Anna Di Lellio (New York University) is joined by literary translator Ellen Elias-Bursac for a discussion of The Strongest Link, the book she co-authored with Garentina Kraja (Oxford University Press, 2025). Drawing on oral history, Di Lellio and Kraja present the testimonies of women who survived weaponized rape during the 1998–1999 Kosovo War, situating their […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Join us for The Future of NATO and US Alliances: A Conversation with Amb. Jeff Flake. Amb. Flake spent eighteen years representing Arizona in Washington: twelve years in the House, six in the Senate. During his time in office, he built a reputation for principle over politics. After the Senate, he was tapped to serve […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Join us for a presentation by BU CSE visiting researcher Duygu Özlük. Register on Eventbrite. This event was originally planned for 04/07/26 and was rescheduled to 04/24/26.
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 […]