Category: News

Critically acclaimed Portuguese author Gonçalo M. Tavares to tour US and Canada in late April early May 2015

Invited by the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) and the Saab-Pedroso Center for Portuguese Culture and Research at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Gonçalo M. Tavares (born in Luanda, Angola, 1970), one of the leading writers of contemporary Portuguese literature and the most translated after José Saramago and António Lobo Antunes, will give a series […]

Schmidt Presents Research in Uruguay and Chile

Earlier this month, Vivien Schmidt was invited to Latin America to present keynote talks at the annual congresses of the national political science associations of Uruguay and Chile. At the annual meeting of the Uruguayan Political Science Association, held in Montevideo on October 9, 2014, Schmidt gave a keynote talk on “The Power of Political […]

POV: Where Is Europe While Ukraine Burns? by William Keylor

In an essay published in BU Today this morning, William Keylor, Professor of International Relations and History and a member of our board, explains the origins of the conflict in Ukraine: A European Union policy last year is at the root of the Ukrainian conflict that saw last Friday’s horrific downing of a Malaysia Airlines […]

Vivien Schmidt Awarded EU Research Fellowship

Center Director Vivien Schmidt was recently awarded a research fellowship by the European Commission, Directorate General of Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN). The award involves producing a paper entitled “The Political Economy of the European Monetary Union: Rebuilding Trust and Support for Economic Integration.” In addition to writing a long research paper for publication […]

How economic despair pushed Spain to embrace a new party

Sofia Perez, Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston University and a member of the Center for the Study of Europe’s Executive Board, contributed an article last week to the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog. This blog is generally considered the leading source of bringing political science analysis to a wider audience. Perez discusses the […]

New Fall Course: Europe and the Islamic World

This fall, Emine Fetvaci, Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture Department, will offer a seminar entitled “Europe and the Islamic World.” The course (AH 540) is a graduate/undergraduate mixed seminar meeting from 10 AM to 1 PM on Mondays. Art related to the Crusades,  the conquest and transformation of Constantinople, the exchanges between […]

New publication: EU Foreign Policy through the Lens of Discourse Analysis

EU Foreign Policy through the Lens of Discourse Analysis Leading scholars in discourse analysis and European foreign policy join force in this book, marking a real breakthrough in the literature. Not only do they offer original perspectives on European foreign policy, but they bring together various theories on foreign policy discourses that remain too often […]

Professor Johnson awarded ACLS and Guggenheim Fellowships

Jim Johnson, Professor of History and a member of our Executive Board, was recently awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship.  During his ACLS and Guggenheim Fellowship terms, Professor Johnson will be working on Means of Concealment: French Identity and the Self, the follow-up book […]

Russian Studies to Play More Prominent Role on Campus

The Center for the Study of Europe’s “Russian Voices” programs were the subject of an article in yesterday’s CAS News: The study of Russian language, culture, and history has long been a part of the mix at CAS, with a BA offered in Russian Language & Literature and a number of Russian students on campus, […]