Author: Elizabeth Amrien

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 […]

Event Highlights: Digital Sovereignty: Brussels Buzzword or New Approach?

This lecture by Swati Srivastava, Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University’s Institute for Rebooting Social Media in the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, took place at BU’s Pardee School of Global Studies on Thursday, November 30, 2023. Srivastava broadly researches private actors in global […]

Event Highlights: Mystery of the Havana Syndrome

On Wednesday, November 1, 2023, we had journalist and podcaster Nicky Woolf back to Boston University to talk about his latest podcast venture, The Sound. The Sound: Mystery of the Havana Syndrome. Woolf talks to Vivien Schmidt, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, about his investigation into the global medical mystery affecting US and […]

Event Highlights: Eurowhiteness Book Talk

This book talk by Hans Kundnani launched the Center for the Study of Europe’s Decentering Europe series, the aim of which is to understand Europe in relation to other sites of socio-cultural production, political engagement, and economic transformation. Hans Kundnani is an associate fellow at Chatham House, and the author of Utopia or Auschwitz; The […]

Event Highlights: The Ottoman Legacy and Lausanne at 100

This panel discussion – Translating God(s) into Politics: Contemporary Challenges – took place at Boston University’s Howard Thurman Center on Monday, October 30, 2023 as part of a larger event on the Ottoman Legacy. The discussion followed a keynote lecture (not recorded) by Lerna Ekmekçioğlu: Your Turkey, My Lausanne: What to the Armenian is the […]