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 […]
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 […]
This virtual book talk by Stephen Gross, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University, took place on Thursday, November 9, 2023. Prof. Gross talked about his new book – Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change – a […]
This lecture by Vivien A. Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Professor of International Relations in the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, and Professor of Political Science at Boston University, as well as Founding Director of BU’s Center for the Study of Europe, took place at Boston University’s Rajen Kilachand Center on […]
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 […]
Please join us on Wednesday, February 7, at 3 PM*, in the Rajen Kilachand Center Colloquium Room at 610 Commonwealth Avenue, for an 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. This event celebrates the release […]
On Tuesday, November 7, 2023, the Center for the Study of Europe hosted a lecture by Mr. Ferit Hoxha, Ambassador of Albania to the UN. Accompanying Mr. Hoxha was Ms. Albana Dautllari, Minister Plenipotentiary. The event was moderated by Amb. Vesko Garčević, Professor of the Practice of International Relations at Boston University’s Pardee School of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]