Schmidt Speaks at International Conference of Europeanists
Vivien Schmidt, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was the discussant for the keynote address on ‘Populism, Nationalism, and Democracy in Europe’ by Craig Calhoun, President of the Los Angeles-based Berggruen Institute and former Director of the London School of Economics, at the 25th International Conference of Europeanists held in Chicago on March 28, 2018.
The theme for this year’s International Conference of Europeanists was “Europe and the World: Mobilities, Values and Citizenship.” The aim of the conference was to discuss the dimensions and dynamics of the nexus between existing and emergent mobilities, immobilities, values, and citizenship.
Topics discussed at the conference included subnational, national, and European collective identities; practices of citizenship; social, cultural, and intellectual; exchange; civic engagement and global responsibility; values, citizenship, and immigrant incorporation; governance; mobility and social exclusion; politics of heritage and memory; education and global citizenship; international migration; pilgrimage, exploration, and migration; borders and security; and anti-immigration politics.
Schmidt is a Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at Boston University. Her research focuses on European political economy, institutions, democracy, and political theory. She has published ten books, over 100 scholarly journal articles or chapters in books, and numerous policy briefs and comments, most recently on the Eurozone crisis. Her current work focuses on democratic legitimacy in Europe, with a special focus on the challenges resulting from the Eurozone crisis, and on methodological theory, in particular on the importance of ideas and discourse in political analysis (discursive institutionalism).