Join us for a lecture by Jan Wouters, Full Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam EU and Global Governance, and founding Director of the Institute for International Law and of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, an interdisciplinary research centre with the status of both a Jean Monnet […]
Join us for a Reading & Conversation with Bosnian poet Selma Asotić. Moderated by Stacy Mattingly. Thursday, April 4, 2024 • 5 to 6:30 PM Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road [Add to calendar] Selma Asotić is a bilingual poet from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her poems and essays have appeared in Tinderbox […]
This ”Author Meets Critics” panel with Cathie Jo Martin, Professor of Political Science at Boston University, as well as a former Director of BU’s Center for the Study of Europe, took place on Wednesday, February 7, 2024. This event was a celebration of the release of Prof. Martin’s new book: Education for All? Literature, Culture […]
Join us for a book talk by Jasmin Mujanović. The Bosniaks: Nationhood after Genocide is “a compelling exploration of Bosniak political identity, chronicling the development of a nation and its people in the wake of catastrophe.” “Jasmin Mujanović illuminates the sources of contemporary Bosniak political identity, tracing the evolution of a religious community into a […]
Join us for a lecture by Mariana Budjeryn, Senior Research Associate at the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center, Project on Managing the Atom (MTA). Mariana is a senior non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution and a member of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the National Academies of Sciences. Her research and […]
Join us for a recital by Spanish classical guitarist Samuel Diz. Samuel Diz researches and performs the role of the guitar in García Lorca’s life through music by Manuel de Falla, Robert Gerhard and others composers who contributed to the renaissance of the Spanish musical language during the interwar period. Monday, March 4, 2024 • […]
Join us for a screening of Buñuel, un cineasta surrealista (2021, Spain, 83 min.). This documentary by Javier Espada expands on his 2015 Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin to embrace the entirety of Buñuel’s career, from his childhood in Calandra, Spain (illustrated by 3-D photos taken by Buñuel’s father), through the experience of Surrealism in Paris, […]
Join us for a special screening of The Dmitriev Affair (2023, Netherlands, 96 min). Friday, April 5, 2024 • 2 PM College of Communication, 640 Commonwealth Avenue, Room B-05 [Add to calendar] Deep inside the Russian forests, against the wishes of the authorities, 60-year-old Yuri Dmitriev searches for mass graves from the era of Stalin’s […]
Join us for a talk by Marek Naczyk on Poland’s Business-led Developmentalism in Comparative Perspective. Dr. Marek Naczyk is Associate Professor in Comparative Social Policy at the Oxford Institute of Social Policy. His research is at the crossroads of social policy, comparative political economy and international political economy. Monday, March 25, 2024 • 3:30 PM Pardee […]
Public Lecture Thursday, March 21, 2024 • 5 to 6:30 PM [Add to calendar] Family Matters: How Family Concerns Relate to Policy Preferences and Political Choices Based on work with Zack Grant and Geoffrey Evans, Nuffield Politics Research Centre, Nuffield College Where do people get their policy preferences from? We argue that one over-looked but […]