Conferences & Symposia

The annual Center for Geographic Analysis conference will be held this year on October 2nd and 3rd, 2026. This conference is one of CGA’s signature events, attracting spatial researchers and practitioners from across campus and around the globe. Our 2026...

The concept of a digital twin—creating an authentic virtual counterpart to a physical entity—has deep roots in human history, across cultures. From ancient analogues like architectural models, astronomical devices, table top battle replicas, and even...

Introducing the Digital Commons Governance Summit at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard University—a high-stakes, one-day event dedicated to addressing the critical necessity of governing our digital commons in an era marked...

All are invited to attend. Join us as visiting scholars of the China Biographical Database Project (CBDB) present their research. Hosted by Hongsu Wang (CBDB) and Kwok-leong Tang (Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies). Download abstracts via the link below...

Attendance is free, registration is mandatory. Join members of the OpenDP Community and engage in a full day of presentations, panels, and sessions by experts from academia, industry, and government institutions. Visit the OpenDP Community Meeting website...

The annual Dataverse Community Meeting is an opportunity to build, grow, and enrich the global community. Like the open-source Dataverse product itself, the activities of the Dataverse Community Meetings are community-driven. Over three days of...

The data and methodologies available to social scientists have exploded with the emergence of archives of digital data collection, large scale online experimentation, and innovative uses of simulation. The analysis of these data requires more complex...

A changing climate impacts everyone’s ability to feed and support themselves, but not equally and not randomly. As the largest agricultural workforce in the world, farmers in India demonstrated in late 2021 that radical and inclusive democratic...

There has been increasing interest in recent years from sides of the political spectrum in reviving robust and prosperous middle-class American communities. It seems evident that this requires renewed attention to the link between work and well-being...

On August 10th, from 1–3pm ET, the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University will be pleased to host a webinar on the theme of love in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Our distinguished panelists will explore how their respective traditions...