European Studies Lunch Talk: How Germany Unified and the EU Enlarged: Negotiating the Accession

Please join us for a talk with Tereza Novotna, a Post-Doctoral Researcher based at the Institute for European Studies, Université libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium. Tereza received a Ph.D. in Politics and European Studies from Boston University and under graduate and postgraduate degrees from Charles University Prague. Her doctoral dissertation compared and contrasted the unification of Germany with the Eastern Enlargement of the EU and its revised version is being published by Palgrave Macmillan this month. Tereza has held visiting fellowships at several institutions including the Center for Transatlantic Relations at SAIS (Johns Hopkins University), the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, the Institute for German Studies at University of Birmingham, the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (Brussels Office), the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin (supported by a DAAD grant), the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and the Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. Her research has been published in German Politics and Society, West European Politics, Studies in Ethnicities and Nationalism, Perspectives, Journal for Contemporary European Research, and E-Sharp as well as in numerous policy and media outlets. She has also practical experience of EU foreign policy from working for the European Commission, DG RELEX/EEAS and the EU Delegation in Washington, DC. Lunch provided. Open to BU community and others with a research interest in the topic. RSVP to Elizabeth Amrien.

When 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm on Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Building Pardee School of Global Studies, 152 Bay State Road
Room Conference Room (1st floor)
Contact Name Elizabeth Amrien
Contact Email edamrien@bu.edu
Contact Organization Center for the Study of Europe
Fees Free
Speakers Tereza Novotna