Join us for a lecture by Harald Welzer, sociologist and social psychologist, Professor for Transformation-design at the University of Flensburg, as well as Executive Director of the foundation “Welzer is a sociologist and social psychologist, Professor for Transformation-design at the University of Flensburg, as well as Executive Director of the foundation FuturZwei. His main foci […]
Join us for a lecture by Costas Lapavitsas, professor of economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. This event celebrates the release by Verso Press of Profiting Without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All. In Profiting Without Producing, Lapavitsas explores the roots of the recent economic crisis in terms of […]
Join us for a reading and conversation with British poet Alice Oswald, author of six acclaimed collections. Oswald’s first collection, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile (1996), was short-listed for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the T.S. Eliot Prize. Her second volume, Dart (2002), won the T.S. Eliot Prize and brought her […]
Interested in European Studies? Join us on Tuesday, January 21, for an info session with representatives from BU’s Study Abroad programs in Dresden and Padua.
On Thursday, November 21, we had the pleasure of hosting one of Europe’s most penetrating cultural commentators, the novelist and essayist Dubravka Ugresic, as part of our ongoing European Voices series. Her visit to the United States was funded in part by a grant to the Center for the Study of Europe from the European Commission […]
On Wednesday, November 6, we hosted Grażyna Plebanek, author of the highly acclaimed and best-selling novels Pudełko ze szpilkami (Box of Stilettos, 2002), Dziewczyny z Portofino (Girls from Portofino, 2005), and Przystupa (A Girl Called Przystupa, 2007). Her visit to Boston coincided with the American publication of her latest novel, Illegal Liaisons (Nielegalne związki, 2010), by New Europe […]
Join us for a conversation on “Soft Power in Eastern Europe: The Role of Cultural Diplomacy” with Ambassador John Beyerle. Wednesday, December 11 5 to 6:30 PM Department of International Relations, 154 Bay State Road, 2nd floor Russia and its sphere of influence have long been the focus of American public diplomacy, and remain a […]
During the fall of 2013, the Center for the Study of Europe launched a series of faculty lunch talks as a way of facilitating conversation across disciplines and creating community among European Studies faculty and graduate students. On Tuesday, September 17, Alya Guseva, Associate Professor of Sociology, gave the first talk on the subject of […]
As part of International Education Week 2013, BU Global Programs and BU Study Abroad are hosting a lecture, in French, on “La France aux Nations Unies” by Fabien Fieschi, Consul General of France in Boston. Please join us on November 19 from 4 to 6 PM. Refreshments will be served.
On Wednesday, October 23, 2013, we had the honor of hosting 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. The panel discussion, which was attended by over 100 people, marked 24 years since […]