Author: Elizabeth Amrien

The World in Disarray: Europe’s Role as a Transatlantic Partner in a Changing Geopolitical Landscape (02/09/24)

The Center for the Study of Europe at Boston University presents: The World in Disarray: Europe’s Role as a Transatlantic Partner in a Changing Geopolitical Landscape – A Europe in the World breakfast talk with Metin Hakverdi. Moderated by Assistant Professor of International History at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. Friday, February […]

Europe in the World, Season 2

The second season of the “Europe in the World” podcast explores the process of European integration from a number of angles: development, humanitarianism, and crisis management (Episodes 1-3), security and defense (Episodes 4-5), migration (Episode 6), enlargement (Episodes 9-10), and energy (Episodes 11-12). This student-led podcast is a production of Prof. Kaija Schilde’s European Integration […]

Event Highlights: Social Europe: Attitudes, Challenges & Perspectives

This lecture by Sharon Baute, Assistant Professor of Comparative Social Policy at the University of Konstanz and principal investigator of the university’s Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality,” took place at Boston University on Thursday, November 2, 2023, during Prof. Kaija Schilde’s European Integration seminar. Baute’s research focusses on social policy, European integration and […]

Workshop in International History & Theory (Spring 2024)

The goal of this workshop is to put BU’s historians, political theorists, and theory-oriented social scientists into closer conversation – please join us! Monday, January 29, 2024 • 12 to 1:30 PM Introductions Monday, February 26, 2024 • 12 to 1:30 PM “Tame Empires and Market Golems” Quinn Slobodian • Professor of International History, Pardee School […]

Event Highlights: Quo Vadis Europa?

This lecture by Mads Dagnis Jensen, Associate Professor in the department of international economics, government, and business at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), took place at Boston University on Thursday, September 28, 2023, during Prof. Kaija Schilde’s European Integration seminar. Jensen specializes in the field of comparative political economy and politics. His research focuses on the […]

Event Highlights: How the EU Got Brexit Done?

On Thursday, November 30, we welcomed back our former visiting researchers, Stefaan De Rynck, currently Head of the European Commission’s Representation in Belgium, for a discussion of his new book: Inside the Deal: How the EU Got Brexit Done. De Rynck was a close aide to Michel Barnier during the Brexit negotiations, and here he […]

Event Highlights: The EU’s Choice of Spending Instead of Policy Making

This virtual lecture by Dimitrios Skiadas, Professor of European Governance and Jean Monnet Chair at the Department of International and European Studies at the University of Macedonia and a former visiting researcher at the Center for the Study of Europe, took place on Thursday, December 7, 2023. In a deeply informative overview, Prof. Skiadas tells […]