africa Group Colloquium Series
Daniel P. Serwer -- Kosovo: Why Independence? Why Now? What Went Wrong?
May 01 2008
European Politics Seminar Series
Steven Fish -- Why Democracy Fails and What Can Be Done about It
April 30 2008
Colloquium on Comparative Research
International Relations Honors Thesis Presentations
April 30 2008
Seminar
Development Studies Thesis Presentations
April 29 2008
Seminar
Ambassador Christopher Hill -- U.S. Foreign Policy in Korea and the Asia-Pacific
April 25 2008
Chong Wook Lee and Vartan Gregorian Distinguished Lecture
April 25 2008
Conference
Ian Klaus -- No Friends but the Mountains (and Small Oil): The Political Economy of Iraqi Kurdistan
April 23 2008
Middle East and Islamic Studies Seminar Series
April 22 2008
Lecture
Evo Morales -- From the Andes: New Visions, New Voices
April 22 2008
Stephen A. Ogden Jr. '60 Memorial Lecture
April 21 2008
Study Group
Crossing Whose Boundaries? Making Indians, Making Pakistanis -- FILM: Ramchand Pakistani
April 21 2008
Moving Boundaries: Inequalities, Histories and the Making of Post-Colonial South Asia Lecture and Film Series
CANCELED -- Rogers Smith -- Constitutional Democracy and the Obligation to Include
April 18 2008
Brown Legal Studies Seminar
Sanjay Subrahmanya -- Disturbing Old Bones: Old and New Myths about Vasco da Gama
April 17 2008
Center for Latin American Studies Lecture Series
Louis Perez -- Imagining Cuba: Metaphor and Narratives of Hegemony
April 16 2008
Center for Latin American Studies Lecture Series
Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro -- Burma's Roadmap to Democracy
April 16 2008
Seminar
Michael Bratton -- Institutionalizing African Democracy: Formal or Informal?
April 16 2008
Colloquium on Comparative Research
April 15 2008
Conference
April 15 2008
Conference
Deconstructing Sport: A Conference at the Intersection of Sport and Human Rights -- Keynote Panel
April 15 2008
Conference
IWP Festival -- Freedom to Write
April 15 2008
Lecture
Deconstructing Sport: A Conference at the Intersection of Sport and Human Rights -- Film Screening
April 14 2008
Conference
Chinese Cities in the Shadow of the Beijing Olympics
April 14 2008
Lecture
April 14 2008
Africa Group Colloquium Series
April 11 2008
Brown Legal Studies Seminar
Dr. Olga Sezneva -- Koenigsberg Unmade: a Dialectic of Place and Memory in the Russian Kaliningrad
April 11 2008
European Politics Seminar Series
EVENT CANCELED: Dr. Andrei Illarionov -- Is Russia a Deviation in the World Evolution?
April 10 2008
European Politics Seminar Series
International Relations Program Open House
April 09 2008
Open House
Lincoln Chafee -- Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President
April 08 2008
Book Signing
Thomas Ponniah -- The Revolution of Perception: the Left in Latin America
April 08 2008
Center for Latin American Studies Lecture Series
Karen Elliott House -- Reform in Saudi Arabia: Movement or Mirage?
April 07 2008
Directors Lectures Series on Contemporary International Affairs
Human Rights Film Festival 2008 -- Film: Sex Slaves
April 06 2008
Film
Human Rights Film Festival 2008 -- Film: Lumo
April 05 2008
Film
Human Rights Film Festival 2008 -- Film: Sentenced Home
April 04 2008
Film
April 03 2008
Lecture
Tulia Faletti -- The Fourth Branch: Decentralization and Subnational Politics in Latin America
April 02 2008
Colloquium on Comparative Research
Renato Anelli -- Contemporary Architecture in Brazil (1957-1990)
April 02 2008
Center for Latin American Studies Lecture Series
Arafaat A. Valiani -- Formations of Dissent: Militancy and Violence in Gujarat, 2002
March 31 2008
Moving Boundaries: Inequalities, Histories and the Making of Post-Colonial South Asia Lecture and Film Series
March 30 2008
Empires and Science Workshop
March 29 2008
Empires and Science Workshop
March 28 2008
Empires and Science Workshop
Michael Klare -- Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy
March 20 2008
Innovating Global Security Lecture Series
March 19 2008
Colloquium on Comparative Research
Dotan Greenvald -- Breaking the Silence
March 13 2008
Lecture
March 10 2008
Study Group
FILM -- Screening of AFSPA, 1958 (2006)
March 10 2008
Moving Boundaries: Inequalities, Histories and the Making of Post-Colonial South Asia Lecture and Film Series
March 07 2008
Brown Legal Studies Seminar
Ending Poverty in South Asia - A Panel Discussion
March 05 2008
Lecture
Amy Davidsen '84 -- Financial Services and the Environment: Investing in our Common Future
March 04 2008
The Next Generation of Corporate Responsibility
Mitchell Orenstein -- Politics and Social Policies in Post-communist Poland and the Czech Republic
March 04 2008
European Politics Seminar Series
SASA Lecture with Anjali Gopalan
March 03 2008
Lecture
February 28 2008
Lecture
February 28 2008
Lecture
February 26 2008
Center for Latin American Studies Lecture Series
EVENT CANCELED -- Bolivian President Evo Morales' Ogden Lecture
February 26 2008
Lecture
Edward Lucas -- The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West
February 26 2008
Edward Lucas -- The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West
February 26 2008
Book Signing
Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan -- Forests and the Environmental History of India
February 25 2008
Moving Boundaries: Inequalities, Histories and the Making of Post-Colonial South Asia Lecture and Film Series
FILM -- Screening of Ambhiji's Retirement
February 25 2008
Moving Boundaries: Inequalities, Histories and the Making of Post-Colonial South Asia Lecture and Film Series
Gordon Wood -- Chief Justice John Marshall and the Origins of Judicial Review
February 22 2008
Brown Legal Studies Seminar
Emmanuel Dongala -- Hollywood, Pirated Videos and Child Soldiers
February 21 2008
Africa Group Colloquium Series
Janus Forum Lecture Featuring Former U.N. Ambassadors John Bolton and Richard Holbrooke '62
February 21 2008
Julia Paley -- Indigenous Movements and Aid Agencies in Ecuador
February 20 2008
Colloquium on Comparative Research
Ali Allawi -- The Iraq Crisis and the Future Middle East Order
February 20 2008
The Peter Green Lectures on the Modern Middle East
Ambassador Antônio Patriota -- Brazil – U.S. Relations: The Bilateral, Regional and Global Agendas
February 15 2008
Center for Latin American Studies Lecture Series
February 14 2008
Center for Latin American Studies Lecture Series
Fishes and Loaves: The Politics, Science, and Ethics of Food
February 13 2008
Panel
Changes in the Andes: Realities, Challenges and Opportunities for Inter-American Relations
February 13 2008
Ambassadors Roundtable: Changes in the Andes
February 12 2008
Roundtable
Changes in the Andes: Realities, Challenges and Opportunities for Inter-American Relations
February 12 2008
Conference
February 11 2008
Center for Latin American Studies Lecture Series
February 11 2008
Study Group
Ambassador José Alfredo Graça Lima -- Brazil: The Importance of Being a Global Trader
February 07 2008
Center for Latin American Studies Lecture Series
February 06 2008
Colloquium on Comparative Research
Stephen Ellis -- Histories of Invisible Africa
February 04 2008
Lecture
Dennis Dalton -- Gandhi's Power of Nonviolence: the March and the Fast
February 04 2008
Moving Boundaries: Inequalities, Histories and the Making of Post-Colonial South Asia Lecture and Film Series
Orlando Acosta -- The Cost of Power: Coal Mining and Human Rights in Colombia
January 30 2008
Center for Latin American Studies Lecture Series
Leszek Balcerowicz -- Developments After the Collapse of Communism and Social Sciences
December 13 2007
Fon Angwafor III -- Traditional and Modern Rule in Africa: The Insights of a Visiting African King
December 12 2007
FILM -- They Turned Our Desert Into Fire
December 05 2007
Film
EVENT CANCELED -- FILM: Pigs and Battleships (Buta to gunkan)
December 05 2007
Occupation/Liberation/Collaboration Film Series
December 05 2007
Leszek Balcerowicz -- Economics and Ethics of the Welfare State
December 04 2007
Quebec's International Relations: Working in Concert with our U.S. Neighbors and Friends
December 03 2007
Seminar
Lorenz Luthi -- Sino-Soviet-American Relations, 1950s-1970s
November 30 2007
Innovating Global Security Lecture Series
November 29 2007
Center for Latin American Studies Film Series
Catherine Lu -- Humanitarianism and the Use of Force
November 29 2007
Innovating Global Security Lecture Series
Introduction of New Health Technologies in the Developing World: Examples from Latin America
November 28 2007
Center for Latin American Studies Lecture Series
Vivek Chibber -- Beyond Gerschenkron: State and Class in Late Development
November 28 2007
Colloquium on Comparative Research
Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil
November 28 2007
Lecture
Author Peter Hallward: Haiti 2004: Coup de Grâce or Coup d'État?
November 28 2007
Lecture
November 28 2007
Center for Latin American Studies Faculty Colloquium
November 15 2007
Center for Latin American Studies Lecture Series
Taylor Seybolt -- Protecting Civilians During Wartime
November 15 2007
Chenjerai Hove -- The Writer and Public Responsibility
November 15 2007
Africa Group Colloquium Series
Ashutosh Varshney -- Ethnic Conflict and Civil Society: Evolution of a Research Program
November 14 2007
Colloquium on Comparative Research
FILM: Trade Routes with director Jim Loftus
November 14 2007
Occupation/Liberation/Collaboration Film Series
Strait Talk Symposium -- Dialogue or Deadlock: Power Transitions in Washington, Beijing and Taipei
November 14 2007
The Dialogue Project
Abdul-Rahim Abu-Husayn -- Historiography and Collective Identity Formation: The Case of Lebanon
November 14 2007
Lecture
Omoyele Sowore -- Oil & Human Rights in Nigeria: A Voice from the Frontlines
November 13 2007
Lecture
Round Table Conference -- The Politics of Security in Pakistan
November 13 2007
The Dialogue Project