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 10 through January 31)
Sunday, November 11
- 2:00 AM
Le Médecin Malgré Lui by Charles Gounod (Huntington Theater)
Sganarelle, a boozy lumberjack, impersonates a doctor in this brilliant Opéra comedy based on the play by Molière. Confusion abounds! Will Sganarelle discover a fraud ? Will his patient, the
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Monday, November 12
- 7:00 PM
Lessons from the Past: From Kristallnacht to the Modern Refugee Crisis (Elie Wiesel Memorial Lectures)
The Elie Wiesel Center at Boston University presents a lecture by Mark Hetfield. Over the last year, the number of refugees and displaced people across the world has grown to
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Wednesday, November 14
- 6:00 PM
Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath - A Lecture by James McNaughton
Join us for a book presentation by James McNaughton, Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama. Moderated by Christopher Ricks, William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of
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Sunday, November 18
- 3:00 PM
Mozart, Weinberg, Shostakovich: Rimsky-Korsakov String Quartet in Concert
The concert features a late composition by Mozart, mystical and evocative, and a powerful quartet by Dimitri Shostakovich written soon after the end of World War II, when the composer's […]
Monday, November 19
- 12:00 PM
Can Large Welfare States & Strong Civil Societies Coexist? Lessons from Scandinavia (Harvard)
Join us for a book talk with editors Kristin Strømsnes, Professor at Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen, Norway, Democracy Visiting Fellow at the Ash Center; Lars Skov Henriksen, […]
- 5:00 PM
A Discussion on Artificial Intelligence
"Getting to know you : what are the prospects for people's emotional relationships with AI /Robots?" a panel discussion on Artificial Intelligence will be held at the Center for Integrated
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Monday, November 26
- 6:30 PM
Music, Monet, and Misnomers: A lecture by DMA pianist Pierre Nicolas Colombat.
Music, Monet, and Misnomers: A lecture by DMA pianist Pierre Nicolas Colombat. Since the end of the 19th century Debussy's music has been considered one of the peaks of French […]
Wednesday, November 28
- 4:30 PM
Works in Progress: The End of a Crisis? Labor Market Reforms and Performance in Southern Europe - A Presentation by Sofia Perez
The crisis of the Eurozone produced major changes in labor market regulations across Southern Europe, in some cases imposed directly and in others shaped more indirectly from Brussels.
This talk
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Friday, November 30
- 4:00 PM
2018-2019 Robert P. Benedict Lectures in the History of Political Philosophy
The 2018-2019 Robert P. Benedict Lectures in the History of Political Philosophy - The Most Difficult Question of Any: Political Obligation in 18th Century Political Thought - will take place […]
Monday, December 3
- 4:00 PM
2018-2019 Robert P. Benedict Lectures in the History of Political Philosophy
The 2018-2019 Robert P. Benedict Lectures in the History of Political Philosophy - The Most Difficult Question of Any: Political Obligation in 18th Century Political Thought - will take place […]
- 5:00 PM
Voids in Events: Unexceptional Politics After May ’68 with Emily Apter (Harvard University)
Situating May ’68 at the crux of debates around "theory and event," (Badiou) or the "philosophical moment" (Patrice Maniglier, Louis Althusser's "Philosophy as a Revolutionary […]
- 6:00 PM
Rochambeau - The French Military Presence in Boston
In July 1780, the French troop transport "île de France" sailed into Boston Harbor. Thus began 30 months of uninterrupted french military presence in Boston as the city became the […]
Wednesday, December 5
- 4:00 PM
2018-2019 Robert P. Benedict Lectures in the History of Political Philosophy
The 2018-2019 Robert P. Benedict Lectures in the History of Political Philosophy - The Most Difficult Question of Any: Political Obligation in 18th Century Political Thought - will take place […]
- 4:30 PM
Universities and Europe: Towards a New Ambition
Universities have played an important role in Europe in many respects - and they have a major symbolic function. It is not thus by chance that President Macron devoted a
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- 6:45 PM
Boston University Culinary Arts 30th Anniversary Gala with Jacques Pépin
Developed in 1989 by Programs in Food&Wine Founding Director Rebecca Alssid along with legendary Chefs Julia Child and Jacques Pépin, the semester-long, hands-on Culinary Arts program is taught by working […]
Thursday, December 6
- 6:00 PM
Making Moral Subjects: The Image and Spectacle of Punishment in Hogarth’s ‘Popular’ Prints
Meredith Gamer, from Columbia University, will be discussing her work on the visual culture of punishment in eighteenth-century Britain, with a focus on Hogarth.
Wednesday, January 16
- 12:00 PM
Starr Forum: NATO, the Balkans, and Ukraine: The Geopolitical Implications of the European Periphery (MIT)
As EU countries struggle to define their security strategy following the Trump administration's "transatlantic chill", the future of NATO and EU membership in its key areas of expansion in Ukraine
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Thursday, January 24
- 5:30 PM
The Inner Level: Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett
In The Inner Level, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett explain how inequality affects us individually, how it alters how we think, feel and behave. It sets out the overwhelming evidence
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Friday, January 25
- 12:20 PM
Greek Deputy Minister of State, Mr. Terence Quick
Join us for this unique opportunity to meet and hear a member of the current Greek government talk about Greece’s role in the contemporary world. After a very successful career
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