A Message from the Director To all those who have been following the programs of the Center for the Study of Europe in 2020: Thank you for being with us through trying times. Nothing this year unfolded normally and we at the CSE, like many of our colleagues, had to reinvent ourselves as producers of […]
On Monday, November 16, the Center for the Study of Europe hosted Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger for a virtual lecture on his newly published book: World in Danger: Germany and Europe in an Uncertain Time. The book describes a world in turmoil as tensions mount between the US and China, global institutions are under strain, and populist movements […]
On Saturday, May 9 (Europe’s Day) the Center for the Study of Europe at BU’s Pardee School of Global Studies hosted a lecture by Prof. Dr. Chiara Zilioli, ECB General Counsel, on the theme Europe at the Time of COVID-19: A View from the European Central Bank. Daniela Caruso, Director of the Center for the Study […]
The Center for the Study of Europe announces A Series of Conversations with Several European Consuls General in Boston: Solidarity at the Time of COVID-19. The COVID-19 epidemic has had a devastating impact in Europe. All the levels of government – local, regional, national, or supranational – have been involved in the task of fighting […]
Walking through the dark shades of Europe and the US. A talk with Franco “Bifo” Berardi about disillusions, ruptures and changes by Silvia Mazzocchin, @silvimabu. “The European Union is a dead man walking. It’s a sort of zombie, unable to decide the most important things” are the words of Franco Berardi during the meeting “In […]
Join us for a conversation with Polish-Jewish journalist Anna Bikont, author of The Crime and the Silence (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, September 2015), translator Alissa Valles, PhD student at the Editorial Institute, and Irena Grudzinska Gross, Resident Scholar and Lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. The Crime and the […]
Boston, MA (August 25, 2015) – The Consulate of Portugal in Boston, the Delegation of the European Union to the United States, and Boston University are glad to announce an event on “Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Moving towards Transatlantic Economic Integration,” held on October 8, 2015 at the Boston University Castle. The event will […]
The Center for the Study of Europe and the International History Institute at Boston University present: Remembering the Great War (1914-1918) Boston University Castle • 225 Bay State Road 1 to 1:15 | Introduction 1:15 to 2:45 | Panel I – WAR AND DIPLOMACY Erik Goldstein – Professor of History and International Relations | “The […]
The Mother: A Cantata for Ferguson Based on Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler’s “The Mother” Wednesday, November 19, 2014 at 8 PM Marsh Chapel at Boston University “They believe it will soon be over if they weaken the weakest. But one day soon, change will come.” What does political opera mean to us today? Do […]
The 2015 Balkan Summer School on Religion and Public Life (BSSRPL) will be devoted to the theme Conversion and the Boundaries of Community. As with previous schools, it proceeds from the idea that religion and other forms of collective belonging are central for the life of both individuals and society, and that our religious communities […]