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 (April 6 through June 30)
Monday, April 8
- 12:30 PM
Beyond the Headlines: NATO Intervention in Yugoslavia 1999
The Beyond the Headlines series continues with a discussion on "NATO Intervention in Yugoslavia 1999: Just a War or a Just War?"
Speakers include Pardee School Professors Erik Goldstein, Igor
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Wednesday, April 10
- 4:30 PM
Austerity: What Works and What Doesn't (Harvard University)
This discussion will center around a new book, Austerity, When it Works and When it Doesn't (Princeton University Press), by Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi. The book analyzes austerity policies
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Russia and Southeastern European Influence Operations: Sources, Tools and Impact — A Works in Progress Presentation by Vesko Garcevic
Russia vocally has opposed the expansion of Euro-Atlantic institutions into Eastern Europe, which it perceives as part of its sphere of influence. Though Southeastern Europe/Balkans is not the Russian near
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- 5:30 PM
The Dead: A Reading & Conversation with Christian Kracht (Boston College)
A Reading from The Dead by Swiss author Christian Kracht followed by a conversation with his translator Prof. Daniel Bowles. Moderated by Prof. Wan Tang. Free and open to the
Thursday, April 11
- 5:00 PM
Mind and World in Kant and Adorno: From Wild Beauties to Spiral Jetty (Adorno's Aesthetic Theory - A Spring 2019 Lecture Series at Harvard University)
Jay Bernstein – Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research.
Friday, April 12
- All Day
Democracies in Peril Conference
This interdisciplinary conference brings together leading scholars from the United States, Europe, and Asia to consider these questions. The goal is to take stock of the current crisis of liberal […]
- 1:00 PM
Epic Foolishness: Translating Epic Poetry in the 21st Century (Translation Seminar)
Bill Johnston has published over thirty book-length translations from the Polish, including poetry, prose, and drama. He has won numerous awards, including the Best Translated Book Award, the PEN Translation
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- 3:00 PM
Johannes Dokhtor Faust, a Petrifying Puppet Comedye - Showing at 3pm & 7pm
JOHANNES DOKCHTOR FAUST, a Petrifying Puppet Comedye
With Multiple Interventions of Otherworld Apparitions and an even more Un-believable finale in which Wretched Faust is carryed to his untymelye End
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- 5:00 PM
The Demise of Personalism, the Disappearance of Moral Knowledge, and the Prospects for Turning the Tide: a Plea for Analytic Personalism
The Boston University Institute for Philosophy and Religion presents a lecture by Aaron Preston, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Valparaiso University.
Saturday, April 13
- 8:00 AM
On Selling One’s Soul: A WLL Symposium on the Faust Tradition
Join us for
ON SELLING ONE’S SOUL, a day of cross-disciplinary conversation on the vicissitudes of the Faust legend and the third in the Department of World Languages & Literatures’
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Tuesday, April 16
- 5:00 PM
Adorno's Aesthetic Theory - A Spring 2019 Lecture Series at Harvard University — Natural History and Aesthetic Experience
Hent de Vries – Paulette Goddard Professor of the Humanities, NYU.
Wednesday, April 17
- 4:00 PM
The Yellow Vests Movement in France: Background & analysis – A Talk by Niilo Kauppi
After an online petition in May 2018 that attracted a million signatures, more than 300,000 persons gathered on November 17 all over France to protest against increases in fuel prices.
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Friday, April 19
- 1:00 PM
Sharing a Grammar: A Reading and Conversation with Ana Luísa Amaral and Margaret Jull Costa (Translation Seminar)
Ana Luísa Amaral has written over thirty books, of poetry, theatre, essays, children’s literature and fiction and has translated poets like Emily Dickinson, John Updike, or William Shakespeare. Her
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Tuesday, April 23
- 5:00 PM
A Spring 2019 Lecture Series at Harvard University — Adorno's Aesthetic Theory
Robert Pippin – Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor of Social Thought, Philosophy, University of Chicago.
Wednesday, April 24
- 4:30 PM
Five Years On: A Stocktaking of the Juncker Commission (Harvard University
The speakers will discuss the tenure of the European Commission (2014-2019) under Jean-Claude Juncker's leadership a few weeks before the European Parliament elections. They will provide an overview of the […]
Thursday, April 25
- 4:00 PM
Muslim Minorities as Germany’s Past Future: Islam Critics, Holocaust Memory, and Immigrant Integration — A Lecture by Esra Özyürek
A new cohort of Turkish- and Arab-background public intellectuals in Germany locate the root of problems of migrant communities in a resemblance between Islamic culture and Nazi ideology. Islam critics
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Monday, April 29
- 5:30 PM
France in the World: “A Medievalist Reflects on the ‘Master Narrative” (Harvard University)
Patrick Boucheron is the author of many books, such as, most recently, Ce que peut l’histoire (2016), Comment se révolter (2016) and the editor of the bestselling Histoire mondiale de
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Tuesday, April 30
- 4:30 PM
Economic European Policy Forum — Democracy and Prosperity: Reinventing Capitalism through a Turbulent Century (Harvard University)
It is a widespread view that democracy and the advanced nation-state are in crisis, weakened by globalization and undermined by global capitalism, in turn explaining rising inequality and mounting populism.
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Wednesday, May 1
- 5:00 PM
A Spring 2019 Lecture Series at Harvard University — Adorno's Aesthetic Theory
Martin E. Jay – Ehrman Professor of History, University of California Berkeley.