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Spring 2026 Events<\/a><\/p>\n

Fall 2025 Events<\/a><\/p>\n

Event Archives Fall 2011 – Spring 2025<\/h3>\n

2025<\/h4>
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February<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 4 | How Wealth Hacks the World (Seeing & Not Seeing)<\/p>\n

Thursday, February 13 | Religion and the Republic: Book Launch & Discussion [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, February 25 | Truth, Memory, Reconciliation in the Balkans: An EU Agenda? [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

March<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 18 | Facing Inequity: NGO Perspectives on Decolonization in Algeria (Decentering Europe) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, March 20 | Project Eagle: The Top-Secret OSS Operation that Sent Polish Spies Behind Enemy Lines in World War II [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, March 24 | Poetics of Survival and Becoming in Francophone African Rap (Decentering Europe) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 25 | Bosnian and Albanian Studies: Bridging Divides (Virtual Panel)<\/p>\n

Thursday, March 27 | A Conversation about Finance and Anti-Democratic Politics (Workshops in International Theory & History) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

April<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 1 | The War in Ukraine and the Future of European Security [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, April 4 | The Eternal Promise of Missile Defense (Workshop in International Theory and History) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 8 | Montenegro and Serbia: A Velvet Divorce [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 9 | Institutionalizing Black Europe: The Center for Black European Studies at Carnegie Mellon University (Decentering Europe) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 22 | Colonialism and EU Law: The Case of Algerian Wine (Decentering Europe) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 24 | The Political Economy of the Eurozone\u2019s Rollercoaster [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, April 25 | Chasing After Strange Gods: Anna Louise Strong in Stalin’s USSR (Workshop in International Theory and History) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 29 | Laboring in the Shadow of Empire: Cabo Verdean Care Workers in Portugal (Decentering Europe) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]
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2024<\/h4>
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February<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, February 5 | Dying Abroad: The Political Afterlives of Migration in Europe – A Lecture by Osman Balkan [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, February 7 | Education for All? Literature, Culture and Education Development in Britain and Denmark [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, February 9 |The World in Disarray: Europe’s Role as a Transatlantic Partner in a Changing Geopolitical Landscape [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, February 26 | Tame Empires and Market Golems (Workshop in International History & Theory) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

March<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, March 4 | Garc\u00eda Lorca, \u2018along deep roads of the guitar\u2019: a recital by Samuel Diz [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 5 | Film Screening: Babushkas of Chernobyl (Co-sponsored with World Languages & Literatures)\u00a0[Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 19 | Bu\u00f1uel, un cineasta surrealista: Film Screening & Conversation with Javier Espada [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, March 20 | The Bosniaks: Nationhood after Genocide\u2014A Book Talk by Jasmin Mujanovi\u0107 [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, March 21 | Family Matters: How Family Concerns Relate to Policy Preferences and Political Choices \u2014 A Lecture by Jane Green [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, March 22 | Measuring Concepts: What We Learn from New Survey Questions about Concepts and Political Behavior \u2014 A Workshop with Jane Green [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, March 25 | Ready for Revolution?: Practices of Democratic Preparation from V.I. Lenin to Octavia Butler (Workshop in International History & Theory) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, March 25 | Poland\u2019s Business-led Developmentalism in Comparative Perspective \u2014 A Lecture by Marek Naczyk [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

April<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday, April 4 | Writing across Borders: A Reading and Conversation with Selma Asoti\u0107 [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, April 5 | The Dmitriev Affair: Film Screening & Conversation with Director Jessica Gorter [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 10 | Neopopulisms: Causes and Consequences – A Lecture by Paolo Graziano [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 10 | Feeling Sick: The Early Years of Aids in Spain (Co-sponsored with Romance Studies) [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 11 | \u201cInheriting the Bomb:\u201d Ukraine\u2019s Nuclear Disarmament and Why It Matters [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 16 | Works in Progress Spring 2024 [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 23 | La Barraca Hispano Americana Presents \u201cIs Life a Dream?\u201d (Co-sponsored with Romance Studies) [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, April 29 | What Is Democracy Promotion? (Workshop in International History & Theory) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 30 | Challenges and Opportunities for the EU as a Global Actor – A Lecture by Jan Wouters [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

September<\/strong><\/p>\n

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<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

October<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, October 1 | The Moors of Time: A Reading & Conversation with Patrick Autr\u00e9aux [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer]<\/a><\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 16 | Russia’s Resilience: Myth or Reality? A Conversation with Ekaterina Schulmann & Maksim Kurnikov [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, October 17 | From Ministries of War to Ministries of Defense: A Workshop in International Theory & History with Alexander de la Paz [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 23 | The US Elections and the Transatlantic Relationship: Two Outcomes, the Same Challenges? [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, October 28 | A Reading and Conversation with Italian Author Dacia Maraini [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 30 | 1989: The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the End to an Age [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

November<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, November 12 | Elections in the U.S. and Europe: What Does This Mean for the Transatlantic Security Relationship? [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, November 14 | The UN\u2019s Pact for the Future: Between Aspirations and Reality in the UN System [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flye<\/a>r]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, November 19 | Citizenship, Return, and Repatriation: Balkan Muslims and the Dilemmas of a New International Order after World War I [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 20 | Contested Nuclear Taboo in the Third Nuclear Age: A lecture by Michal Smetana [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, November 22 | The Rise and Fall of the Jet-Age Refugee: A Workshop in International Theory & History with Lauren Stokes [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

December<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, December 3 | European Studies Holiday Recital & Reception Featuring Solo Violinist and Chamber Musician Aija Reke, DMA Candidate, BU School of Music [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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2023<\/h4>
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February<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, February 21 | Philosophical Reflections on Decolonizing Conservation: A Lecture by Federica Bocchi [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, February 23 | \u201cZeitenwende\u201d? German Foreign and Defense Policy after Russia\u2019s Invasion of Ukraine – A Lecture by Sophia Besch [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, February 27 |Are Economic and Judicial Sanctions Effective in Combatting Authoritarianism? Evidence from Venezuela, Hungary & Poland [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

March<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday, March 2 | The War in Ukraine: A Conversation with General David D. McKiernan [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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 \u2014 A Lecture by Leyla Tiglay [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, March 16 | And Then What? Inside Stories of 21st-Century Diplomacy – A Book talk by Baroness Catherine Ashton [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 21 | Free France, Colonial Reform, and the Genesis of Cold War Counterinsurgency, 1941-1954 \u2014 A Lecture by Nate Grau [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 28 | Europe\u2019s Role in US Grand Strategy: Indispensable or Insufferable? – A Lecture by Linde Desmaele [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

April<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, April 3 | The Question of Restitution: From Post Holocaust to Post Colonial Struggles – A Lecture by Leora Bilsky [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 5 | The EU\u2019s Energy Policy after Russia\u2019s Invasion of Ukraine – A Lecture by Niels Fuglsang [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, April 14 | Economic Policy Making in Europe: Economic, Institutional, and Political Trade-offs – A Lecture by Marco Buti [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Podcast<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 25 | Neopopulism and the Challenges to Democracy: A Lecture by Paolo Graziano [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 25 | EU Enlargement: Do the EU and the Western Balkans Share the Same Future? A Panel Discussion with Jasmin Mujanovi\u0107 and Jelena Suboti\u0107 [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 27 | Robert Lecourt: ECJ Judge and Constitutional Architect \u2014 A lecture by William Phelan [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Podcast<\/a>]<\/p>\n

August<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday, August 26 | Boston Annual Ukrainian Festival [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

September<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, September 26 | Chinese Influence in Europe and the Implications for Transatlantic Relations – A Lecture by Valbona Zeneli [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, September 28 | Quo Vadis Europa? Challenges for Europe: Past, Present and Future – A Lecture by Mads Dagnis Jensen [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

October<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, October 2 | Film Screening & Conversation: The Babushkas of Chernobyl (Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, October 10 | Syria in the Shadow of Mass Violence in the Middle East – A Conversation with U\u011fur \u00dcmit \u00dcng\u00f6r [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, October 17 | The War in Ukraine and the Future of European Integration – A Lecture by Federico Fabbrini [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, October 26 | Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project – A Book Talk by Hans Kundnani [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, October 30 | The Ottoman Legacy: Christianity, Islam, and Politics in Southeast Europe. Featuring a keynote lecture by Lerna Ekmek\u00e7io\u011flu: Your Turkey, My Lausanne: What to the Armenian is the 29th of October? Followed by a a panel discussion with Ay\u015fe Parla, Elizabeth Prodromou, Aimee Genell, and Vesko Gar\u010devi\u0107 (moderator): Translating God(s) into Politics: Contemporary Challenges. [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

November<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 1 | The Sound: Mystery of Havana Syndrome – A Conversation with Nicky Woolf [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 1 | A Reading & Conversation with Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, November 2 | Social Europe: Attitudes, Challenges & Perspectives – A Lecture by Sharon Baute [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 8 | Film Screening: Power to Change – The Energy Rebellion (2016) (Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer]<\/p>\n

Thursday, November 9 | Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change – A Book Talk by Stephen Gross [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights]<\/p>\n

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<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, November 30 | Inside the Deal: How the EU Got Brexit Done – A Book Talk by Stefaan De Rynck [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights]<\/p>\n

Thursday, November 30 | Digital Sovereignty: Brussels Buzzword or New Approach? \u2013 A Lecture by Swati Srivastava [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

December<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday, December 5 | The Rhetoric of Discontent: A Transatlantic Perspective on Populism – A Lecture by Vivien Schmidt [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, December 7 | EU Migration Policy: The Union\u2019s Choice for Spending Instead of Policy Making – A Lecture by Dimitrios Skiadas [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights]<\/p>\n

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2022<\/h4>
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February<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, February 8 | The Decline of Europe\u2019s Center-Left Political Parties: A Lecture by Georg Menz [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, February 10 | French Catholic Mobilization During Revision of French Bioethical Laws: 2018-2021 – A Lecture by S\u00e9verine Mathieu [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, February 18 | Russia-Ukraine Conflict: More than Meets the Eye \u2014 A Lecture by Olena Lennon [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, February 25 | The Epistemology of the Law of Targeting: Open Source Evidence and Litigation in Europe and Beyond \u2014 A Lecture by Ioannis Kalpouzos [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights]<\/p>\n

March<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 1 | Citizenship in Hard Times: How Ordinary People Respond to Democratic Threat – A Lecture by Sarah Goodman [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, March 16 | A Green & Global Europe \u2014 A Lecture by Nathalie Tocci [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, March 17 | Town Hall: War in Ukraine [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 22 | Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential \u2014 A Lecture by Heba Gowayed [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 29 | Terrell Jermaine Starr Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, March 31 | European Democracy Forum with Dalibor Rohac and Vivien Schmidt [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

April<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, April 11 | Food, Memory & Identity: Exploring Cultural Foodways with Alexis Jenni and Boris Tavernier [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 12 | Food, Power & Privilege: Democratizing Foodways with Alexis Jenni & Boris Tavernier [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 12 | The French Art of War & Beyond: A Conversation with French author Alexis Jenni [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 26 | Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 27 | Widow Spy: My CIA Journey from the Jungles of Laos to Prison [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 28 | Fight Scenes: Identity Contestation in Turkey’s Pop Culture Arena – A Lecture by Liesl Hintz [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

May<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, May 3 | Precarity For All: On the Constitution of Unfreedom in 21st-Century Liberal Democracies – A Lecture by Albena Azmanova [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

July<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, July 25 | The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community\u2014A Book Talk by Megan Brown [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

September<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, September 20 | Beyond the Headlines: Queen Elizabeth II and Her Legacy [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, September 20 | Aging & the Economy: A Lecture by Tim Vlandas [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, September 23 | Responding to a Perfect Storm of Crises in Ukraine and Beyond: A Lecture by Janez Lenar\u010di\u010d [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, September 29 | Kibogo: A Reading & Conversation with French-Rwandan Author Scholastique Mukasonga [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

October<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday, October 13 | Ukrainian Museums: Preserving National Heritage and Identity – A Lecture by Oleksandra Kovalchuk [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 19 | Finding Q: My Journey into QAnon – A Conversation with Nicky Woolf [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, October 24 | Russia\u2019s War on Ukraine: Consequences for Europe & the World – A Lecture by Daniela Schwarzer [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

November<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, November 1 | The Euro after the Pandemic: The Case for a Permanent Fiscal Capacity – A Lecture by Federico Fabbrini [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 2 | A Reading & Conversation with Norwegian Writer Hanne \u00d8rstavik [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, November 14 | Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights – A Lecture by Lindsey Kingston [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, November 15 | How Can Europe Thrive in World Politics? A Lecture by Marina Henke [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, November 22 | Implications of NATO Enlargement to Sweden and Finland \u2013 What Changes? A Lecture by Hanna Ojanen [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

December<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, December 6 | Recent Trends in EU State Aid Law: From Crisis Management to Global Regulation? – A Lecture by Juan Jorge Piernas L\u00f3pez [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, December 13 | Embodiment, Theology, and Anthropology: A Seeing and Not Seeing Lecture by Charles Hirschkind [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]
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2021<\/h4>
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January<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday, January 28 | The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World: A Lecture by Anu Bradford [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

February<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday, February 4 | The Grifter, the Gestapo, and the Jews: Impersonating Nazi Law Enforcement in 1942 Berlin: A Lecture by Jonathan Zatlin [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, February 5 | Reframing Human Rights in a Turbulent Era: A Lecture by Gr\u00e1inne de B\u00farca [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, February 25 | EU Climate Change Politics and Policy: A Lecture by Henrik Selin [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

March<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday, March 11 | Critiquing the Mainstream Legal Academy: A Transatlantic Conversation with Duncan Kennedy [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, March 25 | International Human Rights Litigation in Europe and Its Limits: the Experience of the Global Legal Action Network [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, March 29 | Towards a Feminist Foreign Policy [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

April<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 7 | The Life and Work of Vespasian V. Pella: International Criminal Justice as a Safeguard for Peace [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 13 | Brexit, Citizenship, and Human Rights: A Lecture by Iyiola Solanke [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, April 16 | Italy and Greece: Two Case-Studies for Chinese Involvement in Southern Europe [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, April 23 | Neoliberals and Direct Democracy in the European Union: A Lecture by Quinn Slobodian [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

May<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday, May 5 | Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A Book Talk by Francine Hirsch [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, May 24 | Power to the People: Constitutionalism in the Age of Populism [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, May 27 | Immigrants\u2019 Settlement in the EU\u2019s South: Comparative Experiences [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

June<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday, June 3 | Legitimacy Crisis and Autocratic Legalism: The case of the EU Budget [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer]<\/a> [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

September<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday, September 22 | Feeding Allies: Wheat and Inter-Allied Institutions During the Great War [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, September 24 | What Next for Germany? A Preview of the 2021 Elections [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

October<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday, October 1 | \u201cBoris, Brexit, and Beyond\u201d with Erik Goldstein [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights]<\/p>\n

Friday, October 8 | \u201cThe Impact of Brexit: Local, National and International Perspectives from Scotland\u201d with Peter Jackson and Stephen Gethins [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, October 15 | \u201cOn the Whole I’d Rather Be in Dublin: The US-UK Relationship after Brexit\u201d with W. Scott Lucas [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, October 22 | \u201c\u2018Empire 2.0\u2019, \u2018Global Britain\u2019 \u2018Little England\u2019?: Brexit, Britain\u2019s International Role and the \u2018English Question\u2019\u201d with T. G. Otte [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 27 | White Supremacist Violence and Collective Memory in Germany [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, October 29 | Assessing China\u2019s Belt & Road Initiative: Chinese and French Social Capital Networks in North Africa [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, October 29 | \u201cHow Britain Got to Brexit? 1985-2016\u201d with James Cronin [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

November<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 3 | Reflections on Faith-Based Responses to Forced Migration [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, November 5 – Saturday, November 6 | The Fourth Nordic Challenges Conference: Reconsidering the Nordic Models in an Age of Polarization [Event Website<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 10 | Mobility Diplomacy: How States in the Global South Maximize Passport Power [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, November 19 | Populism and the Paradox of Political Participation [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

December<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday, December 2 | Borders As Boats: Navigating Migration in the Central Mediterranean [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]
\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

2020<\/h4>
<\/p>\n

January<\/strong><\/p>\n

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<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, January 29 | Roundtable & Reception: The Past, Present, and Future of European Studies at Boston University [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

February<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday, February 6 | Regimes of Inequality: The Political Economy of Health and Wealth [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, February 12 | Eating Women: The Regulation of Milk and Placenta Consumption in France and the United States [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [World of Ideas 3\/1\/20]<\/a><\/p>\n

Wednesday, February 26 | European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Patrick Autreaux [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [World of Ideas 3\/8\/20<\/a>]<\/p>\n

March<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday, March 4 | Brexit: What Now? Politics, Economics, Law, and Policy Perspectives [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, March 19 | Does China Have Its Own Approach to \u201cLaw and Development\u201d?<\/del> \u2013 EVENT CANCELLED [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, March 26 | The Origins of Public Services<\/del> \u2013 EVENT CANCELLED [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

April<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 1 | Holding Individuals to Account for War Crimes, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity<\/del> \u2013 EVENT CANCELLED [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 8 | Russian Public Diplomacy Today: RT and Kontrpropaganda<\/del> \u2013 EVENT CANCELLED [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 14 | Webinar: Getting Well in Europe and America: A Transatlantic Perspective [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 21 | EU Law and the Politics of Change: Reimagining the Market<\/del> \u2013 EVENT POSTPONED<\/span> [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, April 27 | Women from Here, Kitchens from Elsewhere<\/del> \u2013 EVENT CANCELLED [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 28 | European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Alexis Jenni<\/del> \u2013 EVENT CANCELLED [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 30 | Uncertain Futures: Imaginaries, Narrative, and Capitalist Dynamics<\/del> \u2014 EVENT CANCELLED [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

May<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday, May 9 | Europe at the Time of COVID-19: A View from the European Central Bank [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, May 22 | Online Workshop: Russian Media Influence in the US and Europe [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

June<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, June 16 | The Plague: Book\/Movie Discussion [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, June 30 | Webinar: UN Global Compacts: Governing Migrants and Refugees [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

July<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, July 21 | Even the Rain: Movie Discussion [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

September<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday, September 3 | How Dictatorships End (or Not):\u00a0 Finding a Way Forward in Belarus [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, September 17 | Europe\u2019s Crisis of Legitimacy: Governing by Rules and Ruling by Numbers in the Eurozone [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, September 24 | Race and Law in Europe: A Lecture by Eddie Bruce Jones [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

October<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, October 13 | The Emperor\u2019s New Road: China and the Project of the Century [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, October 16 | Book Launch and Discussion with Mitchel Lasser and Antoine Vauchez [Event Announcement] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, October 23 | Discrimination of Minorities in Europe: Differences, Similarities, and Intersections [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 28 | Dispossession: Plundering German Jewry, 1933-1953 [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

November<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, November 16 | World in Danger: Germany and Europe in an Uncertain Time\u2014A lecture by Wolfgang Ischinger [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights]<\/p>\n

December<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday, December 3 | European Perspectives on the United States Elections [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Event Highlights<\/a>]
\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

2019<\/h4>
<\/p>\n

January<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday, January 24 | The Inner Level: Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

February<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday, February 7 | Religious Identity and Foreign Policy: Russia and Turkey in Southeast Europe \u2014 A Lecture by Dimitar Bechev [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [World of Ideas 2\/24\/19<\/a>] [World of Ideas 5\/26\/19<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, February 12 | From Puppets to Apps, around Don Quixote \u2014 A Works in Progress Presentation by Benjamin Juarez [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, February 20 | Constitutional Crises in Central and Eastern Europe: A Legal Analysis [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, February 26 | Madness in Jacobean England: The Asylum and the Playhouse \u2014 A Lecture by Pascale Drouet [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [World of Ideas 3\/31\/19<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, February 28 | Protectors of Pluralism: Religious Minorities and the Rescue of Jews in the Low Countries during the Holocaust \u2014 A Lecture by Robert Braun [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [World of Ideas 4\/7\/19<\/a>]<\/p>\n

March<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 19 | Karsten Voigt Class Visit: Seminar on the Holocaust [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, March 20 | Karsten Voigt Class Visit: Intelligence Issues [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, March 20 | Tea with Michael Longley and David Ferry (with a toast to Homer and Virgil) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, March 20 | German Political Culture: Changes and New Challenges \u2014 A Lecture by Karsten Voigt [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [World of Ideas 5\/12\/19<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, March 21 | Panel Discussion \u2013 International Migration and Diaspora in World Politics \u2013 Prof. Thomas Berger, Prof. Joseph Wippl, Karsten Voigt [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, March 21 | Uses of the Past in Divided Societies: Northern Ireland and the US \u2014 A Lecture by Olwen Purdue [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, March 22 | Karsten Voigt Class Visit: North Atlantic\/European Security Issues [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, March 25 | Populism, Authoritarianism, and Constitutionalism in the EU \u2014 A Talk by G\u00e1bor Halmai [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, March 28 | Explaining EU Asymmetry: A Comparison of Borders and Asylum Policy Development \u2014 A Works in Progress Presentation by Kaija Schilde [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

April<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 2 | Beyond the Headlines: Brexit. What Now for the UK, EU and the World? [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, April 5 | Hating and Mating: How Fears over Mate Competition Shape Violent Hate Crime against Refugees \u2014 A lecture by Rafaela Dancygier [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, April 8 | Beyond the Headlines: NATO Intervention in Yugoslavia 1999 [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 10 | Russia and Southeastern European Influence Operations: Sources, Tools and Impact \u2014 A Works in Progress Presentation by Vesko Garcevic [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 17 | The Yellow Vests Movement in France: Background & analysis \u2013 A Talk by Niilo Kauppi [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 25 | Muslim Minorities as Germany\u2019s Past Future: Islam Critics, Holocaust Memory, and Immigrant Integration \u2014 A Lecture by Esra \u00d6zy\u00fcrek [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

September<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, September 16 | What Did I Learn in Europe? A Works in Progress Presentation by Joe Wippl [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, September 23 |\u00a0A Reading & Conversation with Scholastique Mukasonga\u00a0[Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

October<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, October 1 | The Russia Trap: How Our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe (Beyond the Headlines)\u00a0[Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, October 7 | Constructing and Deconstructing Europe after the Cold War\u00a0[Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 16 |\u00a0Is Civic Nationalism Necessarily Inclusive?\u00a0Conceptions of Nationhood and Anti-Muslim Attitudes in\u00a0Europe \u2013 A Lecture by Bart Bonikowski [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, October 21 | When Arabs Came to Europe to Fight against Franco Lunch & Conversation with Filmmaker Amal Ramsis [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, October 31 |\u00a0The European Culture Wars and the Decay of European Democracy \u2013 A Lecture by Joseph Weiler [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

November<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday, November 7 |\u00a0Reforming to Survive: The Bolshevik Origins of Social Policies \u2013 A Works in Progress Presentation by Magnus B. Rasmussen [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, November 8 |\u00a0The World Trade Organization\u2019s Past and Future: American and European Perspectives on Global Economic Governance [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, November 8 |\u00a0External Relations of the European Union: A Conversation with Prof. Jan Wouters [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, November 11 |\u00a0Comparative Immigration Regimes in Europe and the World \u2013 A Lecture by Justin Gest\u00a0[Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 13 |\u00a0The Fall of the Berlin Wall\u00a0[Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, November 15 | Energy Security in the EU: Challenges from the East \u2013 A Beyond the Headlines Discussion\u00a0[Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, November 21 | Blueprint: A Reading & Conversation with Theresia Enzensberger\u00a0[Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

2018<\/h4>
<\/p>\n

January<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday, January 24 | Works in Progress Meeting – Ethnic Cleansing: the Term, the Practice [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, January 25 | The Political Economy of Recovery in Southern Europe (2014-2018): A Talk by Manos Matsaganis [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [World of Ideas 2\/25\/18<\/a>] [World of Ideas 4\/15\/18<\/a>] [World of Ideas 6\/24\/18<\/a>]<\/p>\n

February<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday, February 15 | The Social Benefits of Renewable Energy: A Talk by Sebastian Helgenberger [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, February 22 | The Franco-German Bond and the Future of the EU [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, February 28 | The Drama of Celebrity: A Lecture by Sharon Marcus [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [World of Ideas 3\/25\/18<\/a>] [World of Ideas 7\/1\/18<\/a>] [World of Ideas 9\/23\/18<\/a>]<\/p>\n

March<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday, March 1 | Works in Progress Meeting – Whack-a-Mole: American Policy to Curb Risky Nuclear Exports by Allies, 1974-1992 [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 20 | David Lammy, Labour Member of Parliament for Tottenham, in Conversation with Graham Wilson [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [EU Views: Graham Wilson – 05\/04\/2017<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, March 26 | Dependence and Precarity in the Sharing Economy: A Lecture by Juliet Schor [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [World of Ideas 5\/6\/18<\/a>] [World of Ideas 8\/5\/18<\/a>]<\/p>\n

April<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 4 | Works in Progress Meeting: Non-Parties: The Negative Externalities of International Trade Agreements in a Private Law Perspective [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 5 | America and the Postwar World: Remaking International Society, 1945-1956 \u2013 A Book Talk by David Mayers [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 5 | Field Trip to ICA Boston [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 12 | A Loud, but Noisy Signal: The Role of Public Opinion in Education Policy Making \u2013 A Lecture by Marius Busemeyer [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [World of Ideas 5\/27\/18<\/a>] [World of Ideas 8\/19\/18<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, April 13 | The Struggle over Global Higher Education: European Perspectives \u2013 A Lunch Talk by Niilo Kauppi [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 17 | Strangeness from Within: Toward a Novel \u2013 A Lecture by Patrick Autr\u00e9aux [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [World of Ideas 6\/10\/18<\/a>] [World of Ideas 9\/2\/18<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 19 | Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society \u2013 A Lecture by E. Glen Weyl\u00a0 [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 19 | Voices from the Edges of Europe: A Reading & Conversation with Ani Gjika and Gazmend Kapllani [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 24 | Borders Now: A Reading & Conversation with Faruk \u0160ehi\u0107 and Mirza Puri\u0107 [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 26 | Works in Progress Meeting \u2013 Just what the Doctor Ordered: Markets and Morality in Russian, Ukrainian and Kazakh Reproductive Surrogacy Markets [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

May<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, May 1 | Resilience and Reconstruction: Advanced Capitalist Democracies in a Turbulent Century \u2013 A Panel Discussion with Torben Iversen and David Soskice [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

September<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday, September 20 |\u00a0Populism and the Future of Liberal Democracy in the West \u2013 A Lecture by Sheri Berman [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [World of Ideas 10\/7\/18<\/a>] [World of Ideas 11\/25\/18<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, September 27 |\u00a0Nordic Models in the Age of Populism [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

October<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 3 |\u00a0Babylon Berlin: A Reading & Conversation with Volker Kutscher [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 10 |\u00a0Works in Progress: Debating Bioethics and Making Secular France \u2013 A Presentation by Kimberly Arkin [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, October 18 |\u00a0Russian Influence Operations in the Digital Age \u2013 A Lecture by Alina Polyakova [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [World of Ideas 10\/28\/18<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, October 22 |\u00a0Svetlana Boym: Exile and Imagination \u2013 A Film by Judith Wechsler [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, October 25 |\u00a0Works in Progress: Goodwill Makes Good Politics: The Cold-War Friendships of Soviet and American Women \u2013 A Presentation by Alexis Peri [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, October 30 |\u00a0Transatlantic Relations: Europe … beyond the Comfort Zone \u2013 A Lecture by Sigmar Gabriel\u00a0 [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

November<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, November 5 |\u00a0The Extreme Gone Mainstream: Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany \u2013 A Lecture by Cynthia Miller-Idriss [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 14 |\u00a0Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath \u2013 A Lecture by James McNaughton [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [World of Ideas 12\/9\/18<\/a>] [World of Ideas 1\/27\/19<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 28 |\u00a0Works in Progress: The End of a Crisis? Labor Market Reforms and Performance in Southern Europe \u2013 A Presentation by Sofia Perez [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

2017<\/h4>
<\/p>\n

February<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday, February 3 | Europe, Religion, Integration: A Lecture by Olivier Roy [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>] [World of Ideas 2\/12\/17<\/a>] [World of Ideas 3\/12\/17<\/a>] [World of Ideas 7\/2\/17<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, February 7 | Letters to a Jewish Muse: The Life of Vladimir and V\u00e9ra Nabokov as Literature and History [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, February 9 | State Regulation in Competitive Markets: A Lecture by Vadim Radaev<\/del> [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, February 10 | Europe in the Age of Popular Nationalism: A Lecture by Erik Jones [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, February 16 | Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders: Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

March<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 7 | European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Olga Grjasnowa<\/del> [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, March 23 | 60 Years after the Treaty of Rome: Reimagining the Future of Europe [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 28 | Make the World Think Again: Reason, Hope, and Faith in an Age of Populism \u2013 A Lecture by Tomas Halik [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

April<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, April 3 | Lusophone Voices: A Reading & Conversation with with Portuguese writer Jo\u00e3o Tordo and Brazilian writer Paulo Scott [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 4 | How Will Capitalism End: Reflections on a Failing System \u2013 A Lecture by Wolfgang Streeck [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>] [World of Ideas 5\/18\/17<\/a>] [World of Ideas 8\/20\/17<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 5 | Reconfiguring European States in Crisis: A Lunch Talk by Patrick Le Gales [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 11 | Which Future for Democracy in a Post-political Age? A Lecture by Chantal Mouffe [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>] [World of Ideas 6\/4\/17<\/a>] [World of Ideas 8\/27\/17<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, April 14 | NATO, the EU, and Russia \u2013 the Quest for a New European Security [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 18 | Irish Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Irish Poet Harry Clifton [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>] [World of Ideas 6\/11\/17<\/a>] [World of Ideas 9\/3\/17<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 19 | Lusophone Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Portuguese Poet Rosa Alice Branco and Translator Alexis Levitin<\/del> [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 25 | The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Architect of the Holocaust: Operation Anthropoid [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

May<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday, May 3 | Screening Soviet Standards: Estonian Collective Farms and Postmodern Architecture[Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, May 4 | Health Policy in a Time of Crisis: Abortion, Austerity, and Access [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

June<\/strong><\/p>\n

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<\/a>]<\/p>\n

September<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, September 18 | Addressing the Recognition Gap: Destigmatization and the Reduction of Inequality \u2013 A Lecture by Mich\u00e8le Lamont [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>] [World of Ideas 10\/8\/17<\/a>] [World of Ideas 11\/19\/17<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, September 27 | Works in Progress: Imagine All the People: Literature, Society and Cross-national Variations in Education Systems \u2013 A Presentation by Cathie Jo Martin [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

October<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday, October 5 | National Identity, Multiculturalism in Contemporary Italy \u2013 Film Screening and Discussion with Fred Kudjo Kuwornu [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, October 6 | First Conference on Albert Hirschman’s Legacy: Theory & Practice [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Additional Info<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, October 10 | Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, the Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin \u2013 A Book Talk by Paul Hockenos [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [World of Ideas 10\/29\/17<\/a>] [World of Ideas 1\/7\/18<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, October 16 | German-American Relations in The Trump Era: Two Leaders for the West \u2013 A Lunch Talk with Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 18 | Works in Progress: The Thorn in the Side: How Six US Presidents Dealt with the Challenge of Charles de Gaulle \u2013 A Presentation by William Keylor [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, October 23 | Philosophy of Popular Culture: Skepticism, Care, and Ordinary Life \u2013 A Lecture by Sandra Laugier [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [World of Ideas 12\/10\/17<\/a>] [World of Ideas 2\/4\/18<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, October 27 | Migration Management as Nation-Building: Responses to the European Migration Crisis in Migrant-Receiving European Democracies \u2013 A Lunch Talk with Ruxandra Paul [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [EU Views: Ruxandra Paul – 12\/09\/2016<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, October 30 | European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with French Author Christine Angot [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

November<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 8 | Works in Progress: Looking at Displacement and Mobility in Europe Today: New narratives and Images of\/in the Mediterranean\/Islands\u00a0\u2013 A Presentation by Odile Cazenave [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, November 9 | Nordic Ways: A Panel Discussion with the Ambassadors of Denmark, Finland, and Sweden [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, November 13 | European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Carmen Bugan [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, November 14 | How 1917 Changed the World: Commemorating the American Entry into the Great War [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 15 | Articulating a Noncitizen Politics: German Pity v. Democratic Inclusion \u2013 A Lecture by Damani Partridge [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, November 30 | European Studies Lunch Talk: Unveiling Hidden Assumptions in EU Political Economy [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [EU Views: Gerry Alons – 09\/22\/2016<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, November 30 | Jo\u00e3o Vale de Almeida, Head of the Delegation of the EU to the UN, in Conversation with Vivien Schmidt [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

2016<\/h4>
<\/p>\n

February<\/strong>
\nMonday, February 1 | Lunch Talk: Current Intelligence Politics in Germany and the Future of the Transatlantic Digital Dialogue [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, February 3 | Jean Monnet Activities Information Session [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

March<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday, March 2 | The Arab World Meets Europe: A Reading and Conversation with Elias Khoury and Jocelyne Cesari [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>] [World of Ideas 3\/6\/16<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 15 | Innocence and Dictatorship: A Conversation with Peter Zilahy [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, March 17 | Lunch Talk: Eastern European Democracies and the EU Rule of Law Framework (Europe and Law Series) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, March 21 | Lunch Talk: The Challenge of Democratic Representation in the European Union [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, March 24 | Bad Neighborhoods: Europe\u2019s Crisis and the Challenges of its Peripheries \u2013 A Conversation with Jacques Rupnik and Jolyon Howorth [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>] [World of Ideas 4\/3\/16<\/a>] [World of Ideas 7\/17\/16<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 29 | The Welfare State at Risk: A Conversation with Patrick Sachweh [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, March 30 | Europe in Crisis: Is There a Way Out \u2013 A Conversation with Loukas Tsoukalis [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, March 31 | European Voices: A Reading and Conversation with Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki and Julia Sherwood [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

April<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, April 4 | Lunch Talk: Social Europe, the Eurocrisis and the European Semester [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 7 | The EU Refugee Crisis and the Changing Paradigm of EU Law (Europe and Law Series) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, April 11 | The Double Edge Sword of Austerity \u2013 European Governance Since the Eurozone Crisis[Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 12 | Lusophone Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Jos\u00e9 Eduardo Agualusa [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 19 | European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Christos Ikonomou and Karen Emmerich [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 20 | Who Runs Europe? Reconstructing Democracy, Bringing Citizens Back In\u00a0\u2013 A Conversation with Jos\u00e9 Ignacio Torreblanca [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 26 | European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Ilija Trojanow[Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 28 | Creativity + Conflict Resolution: A Leadership Development Workshop with Dr. Guila Clara Kessous [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 28 | Creative Poland – fashion, design and fine art \u2013 A presentation by Urszula Gacek, Consul General of Poland, New York City [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

May<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, May 17 | Critical Perspectives on the Law, Economics, and Politics of the EU\u2019s Agreements with African States [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, May 24 | Fighting Poland: Exhibition Opening + Reception [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

June<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, June 27 | The UK’s EU Referendum and the Future of Europe [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

September<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday, September 9 | Administrative Agencies and Regulatory Styles: EU-US Comparisons and Current Issues [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, September 15 | European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Czech Writer Magdalena Platzova and Translator Alex Zucker [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>] [World of Ideas 10\/30\/16<\/a>] [World of Ideas 11\/27\/16<\/a>] [World of Ideas 1\/8\/17<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, September 23 | Beyond the Headlines: NATO, the EU, and Russia [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Saturday, September 24 | Bulgarian Voices: Magical Mythology and Folklore from Eastern Europe [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, September 27 | In the European Night: Will the Union Survive? A Lecture by Franco “Bifo” Berardi [Event Announcement<\/a>][Highlights<\/a>] [World of Ideas 11\/6\/16<\/a>] [World of Ideas 12\/18\/16<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, September 29 | Quo Vadis, Europe? A Lecture by Joachim Fritz-Vannahme [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>] [World of Ideas 12\/4\/16<\/a>] [World of Ideas 1\/15\/17<\/a>]<\/p>\n

October<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, October 4 | EMU – Quo Vadis? A Lunch Talk with Servaas Deroose [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, October 4 | European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Spanish Writer Enrique Vila-Matas [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, October 13| European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Austrian-Slovenian Writer Maja Haderlap and Translator Tess Lewis [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, October 17 | Urbanism in Music: Pacific 231 by Arthur Honegger\u00a0\u2013 A Talk by Kyriell Palaeologue [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, October 17 |The End of Capitalism: Exploring the Emerging Future with Peter Frase and Richard Seymour [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, October 20 | Can Art Fight War? A Presentation on the Siege of Leningrad by Polina Barskova [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, October 20 | Slavic Voices: An Evening of Poetry & Music with Polina Barskova, Olga Lisovskaya, Alexander Polyakov, and Fred VanNess [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, October 27 | European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with French Author Lola Lafon [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, October 28 | Europe’s Default Liberal Hegemon: Germany’s Troubled Leadership in the EU [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

November<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, November 1 | Completing European Monetary Union: Fiscal Union, Financial Union, Risk Sharing [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 9 | Monika Weiss’ Shrouds & Two Laments: Screening and Conversation with the Artist [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, November 15 | The Second Coming of Joan of Arc [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, November 29 | Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the Future of Transatlantic Trade in Food and Agriculture<\/del> [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

2015<\/h4>
<\/p>\n

January<\/h4>\n

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<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

February<\/h4>\n

Tuesday, February 3 | The Global Environmental Crisis: Is There a Place for an Individual Response? A lunch discussion with Katia Vladimirova [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>] [World of Ideas 3\/8\/15<\/a>] [World of Ideas 7\/5\/15<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, February 6 | Global Fridays Film Screening: The Real Dirt on Farmer John (Taggart Siegel, 2006, 82 min.) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, February 17 | What Does the Greek Crisis Mean for Europe\u2019s Economy and Democracy? – A Panel Discussion with Prof. Cornel Ban & Greek Consul General Iphigenia Kanara [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer]<\/p>\n

Thursday, February 19 | The Ukraine Crisis: Implications for US and European Foreign Policy – A Panel Discussion with Pawel Karolewski and Nina Khrushcheva [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer] [World of Ideas 3\/1\/15<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, February 20 | Global Fridays Film Screening: We Feed the World (Erwin Wagenhofer, 2005, 96 min.) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, February 20 | European\/Muslim Studies Lunch Talk: Finding Sense in the Senseless – Diaries of the Leningrad Blockade, 1941-1944\u00a0(Sponsored by Muslim Studies; Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, February 27 | Global Fridays Film Screening: Our Daily Bread (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2006, 92 min.) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

March<\/h4>\n

Tuesday, March 3 | Is the Euro Area Heading back into Crisis? A Lecture by Erik Jones [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, March 18 | Spanish Abroad Programs Info Session [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, March 19 | Dissidence in Turkey: Elections and the Struggle for Political Legitimacy – A Lecture by Sinan Ciddi\u00a0(Sponsored by Muslim Studies; Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, March 20 | Global Fridays Film Screening: Pig Business (Tracy Louise Ward, 2009, 76 min.) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, March 25 | Stratifying Europe: How Regional Integration Restructured the Welfare State and Reversed the Egalitarian Turn – A Lecture by Jason Beckfield [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, March 27 | Global Fridays Film Screening: King Corn (Aaron Woolf, 2007, 88 min.) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

April<\/h4>\n

Thursday, April 2 | European Studies Lunch Talk: From the “English Malady” to “Americanitis”: Mental Disease and Suicide from the 16th Century to the Present \u2013 A lunch talk by Liah Greenfeld [Event Announcement]<\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 8 | Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? A Lecture by Karen Dawisha [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 9 | European Security Integration: The Role of a Military Epistemic Community – A lunch discussion Mai’a K. David Cross\u00a0(Sponsored by the Pardee School of Global Studies; Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, April 10 | Global Fridays Film Screening: Bananas! (Fredrik Gertten, 2009, 87 min.) [Event Announcement<\/a>]\u00a0[Event Flyer<\/a>] <\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 15 | Violence, Litt\u00e9rature et Politique: A roundtable discussion with French writer Patrick Autr\u00e9aux, 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<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 16 | European Voices: A Reading and Conversation with Tim Parks [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 23 | Revolutionary Voices: Victory over the Sun [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, April 24 | The Politics of Arms Exports Controls – A lunch discussion with\u00a0Jennifer Erickson (Sponsored by the Pardee School of Global Studies; Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, April 24 | Global Fridays Film Screening: The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (Faith Morgan, 2006, 53 min.) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 29 | Culture Thought and the Portuguese Language: A Reading and Conversation with Gon\u00e7alo M. Tavares [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 30 | Irish Voices: Reading with Sin\u00e9ad 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<\/a>] [World of Ideas 5\/24\/15<\/a>]<\/p>\n

May<\/h4>\n

Friday, May 1 | Global Fridays Film Screening: Raising Resistance (David Bernet & Bettina Borgfeld, 2011, 85 min.) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, May 12 | All Right on the Night? The British Election Results – A Lunch Discussion with Graham Wilson and Erik Goldstein [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, May 20 | Germany and Russia 25 Years After German Unification: From \u201cStrategic Partnership\u201d to Containment? – A lunch talk by Hannes Adomeit [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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)<\/p>\n

August<\/h4>\n

Thursday, August 6 | Food and Political Science: A Mutually Enlightening Relationship [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

September<\/h4>\n

Thursday, September 17 | Division of Regional and Thematic Studies Fall Welcome Reception [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, September 21 | Three Cheers for Comparative Regionalism: A Presentation by Tanja Boerzel and Thomas Risse [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, September 21\u00a0| European Voices: A Reading and Conversation with Swiss author Christian Kracht [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, September 22 | Leading from the Left with Thomas Geisel, Mayor of D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, September 23 | A Reading and Conversation with Congolese Writer Fiston Mwanza Mujila [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

October<\/h4>\n

Friday, October 2 | The Paradox of German Power and the Future of Transatlantic Relations [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, October 6 | Saving Europe: A Lecture by Carlo Bastasin [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 7 | Ask Me More About Brecht: A Theatrical Reconstruction of Conversations Between Hanns Eisler and Hans Bunge [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, October 8 | Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Moving Towards Transatlantic Economic Integration [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, October 13 | European Studies Lunch Talk: How Germany Unified and the EU Enlarged: Negotiating the Accession [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, October 29 | European Studies Lunch Talk: Brodsky in Italy [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, October 29 | The Crime and the Silence with Anna Bikont and Irena Grudzinska Gross [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>] [World of Ideas 11\/15\/15<\/a>] [World of Ideas 1\/24\/16<\/a>]<\/p>\n

November<\/h4>\n

Monday, November 2 | Frontiers of Fear with Ariane Chebel D’Appollonia and Thomas Volk [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Saturday, November 7 | Romanticism in the Atlantic World [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, November 16 | The Moral Case for Saving the Planet: Regional Perspectives [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 18 | European Studies Lunch Talk: The Impact of a Brexit on the UK, Ireland, and Europe? [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 18 | Russian Voices: Poetry in an Age of Totalitarianism [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

December<\/h4>\n

Thursday, December 3 | Abortion, Austerity, CatSalut, & Crisis: Women\u2019s Experiences of Navigating the Catalan Health System to Access Care [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

2014<\/h4>
<\/p>\n

January<\/h4>\n

Tuesday, January 21 | European Studies + Study Abroad Info Sessions [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, January 27 | Innocence and Dictatorship – A Presentation by Hungarian writer Peter Zilahy [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

February<\/h4>\n

Tuesday, February 11 | Unattended Madness and the Remarkable Beginnings of Psychiatry in Germany: A lunch talk by Liah Greenfeld<\/del> [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, February 20 | European Voices: A Reading and Conversation with British Poet Alice Oswald [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>] [Video<\/a>] [WBUR Program 3\/16\/14<\/a>] [World of Ideas 5\/25\/14<\/a>]<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Monday, February 24 | Discourse Analysis – A Graduate Workshop with Ruth Wodak<\/p>\n

Monday, February 24 | The Politics of Fear: Analysing Right-wing Populist Rhetoric – A Presentation by Ruth Wodak [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, February 25 | Profiting Without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All – A Lecture by Costas Lapavitsas [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>] [Video<\/a>] [WBUR Program 3\/30\/14<\/a>] [World of Ideas 8\/17\/14<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, February 28 | The Passage to Europe – A Lunch Talk by Luuk Van Middelaar [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights]<\/p>\n

Friday, February 28 | “Europe 2014 Re-Generation” Pre-Conference Dinner at the home of Vivien Schmidt [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

March<\/h4>\n

Monday, March 3 – Tuesday, March 4 | 5th Transatlantic Dialogue on Gender Issues: Woman Up! for a New Progressive Agenda [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, March 17 | Climate Wars: What People Will Be Killed For in the 21st Century – A Lecture by Herald Welzer [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>] [Video<\/a>] [WBUR Program 5\/11\/14<\/a>] [World of Ideas 9\/21\/14<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, March 19 | The EU Inside Out: A Panel Discussion with\u00a0Ram\u00f3n Gil-Casares Satr\u00fastegui, Ambassador of Spain to the United States, and Ryszard Schnepf, Ambassador of Poland to the United States [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>] [Video<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 25 | Building Transatlantic Italy: Architectural Dialogues with Postwar America – A Lunch Talk by Paolo Scrivano [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, March 26 | Divergence and Consensus in Transatlantic Security: A Perspective from the EU – A Lunch Talk by Anne Marie Le Gloannec [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

April<\/h4>\n

Thursday, April 3 | European Voices: A Reading and Conversation with German Author Jenny Erpenbeck [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>] [Video<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 8 | The EU Inside Out: A Lecture on the Future of Europe by Bruno Ma\u00e7\u00e3es, State Secretary for European Affairs, Portugal [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>] [Video<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 9 | Neoliberal Political Economy, Subjectivity, and Resilience: A Panel Discussion with Peter Hall, Michele Lamont, Vivien Schmidt and Mark Thatcher [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 15 | Writing Between Languages and Cultures: A Reading and Conversation with Yoko Tawada [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 16 | Informal Governance in the European Union How Governments Make International Organizations Work – A Presentation by Mareike Kleine [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 22 | European Armaments, Dependence, and Austerity: the case of Greece and European arms contracts – A lunch talk by Kaija Schilde [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 23 | Globalization and Latin American Literature – A Graduate Workshop with Gustavo Guerrero and\u00a0Andr\u00e9s Neuman [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 24 | European Voices: A Reading and Conversation with Spanish Author Andr\u00e9s Neuman [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>] [Video<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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<\/a>]<\/p>\n

May<\/h4>\n

Saturday, May 10 | European Voices Festival: European Voices in Translation with James Wood, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes, Semezdin Mehmedinovic, Ammiel Alcalay, Stacey Knecht and more [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

September<\/h4>\n

Tuesday, September 9 |\u00a0 Film Screening: Jack Strong (Wladyslaw Pasikowski, 2014) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, September 12 |\u00a0 Global Fridays Film Screening: Carmel (2010) by Amos Gitai [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, September 16 | European Studies Lunch Talk: Musical Narratives in the Expulsion of the Germans from the Bohemian Lands [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, September 16 | Film Screening: Kanal (Andrzej Wajda, 1956) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, September 19 | Global Fridays Film Screening: Cup Final (1991) by Eran Riklis [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, September 22 | The Break Up of Britain? [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, September 23 |\u00a0 Germany and Israel: 50 Years after the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations – A lecture by German Consul General Rolf Schuette\u00a0(Sponsored by the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies; Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, September 23 | Film Screening and Discussion: Honor of the City – The Story of the Warsaw Rising (Eugene Starky, 2013) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, September 29 | The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research Workshop [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, September 29 |\u00a0 Social Resistance in Times of Austerity: A Panel Discussion with Kostis Kornetis and Alex Khasnabish [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>] [WBUR Program 10\/19\/14<\/a>] [World of Ideas 11\/30\/14<\/a>] [World of Ideas 2\/22\/15<\/a>] [World of Ideas 6\/28\/15<\/a>]<\/p>\n

October<\/h4>\n

Wednesday, October 1 | The Putin Doctrine: A Danger to Global Security? A lunch discussion with Ruprecht Polenz [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 8 | Global Music Lunchtime Concert: Boban Markovic Orchestra\u00a0(Sponsored by the College of Fine Arts; Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, October 9 | Bulgarian Voices: Love, Light and Rituals [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, October 14 |\u00a0 European Studies Lunch Talk: Different Trains but Not “Er” [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 15 | Slavic Voices: An Evening of Poetry and Music with Sylva Fischerova, Dzvinia Orlowsky, and Vera Pavlova [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] []<\/a><\/p>\n

Friday, October 17 | Global Fridays Film Screening: Miral (2011) by Julian Schnabel [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 22 | A Musical Celebration of the life of artist Yakov Vinkovetsky\u00a0(Sponsored by the Educational Bridge Project and hosted by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, October 24 | Global Fridays Film Screening: Salt of This Sea (2008) by Annemarie Jacir [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

November<\/h4>\n

Monday, November 3 | European Studies Lunch Talk: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning for the Stability Rules [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, November 4 | Film Screening: General Nil (Ryszard Bugajski, 2009, 120 min.) [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, November 6 | European Studies Lunch Talk: German Unification: Myth vs. Reality [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, November 6 | Remembering the Fall of the Berlin Wall | Lost in Unification: Post-Cold War Europe East and West [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>] [World of Ideas 11\/16\/14<\/a>] [World of Ideas 1\/11\/15<\/a>] [World of Ideas 5\/31\/15<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, November 7 | Remembering the Fall of the Berlin Wall | Jump the Wall High Ollie Contest [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, November 7 | Remembering the Fall of the Berlin Wall | \u201cThis Ain\u2019t California\u201d Film Screening + Director Talk [Event Announcement<\/a>][Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, November 13 | Reforming Britain\u2019s 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<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, November 14 | Global Fridays Film Screening: Paradise Now (2005) by Hany Abu-Assad [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, November 18 | Memories of Slavery and French Public Discourse: A Lecture by Fran\u00e7oise Verg\u00e8s (Sponsored by the Department of Romance Studies; Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe) [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 19 | The Mother: A Cantata for Ferguson – Based on Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler\u2019s “The Mother” [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, November 21 | Global Fridays Film Screening: Ajami (2009) by Scandar Copti & Yaron Shani [Event Announcement<\/a>][Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, November 21 | Faces from Eastern Europe – 13 Short Films from 13 Countries in the European Union [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Saturday, November 22 | Faces from Eastern Europe – 13 Short Films from 13 Countries in the European Union [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, November 25 | Film Screening: Black Thursday (Czarny czwartek, Antoni Krauze, 2011) [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

December<\/h4>\n

Wednesday, December 3 | Blues Singer Kaz Hawkins at Bill’s Bar [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, December 5 |\u00a0 Global Fridays Film Screening: The Attack (2012) by Ziad Doueiri [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, December 8 | Czech Film Screenings: The Heart Above the Castle & Joseph Killian [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, December 11 | Remembering the Great War (1914-1918): A Centenary Symposium [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, December 11 | The Music of War: Concert by Vocal Chamber Ensemble Gamut [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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2013<\/h4>
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January<\/h4>\n

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\u2019s Irish Institute<\/p>\n

February<\/h4>\n

Thursday, February 14\u2013Friday, February 15 | International Workshop: Financial Stability and Energy Security in the Americas and Europe: The Role of Transnational Policy Networks [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, February 21 | “Changing Welfare States” with Anton Hemerijck [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, February 28 | Irish Voices: A Reading and Conversation with Colm Toibin [Highlights<\/a>] [Video<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, February 28\u2013Friday, 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)<\/p>\n

March<\/h4>\n

Friday, March 1 | “Europe 2.0: Taking the Next Step” Pre-Conference Dinner at the home of Vivien Schmidt [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 5 | The EU Inside Out: A Panel Discussion with Jo\u00e3o Vale de Almeida, EU Ambassador to the US, and Michael Collins, Irish Ambassador to the US [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 19 | The EU Inside Out: A Panel Discussion with \u017dygimantas Pavilionis, Ambassador of Lithuania to the US, and Olexander Motsyk, Ambassador of Ukraine to the US\u00a0[Highlights<\/a>] [Video<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, March 27 | Happiness at Work with Denmark’s Chief Happiness Officer Alexander Kjerulf [Highlights<\/a>] [Video<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, March 28 | “The Economics of the Eurozone Crisis” with Stefan Collignon [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

April<\/h4>\n

Monday, April 1 | Film Screening and Director Talk: SNOVI with Reshad Kulenovic [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, April 1 | Graduate Student \u201cMeet and Greet\u201d<\/p>\n

Monday, April 8 | Irish Voices: A Celebration of Poetry and Music with Ciar\u00e1n and Deirdre Carson [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 11 | “Why Germany Will Not Run the EU” with Daniela Schwarzer [Highlights<\/a>] [Video<\/a>] [World of Ideas 5\/5\/13 <\/a> [World of Ideas 9\/1\/13<\/a>] [World of Ideas 2\/9\/14<\/a>] [World of Ideas 6\/19\/14<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 11 | “Ideapod: Thought Leaders and Intellectuals Demonstrating the Power of Ideas on the Web”<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 18 | Irish Voices: A Reading and Conversation with Paul Muldoon [Highlights<\/a>] [Video<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, April 22 | Film Screening: “Alois Nebel” (Introduction by Igor Lukes) [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 24 | “Federalism by Exception: The Future of Economic Governance in the Euro-Area” with Henrik Enderlein [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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)<\/p>\n

May<\/h4>\n

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)<\/p>\n

Thursday, May 23 | Bulgarian Voices: The Living Memory of Bulgarian Crafts and Traditions with Eleonora Gadjeva and Others\u00a0 [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

September<\/sh4><\/h4>\n

Tuesday, September 3 | “David Cameron; An Initial Assessment of a Prime Minister” with Tony King [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, September 13 | “The Future of the European Union” with Vivien Schmidt (at the Chelmsford Public Library)<\/p>\n

Tuesday, September 17 | “Plastic Money: The Construction of Markets for Credit Cards in Eight Post-communist Countries” with Alya Guseva [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, September 19 | European Studies Faculty Reception [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, September 30 | Film Screening: Stilyagi (“Hipsters”) [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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<\/a>]<\/p>\n

October<\/h4>\n

Tuesday, October 1 | “Conspiracy of One: Tyler Kent\u2019s Secret Plot against FDR, Churchill, and the Allied War Effort” with Peter Rand [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, October 10 | “The Ballets Russes in 1913” with Anna Winestein [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 16 |European Voices: A Reading and Conversation with Romanian Author Mircea C\u0103rt\u0103rescu [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>] [Video<\/a>] [World of Ideas 1\/5\/14<\/a>] [World of Ideas 6\/1\/14<\/a>] [World of Ideas 9\/28\/14<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, October 22 | “Cuisine des M\u00e8res: Heritage, Gender and the Construction of Culinary Culture” with Rachel Black [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 23 | The EU Inside Out: A Panel Discussion with Petr Gandalovi\u010d, Czech Ambassador to the US, and Peter Kmec, Slovak Ambassador to the US [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>] [Video<\/a>] [World of Ideas 11\/10\/13<\/a>] [World of Ideas 12\/29\/13<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, October 28 | Film Screening and Director Talk: My Perestroika with Robin Hessman [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 30 | European Studies Open House [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

November<\/h4>\n

Wednesday, November 6 | European Voices: A Reading and Conversation with Polish Author Gra\u017cyna Plebanek [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>] [Video<\/a>] [World of Ideas 12\/22\/13<\/a>][World of Ideas 1\/26\/14<\/a>] [World of Ideas 6\/15\/14<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, November 12 |”The London Book Trade and the Making of Irish, Scottish, and American Literature” with Joe Rezek [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, November 19 | “La France aux Nations Unies\u201d 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<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 20 | Russian Voices: A Poetry Symposium and Philosophical Cabaret Event [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, November 21 |\u00a0Europe in Sepia: A Reading and Conversation with Dubravka Ugresic [Event Announcement<\/a>] [Event Flyer<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>] [Video<\/a>] [World of Ideas 1\/19\/14<\/a>] [World of Ideas 6\/8\/14<\/a>] [World of Ideas 10\/5\/14<\/a>]<\/p>\n

December<\/h4>\n

Wednesday, December 11 | “Soft Power in Eastern Europe: The Role of Cultural Diplomacy\u201d with Ambassador John Beyerle [Event Announcement<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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2012<\/h4>
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February<\/h4>\n

Wednesday, February 22 | “Ireland and the Euro” with Brigid Laffan [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

March<\/h4>\n

Monday, March 5 | International Conference: Actor Networks in International Political Economy [Program<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, March 5\u2013Tuesday, March 6 | International Conference: Liberty and Security in a Time of Global Reordering [Program<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, March 21 | “Social Europe in Crisis: the Impact of the Eurozone Crisis on National Welfare States” with Maurizio Ferrera and Anton Hemerijck [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Sunday, March 25\u2013Monday, March 26 | “Resilient Liberalism: European Political Economy Through Boom and Bust” [Program<\/a>] [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, March 26 | “The Eurozone Crisis: Is There a Way Out?” with Maurizio Ferrera, Andrew Gamble, Mark Thatcher and Sigurt Vitols<\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 27 | Poetry and Politics with Don Paterson and Dan Chiasson [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

April<\/h4>\n

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)<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 12 | “The Euro\u2019s Crisis of Democracy” and “The Promises of Constitutional Pluralism” with Miguel Maduro [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 17 | “France Today: What is France, Where is it Going, and What is its Place in the World?” with Christophe Guillou [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 19 | The System (Das System\u2014Alles verstehen hei\u00dft alles verzeihen): Film Screening and Director Talk with Marc Bauder and D\u00f6rte Franke [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Monday, April 23 | “The Debt Crisis in Europe and New Europe\u2019s Two Decades of Catch Up” with Miroslav Singer (sponsored by the Center for International Relations; cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe)<\/p>\n

May<\/h4>\n

Saturday, May 12 | Can Literature Bear Witness? A Reading and Conversation with Herta M\u00fcller [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

September<\/h4>\n

Tuesday, September 18 | “The Politics of Precaution” with David Vogel [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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)<\/p>\n

Thursday, September 27 | The Power of Civil Society: The Fate of Jews in Bulgaria\u2014Gallery 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<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, September 27\u2013Saturday, 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<\/a>]<\/p>\n

October<\/h4>\n

Tuesday, October 9 | “The Influence of the Internet on Integration and Multiculturalism in Germany” with K\u00fcbra G\u00fcm\u00fcsay [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 10 | “Skills and Inequality: Partisan Politics, Economic Coordination & Training Regimes in Western Welfare States” with Marius Busemeyer [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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)<\/p>\n

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<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Friday, October 19 | “NATO’s European Allies” and “Burden Sharing within the Alliance” with Janne Haaland Matlary and Magnus Petersson [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

November<\/h4>\n

Tuesday, November 13 | “Can Greece and the Eurozone Live with Each Other?” with Kevin Featherstone\u00a0 [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 14 | “Europe’s Crisis and the Pathologies of Democracy” with Kalypso Nicola\u00efdis (Center for the Study of Europe contribution to International Education Week) [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wednesday, November 14 | “Exploring EU 2020” with Vivien Schmidt (at Swissnex Boston)<\/p>\n

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)<\/p>\n

December<\/h4>\n

Tuesday, December 4 | Christmas Market at Boston University [Highlights<\/a>]
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2011<\/h4>
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October<\/h4>\n

Wednesday, October 5 | “Is Germany Outgrowing Europe?” with Ulrike Guerot, Head of the Berlin Office of the European Council on Foreign Relations [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tuesday, October 25 | “The World in 20 Years: What Role for France?” with French national and policy expert Nicolas Tenzer [Highlights<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Thursday, October 27 | “Knowledge Regimes in the US and Europe” with John Campbell, Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College [Highlights<\/a>]
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