Archived Events
2006
February 2, 2006
Chris Patten
Chancellor, Oxford University
Cousins and Strangers: America, Britain
and Europe in a New Century
Introduction: Robert Brown
President, Boston University
February 13, 2006
Citizen Vaclav Havel Goes on Vacation
Film Screening and discussion with
Jan Novak
Author and filmmaker
March 14, 2006
Mark Leonard
Director of Foreign Policy, Center for European Reform
Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century
Moderator: Vivien Schmidt
Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Boston University
March 30, 2006
Conference: Islam and the Discourses of Toleration
Opening Remarks: Augustus Richard Norton
Professor of International Relations, Boston University
Keynote Speech: Europe and the Muslim World
Olivier Roy
Senior Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Director of Studies, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
Panel Discussion
Hussain Haqqani
Professor of International Relations, Boston University
Robert Hefner
Professor of Anthropology, Boston University
Augustus Richard Norton
Professor of Anthropology and International Relations, Boston University
Emran Qureshi
Wertheim Fellow, Labor and Work Life Program, Harvard Law School
April 4, 2006
Panel Discussion:The EU-US-China Triangle
Angelos Pangratis
Deputy Head of Delegation at the Delegation of the European Commission to the United States, in Washington, DC
Respondents
Shelley Hawks
Assistant Professor of Social Sciences, Boston University
Yuan-yuan Shen
Research Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment China Project; Lecturer, Department of Economics, Brandeis University; Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University School of Law
April 19, 2006
Volker Rühe
Defense Minister of Germany (1992-1998);
Member of German Bundestag (1975-2005)
Transatlantic Relations in the 21st Century
Respondent: Thomas Berger
Professor of International Relations, Boston University
April 25, 2006
Krzysztof Czyzewski
Chairman, Borderland Foundation, Sejny, Poland
The Borderland Foundation:
A Living Experiment in Cross-Cultural Relations
September 11, 2006
Panel Discussion
US-Russian Relations in the New Global Context
Andrew Kuchins
Senior Associate and Director, Russian and Eurasian Program,
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Lilia Shevtsova
Senior Associate, Carnegie Moscow Center,
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
September 26, 2006
Panel Discussion: Whose God Is It? Religion in Europe and the US
Jane Kramer
European Correspondent, The New Yorker
Jan Ross
Staff Writer, Die Zeit
September 28, 2006
Melissa Faye Greene
Author of Praying for Sheetrock, The Temple Bombing, and Last Man Out
There Is No Me without You:
One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children
Melissa Fay Greene recounts the odyssey of Haregewoin Teferra, a middle-class Ethiopian woman who began caring for AIDS orphans, running an unofficial orphanage and day school, following the untimely deaths of her husband and daughter. Greene, who had adopted two Ethiopian children before meeting Teferra, juggles political history, medical reportage, and personal memoir. She succinctly intersperses the history of Ethiopia, the history of AIDS, and the complex path of medication (a super highway in the West, a trail in Africa), and rescues Haregewoin from undeserved oblivion as well as from undeserved accusations of child selling. There Is No Me without You is the story of Haregewoin and her sixty children. It is a story of struggle and despair, but also of hope and renewed happiness of children welcomed by adoptive parents in Ethiopia, America, and around the world.
October 12, 2006
Poetry and Nations
A poetry reading and conversation with:
Julia Hartwig
Polish poet, author, essayist, and translator
Rosanna Warren
Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Professor of the Humanities, University Professor
and Professor of English and Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures,
Boston University
Moderator: Irena Grudzinska Gross
October 17, 2006
Panel Discussion: German-Polish Relations in Today’s Europe
Janusz Reiter
Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the United States
Klaus Scharioth
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United States
October 24, 2006
Antony Lerman
Executive Director, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, London
The Renewal of Jewish Life in Europe
October 26, 2006
Panel Discussion: Religion in the New Europe
Peter Berger
University Professor and Professor of Sociology and Theology, Boston University; Director, Institute on Culture and World Affairs, Boston University
José Casanova
Professor of Sociology, New School for Social Research
Nilüfer Göle
Professor of Sociology, Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris
Moderator: Krzysztof Michalski
Rector, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna;
Professor of Philosophy, Boston University
November 2, 2006
Andrei Codrescu
Quo Vadis Poetry: A Conversation with Andrei Codrescu
Moderator: Irena Grudzinska Gross
November 6, 2006
Jerzy Illg
Editor-in-Chief, ZNAK Publishing House
My Nobel Laureates
Presentation on the lives of poets Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney,
Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska
November 15, 2006
Michael Mertes
State Secretary, Commissioner for Federal, European and Foreign Affairs, State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
How to Bring Europe Back to Its Citizens
Moderator: Krzysztof Michalski
Rector, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna;
Professor of Philosophy, Boston University
November 30, 2006
Martin Bútora
Sociologist, author, and senior civil servant;
former Ambassador of Slovakia to the United States
Central-Eastern Europe, the European Union, and the United States
Moderator: Chandler Rosenberger
Lecturer in International Relations, Boston University; Fellow, Center for International Relations, Boston University
December 4, 2006
Fatos Lubonja
Editor and publisher of Pepjekja ("Endeavor"), Albania's leading critical social/political journal, writer and former political prisoner
Post-Totalitarian Societies: the Case of Albania
Respondent: Michael Kaufman
Author and former New York Times reporter, foreign correspondent,
columnist, and editor
December 10, 2006
Dashed Hopes: Human Rights in the Former Soviet Union
A community-wide Public Event in Observance
of International Human Rights Day
Screening of Babitsky's War
Keynote Speaker: The Honorable Jack Matlock
Former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union under President Ronald Reagan
Panel Discussion
Nikolai Butkevich
Researcher, Union of Councils for Jews in the former Soviet Union
Nozima Kamalova
Legal Aid Society in Uzbekistan Scholar at Risk Program, Harvard University
Tatiana Lokshina
DEMOS Center, Moscow
Alexander Verkhovsky
Human Rights Activist
In cooperation with:
American Jewish Committee
Amnesty International USA
Anti-Defamation League
Boston University Institute for Human Sciences
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University
Center for Human Rights and International Justice, Boston College
Facing History and Ourselves
Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies
International Committee for the Children of Chechnya
Jewish Community Relations Council
John F. Kennedy Library and Museum
Physicians for Human Rights
Sakharov Human Rights Program, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
Sponsored by:
The Reebok Foundation
Listen to keynote speech
December 16, 2006
Peace Studies and Peace Education Workshop
Hossain B. Danesh
Professor Emeritus of Conflict Resolution and Psychiatry, University of Ottawa; President Emeritus, Landegg International University, Switzerland; and Founder and President, International Education for Peace Institute, Switzerland and Canada
Gabriella Etmektsoglou
Visiting Scholar, Institute for Human Sciences, Boston University
Rev. Raymond G. Helmick, SJ
Professor Emeritus of International Conflict Resolution, Boston College;
Senior Associate, Program for Preventive Diplomacy, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington D.C.
Tony Jenkins
Co-Director, Director of Administration and Research,
Peace Education Center, Teachers College of Columbia University;
General Coordinator, International Institute on Peace Education
Fatos Lubonja
Editor-in-Chief of Pepjekja ("Endeavor"), Albania 's leading critical social/political journal; writer, and former political prisoner
Adam Martin
PhD candidate, Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality,
University of California, Irvine
Jonathan Schell
Peace and Disarmament Correspondent, the Nation;
Harold Willens Peace Fellow at the Nation Institute
Rosemarie Stallworth-Clark
Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, Georgia Southern University; President, American Educational Research Association Peace Education Special Interest Group
Nigel Young
Professor Emeritus of Peace Studies and Sociology, Colgate University;
Editor in Chief of the Routledge International Encyclopedia on World Peace
Sponsored by the Biosophical Institute
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