Chateaubriand Humanities & Social Sciences (HSS) is a fellowship program offered by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the US. It targets outstanding Ph.D. students from American universities who seek to engage in research in France, in any discipline of the Humanities and Social Sciences. HSS Chateaubriand fellows are selected through a merit-based […]
The GEM PhD School’s 2013/14 Call for Applications is open and will run till December 20th 2013 (Midnight CET). Any interested party wishing to join the program and/or apply for one of its available fellowships, notably the 10 Erasmus Mundus Fellowships made available by the European Commission, is invited to consult the online Call for […]
On Tuesday, September 3, the Center for the Study of Europe and the Department of Political Science co-sponsored a talk by Anthony King, one of Britain’s most eminent political scientists and the author of numerous books and articles on British and American politics and government. One of the founders of the Department of Government at […]
We’re pleased to announce that Vivien Schmidt’s co-edited contribution to Cambridge University Press’s Contemporary European Politics series has been released in the UK and will be available in the US by the end of the month. The book – Resilient Liberalism in European Political Economy – explains why neoliberal economic ideas have not just survived, […]
Co-sponsored by the College of General Studies and the BU Center for the Humanities (BUCH), the Poetry Reading Series strives to make poetry a fundamental part of university and community life. By presenting the work of both renowned and emerging poets, the series attempts to broaden our vision of poetry’s concerns and effects. Last spring, […]
Join us on Thursday, November 21, for an evening of conversation with Dubravka Ugresic, one of Europe’s most distinctive novelists and essayists. From her early postmodernist excursions, to her elegiac reckonings in fiction and the essay with the disintegration of her Yugoslav homeland and the fall of the Berlin Wall, through to her more recent […]
Join us on Wednesday, November 6, for a reading and conversation with Polish author Grażyna Plebanek and a celebration of the publication by New Europe Books of Illegal Liasons (Nielegalne związki, 2010). A passionate novel of unstoppable physical obsession amongst a group of Brussels eurocrats, Illegal Liaisons offers a fascinating insight into the first Polish […]
2013 marks 24 years since the “Velvet Revolution” that put an end communist rule in Czechoslovakia and 20 years since the “Velvet Divorce,” or the break up of Czechoslovakia into two independent states. Join us on Wednesday, October 23, for a conversation with the Czech and Slovak Ambassadors who will discuss subsequent developments in their […]
Join us on Wednesday, October 16, for a reading and conversation with Romanian author Mircea Cărtărescu and a celebration of the publication by our friends at Archipelago Books of the first volume of Blinding, one of the most widely heralded literary sensations in contemporary Romania, and a best seller from the day of its release. The […]
Join us this fall for lunch and conversation with European Studies faculty colleagues Alya Guseva, Peter Rand, Rachel Black, and Joe Rezek. The lunch talks are open to BU faculty, staff, visiting researchers, and graduate students and to colleagues from other universities by invitation. Seating is limited, so please register in advance for the talks […]