On Tuesday, April 11th, the Center for the Study of Europe welcomed Chantal Mouffe, a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster. Beginning with an assessment of the present state of democracy, Mouffe described our contemporary period as a “post-democracy” era in modern democracy is a […]
Patrick Le Galès, a CNRS Research Professor of Sociology and Politics at Sciences Po Paris, spoke at the Center for the Study of Europe on Wednesday April 5th, about his recently co-edited book. “Reconfiguring European States in Crisis” offers a ground-breaking analysis by some of Europe’s leading political scientists, examining how the European national state and […]
Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Wolfgang Streeck gave a lecture at the Center for the Study of Europe on Tuesday, April 4th about his recent book. While his book is about the failings of the contemporary capitalist system and not specifically about the European experience, Streeck […]
“A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism,” was the dramatic quote Tomas Halik used to begin his lecture on March 28th, a line taken from the opening page of The Communist Manifesto. Halik started the discussion by speaking about the 150 year legacy of communism in Europe and the world, emphasizing how after […]
– February 10, 2017 – On Friday, February 10th, the Center for the Study of Europe hosted a lecture by Erik Jones, Professor of European Studies and International Political Economy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and Director of European and Eurasian Studies at SAIS Bologna. Jones started by saying, “What is […]
From the rise of US third party candidate Jill Stein, challenging the two-party system, to Jeremy Corbyn’s ascension in the British Labour party, dealing a huge blow to the Blairite opposition, radical politics has been forced into the mainstream. This event – organized as a conversation on the current state of radical politics and the […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Vivien Schmidt interviews Loukas Tsoukalis, Pierre Keller Visiting Professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School. Tsoukalis has taught in some of the leading universities in Europe, such as Oxford, London School of Economics, Sciences Po in Paris and the European University Institute in Florence. He is presently Professor of European Integration at the University of Athens, President […]