Jan 26, 2021
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 Spring 2021. 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 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
The Case for a Job Guarantee, Pavlina Tcherneva - Book Talk
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Meet the Author
Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance
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 — The Pedagogy of Economics and Caste in India
10 a.m. – 11:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Feb 18, 2021
Election 2020: What Happened, What We Didn’t See Coming 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 22, 2021
CLACS Graduate Student Symposium
1 p.m. – 4 p.m. Registration link TBA.
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
COVID-Today
Global Anti-Black Racism
Feb 24, 2021
Rhode Island Politics and Policy Series: Tiara Mack, Rhode Island State Senator
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Register here to join the webinar. The Zoom link will be sent to registrants on February 20, 2021.
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.
Feb 26, 2021
Capitalism on Edge, Albena Azmanova - Book Talk
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Meet the Author
Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance
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 5, 2021
Audrey Truschke — Hindutva History and Other Modern Problems with the Indian Past
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Mar 8, 2021
Security Seminar with Michael Woldemariam
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Email WatsonEvents@brown.edu to register for the seminar.
Mar 12, 2021
Junaid Kamal Ahmad — Indian Federalism and Service Delivery: Navigating the Challenge of Covid 19
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Mar 18, 2021
Queer Studies | Activism in the Middle East
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Mar 20–21, 2021
Mar 26, 2021
Automation and the Future of Work, Aaron Benanav - Book Talk
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Meet the Author
Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance
Mar 26, 2021
Rhode Island Politics and Policy Series: Blake Filippi, Member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives and the House Minority Leader.
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Register here to join the webinar. The Zoom link will be sent to registrants on March 25, 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