Schmidt Speaks at Summit on the Future of Europe
Vivien Schmidt, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, spoke at the 2018 Summit on the Future of Europe at Harvard University’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies on November 5, 2018.
Schmidt spoke as part of a panel entitled “The Challenges of European Integration and Disintegration.” Since 2014, this annual conference convenes scholars and public leaders to debate critical challenges facing Europe. You can watch the panel below:
Other panels covered topics including the transatlantic freeze, authoritarianism in the EU, and the current state of Europe from the media’s perspective. The keynote was delivered by Sigmar Gabriel, the Vice Chancellor of Germany from 2013-2018.
Schmidt is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at Boston University. Her research focuses on European political economy, institutions, democracy, and political theory. In 2018, she was appointed as a Chevalier in the French Legion of Honor — France’s highest honor. She has published a dozen books, over 200 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). She is a 2018 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for a US-EU comparative study of the ‘rhetoric of discontent.’