During the fall of 2012, our graduate assistant reached out to all departments across Boston University, asking graduate and Ph.D students with interests or concentrations in European studies, as well as any Europeans on campus, to join us for a Christmas Market event. On Tuesday, December 4th, nearly 40 students and faculty members gathered for […]
As part of its contribution to International Education Week at Boston University, the Center for the Study of Europe hosted Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Professor of International Relations and director of the Center for International Studies at the University of Oxford, to speak “Europe’s Crisis and the Pathologies of Democracy.” Nicolaïdis, who has coined the term “demoicracy” to […]
17th EUROPEAN CAREER FAIR @ MIT Connecting Continents, Creating Careers WHEN: February 23-25, 2013 WHERE: MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA REGISTER NOW! Attendance is FREE for Candidates www.euro-career.com Want to work or study in Europe? Looking for a full-time job, internship, or a study program? Discover the many opportunities that companies, academic institutions and non-profit organizations […]
Looking for: A truly international program rooted into excellence? An exiting interdisciplinary research agenda dealing with the challenges facing the global system? Generous doctoral scholarships? Join the Erasmus Mundus PhD School on Globalization, the European Union, and Multilateralism The Erasmus Mundus GEM PhD School just launched its new call for applications’ round. It offers up to […]
Financial Stability and Energy Security in the Americas and Europe: The Role of Transnational Policy Networks | February 14-15, 2013 Deadline: 15th December 2012 This two day international workshop is organised within the research project GR:EEN (Global Reordering: Evolution through European Networks). It aims to study the relations between the EU and regional Transnational Policy […]
The Center for the Study of Europe has been awarded a grant of 75,000 euros by the European Union Commission for a public lecture series featuring European artists, writers, public intellectuals, and ambassadors. Our project—Getting to Know Europe: The EU Inside Out—explores the prospects for democratic politics in Europe against the backdrop of the profound […]
Greece and the Eurozone were the subjects of Kevin Featherstone’s luncheon discussion at the Center for the Study of Europe on Tuesday, November 13. Featherstone, who is Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies and Director of the Hellenic Observatory in the European Institute at the London School of Economics, is author of The Limits […]
On Friday, October 19, the Center for the Study of Europe hosted a luncheon discussion and afternoon seminar on “NATO’s European Allies” with Norwegian political scientist Janne Haaland Matlary and her colleague Magnus Petersson. Matlary, who served as Norway’s State Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 1997 to 2000, is Professor of International Politics at the […]
The Center for the Study of Europe co-sponsored the recent visit of influential geographer and theorist David Harvey to Boston University. Harvey delivered the Annual Humanities Lecture on “The Urbanization of Anti-Capitalist Struggle” on Thursday, October 18, and hosted an “open seminar” for faculty and graduate students on Friday, October 19. In his lecture, Harvey […]
Yesterday afternoon, the Center for the Study of Europe, in cooperation with the Department of Political Science, hosted a discussion with Marius Busemeyer from the University of Konstanz in Germany. In his talk, entitled “Skills and Inequality: Partisan Politics, Economic Coordination & Training Regimes in Western Welfare States,” Busemeyer made the case for integration of […]