This event began with an introduction by Christoph Mücher, Director of the Goethe Institut Boston, who welcomed both Boston University’s Vivien Schmidt and Joachim Fritz-Vannahme, Director of the think tank Europe’s Future at the Bertelsmann Stiftung. Schmidt opened the conversation by asking the question “Why is the EU in such a mess?” and asked Fritz-Vannahme to speak […]
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 […]
Organized as part of EU Futures – a series of conversations exploring the emerging future in Europe – The Center for the Study of Europe at Boston University hosted a lecture by cultural agitator, media activist and transdisciplinary philosopher Franco “Bifo” Berardi. Berardi is an Italian Marxist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition. His […]
On Thursday, September 22nd, the Pardee School’s Center for the Study of Europe opened its doors to world renowned Mauritanian writer Ananda Devi to discuss the role a writer plays in the world today, and to illuminate both the struggles and beauties that come with such a responsibility. Moderated by Professor Odile Cazenave, a Professor […]
On Thursday, September 15th, Boston University’s Center for the Study of Europe welcomed Czech author Magdaléna Platzova and translator Alex Zucker. The event was moderated by Veronika Tuckerova, Preceptor in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. Platzova is the award-winning author of six books, two of which have since been translated and published in […]
On Tuesday, April 26, the Center for the Study of Europe, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Boston and the literary journal AGNI, hosted a reading and conversation with Bulgarian-German author Ilija Trojanow. Moderating the event was editor, teacher, and translator Aaron Kerner. The topic of discussion was Trojanow’s latest novel, The Lamentations of Zeno (Verso […]
On Wednesday, April 20, we hosted Spanish journalist José Ignacio Torreblanca, Head of ECFR’s Madrid Office and Senior Policy Fellow at ECFR and in its European Power program. Sofia Perez interviewed Torreblanca on the subject of his 2014 book, Who Runs Europe? Reconstructing Democracy, Bringing Citizens Back In. This event took place as part of […]
On Tuesday, April 19 with a reading and converation we hosted the Greek writer Greek writer Christos Ikonomou and his translator Karen Emmerich for another European Voices event. Following a short reading by Ikonomou from the Greek text, Emmerich read her translation of “Placard and Broomstick” from the short story collection, Something Will Happen, You’ll […]
Our popular European Voices series has given rise to a number of related initiatives, notably, Irish Voices, Russian Voices, and beginning last year—with the visit of Portuguese writer Gonçalo M. Tavares in April 2015 and with support from the Saab-Pedroso Center for Portuguese Culture and Research at UMASS—Lusophone Voices. For the second event in that […]
On March 31, we kicked off a new round of “European Voices” with Polish émigré author Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki and his translator, Julia Sherwood. Klimko-Dobrzaniecki read from his novella Lullaby for a Hanged Man, published this year by Calypso Editions, a story of three East Europeans trying to build new lives for themselves far from home […]