Strategically based, The Leuven Institute draws on expertise from across Brussels, Benelux and the wider European Union to produce bespoke residential programmes and events, at its campus in the historic Irish College in Leuven, for higher education authorities, business organisations, commercial entities, the public sector and the voluntary community on the island of Ireland. With a […]
The Initiative on Cities is seeking a talented BU doctoral student to assist with research activities in our office. You will be working directly with our staff and affiliated faculty to produce nontechnical reports and white papers for publication by the Initiative, support survey work with public officials, conduct literature reviews and help to manage […]
On January 24th, Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies proudly continued our Works in Progress series with a talk by Vlado Petrović, Senior Researcher at BU’s Center for the Study of Europe and a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History in Belgrade, and Visiting Professor at History and Legal Department […]
The Boston University Center for the Study of Europe was honored to host a lunch discussion with Ruxandra Paul, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Amherst College and an affiliate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University, as she tackles the topics of migration management and nation-building. This discussion took […]
The Boston University Center for the Study of Europe was honored to host a talk by Sandra Laugier, Professor of Philosophy at Université de Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne and Scientific deputy director at the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (INSHS, Institut des sciences humaines et sociales) at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. Her […]
Boston University’s Center for the Study of Europe partnered with the Interdisciplinary Program in Italian Studies, the African Studies Center at Boston University, and the African American Studies Program’s Conversations on Race to welcome Italian-Ghanaian filmmaker and activist Fred Kudjo Kuwornu. Born and raised in Italy with an Italian Jewish mother and a Ghanian father, […]
On September 27th, 2017, the Boston University Center for the Study of Europe held its first “Works in Progress” meeting. Attendees were fortunate enough to hear BU’s very own Cathie Martin, presenting her research in a lecture on her 2016 essay, “Imagine All the People: Literature, Society and Cross-national Variations in Education Systems.” The talk […]
Professor of Social and Political Theory at the European University Institute, Olivier Roy joined us at Boston University on February 3rd, 2017 for a lecture entitled “Europe, Religion, Integration.” Roy has been a Senior Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research since 1985, and a professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en […]
“Quo Vadis Europe” was an event that took place at Boston University on September 29th, 2016, featuring Joachim Fritz-Vannahme, director of the think tank Europe’s Future at the Bertelsmann Stiftung, and moderator Vivian Schmidt. One of the most important scholars on Europe, Fritz-Vannahme has also held the position of Deputy Editor-in-Chief and European Editor in […]
On October 23rd, 2013, Boston University was honored to host Petr Gandalovič, Czech Ambassador to the US, and Peter Kmec, Slovak Ambassador to the US, for the third event in our “EU Inside Out” series of conversations with European Ambassadors. This panel discussion actually took place and discussed the 24 years after the “Velvet Revolution.” […]