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 28 through January 31)
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.
Saturday, January 20
Wednesday, January 24
- 4:30 PM
Ethnic Cleansing: the Term, the Practice (Works in Progress Meeting)
Join us for a Works in Progress talk by Vlado Petrović, Senior Researcher at BU's Center for the Study of Europe.
Abstract: The presentation aims to contribute to the debate
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Thursday, January 25
- 2:00 PM
The Political Economy of Recovery in Southern Europe (2014-2018): A Talk by Manos Matsaganis
In a context of stronger-than-expected growth in the European Union as a whole, the southern periphery seems to be finally out of the woods. Economic activity has picked up, and
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- 5:00 PM
Lectures in Criticism: Jorge Luis Borges and the Two World Wars
Join us for a lecture by Efrain Kristal entitled "Jorge Luis Borges and the Two World Wars". This event is sponsored by the BU center for the Humanities as part
- 6:00 PM
2018 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration: Meaning of Rescue Then and Now
The few hopeful stories to emerge from the Holocaust regard rescuers who saved Jewish lives at their own peril. On the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, please join
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Sunday, January 28
- 3:00 PM
Bizet's Carmen performed by the BYSO
The Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras will present a semi-staged opera performance of French composer Bizet's Carmen with professional vocal soloists and chorus at Sanders Theatre (Harvard University) on January 28.