Join us for a lecture by Harald Welzer, sociologist and social psychologist, Professor for Transformation-design at the University of Flensburg, as well as Executive Director of the foundation “Welzer is a sociologist and social psychologist, Professor for Transformation-design at the University of Flensburg, as well as Executive Director of the foundation FuturZwei. His main foci […]
Join us for a lecture by Costas Lapavitsas, professor of economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. This event celebrates the release by Verso Press of Profiting Without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All. In Profiting Without Producing, Lapavitsas explores the roots of the recent economic crisis in terms of […]
Join us for a reading and conversation with British poet Alice Oswald, author of six acclaimed collections. Oswald’s first collection, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile (1996), was short-listed for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the T.S. Eliot Prize. Her second volume, Dart (2002), won the T.S. Eliot Prize and brought her […]
On Thursday, November 21, we had the pleasure of hosting one of Europe’s most penetrating cultural commentators, the novelist and essayist Dubravka Ugresic, as part of our ongoing European Voices series. Her visit to the United States was funded in part by a grant to the Center for the Study of Europe from the European Commission […]
On Wednesday, November 6, we hosted Grażyna Plebanek, author of the highly acclaimed and best-selling novels Pudełko ze szpilkami (Box of Stilettos, 2002), Dziewczyny z Portofino (Girls from Portofino, 2005), and Przystupa (A Girl Called Przystupa, 2007). Her visit to Boston coincided with the American publication of her latest novel, Illegal Liaisons (Nielegalne związki, 2010), by New Europe […]
On Wednesday, October 16, we resumed our European Voices series with the celebrated Romanian author Mircea Cărtărescu, whose visit to the US coincided with the publication by Archipelago Books of the first volume of Blinding, one of the most widely heralded literary sensations in contemporary Romania, and a best seller from the day of its […]
Join us on Thursday, November 21, for an evening of conversation with Dubravka Ugresic, one of Europe’s most distinctive novelists and essayists. From her early postmodernist excursions, to her elegiac reckonings in fiction and the essay with the disintegration of her Yugoslav homeland and the fall of the Berlin Wall, through to her more recent […]
Join us on Wednesday, November 6, for a reading and conversation with Polish author Grażyna Plebanek and a celebration of the publication by New Europe Books of Illegal Liasons (Nielegalne związki, 2010). A passionate novel of unstoppable physical obsession amongst a group of Brussels eurocrats, Illegal Liaisons offers a fascinating insight into the first Polish […]
Join us on Wednesday, October 16, for a reading and conversation with Romanian author Mircea Cărtărescu and a celebration of the publication by our friends at Archipelago Books of the first volume of Blinding, one of the most widely heralded literary sensations in contemporary Romania, and a best seller from the day of its release. The […]
Join us this fall for lunch and conversation with European Studies faculty colleagues Alya Guseva, Peter Rand, Rachel Black, and Joe Rezek. The lunch talks are open to BU faculty, staff, visiting researchers, and graduate students and to colleagues from other universities by invitation. Seating is limited, so please register in advance for the talks […]