On Friday, October 19, the Center for the Study of Europe hosted a luncheon discussion and afternoon seminar on “NATO’s European Allies” with Norwegian political scientist Janne Haaland Matlary and her colleague Magnus Petersson. Matlary, who served as Norway’s State Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 1997 to 2000, is Professor of International Politics at the […]
The Center for the Study of Europe co-sponsored the recent visit of influential geographer and theorist David Harvey to Boston University. Harvey delivered the Annual Humanities Lecture on “The Urbanization of Anti-Capitalist Struggle” on Thursday, October 18, and hosted an “open seminar” for faculty and graduate students on Friday, October 19. In his lecture, Harvey […]
Yesterday afternoon, the Center for the Study of Europe, in cooperation with the Department of Political Science, hosted a discussion with Marius Busemeyer from the University of Konstanz in Germany. In his talk, entitled “Skills and Inequality: Partisan Politics, Economic Coordination & Training Regimes in Western Welfare States,” Busemeyer made the case for integration of […]
On Tuesday, October 9, the Center for the Study of Europe, in cooperation with the Center for International Relations and the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations at Boston University and the Goethe Institut Boston, hosted a presentation by prolific German blogger Kübra Gümüsay, an active member of the Muslim blogosphere and […]
The Center for the Study of Europe co-sponsored last week’s visit of Bulgaria’s president, Rosen Plevneliev, to Boston University. Plevneliev was on campus for the opening celebration of “The Power of Civil Society: the fate of Jews in Bulgaria during the Holocaust, 1940-1944,” at the Hillel House gallery. The exhibit He was introduced by Boston […]