Lukes in Europe on Erasmus Grant
Igor Lukes, Professor of International Relations and History at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, spent the summer touring Europe and speaking with the media on topics ranging from the Cold War to the current refugee crisis.
Lukes undertook the travel as part of a program facilitated by an Erasmus Mundus grant from the European Commission. Destinations included the Olomouc University, Czech Republic, Göttingen University, Germany, and Uniwersytet Kochanowskiego, Poland.
While in the Czech Republic, Lukes granted an interview to the popular Czech magazine Tyden on the growing xenophobia in Europe following the refugee influx fleeing violence in Syria. He also gave a talk at the Bory prison in Pilsen and granted interviews to the television networks Aktualne and Ceska Televize.
All media links are in Czech. You can view and read them here.
Ceska Televize Interview: July 28
Ceska Televize Interview: August 6
Lukes is an Honorary Consul General of the Czech Republic in New England. He was the 2012 W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow and the Bitton National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His work has won the support of various other institutions, including Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, the Woodrow Wilson Center, IREX, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1997 Lukes won the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching at Boston University. Learn more about him here.