Tag: Germany
The Center for the Study of Europe co-sponsored last week’s Jewish Studies forum with German Consul General Rolf Schuette. The topic of discussion was German-Israeli relations since the historic reparations agreement signed by Chancellor Adenauer and Prime Minister Ben Gurion. Schuette began his talk by underscoring the strength of the relationship; unbeknownst to most […]
On April 15, 2014, the Centers for the Study of Europe and Asia at Boston University hosted Yoko Tawada. Tawada was born in Tokyo in 1960 and moved to Hamburg when she was twenty-two, where she received a PhD in German literature, and then to Berlin in 2006. The event was moderated by Anna Zielinska-Elliott, […]
On Thursday, April 3, the Center for the Study of Europe, in collaboration with the Goethe Institut Boston, hosted German author Jenny Erpenbeck. One of Germany’s rising literary stars, Erpenbeck was born in East Berlin in 1967. Her grandfather, grandmother, and father were all published writers in a variety of genres, while her mother was […]
On Monday, March 17, 2014, the Center for the Study of Europe, in collaboration with Brandeis University’s Center for German and European Studies and the Goethe Institut Boston, hosted German sociologist and climate activist Harald Welzer as part of its ongoing “European Voices” series. Welzer’s talk, focussed around changes in his thinking since the publication […]
On Thursday, April 8, Daniela Schwarzer, Fritz Thyssen Fellow at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center and Head of Research Division on EU Integration at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin, gave a lunchtime talk provocatively titled “Why Germany Will Not Run the EU?” In her remarks, Schwarzer offered an assessment of […]
On Tuesday, October 9, the Center for the Study of Europe, in cooperation with the Center for International Relations and the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations at Boston University and the Goethe Institut Boston, hosted a presentation by prolific German blogger Kübra Gümüsay, an active member of the Muslim blogosphere and […]
On October 5, 2011, Ulrike Guerot, head of the Berlin Office of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), gave a luncheon talk for faculty and graduate students on the economic crisis in the European Union, which she framed as a crisis of leadership in Germany. Guerot’s visit follows the publication, by the ECFR, of […]
This discussion with Pierre Vimont, Ambassador of France to the United States, and Klaus Scharioth, Ambassador of Germany to the United States, moderated by Alan Berger, Senior Editorial Writer at the Boston Globe, took place on October 10, 2007. It continues a series of debates with European Ambassadors, organized by the Institute for Human Sciences […]