Event Archives
2024
February
Monday, February 5 | Dying Abroad: The Political Afterlives of Migration in Europe – A Lecture by Osman Balkan [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Wednesday, February 7 | Education for All? Literature, Culture and Education Development in Britain and Denmark [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Friday, February 9 |The World in Disarray: Europe’s Role as a Transatlantic Partner in a Changing Geopolitical Landscape [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Monday, February 26 | Tame Empires and Market Golems (Workshop in International History & Theory) [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
March
Monday, March 4 | García Lorca, ‘along deep roads of the guitar’: a recital by Samuel Diz [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Tuesday, March 5 | Film Screening: Babushkas of Chernobyl (Co-sponsored with World Languages & Literatures) [Event Flyer]
Tuesday, March 19 | Buñuel, un cineasta surrealista: Film Screening & Conversation with Javier Espada [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Wednesday, March 20 | The Bosniaks: Nationhood after Genocide—A Book Talk by Jasmin Mujanović [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Thursday, March 21 | Family Matters: How Family Concerns Relate to Policy Preferences and Political Choices — A Lecture by Jane Green [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Friday, March 22 | Measuring Concepts: What We Learn from New Survey Questions about Concepts and Political Behavior — A Workshop with Jane Green [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Monday, March 25 | Ready for Revolution?: Practices of Democratic Preparation from V.I. Lenin to Octavia Butler (Workshop in International History & Theory) [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Monday, March 25 | Poland’s Business-led Developmentalism in Comparative Perspective — A Lecture by Marek Naczyk [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
April
Thursday, April 4 | Writing across Borders: A Reading and Conversation with Selma Asotić [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Friday, April 5 | The Dmitriev Affair: Film Screening & Conversation with Director Jessica Gorter [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Wednesday, April 10 | Neopopulisms: Causes and Consequences – A Lecture by Paolo Graziano [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Wednesday, April 10 | Feeling Sick: The Early Years of Aids in Spain (Co-sponsored with Romance Studies) [Event Flyer]
Thursday, April 11 | “Inheriting the Bomb:” Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament and Why It Matters [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Tuesday, April 16 | Works in Progress Spring 2024 [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Tuesday, April 23 | La Barraca Hispano Americana Presents “Is Life a Dream?” (Co-sponsored with Romance Studies) [Event Flyer]
Monday, April 29 | What Is Democracy Promotion? (Workshop in International History & Theory) [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Tuesday, April 30 | Challenges and Opportunities for the EU as a Global Actor – A Lecture by Jan Wouters [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
September
Wednesday, September 25 | The Future of Foreign Policy Is Feminist – A Panel Discussion with Dr. Sonja Kreibich, Consul General of Germany to the New England States, and Kristina Lunz, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
October
Tuesday, October 1 | The Moors of Time: A Reading & Conversation with Patrick Autréaux [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
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Wednesday, October 16 | Russia’s Resilience: Myth or Reality? A Conversation with Ekaterina Schulmann & Maksim Kurnikov [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Thursday, October 17 | From Ministries of War to Ministries of Defense: A Workshop in International Theory & History with Alexander de la Paz [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Wednesday, October 23 | The US Elections and the Transatlantic Relationship: Two Outcomes, the Same Challenges? [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Monday, October 28 | A Reading and Conversation with Italian Author Dacia Maraini [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Wednesday, October 30 | 1989: The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the End to an Age [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
November
Tuesday, November 12 | Elections in the U.S. and Europe: What Does This Mean for the Transatlantic Security Relationship? [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Thursday, November 14 | The UN’s Pact for the Future: Between Aspirations and Reality in the UN System [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Tuesday, November 19 | Citizenship, Return, and Repatriation: Balkan Muslims and the Dilemmas of a New International Order after World War I [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Wednesday, November 20 | Contested Nuclear Taboo in the Third Nuclear Age: A lecture by Michal Smetana [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Friday, November 22 | The Rise and Fall of the Jet-Age Refugee: A Workshop in International Theory & History with Lauren Stokes [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
December
Tuesday, December 3 | European Studies Holiday Recital & Reception Featuring Solo Violinist and Chamber Musician Aija Reke, DMA Candidate, BU School of Music [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
2023
February
Tuesday, February 21 | Philosophical Reflections on Decolonizing Conservation: A Lecture by Federica Bocchi [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Thursday, February 23 | “Zeitenwende”? German Foreign and Defense Policy after Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine – A Lecture by Sophia Besch [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Monday, February 27 |Are Economic and Judicial Sanctions Effective in Combatting Authoritarianism? Evidence from Venezuela, Hungary & Poland [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
March
Thursday, March 2 | The War in Ukraine: A Conversation with General David D. McKiernan [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Tuesday, March 14 | European Security in the Era of Decolonization: France-Italy-Germany (FIG) Nuclear Cooperation as an Alternative Vision of Transatlantic Order 1957-1959 — A Lecture by Leyla Tiglay [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Thursday, March 16 | And Then What? Inside Stories of 21st-Century Diplomacy – A Book talk by Baroness Catherine Ashton [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Tuesday, March 21 | Free France, Colonial Reform, and the Genesis of Cold War Counterinsurgency, 1941-1954 — A Lecture by Nate Grau [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Tuesday, March 28 | Europe’s Role in US Grand Strategy: Indispensable or Insufferable? – A Lecture by Linde Desmaele [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
April
Monday, April 3 | The Question of Restitution: From Post Holocaust to Post Colonial Struggles – A Lecture by Leora Bilsky [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Wednesday, April 5 | The EU’s Energy Policy after Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine – A Lecture by Niels Fuglsang [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Friday, April 14 | Economic Policy Making in Europe: Economic, Institutional, and Political Trade-offs – A Lecture by Marco Buti [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Podcast]
Tuesday, April 25 | Neopopulism and the Challenges to Democracy: A Lecture by Paolo Graziano [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Tuesday, April 25 | EU Enlargement: Do the EU and the Western Balkans Share the Same Future? A Panel Discussion with Jasmin Mujanović and Jelena Subotić [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Thursday, April 27 | Robert Lecourt: ECJ Judge and Constitutional Architect — A lecture by William Phelan [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Podcast]
August
Saturday, August 26 | Boston Annual Ukrainian Festival [Event Announcement]
September
Tuesday, September 26 | Chinese Influence in Europe and the Implications for Transatlantic Relations – A Lecture by Valbona Zeneli [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
Thursday, September 28 | Quo Vadis Europa? Challenges for Europe: Past, Present and Future – A Lecture by Mads Dagnis Jensen [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
October
Monday, October 2 | Film Screening & Conversation: The Babushkas of Chernobyl (Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement]
Tuesday, October 10 | Syria in the Shadow of Mass Violence in the Middle East – A Conversation with Uğur Ümit Üngör [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
October 10-12 | 25 Years on From the Good Friday Agreement: Gendered and Grassroots Approaches to Peacebuilding (Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement]
Tuesday, October 17 | The War in Ukraine and the Future of European Integration – A Lecture by Federico Fabbrini [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
Monday, October 23 | The European Green Deal in Times of War and Climate Crisis: Politics, Policy and the Popularity of Climate Activism (Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement]
Thursday, October 26 | Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project – A Book Talk by Hans Kundnani [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
Monday, October 30 | The Ottoman Legacy: Christianity, Islam, and Politics in Southeast Europe. Featuring a keynote lecture by Lerna Ekmekçioğlu: Your Turkey, My Lausanne: What to the Armenian is the 29th of October? Followed by a a panel discussion with Ayşe Parla, Elizabeth Prodromou, Aimee Genell, and Vesko Garčević (moderator): Translating God(s) into Politics: Contemporary Challenges. [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
November
Wednesday, November 1 | The Sound: Mystery of Havana Syndrome – A Conversation with Nicky Woolf [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
Wednesday, November 1 | A Reading & Conversation with Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Thursday, November 2 | Social Europe: Attitudes, Challenges & Perspectives – A Lecture by Sharon Baute [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Tuesday, November 7 | The Albanian Perspective: Small States in the UN Security Council – A Lecture by Mr. Ferit HOXHA, Ambassador of Albania to the UN [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
Wednesday, November 8 | Film Screening: Power to Change – The Energy Rebellion (2016) (Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Thursday, November 9 | Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change – A Book Talk by Stephen Gross [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
Thursday, November 16 | Labour and Capital on the Move: the Dynamics of Mobility Patterns in the European Union – A Lecture by Ines Wagner [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Thursday, November 30 | Inside the Deal: How the EU Got Brexit Done – A Book Talk by Stefaan De Rynck [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
Thursday, November 30 | Digital Sovereignty: Brussels Buzzword or New Approach? – A Lecture by Swati Srivastava [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
December
Thursday, December 5 | The Rhetoric of Discontent: A Transatlantic Perspective on Populism – A Lecture by Vivien Schmidt [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
Thursday, December 7 | EU Migration Policy: The Union’s Choice for Spending Instead of Policy Making – A Lecture by Dimitrios Skiadas [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
2022
February
Tuesday, February 8 | The Decline of Europe’s Center-Left Political Parties: A Lecture by Georg Menz [Event Announcement]
Thursday, February 10 | French Catholic Mobilization During Revision of French Bioethical Laws: 2018-2021 – A Lecture by Séverine Mathieu [Event Announcement]
Friday, February 18 | Russia-Ukraine Conflict: More than Meets the Eye — A Lecture by Olena Lennon [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Friday, February 25 | The Epistemology of the Law of Targeting: Open Source Evidence and Litigation in Europe and Beyond — A Lecture by Ioannis Kalpouzos [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
March
Tuesday, March 1 | Citizenship in Hard Times: How Ordinary People Respond to Democratic Threat – A Lecture by Sarah Goodman [Event Announcement]
Wednesday, March 16 | A Green & Global Europe — A Lecture by Nathalie Tocci [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Thursday, March 17 | Town Hall: War in Ukraine [Event Announcement]
Tuesday, March 22 | Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential — A Lecture by Heba Gowayed [Event Announcement]
Tuesday, March 29 | Terrell Jermaine Starr Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Thursday, March 31 | European Democracy Forum with Dalibor Rohac and Vivien Schmidt [Event Announcement]
April
Monday, April 11 | Food, Memory & Identity: Exploring Cultural Foodways with Alexis Jenni and Boris Tavernier [Event Announcement]
Tuesday, April 12 | Food, Power & Privilege: Democratizing Foodways with Alexis Jenni & Boris Tavernier [Event Announcement]
Tuesday, April 12 | The French Art of War & Beyond: A Conversation with French author Alexis Jenni [Event Announcement]
Tuesday, April 26 | Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World [Event Announcement]
Wednesday, April 27 | Widow Spy: My CIA Journey from the Jungles of Laos to Prison [Event Announcement]
Thursday, April 28 | Fight Scenes: Identity Contestation in Turkey’s Pop Culture Arena – A Lecture by Liesl Hintz [Event Announcement]
May
Tuesday, May 3 | Precarity For All: On the Constitution of Unfreedom in 21st-Century Liberal Democracies – A Lecture by Albena Azmanova [Event Announcement]
July
Monday, July 25 | The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community—A Book Talk by Megan Brown [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
September
Tuesday, September 20 | Beyond the Headlines: Queen Elizabeth II and Her Legacy [Event Announcement] [Event Highlights]
Tuesday, September 20 | Aging & the Economy: A Lecture by Tim Vlandas [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Friday, September 23 | Responding to a Perfect Storm of Crises in Ukraine and Beyond: A Lecture by Janez Lenarčič [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Thursday, September 29 | Kibogo: A Reading & Conversation with French-Rwandan Author Scholastique Mukasonga [Event Announcement]
October
Thursday, October 13 | Ukrainian Museums: Preserving National Heritage and Identity – A Lecture by Oleksandra Kovalchuk [Event Announcement] [Event Highlights]
Wednesday, October 19 | Finding Q: My Journey into QAnon – A Conversation with Nicky Woolf [Event Announcement] [Event Highlights]
Monday, October 24 | Russia’s War on Ukraine: Consequences for Europe & the World – A Lecture by Daniela Schwarzer [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
November
Tuesday, November 1 | The Euro after the Pandemic: The Case for a Permanent Fiscal Capacity – A Lecture by Federico Fabbrini [Event Announcement] [Event Highlights]
Wednesday, November 2 | A Reading & Conversation with Norwegian Writer Hanne Ørstavik [Event Announcement] [Event Highlights]
Monday, November 14 | Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights – A Lecture by Lindsey Kingston [Event Announcement] [Event Highlights]
Tuesday, November 15 | How Can Europe Thrive in World Politics? A Lecture by Marina Henke [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Tuesday, November 22 | Implications of NATO Enlargement to Sweden and Finland – What Changes? A Lecture by Hanna Ojanen [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
December
Tuesday, December 6 | Recent Trends in EU State Aid Law: From Crisis Management to Global Regulation? – A Lecture by Juan Jorge Piernas López [Event Announcement] [Event Highlights]
Thursday, December 13 | Embodiment, Theology, and Anthropology: A Seeing and Not Seeing Lecture by Charles Hirschkind [Event Announcement] [Event Highlights]
2021
January
Thursday, January 28 | The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World: A Lecture by Anu Bradford [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
February
Thursday, February 4 | The Grifter, the Gestapo, and the Jews: Impersonating Nazi Law Enforcement in 1942 Berlin: A Lecture by Jonathan Zatlin [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Friday, February 5 | Reframing Human Rights in a Turbulent Era: A Lecture by Gráinne de Búrca [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Thursday, February 25 | EU Climate Change Politics and Policy: A Lecture by Henrik Selin [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
March
Thursday, March 11 | Critiquing the Mainstream Legal Academy: A Transatlantic Conversation with Duncan Kennedy [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Thursday, March 25 | International Human Rights Litigation in Europe and Its Limits: the Experience of the Global Legal Action Network [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Monday, March 29 | Towards a Feminist Foreign Policy [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
April
Wednesday, April 7 | The Life and Work of Vespasian V. Pella: International Criminal Justice as a Safeguard for Peace [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Tuesday, April 13 | Brexit, Citizenship, and Human Rights: A Lecture by Iyiola Solanke [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Friday, April 16 | Italy and Greece: Two Case-Studies for Chinese Involvement in Southern Europe [Event Announcement] [Event Highlights]
Friday, April 23 | Neoliberals and Direct Democracy in the European Union: A Lecture by Quinn Slobodian [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
May
Wednesday, May 5 | Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A Book Talk by Francine Hirsch [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Monday, May 24 | Power to the People: Constitutionalism in the Age of Populism [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Thursday, May 27 | Immigrants’ Settlement in the EU’s South: Comparative Experiences [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
June
Thursday, June 3 | Legitimacy Crisis and Autocratic Legalism: The case of the EU Budget [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
September
Wednesday, September 22 | Feeding Allies: Wheat and Inter-Allied Institutions During the Great War [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Friday, September 24 | What Next for Germany? A Preview of the 2021 Elections [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
October
Friday, October 1 | “Boris, Brexit, and Beyond” with Erik Goldstein [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Friday, October 8 | “The Impact of Brexit: Local, National and International Perspectives from Scotland” with Peter Jackson and Stephen Gethins [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Friday, October 15 | “On the Whole I’d Rather Be in Dublin: The US-UK Relationship after Brexit” with W. Scott Lucas [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Friday, October 22 | “‘Empire 2.0’, ‘Global Britain’ ‘Little England’?: Brexit, Britain’s International Role and the ‘English Question’” with T. G. Otte [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Wednesday, October 27 | White Supremacist Violence and Collective Memory in Germany [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Friday, October 29 | Assessing China’s Belt & Road Initiative: Chinese and French Social Capital Networks in North Africa [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Friday, October 29 | “How Britain Got to Brexit? 1985-2016” with James Cronin [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
November
Wednesday, November 3 | Reflections on Faith-Based Responses to Forced Migration [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Friday, November 5 – Saturday, November 6 | The Fourth Nordic Challenges Conference: Reconsidering the Nordic Models in an Age of Polarization [Event Website] [Event Flyer]
Wednesday, November 10 | Mobility Diplomacy: How States in the Global South Maximize Passport Power [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Friday, November 19 | Populism and the Paradox of Political Participation [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
December
Thursday, December 2 | Borders As Boats: Navigating Migration in the Central Mediterranean [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
2020
January
Thursday, January 23 | Vaccine Hesitancy and Human Rights: A Comparative Analysis of Judicial Opinions in Europe and in the United States Addressing Parental Refusal to Vaccinate [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Wednesday, January 29 | Roundtable & Reception: The Past, Present, and Future of European Studies at Boston University [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
February
Thursday, February 6 | Regimes of Inequality: The Political Economy of Health and Wealth [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Wednesday, February 12 | Eating Women: The Regulation of Milk and Placenta Consumption in France and the United States [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [World of Ideas 3/1/20]
Wednesday, February 26 | European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Patrick Autreaux [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [World of Ideas 3/8/20]
March
Wednesday, March 4 | Brexit: What Now? Politics, Economics, Law, and Policy Perspectives [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Thursday, March 19 | Does China Have Its Own Approach to “Law and Development”? – EVENT CANCELLED [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Thursday, March 26 | The Origins of Public Services – EVENT CANCELLED [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
April
Wednesday, April 1 | Holding Individuals to Account for War Crimes, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity – EVENT CANCELLED [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Wednesday, April 8 | Russian Public Diplomacy Today: RT and Kontrpropaganda – EVENT CANCELLED [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Tuesday, April 14 | Webinar: Getting Well in Europe and America: A Transatlantic Perspective [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Tuesday, April 21 | EU Law and the Politics of Change: Reimagining the Market – EVENT POSTPONED [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Monday, April 27 | Women from Here, Kitchens from Elsewhere – EVENT CANCELLED [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Tuesday, April 28 | European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Alexis Jenni – EVENT CANCELLED [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Thursday, April 30 | Uncertain Futures: Imaginaries, Narrative, and Capitalist Dynamics — EVENT CANCELLED [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
May
Saturday, May 9 | Europe at the Time of COVID-19: A View from the European Central Bank [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Friday, May 22 | Online Workshop: Russian Media Influence in the US and Europe [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
June
Tuesday, June 16 | The Plague: Book/Movie Discussion [Event Announcement]
Tuesday, June 30 | Webinar: UN Global Compacts: Governing Migrants and Refugees [Event Announcement] [Event Highlights]
July
Tuesday, July 21 | Even the Rain: Movie Discussion [Event Announcement]
September
Thursday, September 3 | How Dictatorships End (or Not): Finding a Way Forward in Belarus [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Thursday, September 17 | Europe’s Crisis of Legitimacy: Governing by Rules and Ruling by Numbers in the Eurozone [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Thursday, September 24 | Race and Law in Europe: A Lecture by Eddie Bruce Jones [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
October
Tuesday, October 13 | The Emperor’s New Road: China and the Project of the Century [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Friday, October 16 | Book Launch and Discussion with Mitchel Lasser and Antoine Vauchez [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Friday, October 23 | Discrimination of Minorities in Europe: Differences, Similarities, and Intersections [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
Wednesday, October 28 | Dispossession: Plundering German Jewry, 1933-1953 [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
November
Monday, November 16 | World in Danger: Germany and Europe in an Uncertain Time—A lecture by Wolfgang Ischinger [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
December
Thursday, December 3 | European Perspectives on the United States Elections [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights]
2019
January
Thursday, January 24 | The Inner Level: Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
February
Thursday, February 7 | Religious Identity and Foreign Policy: Russia and Turkey in Southeast Europe — A Lecture by Dimitar Bechev [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [World of Ideas 2/24/19] [World of Ideas 5/26/19] [Highlights]
Tuesday, February 12 | From Puppets to Apps, around Don Quixote — A Works in Progress Presentation by Benjamin Juarez [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Wednesday, February 20 | Constitutional Crises in Central and Eastern Europe: A Legal Analysis [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
Tuesday, February 26 | Madness in Jacobean England: The Asylum and the Playhouse — A Lecture by Pascale Drouet [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [World of Ideas 3/31/19]
Thursday, February 28 | Protectors of Pluralism: Religious Minorities and the Rescue of Jews in the Low Countries during the Holocaust — A Lecture by Robert Braun [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [World of Ideas 4/7/19]
March
Tuesday, March 19 | Karsten Voigt Class Visit: Seminar on the Holocaust [Event Announcement]
Wednesday, March 20 | Karsten Voigt Class Visit: Intelligence Issues [Event Announcement]
Wednesday, March 20 | Tea with Michael Longley and David Ferry (with a toast to Homer and Virgil) [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Wednesday, March 20 | German Political Culture: Changes and New Challenges — A Lecture by Karsten Voigt [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [World of Ideas 5/12/19] [Highlights]
Thursday, March 21 | Panel Discussion – International Migration and Diaspora in World Politics – Prof. Thomas Berger, Prof. Joseph Wippl, Karsten Voigt [Event Announcement]
Thursday, March 21 | Uses of the Past in Divided Societies: Northern Ireland and the US — A Lecture by Olwen Purdue [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Friday, March 22 | Karsten Voigt Class Visit: North Atlantic/European Security Issues [Event Announcement]
Monday, March 25 | Populism, Authoritarianism, and Constitutionalism in the EU — A Talk by Gábor Halmai [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Thursday, March 28 | Explaining EU Asymmetry: A Comparison of Borders and Asylum Policy Development — A Works in Progress Presentation by Kaija Schilde [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
April
Tuesday, April 2 | Beyond the Headlines: Brexit. What Now for the UK, EU and the World? [Event Announcement]
Friday, April 5 | Hating and Mating: How Fears over Mate Competition Shape Violent Hate Crime against Refugees — A lecture by Rafaela Dancygier [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Monday, April 8 | Beyond the Headlines: NATO Intervention in Yugoslavia 1999 [Event Announcement]
Wednesday, April 10 | Russia and Southeastern European Influence Operations: Sources, Tools and Impact — A Works in Progress Presentation by Vesko Garcevic [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Wednesday, April 17 | The Yellow Vests Movement in France: Background & analysis – A Talk by Niilo Kauppi [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
Thursday, April 25 | Muslim Minorities as Germany’s Past Future: Islam Critics, Holocaust Memory, and Immigrant Integration — A Lecture by Esra Özyürek [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
September
Monday, September 16 | What Did I Learn in Europe? A Works in Progress Presentation by Joe Wippl [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Monday, September 23 | A Reading & Conversation with Scholastique Mukasonga [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
October
Tuesday, October 1 | The Russia Trap: How Our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe (Beyond the Headlines) [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Monday, October 7 | Constructing and Deconstructing Europe after the Cold War [Event Announcement]
Wednesday, October 16 | Is Civic Nationalism Necessarily Inclusive? Conceptions of Nationhood and Anti-Muslim Attitudes in Europe – A Lecture by Bart Bonikowski [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Monday, October 21 | When Arabs Came to Europe to Fight against Franco Lunch & Conversation with Filmmaker Amal Ramsis [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Thursday, October 31 | The European Culture Wars and the Decay of European Democracy – A Lecture by Joseph Weiler [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
November
Thursday, November 7 | Reforming to Survive: The Bolshevik Origins of Social Policies – A Works in Progress Presentation by Magnus B. Rasmussen [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Friday, November 8 | The World Trade Organization’s Past and Future: American and European Perspectives on Global Economic Governance [Event Announcement]
Friday, November 8 | External Relations of the European Union: A Conversation with Prof. Jan Wouters [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Monday, November 11 | Comparative Immigration Regimes in Europe and the World – A Lecture by Justin Gest [Event Announcement]
Wednesday, November 13 | The Fall of the Berlin Wall [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Friday, November 15 | Energy Security in the EU: Challenges from the East – A Beyond the Headlines Discussion [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Thursday, November 21 | Blueprint: A Reading & Conversation with Theresia Enzensberger [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
2018
January
Wednesday, January 24 | Works in Progress Meeting – Ethnic Cleansing: the Term, the Practice [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
Thursday, January 25 | The Political Economy of Recovery in Southern Europe (2014-2018): A Talk by Manos Matsaganis [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [World of Ideas 2/25/18] [World of Ideas 4/15/18] [World of Ideas 6/24/18]
February
Thursday, February 15 | The Social Benefits of Renewable Energy: A Talk by Sebastian Helgenberger [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Thursday, February 22 | The Franco-German Bond and the Future of the EU [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Wednesday, February 28 | The Drama of Celebrity: A Lecture by Sharon Marcus [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [World of Ideas 3/25/18] [World of Ideas 7/1/18] [World of Ideas 9/23/18]
March
Thursday, March 1 | Works in Progress Meeting – Whack-a-Mole: American Policy to Curb Risky Nuclear Exports by Allies, 1974-1992 [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Tuesday, March 20 | David Lammy, Labour Member of Parliament for Tottenham, in Conversation with Graham Wilson [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [EU Views: Graham Wilson – 05/04/2017]
Monday, March 26 | Dependence and Precarity in the Sharing Economy: A Lecture by Juliet Schor [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [World of Ideas 5/6/18] [World of Ideas 8/5/18]
April
Wednesday, April 4 | Works in Progress Meeting: Non-Parties: The Negative Externalities of International Trade Agreements in a Private Law Perspective [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Thursday, April 5 | America and the Postwar World: Remaking International Society, 1945-1956 – A Book Talk by David Mayers [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Thursday, April 5 | Field Trip to ICA Boston [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Thursday, April 12 | A Loud, but Noisy Signal: The Role of Public Opinion in Education Policy Making – A Lecture by Marius Busemeyer [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [World of Ideas 5/27/18] [World of Ideas 8/19/18]
Friday, April 13 | The Struggle over Global Higher Education: European Perspectives – A Lunch Talk by Niilo Kauppi [Event Announcement]
Tuesday, April 17 | Strangeness from Within: Toward a Novel – A Lecture by Patrick Autréaux [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [World of Ideas 6/10/18] [World of Ideas 9/2/18]
Thursday, April 19 | Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society – A Lecture by E. Glen Weyl [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Thursday, April 19 | Voices from the Edges of Europe: A Reading & Conversation with Ani Gjika and Gazmend Kapllani [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Tuesday, April 24 | Borders Now: A Reading & Conversation with Faruk Šehić and Mirza Purić [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Wednesday, April 26 | Works in Progress Meeting – Just what the Doctor Ordered: Markets and Morality in Russian, Ukrainian and Kazakh Reproductive Surrogacy Markets [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
May
Tuesday, May 1 | Resilience and Reconstruction: Advanced Capitalist Democracies in a Turbulent Century – A Panel Discussion with Torben Iversen and David Soskice [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
September
Thursday, September 20 | Populism and the Future of Liberal Democracy in the West – A Lecture by Sheri Berman [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [World of Ideas 10/7/18] [World of Ideas 11/25/18] [Highlights]
Thursday, September 27 | Nordic Models in the Age of Populism [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
October
Wednesday, October 3 | Babylon Berlin: A Reading & Conversation with Volker Kutscher [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Wednesday, October 10 | Works in Progress: Debating Bioethics and Making Secular France – A Presentation by Kimberly Arkin [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
Thursday, October 18 | Russian Influence Operations in the Digital Age – A Lecture by Alina Polyakova [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [World of Ideas 10/28/18] [Highlights]
Monday, October 22 | Svetlana Boym: Exile and Imagination – A Film by Judith Wechsler [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Thursday, October 25 | Works in Progress: Goodwill Makes Good Politics: The Cold-War Friendships of Soviet and American Women – A Presentation by Alexis Peri [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Tuesday, October 30 | Transatlantic Relations: Europe … beyond the Comfort Zone – A Lecture by Sigmar Gabriel [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
November
Monday, November 5 | The Extreme Gone Mainstream: Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany – A Lecture by Cynthia Miller-Idriss [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Wednesday, November 14 | Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath – A Lecture by James McNaughton [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [World of Ideas 12/9/18] [World of Ideas 1/27/19]
Wednesday, November 28 | Works in Progress: The End of a Crisis? Labor Market Reforms and Performance in Southern Europe – A Presentation by Sofia Perez [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
2017
February
Friday, February 3 | Europe, Religion, Integration: A Lecture by Olivier Roy [Event Announcement] [Highlights] [World of Ideas 2/12/17] [World of Ideas 3/12/17] [World of Ideas 7/2/17]
Tuesday, February 7 | Letters to a Jewish Muse: The Life of Vladimir and Véra Nabokov as Literature and History [Event Announcement]
Thursday, February 9 | State Regulation in Competitive Markets: A Lecture by Vadim Radaev [Event Announcement]
Friday, February 10 | Europe in the Age of Popular Nationalism: A Lecture by Erik Jones [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Thursday, February 16 | Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders: Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain [Event Announcement]
March
Tuesday, March 7 | European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Olga Grjasnowa [Event Announcement]
Thursday, March 23 | 60 Years after the Treaty of Rome: Reimagining the Future of Europe [Event Announcement]
Tuesday, March 28 | Make the World Think Again: Reason, Hope, and Faith in an Age of Populism – A Lecture by Tomas Halik [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
April
Monday, April 3 | Lusophone Voices: A Reading & Conversation with with Portuguese writer João Tordo and Brazilian writer Paulo Scott [Event Announcement]
Tuesday, April 4 | How Will Capitalism End: Reflections on a Failing System – A Lecture by Wolfgang Streeck [Event Announcement] [Highlights] [World of Ideas 5/18/17] [World of Ideas 8/20/17]
Wednesday, April 5 | Reconfiguring European States in Crisis: A Lunch Talk by Patrick Le Gales [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Tuesday, April 11 | Which Future for Democracy in a Post-political Age? A Lecture by Chantal Mouffe [Event Announcement] [Highlights] [World of Ideas 6/4/17] [World of Ideas 8/27/17]
Friday, April 14 | NATO, the EU, and Russia – the Quest for a New European Security [Event Announcement]
Tuesday, April 18 | Irish Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Irish Poet Harry Clifton [Event Announcement] [Highlights] [World of Ideas 6/11/17] [World of Ideas 9/3/17]
Wednesday, April 19 | Lusophone Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Portuguese Poet Rosa Alice Branco and Translator Alexis Levitin [Event Announcement]
Tuesday, April 20 | Brexit Matters: A Conversation on the Political, Economic, and Legal Implications of the United Kingdom’s Decision to Leave the European Union [Event Announcement]
Tuesday, April 25 | The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Architect of the Holocaust: Operation Anthropoid [Event Announcement]
May
Wednesday, May 3 | Screening Soviet Standards: Estonian Collective Farms and Postmodern Architecture[Event Announcement]
Thursday, May 4 | Health Policy in a Time of Crisis: Abortion, Austerity, and Access [Event Announcement]
June
Wednesday, June 14 | TTIP: R.I.P.? Agriculture, Dispute Settlement, and Other Critical issues in the Negotiation of an EU-U.S. Trade and Investment Treaty [Event Announcement]
September
Monday, September 18 | Addressing the Recognition Gap: Destigmatization and the Reduction of Inequality – A Lecture by Michèle Lamont [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights] [World of Ideas 10/8/17] [World of Ideas 11/19/17]
Wednesday, September 27 | Works in Progress: Imagine All the People: Literature, Society and Cross-national Variations in Education Systems – A Presentation by Cathie Jo Martin [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
October
Thursday, October 5 | National Identity, Multiculturalism in Contemporary Italy – Film Screening and Discussion with Fred Kudjo Kuwornu [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Friday, October 6 | First Conference on Albert Hirschman’s Legacy: Theory & Practice [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Additional Info]
Tuesday, October 10 | Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, the Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin – A Book Talk by Paul Hockenos [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [World of Ideas 10/29/17] [World of Ideas 1/7/18]
Monday, October 16 | German-American Relations in The Trump Era: Two Leaders for the West – A Lunch Talk with Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger]
Wednesday, October 18 | Works in Progress: The Thorn in the Side: How Six US Presidents Dealt with the Challenge of Charles de Gaulle – A Presentation by William Keylor [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
Monday, October 23 | Philosophy of Popular Culture: Skepticism, Care, and Ordinary Life – A Lecture by Sandra Laugier [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [World of Ideas 12/10/17] [World of Ideas 2/4/18]
Friday, October 27 | Migration Management as Nation-Building: Responses to the European Migration Crisis in Migrant-Receiving European Democracies – A Lunch Talk with Ruxandra Paul [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [EU Views: Ruxandra Paul – 12/09/2016]
Monday, October 30 | European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with French Author Christine Angot [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
November
Wednesday, November 8 | Works in Progress: Looking at Displacement and Mobility in Europe Today: New narratives and Images of/in the Mediterranean/Islands – A Presentation by Odile Cazenave [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Thursday, November 9 | Nordic Ways: A Panel Discussion with the Ambassadors of Denmark, Finland, and Sweden [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Monday, November 13 | European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Carmen Bugan [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Tuesday, November 14 | How 1917 Changed the World: Commemorating the American Entry into the Great War [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Wednesday, November 15 | Articulating a Noncitizen Politics: German Pity v. Democratic Inclusion – A Lecture by Damani Partridge [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Thursday, November 30 | European Studies Lunch Talk: Unveiling Hidden Assumptions in EU Political Economy [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [EU Views: Gerry Alons – 09/22/2016]
Thursday, November 30 | João Vale de Almeida, Head of the Delegation of the EU to the UN, in Conversation with Vivien Schmidt [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
2016
February
Monday, February 1 | Lunch Talk: Current Intelligence Politics in Germany and the Future of the Transatlantic Digital Dialogue [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Wednesday, February 3 | Jean Monnet Activities Information Session [Event Announcement]
March
Wednesday, March 2 | The Arab World Meets Europe: A Reading and Conversation with Elias Khoury and Jocelyne Cesari [Event Announcement] [Highlights] [World of Ideas 3/6/16]
Tuesday, March 15 | Innocence and Dictatorship: A Conversation with Peter Zilahy [Event Announcement]
Thursday, March 17 | Lunch Talk: Eastern European Democracies and the EU Rule of Law Framework (Europe and Law Series) [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Monday, March 21 | Lunch Talk: The Challenge of Democratic Representation in the European Union [Event Announcement]
Thursday, March 24 | Bad Neighborhoods: Europe’s Crisis and the Challenges of its Peripheries – A Conversation with Jacques Rupnik and Jolyon Howorth [Event Announcement] [Highlights] [World of Ideas 4/3/16] [World of Ideas 7/17/16]
Tuesday, March 29 | The Welfare State at Risk: A Conversation with Patrick Sachweh [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Wednesday, March 30 | Europe in Crisis: Is There a Way Out – A Conversation with Loukas Tsoukalis [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Thursday, March 31 | European Voices: A Reading and Conversation with Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki and Julia Sherwood [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
April
Monday, April 4 | Lunch Talk: Social Europe, the Eurocrisis and the European Semester [Event Announcement]
Thursday, April 7 | The EU Refugee Crisis and the Changing Paradigm of EU Law (Europe and Law Series) [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Thursday, April 7 | T.S. Eliot and the Mind of Europe: A Celebration of The Poems of T.S. Eliot: The Annotated Text (eds. Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue) [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Monday, April 11 | The Double Edge Sword of Austerity – European Governance Since the Eurozone Crisis[Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Tuesday, April 12 | Lusophone Voices: A Reading & Conversation with José Eduardo Agualusa [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Tuesday, April 19 | European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Christos Ikonomou and Karen Emmerich [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Wednesday, April 20 | Who Runs Europe? Reconstructing Democracy, Bringing Citizens Back In – A Conversation with José Ignacio Torreblanca [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Tuesday, April 26 | European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Ilija Trojanow[Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Thursday, April 28 | Creativity + Conflict Resolution: A Leadership Development Workshop with Dr. Guila Clara Kessous [Event Announcement]
Thursday, April 28 | Creative Poland – fashion, design and fine art – A presentation by Urszula Gacek, Consul General of Poland, New York City [Event Announcement]
May
Tuesday, May 17 | Critical Perspectives on the Law, Economics, and Politics of the EU’s Agreements with African States [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Tuesday, May 24 | Fighting Poland: Exhibition Opening + Reception [Event Announcement]
June
Monday, June 27 | The UK’s EU Referendum and the Future of Europe [Event Announcement]
September
Friday, September 9 | Administrative Agencies and Regulatory Styles: EU-US Comparisons and Current Issues [Event Announcement]
Thursday, September 15 | European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Czech Writer Magdalena Platzova and Translator Alex Zucker [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Thursday, September 22 | Writing the Limits, the Limits of Writing: A talk by Mauritian Writer Ananda Devi on the role and responsibility of the writer in the world [Event Announcement] [Highlights] [World of Ideas 10/30/16] [World of Ideas 11/27/16] [World of Ideas 1/8/17]
Friday, September 23 | Beyond the Headlines: NATO, the EU, and Russia [Event Announcement]
Saturday, September 24 | Bulgarian Voices: Magical Mythology and Folklore from Eastern Europe [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Tuesday, September 27 | In the European Night: Will the Union Survive? A Lecture by Franco “Bifo” Berardi [Event Announcement][Highlights] [World of Ideas 11/6/16] [World of Ideas 12/18/16]
Thursday, September 29 | Quo Vadis, Europe? A Lecture by Joachim Fritz-Vannahme [Event Announcement] [Highlights] [World of Ideas 12/4/16] [World of Ideas 1/15/17]
October
Tuesday, October 4 | EMU – Quo Vadis? A Lunch Talk with Servaas Deroose [Event Announcement]
Tuesday, October 4 | European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Spanish Writer Enrique Vila-Matas [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Thursday, October 13| European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Austrian-Slovenian Writer Maja Haderlap and Translator Tess Lewis [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Monday, October 17 | Urbanism in Music: Pacific 231 by Arthur Honegger – A Talk by Kyriell Palaeologue [Event Announcement]
Monday, October 17 |The End of Capitalism: Exploring the Emerging Future with Peter Frase and Richard Seymour [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Thursday, October 20 | Can Art Fight War? A Presentation on the Siege of Leningrad by Polina Barskova [Event Announcement]
Thursday, October 20 | Slavic Voices: An Evening of Poetry & Music with Polina Barskova, Olga Lisovskaya, Alexander Polyakov, and Fred VanNess [Event Announcement]
Thursday, October 27 | European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with French Author Lola Lafon [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Friday, October 28 | Europe’s Default Liberal Hegemon: Germany’s Troubled Leadership in the EU [Event Announcement]
November
Tuesday, November 1 | Completing European Monetary Union: Fiscal Union, Financial Union, Risk Sharing [Event Announcement]
Wednesday, November 9 | Monika Weiss’ Shrouds & Two Laments: Screening and Conversation with the Artist [Event Announcement]
Tuesday, November 15 | The Second Coming of Joan of Arc [Event Announcement]
Tuesday, November 29 | Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the Future of Transatlantic Trade in Food and Agriculture [Event Announcement]
2015
January
Thursday, January 29 | A Case Named Freud: A German and Israeli Stage Production at Boston University’s Center for the Study of Europe [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
February
Tuesday, February 3 | The Global Environmental Crisis: Is There a Place for an Individual Response? A lunch discussion with Katia Vladimirova [Event Announcement] [Highlights] [World of Ideas 3/8/15] [World of Ideas 7/5/15]
Thursday, February 5 | The State of France: A Roundtable Discussion with Phillipe Aghion, Jean Schere, and Vivien Schmidt (Sponsored by the Department of Political Science; Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement]
Friday, February 6 | Global Fridays Film Screening: The Real Dirt on Farmer John (Taggart Siegel, 2006, 82 min.) [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Tuesday, February 17 | What Does the Greek Crisis Mean for Europe’s Economy and Democracy? – A Panel Discussion with Prof. Cornel Ban & Greek Consul General Iphigenia Kanara [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Thursday, February 19 | The Ukraine Crisis: Implications for US and European Foreign Policy – A Panel Discussion with Pawel Karolewski and Nina Khrushcheva [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [World of Ideas 3/1/15]
Friday, February 20 | Global Fridays Film Screening: We Feed the World (Erwin Wagenhofer, 2005, 96 min.) [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Wednesday, February 20 | European/Muslim Studies Lunch Talk: Finding Sense in the Senseless – Diaries of the Leningrad Blockade, 1941-1944 (Sponsored by Muslim Studies; Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement]
Friday, February 27 | Global Fridays Film Screening: Our Daily Bread (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2006, 92 min.) [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
March
Tuesday, March 3 | Is the Euro Area Heading back into Crisis? A Lecture by Erik Jones [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Wednesday, March 18 | Spanish Abroad Programs Info Session [Event Announcement]
Thursday, March 19 | Dissidence in Turkey: Elections and the Struggle for Political Legitimacy – A Lecture by Sinan Ciddi (Sponsored by Muslim Studies; Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Friday, March 20 | Global Fridays Film Screening: Pig Business (Tracy Louise Ward, 2009, 76 min.) [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Wednesday, March 25 | Stratifying Europe: How Regional Integration Restructured the Welfare State and Reversed the Egalitarian Turn – A Lecture by Jason Beckfield [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Friday, March 27 | Global Fridays Film Screening: King Corn (Aaron Woolf, 2007, 88 min.) [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
April
Thursday, April 2 | European Studies Lunch Talk: From the “English Malady” to “Americanitis”: Mental Disease and Suicide from the 16th Century to the Present – A lunch talk by Liah Greenfeld [Event Announcement]
Monday, April 6 | On the History and Memory of the Holocaust: A Discussion with Dienke Hondius and Jan Erik Dubbelman from the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Wednesday, April 8 | Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? A Lecture by Karen Dawisha [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Wednesday, April 9 | European Security Integration: The Role of a Military Epistemic Community – A lunch discussion Mai’a K. David Cross (Sponsored by the Pardee School of Global Studies; Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement]
Friday, April 10 | Global Fridays Film Screening: Bananas! (Fredrik Gertten, 2009, 87 min.) [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Monday, April 13 | Involuntary Revelations: Reading Historical Evidence Against the Grain by Carlo Ginzburg (2014-15 Lectures in Criticism; Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Tuesday, April 14 | Seminar with Carlo Ginzburg for faculty and graduate students (2014-15 Lectures in Criticism; Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Wednesday, April 15 | Violence, Littérature et Politique: A roundtable discussion with French writer Patrick Autréaux, Professor Virginie Greene, and Professor Jeffrey Mehlman (Sponsored by the Department of Romance Studies; Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Thursday, April 16 | European Voices: A Reading and Conversation with Tim Parks [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
Thursday, April 17 | Global Fridays Film Screening: The Dark Side of Chocolate (Miki Misrati & U. Roberto Romano, 2010, 46 min.) and Delicious Peace (Kurt Fissel, 2010, 40 min.) [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Thursday, April 23 | Revolutionary Voices: Victory over the Sun [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Friday, April 24 | The Politics of Arms Exports Controls – A lunch discussion with Jennifer Erickson (Sponsored by the Pardee School of Global Studies; Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Friday, April 24 | Global Fridays Film Screening: The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (Faith Morgan, 2006, 53 min.) [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Wednesday, April 29 | Culture Thought and the Portuguese Language: A Reading and Conversation with Gonçalo M. Tavares [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Thursday, April 30 | Irish Voices: Reading with Sinéad Morrissey, poet laureate of Belfast, winner T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry (Sponsored by the Poetry Reading Series; Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement] [World of Ideas 5/24/15]
May
Friday, May 1 | Global Fridays Film Screening: Raising Resistance (David Bernet & Bettina Borgfeld, 2011, 85 min.) [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Tuesday, May 12 | All Right on the Night? The British Election Results – A Lunch Discussion with Graham Wilson and Erik Goldstein [Event Announcement]
Wednesday, May 20 | Germany and Russia 25 Years After German Unification: From “Strategic Partnership” to Containment? – A lunch talk by Hannes Adomeit [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Tuesday, May 26 | Think Poland: Reception and Networking Event (Sponsored by the Polish Ministry of Science and Education and hosted by the Center for the Study of Europe)
August
Thursday, August 6 | Food and Political Science: A Mutually Enlightening Relationship [Event Announcement]
September
Thursday, September 17 | Division of Regional and Thematic Studies Fall Welcome Reception [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Monday, September 21 | Three Cheers for Comparative Regionalism: A Presentation by Tanja Boerzel and Thomas Risse [Event Announcement]
Monday, September 21 | European Voices: A Reading and Conversation with Swiss author Christian Kracht [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Tuesday, September 22 | Leading from the Left with Thomas Geisel, Mayor of Düsseldorf, Germany [Event Announcement]
Wednesday, September 23 | A Reading and Conversation with Congolese Writer Fiston Mwanza Mujila [Event Announcement]
October
Friday, October 2 | The Paradox of German Power and the Future of Transatlantic Relations [Event Announcement]
Tuesday, October 6 | Saving Europe: A Lecture by Carlo Bastasin [Event Announcement]
Wednesday, October 7 | Ask Me More About Brecht: A Theatrical Reconstruction of Conversations Between Hanns Eisler and Hans Bunge [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Thursday, October 8 | Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Moving Towards Transatlantic Economic Integration [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Tuesday, October 13 | European Studies Lunch Talk: How Germany Unified and the EU Enlarged: Negotiating the Accession [Event Announcement]
Thursday, October 29 | European Studies Lunch Talk: Brodsky in Italy [Event Announcement]
Thursday, October 29 | The Crime and the Silence with Anna Bikont and Irena Grudzinska Gross [Event Announcement] [Highlights] [World of Ideas 11/15/15] [World of Ideas 1/24/16]
November
Monday, November 2 | Frontiers of Fear with Ariane Chebel D’Appollonia and Thomas Volk [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Saturday, November 7 | Romanticism in the Atlantic World [Event Announcement]
Monday, November 16 | The Moral Case for Saving the Planet: Regional Perspectives [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Wednesday, November 18 | European Studies Lunch Talk: The Impact of a Brexit on the UK, Ireland, and Europe? [Event Announcement]
Wednesday, November 18 | Russian Voices: Poetry in an Age of Totalitarianism [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
December
Thursday, December 3 | Abortion, Austerity, CatSalut, & Crisis: Women’s Experiences of Navigating the Catalan Health System to Access Care [Event Announcement]
2014
January
Tuesday, January 21 | European Studies + Study Abroad Info Sessions [Event Announcement]
Monday, January 27 | Innocence and Dictatorship – A Presentation by Hungarian writer Peter Zilahy [Event Announcement]
February
Tuesday, February 11 | Unattended Madness and the Remarkable Beginnings of Psychiatry in Germany: A lunch talk by Liah Greenfeld [Event Announcement]
Thursday, February 20 | European Voices: A Reading and Conversation with British Poet Alice Oswald [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights] [Video] [WBUR Program 3/16/14] [World of Ideas 5/25/14]
Monday, February 24 | Discourse Analysis – A Graduate Workshop with Ruth Wodak
Monday, February 24 | The Politics of Fear: Analysing Right-wing Populist Rhetoric – A Presentation by Ruth Wodak [Event Announcement]
Tuesday, February 25 | Profiting Without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All – A Lecture by Costas Lapavitsas [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights] [Video] [WBUR Program 3/30/14] [World of Ideas 8/17/14]
Friday, February 28 | The Passage to Europe – A Lunch Talk by Luuk Van Middelaar [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Friday, February 28 | “Europe 2014 Re-Generation” Pre-Conference Dinner at the home of Vivien Schmidt [Highlights]
March
Monday, March 3 – Tuesday, March 4 | 5th Transatlantic Dialogue on Gender Issues: Woman Up! for a New Progressive Agenda [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
Monday, March 17 | Climate Wars: What People Will Be Killed For in the 21st Century – A Lecture by Herald Welzer [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights] [Video] [WBUR Program 5/11/14] [World of Ideas 9/21/14]
Wednesday, March 19 | The EU Inside Out: A Panel Discussion with Ramón Gil-Casares Satrústegui, Ambassador of Spain to the United States, and Ryszard Schnepf, Ambassador of Poland to the United States [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights] [Video]
Tuesday, March 25 | Building Transatlantic Italy: Architectural Dialogues with Postwar America – A Lunch Talk by Paolo Scrivano [Event Announcement]
Wednesday, March 26 | Divergence and Consensus in Transatlantic Security: A Perspective from the EU – A Lunch Talk by Anne Marie Le Gloannec [Event Announcement]
April
Thursday, April 3 | European Voices: A Reading and Conversation with German Author Jenny Erpenbeck [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights] [Video]
Tuesday, April 8 | The EU Inside Out: A Lecture on the Future of Europe by Bruno Maçães, State Secretary for European Affairs, Portugal [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights] [Video]
Wednesday, April 9 | Neoliberal Political Economy, Subjectivity, and Resilience: A Panel Discussion with Peter Hall, Michele Lamont, Vivien Schmidt and Mark Thatcher [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
Tuesday, April 15 | Writing Between Languages and Cultures: A Reading and Conversation with Yoko Tawada [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
Thursday, April 16 | Informal Governance in the European Union How Governments Make International Organizations Work – A Presentation by Mareike Kleine [Event Announcement]
Tuesday, April 22 | European Armaments, Dependence, and Austerity: the case of Greece and European arms contracts – A lunch talk by Kaija Schilde [Event Announcement]
Wednesday, April 23 | Globalization and Latin American Literature – A Graduate Workshop with Gustavo Guerrero and Andrés Neuman [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Thursday, April 24 | European Voices: A Reading and Conversation with Spanish Author Andrés Neuman [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights] [Video]
Tuesday, April 29 | Prospects for Transatlantic Cooperation in Science and Innovation in the Context of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (Sponsored by the Greek Consulate Boston; Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement]
May
Saturday, May 10 | European Voices Festival: European Voices in Translation with James Wood, László Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes, Semezdin Mehmedinovic, Ammiel Alcalay, Stacey Knecht and more [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
September
Tuesday, September 9 | Film Screening: Jack Strong (Wladyslaw Pasikowski, 2014) [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
Friday, September 12 | Global Fridays Film Screening: Carmel (2010) by Amos Gitai [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Tuesday, September 16 | European Studies Lunch Talk: Musical Narratives in the Expulsion of the Germans from the Bohemian Lands [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Tuesday, September 16 | Film Screening: Kanal (Andrzej Wajda, 1956) [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
Friday, September 19 | Global Fridays Film Screening: Cup Final (1991) by Eran Riklis [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Monday, September 22 | The Break Up of Britain? [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
Tuesday, September 23 | Germany and Israel: 50 Years after the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations – A lecture by German Consul General Rolf Schuette (Sponsored by the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies; Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Tuesday, September 23 | Film Screening and Discussion: Honor of the City – The Story of the Warsaw Rising (Eugene Starky, 2013) [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
Monday, September 29 | The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research Workshop [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
Monday, September 29 | Social Resistance in Times of Austerity: A Panel Discussion with Kostis Kornetis and Alex Khasnabish [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights] [WBUR Program 10/19/14] [World of Ideas 11/30/14] [World of Ideas 2/22/15] [World of Ideas 6/28/15]
October
Wednesday, October 1 | The Putin Doctrine: A Danger to Global Security? A lunch discussion with Ruprecht Polenz [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
Monday, October 6 | The Future of Europe and the EU: A Pardee School Inaugural Lecture with Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Former President of Latvia (1999-2007) (Sponsored by the Pardee School of Global Studies; Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
Wednesday, October 8 | Global Music Lunchtime Concert: Boban Markovic Orchestra (Sponsored by the College of Fine Arts; Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Thursday, October 9 | Radical Atlantic Aesthetics: The Black Dandy and the Performance of Freedom: A Lecture by Elizabeth Maddock Dillon (Sponsored by the Department of English; Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement]
Thursday, October 9 | Bulgarian Voices: Love, Light and Rituals [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Tuesday, October 14 | European Studies Lunch Talk: Different Trains but Not “Er” [Event Announcement]
Wednesday, October 15 | Slavic Voices: An Evening of Poetry and Music with Sylva Fischerova, Dzvinia Orlowsky, and Vera Pavlova [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] []
Friday, October 17 | Global Fridays Film Screening: Miral (2011) by Julian Schnabel [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Friday, October 17 | Boston/Moscow: Culture Knows No Borders, Needs No Visas (Sponsored by the Educational Bridge Project and hosted by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement]
Tuesday, October 21 | An Evening of German and Russian Music and Literature featuring the Rimsky-Korsaov String Quartet (Sponsored by the Educational Bridge Project and hosted by the Center for the Study of Europe and the Goethe-Institut Boston) [Event Announcement]
Wednesday, October 22 | A Musical Celebration of the life of artist Yakov Vinkovetsky (Sponsored by the Educational Bridge Project and hosted by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement]
Friday, October 24 | Global Fridays Film Screening: Salt of This Sea (2008) by Annemarie Jacir [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
November
Monday, November 3 | European Studies Lunch Talk: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning for the Stability Rules [Event Announcement]
Tuesday, November 4 | Film Screening: General Nil (Ryszard Bugajski, 2009, 120 min.) [Event Announcement]
Thursday, November 6 | European Studies Lunch Talk: German Unification: Myth vs. Reality [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Thursday, November 6 | Remembering the Fall of the Berlin Wall | Lost in Unification: Post-Cold War Europe East and West [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights] [World of Ideas 11/16/14] [World of Ideas 1/11/15] [World of Ideas 5/31/15]
Friday, November 7 | Remembering the Fall of the Berlin Wall | Jump the Wall High Ollie Contest [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
Friday, November 7 | Remembering the Fall of the Berlin Wall | “This Ain’t California” Film Screening + Director Talk [Event Announcement][Event Flyer] [Highlights]
Thursday, November 13 | Reforming Britain’s Constitution After the Scottish Referendum: Are Cities the Answer? (Sponsored by the Boston University Initiative on Cities; Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement]
Thursday, November 13 | European Studies Lunch Talk: Fundamental Rights in the EU: General Principles, the Charter, and the European Convention on Human Rights [Event Announcement]
Friday, November 14 | Global Fridays Film Screening: Paradise Now (2005) by Hany Abu-Assad [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Tuesday, November 18 | Memories of Slavery and French Public Discourse: A Lecture by Françoise Vergès (Sponsored by the Department of Romance Studies; Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Wednesday, November 19 | The Mother: A Cantata for Ferguson – Based on Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler’s “The Mother” [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
Friday, November 21 | Global Fridays Film Screening: Ajami (2009) by Scandar Copti & Yaron Shani [Event Announcement][Event Flyer]
Friday, November 21 | Faces from Eastern Europe – 13 Short Films from 13 Countries in the European Union [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Saturday, November 22 | Faces from Eastern Europe – 13 Short Films from 13 Countries in the European Union [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Tuesday, November 25 | Film Screening: Black Thursday (Czarny czwartek, Antoni Krauze, 2011) [Event Announcement]
December
Wednesday, December 3 | Blues Singer Kaz Hawkins at Bill’s Bar [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Friday, December 5 | Global Fridays Film Screening: The Attack (2012) by Ziad Doueiri [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer]
Monday, December 8 | Czech Film Screenings: The Heart Above the Castle & Joseph Killian [Event Announcement]
Thursday, December 11 | Remembering the Great War (1914-1918): A Centenary Symposium [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
Thursday, December 11 | The Music of War: Concert by Vocal Chamber Ensemble Gamut [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights]
2013
January
Friday, January 11 | How the Euro Crisis Has Been Viewed by Americans: A Talk by Vivien Schmidt for a visiting delegation of Irish political leaders and colleagues from Boston College’s Irish Institute
February
Thursday, February 14–Friday, February 15 | International Workshop: Financial Stability and Energy Security in the Americas and Europe: The Role of Transnational Policy Networks [Highlights]
Thursday, February 21 | “Changing Welfare States” with Anton Hemerijck [Highlights]
Thursday, February 28 | Irish Voices: A Reading and Conversation with Colm Toibin [Highlights] [Video]
Thursday, February 28–Friday, March 1 | Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe and Beyond: An Interdisciplinary Conference in Medieval Studies (organized by Irit Kleiman, Romance Studies, and sponsored by the Center for Humanities; cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe)
March
Friday, March 1 | “Europe 2.0: Taking the Next Step” Pre-Conference Dinner at the home of Vivien Schmidt [Highlights]
Tuesday, March 5 | The EU Inside Out: A Panel Discussion with João Vale de Almeida, EU Ambassador to the US, and Michael Collins, Irish Ambassador to the US [Highlights]
Tuesday, March 19 | The EU Inside Out: A Panel Discussion with Žygimantas Pavilionis, Ambassador of Lithuania to the US, and Olexander Motsyk, Ambassador of Ukraine to the US [Highlights] [Video]
Wednesday, March 27 | Happiness at Work with Denmark’s Chief Happiness Officer Alexander Kjerulf [Highlights] [Video]
Thursday, March 28 | “The Economics of the Eurozone Crisis” with Stefan Collignon [Highlights]
April
Monday, April 1 | Film Screening and Director Talk: SNOVI with Reshad Kulenovic [Highlights]
Monday, April 1 | Graduate Student “Meet and Greet”
Monday, April 8 | Irish Voices: A Celebration of Poetry and Music with Ciarán and Deirdre Carson [Highlights]
Thursday, April 11 | “Why Germany Will Not Run the EU” with Daniela Schwarzer [Highlights] [Video] [World of Ideas 5/5/13 [World of Ideas 9/1/13] [World of Ideas 2/9/14] [World of Ideas 6/19/14]
Thursday, April 11 | “Ideapod: Thought Leaders and Intellectuals Demonstrating the Power of Ideas on the Web”
Thursday, April 18 | Irish Voices: A Reading and Conversation with Paul Muldoon [Highlights] [Video]
Monday, April 22 | Film Screening: “Alois Nebel” (Introduction by Igor Lukes) [Highlights]
Wednesday, April 24 | “Federalism by Exception: The Future of Economic Governance in the Euro-Area” with Henrik Enderlein [Highlights]
Thursday, April 25 | Irish Voices: Tim Pat Coogan on “The Famine Plot: England’s Role in Ireland’s Greatest Tragedy” (sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Irish Culture; cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe)
May
Thursday, May 16 | Visit by Msr. Louis Giscard D’Estaing, son of former president of France and two-term member of the French National Assembly (sponsored by BU Study Abroad and the Department of International Relations; cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe)
Thursday, May 23 | Bulgarian Voices: The Living Memory of Bulgarian Crafts and Traditions with Eleonora Gadjeva and Others [Highlights]
September
Tuesday, September 3 | “David Cameron; An Initial Assessment of a Prime Minister” with Tony King [Highlights]
Friday, September 13 | “The Future of the European Union” with Vivien Schmidt (at the Chelmsford Public Library)
Tuesday, September 17 | “Plastic Money: The Construction of Markets for Credit Cards in Eight Post-communist Countries” with Alya Guseva [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Thursday, September 19 | European Studies Faculty Reception [Highlights]
Monday, September 30 | Film Screening: Stilyagi (“Hipsters”) [Event Announcement]
September 30 – October 23 | Richard Wagner in Context (Boston University School of Music Event; Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement]
October
Tuesday, October 1 | “Conspiracy of One: Tyler Kent’s Secret Plot against FDR, Churchill, and the Allied War Effort” with Peter Rand [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Thursday, October 10 | “The Ballets Russes in 1913” with Anna Winestein [Event Announcement]
Tuesday, October 15 | Irish Voices: A Reading and Conversation with Michael Longley (Sponsored by the Poetry Reading Series at CGS; Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement]
Wednesday, October 16 |European Voices: A Reading and Conversation with Romanian Author Mircea Cărtărescu [Event Announcement] [Highlights] [Video] [World of Ideas 1/5/14] [World of Ideas 6/1/14] [World of Ideas 9/28/14]
Thursday, October 17 | Ivan Jablonka: History and the First-Person Singular A Holocaust Meditation (Sponsored by the Department of Romance Studies; Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement]
Tuesday, October 22 | “Cuisine des Mères: Heritage, Gender and the Construction of Culinary Culture” with Rachel Black [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Wednesday, October 23 | The EU Inside Out: A Panel Discussion with Petr Gandalovič, Czech Ambassador to the US, and Peter Kmec, Slovak Ambassador to the US [Event Announcement] [Highlights] [Video] [World of Ideas 11/10/13] [World of Ideas 12/29/13]
Monday, October 28 | Film Screening and Director Talk: My Perestroika with Robin Hessman [Event Announcement]
Wednesday, October 30 | European Studies Open House [Event Announcement]
November
Wednesday, November 6 | European Voices: A Reading and Conversation with Polish Author Grażyna Plebanek [Event Announcement] [Highlights] [Video] [World of Ideas 12/22/13][World of Ideas 1/26/14] [World of Ideas 6/15/14]
Monday, November 11 | European Voices: A Reading and Conversation with British Poet Tom Pickard (Sponsored by the Poetry Reading Series at CGS; Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement]
Tuesday, November 12 |”The London Book Trade and the Making of Irish, Scottish, and American Literature” with Joe Rezek [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Tuesday, November 12 | Film Screening and Discussion: Margarethe von Trotta’s “Hannah Arendt” (Sponsored by the Elie Wiesel Center; co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement]
Tuesday, November 19 | “La France aux Nations Unies” with Fabien Fieschi, Consul General of France in Boston (Sponsored by BU Study Abroad; co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement]
Wednesday, November 20 | Russian Voices: A Poetry Symposium and Philosophical Cabaret Event [Event Announcement] [Highlights]
Wednesday, November 20 | Laurent Binet: La fiction au secours de l’histoire? (Sponsored by the Department of Romance Studies; co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement]
Thursday, November 21 | Europe in Sepia: A Reading and Conversation with Dubravka Ugresic [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer] [Highlights] [Video] [World of Ideas 1/19/14] [World of Ideas 6/8/14] [World of Ideas 10/5/14]
December
Wednesday, December 11 | “Soft Power in Eastern Europe: The Role of Cultural Diplomacy” with Ambassador John Beyerle [Event Announcement]
2012
February
Wednesday, February 22 | “Ireland and the Euro” with Brigid Laffan [Highlights]
March
Monday, March 5 | International Conference: Actor Networks in International Political Economy [Program]
Monday, March 5–Tuesday, March 6 | International Conference: Liberty and Security in a Time of Global Reordering [Program] [Highlights]
Wednesday, March 21 | “Social Europe in Crisis: the Impact of the Eurozone Crisis on National Welfare States” with Maurizio Ferrera and Anton Hemerijck [Highlights]
Sunday, March 25–Monday, March 26 | “Resilient Liberalism: European Political Economy Through Boom and Bust” [Program] [Highlights]
Monday, March 26 | “The Eurozone Crisis: Is There a Way Out?” with Maurizio Ferrera, Andrew Gamble, Mark Thatcher and Sigurt Vitols
Tuesday, March 27 | Poetry and Politics with Don Paterson and Dan Chiasson [Highlights]
April
Tuesday, April 5 | “How to Keep Muslims Out: The Enigma of Civilization in India, China, and Europe” (sponsored by the Center for the Study of Asia; cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe)
Thursday, April 12 | “The Euro’s Crisis of Democracy” and “The Promises of Constitutional Pluralism” with Miguel Maduro [Highlights]
Tuesday, April 17 | “France Today: What is France, Where is it Going, and What is its Place in the World?” with Christophe Guillou [Highlights]
Thursday, April 19 | The System (Das System—Alles verstehen heißt alles verzeihen): Film Screening and Director Talk with Marc Bauder and Dörte Franke [Highlights]
Monday, April 23 | “The Debt Crisis in Europe and New Europe’s Two Decades of Catch Up” with Miroslav Singer (sponsored by the Center for International Relations; cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe)
May
Saturday, May 12 | Can Literature Bear Witness? A Reading and Conversation with Herta Müller [Highlights]
September
Tuesday, September 18 | “The Politics of Precaution” with David Vogel [Highlights]
Thursday, September 27 | “European Union in Crisis: The Hopes and Woes of Politics and Economics” (sponsored by the Boston University International Affairs Association and the Undergraduate Economics Association; cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe)
Thursday, September 27 | The Power of Civil Society: The Fate of Jews in Bulgaria—Gallery reception with opening talk by the President of Bulgaria, Rosen Plevneliev (sponsored by the Florence & Chafetz Hillel House at Boston University; cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Highlights]
Thursday, September 27–Saturday, September 29 | Cinema, Opera, Art: The Passion of Werner Schroeter (sponsored by the College of Communication and the Goethe Institut Boston; cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement]
October
Tuesday, October 9 | “The Influence of the Internet on Integration and Multiculturalism in Germany” with Kübra Gümüsay [Highlights]
Wednesday, October 10 | “Skills and Inequality: Partisan Politics, Economic Coordination & Training Regimes in Western Welfare States” with Marius Busemeyer [Highlights]
Wednesday, October 17 | “The Future of the Euro as a Common Currency” with Michael P. Dooley (sponsored by the Center for Finance, Law & Policy; cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe)
Thursday, October 18 | “The Urbanization of Anti-Capitalist Struggle” with David Harvey (sponsored by Lectures in Criticism at Boston University; cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Highlights]
Friday, October 19 | “NATO’s European Allies” and “Burden Sharing within the Alliance” with Janne Haaland Matlary and Magnus Petersson [Highlights]
November
Tuesday, November 13 | “Can Greece and the Eurozone Live with Each Other?” with Kevin Featherstone [Highlights]
Wednesday, November 14 | “Europe’s Crisis and the Pathologies of Democracy” with Kalypso Nicolaïdis (Center for the Study of Europe contribution to International Education Week) [Highlights]
Wednesday, November 14 | “Exploring EU 2020” with Vivien Schmidt (at Swissnex Boston)
Wednesday, November 15 | “On the Edge of the Cold War: American Diplomats and Spies in Postwar Prague” with Igor Lukes (at the Center for European Studies at Harvard)
December
Tuesday, December 4 | Christmas Market at Boston University [Highlights]
2011
October
Wednesday, October 5 | “Is Germany Outgrowing Europe?” with Ulrike Guerot, Head of the Berlin Office of the European Council on Foreign Relations [Highlights]
Tuesday, October 25 | “The World in 20 Years: What Role for France?” with French national and policy expert Nicolas Tenzer [Highlights]
Thursday, October 27 | “Knowledge Regimes in the US and Europe” with John Campbell, Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College [Highlights]
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