Calendar
On our calendar you’ll find a selection of Europe-related events in and around Boston. The calendar includes events organized by the Center for the Study of Europe at Boston University and by other departments on campus, as well as a some off-campus events of possible interest. You can narrow the selection by clicking the appropriate topic (e.g., “Center for the Study of Europe Events”) under Event Topics below.
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All Topics (March 8 through April 8)
Monday, March 16
- 5:00 PM
Special Francophonie Screening: Un rêve américain (French Cultural Center)
Event Description
For this month's special Ciné-Club de l'Alliance, the French Cultural Center is thrilled to present in partnership with the Delegation of Québec in Boston, the 2013
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Wednesday, March 18
- 5:00 PM
BU Study Abroad Spanish Programs Information Session
Join BU Study Abroad staff and Dr. Amalia Perez-Juez, Academic Director of the BU Study Abroad Madrid Programs and Burgos Spanish Studies Program to learn how you can enhance your
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Romanticism Seminar: What are the Standard Novels? Richard Bentley and the Transatlantic Canonization of James Fenimore Cooper
Joe Rezek will give a presentation on “What are the Standard Novels? Richard Bentley and the Transatlantic Canonization of James Fenimore Cooper.”
Thursday, March 19
- 3:30 PM
Dissidence in Turkey: Elections and the Struggle for Political Legitimacy - A Lecture by Sinan Ciddi
Sinan Ciddi is an expert on Turkish domestic politics and foreign policy. He obtained his Ph.D in Political Science from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London,
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- 5:00 PM
WWII in Retrospect: Documenting Women in Occupied France
Even after 70 years, the full history of WWII is still unfolding with the ongoing discovery of documents and belated recognition of those who contributed to the Allied victory. The
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Friday, March 20
- 4:00 PM
Film Screening: Pig Business (Tracy Louise Ward, 2009, 76 min.)
Pig Business investigates the rise of factory pig farming. This farming system threatens human health through dangerous overuse of antibiotics, wrecks rural economies and communities, pollutes the environment and abuses […]
Saturday, March 21
- 8:00 PM
Ockeghem, Busnoys, Regis, Caron & Faugues
This concert explores the music of the five “modern” composers lauded by the 15th-century theorist Johannes Tinctoris: “All of these men’s works exhale such sweetness that, in my opinion,
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Monday, March 23
- 5:00 PM
Why Do Capitalist Societies Have a Problem with Financial Profits? (CES at Harvard)
During and after the financial crisis of 2008 and the following ‘Great Recession’ we have witnessed a strong return of anti-capitalist sentiments and arguments in public media as well as
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Tuesday, March 24
- 4:15 PM
Prosecuting Nazi Perpetrators in German Courts during the Occupation Period, 1945-1950 (CES at Harvard)
Trials of Nazi perpetrators conducted in German courts during the occupation period. I compare the trials of the three western zones to those of the Soviet zone, arguing that the
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Wednesday, March 25
- 4:00 PM
Stratifying Europe: How Regional Integration Restructured the Welfare State and Reversed the Egalitarian Turn - A Lecture by Jason Beckfield
Join us for a lecture by Jason Beckfield, Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies at Harvard University. Beckfield's research investigates the institutional causes and consequences of social inequality. […]
- 4:15 PM
The August Zaleski Memorial Lecture in Modern Polish History True Believers? On Opposition and Collaboration in Communist Poland and Beyond (CES at Harvard)
The horrifying genius of Soviet communism – as conceived in the 1920s, perfected in the 1930s, then spread by force across Eastern Europe after 1945 – was the system’s ability
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Thursday, March 26
- 8:00 AM
"Tear Down This Wall!": Teaching the Cold War in Schools
As part of our ongoing work to restore U.S. History instruction and MCAS testing to Massachusetts schools, Pioneer has hosted events on major eras of our nation's past: the Founding
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- 12:15 PM
The Violence of Good Intentions (CES at Harvard)
Professor McIntosh will speak about her current book manuscript "Living Together in Uncertainty: Difference and Ambivalence in the ‘New’ Norway." In this book, McIntosh considers the years
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- 4:15 PM
Metropolis in Ruins: Berlin in the 1940s (CES at Harvard)
Metropolis in Ruins explores the history of Berlin in the mid-1940s, as it was being transformed from the capital of the Nazi empire to the shattered metropolis of the Cold
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- 5:00 PM
Theology and Marxism in Walter Benjamin by Michael Löwy (2014-15 Lectures in Criticism)
Michael Löwy is Research Director of Sociology at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. His previous books include Redemption and Utopia: Liberation Judaism in Central Europe, Marxism in […]
- 6:00 PM
Lost in La Mancha directed by Terry Gilliam (2002)
Part of "Don Quixote on the Big Screen: A Film Series in celebration of the IV Centennial of Don Quixote Part II"
This 400th Anniversary includes a series of classic,
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Friday, March 27
- 4:00 PM
Film Screening: King Corn (Aaron Woolf, 2007, 88 min.)
King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from […]
Saturday, March 28
- 7:00 PM
Le Bal Du Labyrinthe (French Cultural Center)
Le Bal is back and promises to be… a-maze-ing. Join our friends at the French Cultural Center for their 4th annual soirée in support of their Mosaïque initiative for exceptional
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Monday, March 30
- 5:00 PM
Richard Weisberg: "Some Intransigent Heroes of the Holocaust and a Theological and Historical Basis for Admiring Inflexibility"
Professor Richard Weisberg (Cardozo School of Law) will present a case study from his latest book, "In Praise of Intransigence: The Perils of Flexibility" (Oxford University Press, 2014). The book […]
Tuesday, March 31
- 12:00 PM
Germany’s Energy Transition: Model or Disaster
The Boston Eric M. Warburg Chapter of the American Council on Germany and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs of Harvard University cordially invite you to a discussion as part
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Wednesday, April 1
- 8:00 AM
Louis Pasteur and the Evolution of Vaccine Exhibit
In recognition of World Immunization Week, we are delighted to shed light on Louis Pasteur and the remarkable breakthroughs he made in the prevention and treatment of infectious disease with […]
Thursday, April 2
- 12:30 PM
European Studies Lunch Talk: From the "English Malady" to "Americanitis": Mental Disease and Suicide from the 16th Century to the Present
Join us for a lunch talk with Liah Greenfeld, University Professor and Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Anthropology. Professor Greenfeld has been widely published on questions of art, economics, […]
- 6:00 PM
Don Quijote de la Mancha directed by Rafael Gil (1948)
Part of "Don Quixote on the Big Screen: A Film Series in celebration of the IV Centennial of Don Quixote Part II"
This 400th Anniversary includes a series of classic,
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Monday, April 6
- 4:00 PM
On the History and Memory of the Holocaust: A Discussion with Dienke Hondius and Jan Erik Dubbelman from the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam
Please join us for a discussion with Dienke Hondius and Jan Erik Dubbelman from the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, experts on national memory in Holland, for a discussion of […]
Wednesday, April 8
- 2:15 PM
DENIED: The Closed Doors of Roma Exclusion in Europe (CES at Harvard)
April 8, International Roma Day, is an occasion to both reflect on the history and culture of the Romani people and to confront contemporary threats to Roma human rights and […]