Harvard Worldwide
Speaker: Guanli Zhang, Associate Professor, School of Sociology, Beijing Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2026-27 Chair/Discussant: Susan Greenhalgh, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society Emerita, Harvard University
Join us for this year’s Harvard Africa Mixer, part of Worldwide Week at Harvard! Our largest community event of the year, the Harvard Africa Mixer brings together students, fellows, faculty, and staff members from across Harvard who have a connection to or love of Africa. Celebrate our community with African food, music, and dancing! Please […]
Taiwan is where the uneasy peace between the United States and China will be tested–and possibly broken. Beijing believes that “reunification” is inevitable. American military strength has preserved peace and stability for decades, but its advantages are eroding. Beijing has found critical gaps in U.S. strategy and is working to squeeze, isolate, and coerce Taiwan […]
This Worldwide Week, the Harvard University Africa Office is screening an exclusive abridged version of the new documentary series, The Trials of Winnie Mandela – a Netflix feature sizzling through Africa and igniting conversations about African women leaders in politics. After the film join us for a panel discussion featuring the granddaughter of Winnie and […]
Join us in-person at the Mignone Center for Success for a guest panel featuring alumni and graduate students about the wide-ranging career paths and opportunities in global health. They’ll share their journeys into global health careers, the skills that helped them succeed, tips for finding meaningful experiences (in the U.S. and abroad), and their thoughts […]
Join Carsten Brzeski and Hans-Helmut Kotz for a discussion of the challenges facing the German economy and its long journey out of stagnation. The conversation will explore Germany’s economic outlook and what it may take for Europe’s largest economy to regain momentum.
Since its founding in 1958 by Harvard and Cornell Universities, the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis has excavated, conserved, and published on aspects of the ancient city of Sardis in western Türkiye from the prehistoric through the Islamic periods. The expedition is one of the longest-running international projects sponsored at Harvard and is one of the oldest […]
Harvard, 1959: red brick, tradition – and suddenly, Le Corbusier. The Stranger at Harvard tells the remarkable story of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Le Corbusier’s only building in North America, and of Josep Lluís Sert, the Spanish architect in exile and Harvard GSD dean who helped bring it into existence. Combining an […]
In today’s global academic and professional environments, the ability to navigate cultural differences is essential for effective collaboration. This interactive workshop explores how cultural values and communication patterns may influence teamwork, leadership, feedback, trust, decision-making, disagreement, and responses to uncertainty. Using Hofstede’s cultural dimensions and Erin Meyer’s Culture Map as practical lenses rather than fixed […]
Please join Professor Rui Yang, Dean of Hong Kong University and Chen Yidan Visiting Global Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, for this conversation with HGSE faculty Fernando Reimers and Liao Cheng. Professor Yang is an internationally recognized leader in Chinese higher education systems, and how Chinese intellectual traditions shape education globally. Lunch […]