Jan 18, 2021
Race, Education, and the Criminal Justice System
Tune in to the conversation starting Monday, January 18 at 10 a.m. Watch on Watson's YouTube channel.
Upcoming Watson Events
To request special services, accommodations, or assistance for any events, please contact the Watson Institute at WatsonEvents@brown.edu or (401) 863-2809.
The Watson Institute will continue to provide a wide variety of virtual programming in Fall 2020. Please see below for information on upcoming panels, lectures, film screenings and conferences.
For up-to-date, campus-wide information, please visit the University’s COVID-19 Updates website.
Jan 22, 2021
This is America: Post Elections Conversation
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Jan 22, 2021
Irfan Nooruddin — Evolving news media landscapes in India and Pakistan: Implications for regional peace and stability
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Jan 26, 2021
Jan 27, 2021
Jan 29, 2021
Ashish Jha — COVID-19 in South Asia
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Feb 1, 2021
Allison Carnegie ─ How Populism Reshapes Global Governance
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Email WatsonEvents@brown.edu to register for the seminar.
Feb 3, 2021
Revolt Against the Sun
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Register here to attend the webinar.
Feb 3, 2021
Ijlal Naqvi — Access to Power: Electricity and the Infrastructural State in Pakistan
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to attend the webinar.
Center for Contemporary South Asia
Development and Governance Seminar
Feb 4, 2021
Ted Kaufman: The Joe Biden I Know
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Register here to attend the webinar.
Election 2020
Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy
Feb 5, 2021
Aditya Dasgupta — Weapons of the Weak: The Violent Consequences of Biased Technological Change
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Feb 8, 2021
What Does 2020 Tell Us About the GOP in Future Elections?
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Register here to attend the webinar.
Election 2020
Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy
Feb 9, 2021
Feb 10, 2021
Jonathan Capehart: The Trump Legacy and the Biden Future
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Register here to attend the webinar.
Election 2020
Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy
Feb 11, 2021
Declan Walsh Book Adda — The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Feb 12, 2021
Aditi Priya & Vineeta Nirban — The Pedagogy of Economics and Caste in India
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Feb 18, 2021
Did the Polls Get It Wrong and Why?
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Register here to attend the webinar.
Election 2020
Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy
Feb 19, 2021
Film Screening of Baato & discussion with Directors Lucas Millard and Kate Stryker
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Film will be available for viewing from
4PM EST 2/16 - 11:50PM EST 2/19
Feb 22, 2021
Yang-Yang Zhou ─ Prolonged Social Contact With Internally Displaced Migrants Does Not Reduce Prejudice Among Locals in Wartime Settings
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Email WatsonEvents@brown.edu to register for the seminar.
Feb 25, 2021
We Should Have Seen It Coming: From Reagan to Trump - A Front Row Seat to a Political Revolution
7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Register here to attend the webinar.
Election 2020
Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy
Feb 26, 2021
Nirvikar Jassal — Policing and Gendered Cases in India
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Mar 3, 2021
Marcus King ─ Water Stress and Climate Security
3 p.m. – 4 p.m. Email WatsonEvents@brown.edu to register for the seminar.
Mar 8, 2021
Security Seminar with Michael Woldemariam
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Email WatsonEvents@brown.edu to register for the seminar.
Mar 20–21, 2021
Mar 29, 2021
Thomas Oatley ─ The Carbon Peace
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Email WatsonEvents@brown.edu to register for the seminar.
Climate Solutions Lab
Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance
Security Studies Seminar
Mar 30, 2021