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 (November 1 through January 20)
Wednesday, November 1
- 5:00 PM
Making Lovers: Emmanuel Levinas and Iris Murdoch on Moral Formation
The Boston University Institute for Philosophy & Religion presents their fourth lecture in this year's series on the topic of "Love & Hate." The lecture - "Making Lovers: Emmanuel Levinas
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Thursday, November 2
- 5:00 PM
Romanticism, Contingency, and the Counterfactual Imagination (BARC Seminar)
This seminar and book discussion will focus on Modernity’s Mist and subsequent works-in-progress. In Modernity’s Mist, Dr. Rohrbach explores the Romantic imagination of contingency from the combined
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- 6:00 PM
Irish Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Justin Quinn
The Poetry Reading Series at Boston University presents a reading and conversation with poet and translator Justin Quinn.
Poet and translator Justin Quinn was born in Dublin, Ireland and
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Saturday, November 4
- 4:00 PM
Boston Art Song Society Concert: War, Peace and Joy: European Songs (at the French Cultural Center)
We are delighted to partner with the Boston Art Song Society to present this European concert program. French mélodies by Poulenc (1899-1963) will meet English songs by Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
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Sunday, November 5
- 11:00 AM
Film Screening: Lomo – The Language of Many Others (Coolidge Corner)
Karl, about to finish high school, seems to have the perfect family: his father is an architect, his mother a former singer who spends all her time on the computer
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Monday, November 6
- 8:45 AM
2017 Summit on the Future of Europe — Europe and Transatlantic Relations in the Era of Populism
The Summit on the Future of Europe is an initiative of Harvard University’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES). Launched in 2014, this annual conference convenes eminent scholars
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Wednesday, November 8
- 4:30 PM
Works in Progress Meeting
At this meeting, Odile Cazenave, Professor of French and Chair of the Romance Studies Department, presents her research entitled: Looking at Displacement and Mobility in Europe Today: New narratives and
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Thursday, November 9
- 4:00 PM
Nordic Ways: A Panel Discussion with the Ambassadors of Denmark, Finland, and Sweden
The Nordic countries – Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland – when considered separately appear small, but as a region, they are of great importance, politically and economically. The Nordic
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Friday, November 10
- 12:00 PM
Rightwing Populism in Germany: The Rise of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) and the Political Situation after the Bundestagswahl
The Boston Eric. M. Warburg Chapter of the American Council on Germany and the Brandeis Center of German and European Studies cordially invite you to a discussion and light luncheon
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- 5:00 PM
Exotic and Endotic in Tavernier's Adaptation of La Princesse de Montpensier (Lectures in Criticism 2017-18)
Boston University's Lectures in Criticism kicks off a new season on Friday, November 10. T. Jefferson Kline will be delivering a lecture titled, “Exotic and Endotic in Tavernier's Adaptation of […]
Saturday, November 11
- 6:30 PM
Rostropovich and Soviet Jewish Composers: Cellist Yosif Feigelson in Concert
Ballets Russes Arts Initiative celebrates legendary cellist Mstislav Rostropovich at the historic Algonquin Club of Boston. A renowned student of Rostropovich, Yosif Feigelson performs compositions associated with his […]
Monday, November 13
- 6:00 PM
European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Carmen Bugan
The Poetry Reading Series at Boston University presents Romanian poet Carmen Bugan in conversation with Christopher Ricks.
Carmen Bugan was born in 1970 in Romania and has since lived
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Tuesday, November 14
- 4:00 PM
How 1917 Changed the World: Commemorating the American Entry into the Great War
The French World War I Centennial Commission and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy have organized the visit of several prominent French scholars to the US. We are delighted
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- 6:00 PM
Conversations about Culture, Literature & Translation: Peter Bush and Alicia Borinsky
Join us for a reading and conversation with Peter Bush and Alicia Borinsky. This event celebrates the recent publication of Peter Bush's translation from Catalan of the Spanish Civil War
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Wednesday, November 15
- 4:30 PM
Articulating a Noncitizen Politics: German Pity v. Democratic Inclusion – A Lecture by Damani Partridge
Germany received a great deal of global credit for accepting so many refugees in the late summer and fall of 2015. In 2016, continuing into 2017, as the world seemed
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Friday, November 17
- 1:00 PM
Catholic Pasts and Futures in France (Mediterranean Identities Workshop)
Speaker: Elayne Oliphant, NYU, Religious Studies
Respondent: Camille Robcis, Cornell, History
Elayne Oliphant is an assistant professor in the anthropology department and the religious studies
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Monday, November 27
- 6:00 PM
Speculations on Representation of Mixed Race Caribbean Women in European novels, 1808-1827
Speaker: Nicole Aljoe, Northeastern University Department of English, American & New England Studies Program and the African American Studies Program
Wednesday, November 29
Thursday, November 30
- 12:00 PM
European Studies Lunch Talk: Unveiling Hidden Assumptions in EU Political Economy
Gerry van der Kamp-Alons (Radboud University) | “The Survival of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy: The Role of Ideas”
Niels Fuglsang (Copenhagen Business School) | “The Politics
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- 5:15 PM
Ciné-Club de l'Alliance: Coco avant Chanel (French Cultural Center)
Several years after leaving the orphanage to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar. She's both a seamstress for the performers
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- 5:30 PM
João Vale de Almeida, Head of the Delegation of the EU to the UN, in Conversation with Vivien Schmidt
João Vale de Almeida is a senior European Union diplomat who was appointed as EU Ambassador to the United Nations in October 2015. Ambassador Vale de Almeida previously served as
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Monday, December 4
- 6:00 PM
ACT Lecture Series: Judith Barry (@ MIT)
Judith Barry is an artist and writer whose work combines a number of disciplines including installation and project-based research, architecture/exhibition design, film/video, performance art/dance, sculpture, […]
Wednesday, December 6
- 5:30 PM
International Relations Review Launch Party
The International Relations Review presents its first launch party. Event features live jazz music, appetizers, desserts, and a cash bar.
Friday, December 8
- 6:30 PM
Sixth Annual Christmas Concert (Consulate General of Italy)
The Consulate General of Italy in collaboration with the Boston Conservatory, the Patrons of the Italian Language and Com.It.Es. host their annual Christmas concert in the North End.