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 (September 25 through October 15)
Tuesday, September 27
- 2:30 PM
Beyond Sartre and Adorno: Jean Améry's Radical Questioning of Jewish Identity and Philosophy in the Aftermath of the Shoah (BUJS Forum)
2016 marks the 50th anniversary of Jean Améry's "At the Mind's Limits." In this collection of essays about his experience in Auschwitz, he questions the value and possibility of Jewish […]
- 6:00 PM
In the European Night: Will the Union Survive? A Lecture by Franco "Bifo" Berardi
Join us for a lecture by cultural agitator, media activist and transdisciplinary philosopher Franco "Bifo" Berardi. Berardi is an Italian Marxist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition. His
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Wednesday, September 28
- 1:00 PM
Trump, Brexit, and the Future of the Nationalist Populism in the US and Europe (Center for European Studies, Harvard)
In recent years, nationalist and populist politics have been on the rise in the United States and Europe. From Donald Trump to the Brexit campaign, calls for curbing immigration, limiting […]
- 8:15 PM
French Film Screening: "La Glace et le Ciel" (Ice and the Sky) (2015) (Kendall Square Cinema)
Ice and the Sky focuses on French glaciologist Claude Lorius’s discovery of climate change in the Antarctic ice fields in the 1950s. This film looks back on six decades of […]
Thursday, September 29
- 4:30 PM
The Warming Arctic: Site of a New Cold War (MIT Starr Forum)
Center for International Studies (CIS) at MIT presents a roundtable with Marlene Laruelle, Kenneth Yalowitz, and Lawrence Susskind. Event will explore the geopolitical implications of the thawing Arctic. The speakers […]
- 5:00 PM
Portuguese Fado: Two Hundred Years of a Musical Genre (UMass Lowell)
The UMass Lowell Saab-Pedroso Center for Portuguese Culture and Research, in partnership with the College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, and the departments of Music and World Languages […]
- 6:00 PM
Quo Vadis, Europe? A Lecture by Joachim Fritz-Vannahme
Joachim Fritz-Vannahme, director of the think tank Europe’s Future at the Bertelsmann Stiftung, discusses the future of Europe, what “Europe” means, and what its next steps ought to be. These
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Saturday, October 1
- 8:00 PM
World Music/CrashArts presents: The High Kings in Concert (at Somerville Theater)
The High Kings is an Irish supergroup made up of Finbarr Clancy, Brian Dunphy, Martin Furey, and Darren Holden. Versatile and skilled multi-instrumentalists, they perform new songs as well as […]
Monday, October 3
- 5:00 PM
Lecture on L'Etranger by Alice Kaplan (MIT)
Albert Camus's L'Etranger has been a best-seller for so long, we forget it was ever anything else. But literary classics are made, not born: though The Stranger was a book […]
Tuesday, October 4
- 12:00 PM
EMU - Quo Vadis? A Lunch Talk with Servaas Deroose
Join us for a lunch discussion with Servaas Deroose, Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General Economics and Financial Affairs (ECFIN), European Commission. Servaas Deroose has been Deputy Director-General at
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- 4:15 PM
Europe – On Achieving an Appropriate Economic Policy Stance
In the wake of the crisis, Europe’s Monetary Union was initially perceived as a protective bulwark, in particular for the smaller EMU member countries. But, subsequent to the Greek crisis, […]
- 6:00 PM
European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Spanish Writer Enrique Vila-Matas
Please join us for a reading and conversation with Enrique Vila-Matas. Born in Barcelona in 1948, Vila-Matas is one of Spain’s most original and celebrated literary voices. He is the
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Wednesday, October 5
- 5:00 PM
Cristina Ricupero: Secret Societies and the Limits of Transparency (MIT)
In this two-part program, Cristina Ricupero casts light on “secret societies” through the prism of contemporary art and focuses on them as a fruitful locus of resistance to the excesses […]
Thursday, October 6
- 2:30 PM
Parity, Politics, and Judaism: The Politics of Equality in Non-Consistorial French Synagogues (Modern Mediterranean Societies Lecture Series)
BUJS Forum with Beatrice de Gasquet
- 5:00 PM Russian Film Screening: Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014) (MIT)
Friday, October 7
- 5:00 PM
Hope in the Anthropocene: Moral Psychology and Collective Action (IPR Lecture Series)
Andrew Chignell, Associate Professor in the Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell University, and Co-Director of the Cornell-Notre-Dame multi-disciplinary project on "Hope and Optimism."
Sunday, October 9
- 5:00 PM
Petr Janda with Special Guest Eren Basbug (Czech-Slovak Association Event)
Petr Janda is a Czech guitarist, vocalist, composer, producer, band leader, and entrepreneur. He has been one of the pioneers of rock music in Czechoslovakia since the early 1960s. He […]
Thursday, October 13
- 12:00 PM
Book Talk: “In Defense of Europe: Can the European Project Be Saved?” (Harvard Center for European Studies)
Drawing lessons from the European success story of the second half of the twentieth century, political economist and former special adviser to the President of European Commission Loukas Tsoukalis now […]
- 4:30 PM
Democracy and Violence (MIT Starr Forum)
Starr Forum panel discussion on far right extremism in politics, within the US and internationally. Panelists include MIT professor Richard Samuels (moderating), David Art (Tufts), Heidi Beirich (Southern Poverty Law […]
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Migrations, Islands, and the Creative Economy (Tufts University)
A lecture by Françoise Lionnet, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, and African and African American Studies, Harvard University. By some estimates, one sixth of the world’s population will be […]
- 6:00 PM
European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Austrian-Slovenian Writer Maja Haderlap and Translator Tess Lewis
Haderlap will read from her recent novel, Angel of Oblivion (Archipelago Books, August, 2016), which is based on the experiences of her family and the Slovenian-speaking minority in southern Austria,
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Friday, October 14
- 9:00 AM
Greece's Turn? Litmus Test for Europe Conference (Fletcher School)
Greece – a nation with no dearth of history – is at an inflection point, looking to emerge after a crisis of historic proportions. The Eurozone, in a similarly precarious
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- 8:00 PM
Mariza in Concert (Berklee Performance Center)
Performing for the first time in Boston since 2009, Mariza is a charismatic fado singer with a clarion voice and mesmerizing stage presence. Whether singing traditional numbers or new songs, […]
Saturday, October 15
- 11:00 AM
Boston Book Festival with Pierre Simenon (French Cultural Center)
For the third year in a row, the French Cultural Center is delighted to host three talks, co-presented with the Boston Book Festival and the Cultural Services of the French […]
- 1:00 PM
Jagoda Marinic: The American Dream - A Dream Turned German (Goethe-Institut Boston
Ms. Marinic will speak on The American Dream - A Dream Turned German: Immigration, Integration, and Citizenship in Germany. Jagoda Marinic will be in conversation with WBUR reporter Shannon Dooling, […]