Category: 2026

The Power of Ideas and Discourse in Political Analysis: A Discursive Institutionalist Perspective (09/09/26)

Please join us at 4 PM on Wednesday, September 9, as we celebrate the release of The Power of Ideas and Discourse in Political Analysis: A Discursive Institutionalist Perspective by our colleague Vivien A. Schmidt, Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the Pardee School and Founding Director of BU’s Center for the Study of Europe. In this masterful book, [Prof. […]

 Inner Zone: The Untold Violence of Retribution in Besieged Sarajevo (11/04/26)

Join us for a book talk by Jelena Diab Golubović, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at. Previously, she was a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at The Fletcher School of Global Affairs at Tufts University. Golubović’s research is ethnographically grounded in the former Yugoslavia, where she explores hidden geographies of political violence. Her first book […]

Controlling Immigration:  A Comparative Perspective with James Hollifield (08/31/26)

Join us for a conversation around Controlling Immigration:  A Comparative Perspective with James Hollifield, editor. James F. Hollifield is the Ora Nixon Arnold Fellow in International Political Economy, Professor in the Department of Political Science, and Director of the Tower Center at SMU in Dallas, Texas. Hollifield has served as an Advisor to various governments in North and South […]

Workshop in International Theory and History (Fall 2026)

The goal of this workshop is to put BU’s historians, political theorists, and theory-oriented comparativists into closer conversation – please join us! Thursday September 10, 2026 • 12 to 1:30 PM “The Age of  Hobsbawm” Emile Chabal, Professor of Contemporary History, University of Edinburgh Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road Thursday, November […]

Can the EU Achieve Technological Sovereignty? (05/04/26)

Join us for a conference exploring how economic and geopolitical developments have led the European Union to identify technological sovereignty as one of its core ambitions. What are the principal challenges the EU faces, and how have these changed as cloud computing and artificial intelligence become integrated features of modern economies? Will the EU be […]

Elsewheres: Migration and Narration (04/30/26)

Join us for a conversation with Aleksandar Hemon and Velibor Božović. Please register on Eventbrite. Aleksandar Hemon is the author of the novels The World and All That It Holds, which won the 2023 Grand Prix de Litterature Americaine in France; and The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and National […]

A Reading and Conversation with Marie NDiaye (04/22/26)

Join us for a reading and conversation with esteemed author Marie NDiaye! Register on Eventbrite. Marie NDiaye was born in 1967 in Pithiviers (Le Loiret), to a French mother and Senegalese father. She is one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed living French authors. She won the Prix Femina for her novel Rosie […]