Author: Elizabeth Amrien

1989: The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the End to an Age (10/30/24)

Join us for a panel discussion commemorating the opening of the Berlin Wall, which took place 35 years ago on November 9, 1989. Prof. Igor Lukes (Department of History, Pardee School of Global Studies), Prof. Joseph Wippl (Pardee School of Global Studies), and Prof. Jonathan Zatlin (Department of History) discuss the significance of this historic […]

Russia’s Resilience: Myth or Reality? (10/16/24)

Join us for a conversation with Russian political scientist Ekaterina Schulmann and journalist Maksim Kurnikov. Wednesday, October 16, 2024 3 to 4:30 PM Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering 610 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 101 [Add this event to your calendar!] Ekaterina Schulmann is a political scientist specializing in the legislative process in […]

Contested Nuclear Taboo in the Third Nuclear Age A lecture by Michal Smetana (11/20/24)

Join us for a Global Security Speaker Series lecture by: Michal Smetana, Associate Professor at the Institute of International Studies, Director of the Peace Research Center Prague (PRCP), Head Researcher at Experimental Lab for International Security Studies (ELISS), Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University Moderated by Sanne Verschuren, Assistant Professor of International Security, Pardee School […]

Workshop in International Theory & History (Fall 2024)

The goal of this workshop is to put BU’s historians, political theorists, and theory-oriented comparativists into closer conversation – please join us! Wednesday, October 2, 2024 • 12 to 1:30 PM “Edgar Morin, Cybernetics, the Totality, and California” Andrew Daily, Associate Professor of Modern French and Global History, University of Memphis [UPDATE: This event has […]

The Future of Foreign Policy Is Feminist (09/25/24)

Join us for a Panel Discussion with Dr. Sonja Kreibich, Consul General of Germany to the New England States, and Kristina Lunz, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy, and author of the 2022 bestseller The Future of Foreign Policy Is Feminist. Moderated by Sandra McEvoy Clinical Associate Professor of Political  Science […]

Event Highlights: Challenges & Opportunities for the EU as a Global Actor

This lecture by Prof. Dr. Jan Wouters, Full Professor of International Law and International Organizations and Jean Monnet Chair Ad Personam at KU Leuven, took place at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Prof. Wouters outlined the EU’s global ambitions in terms of the values, principles, and […]