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Monday, March 7, 2022

Credit Creation and Financial Crises in the United States’ Pivotal Decades, 1861-1878
3:00pm - 4:15pm
New Research on Europe Seminar — Credit Creation and Financial Crises in the United States’ Pivotal Decades, 1861-1878
Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Speaker Christoph Nitschke – Research Fellow, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford; Visiting Scholar 2021-2022, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 2021-2022, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Chair Jeffry Frieden – Chair of the Department of Government and Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Harvard University

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

The Impact of Russian Sanctions
11:00am - 12:00pm
European Economic Policy Forum & Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies — The Impact of Russian Sanctions
Virtual/RSVP Required
  • Moderated by Alexandra Vacroux – Executive Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
  • Speaker Sergey Aleksashenko – Member of the Board, Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom and the Free Russia Foundation and Hans-Helmut Kotz – Visiting Professor of Economics, Resident Faculty, & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Member of the Executive Board, German Bundesbank (2002-2012) and Adam Smith – Partner, Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, LLP; Senior Advisor to the Director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), United States Department of Treasury;, Director for Multilateral Affairs, National Security Council (2010-2015)

Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Israel's Moment: International Conflict Over the Jewish State
4:00pm - 5:00pm
European Politics Seminar & Jews in Modern Europe Seminar — Israel's Moment: International Conflict Over the Jewish State
Virtual/RSVP Required
  • Speaker Jeffrey Herf – Distinguished University Professor of History, University of Maryland
  • Discussant Derek J. Penslar – William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Director, The Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University
  • Chair Laura Levine Frader – Professor Emeritus, Northeastern University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
The War in Ukraine: A Harvard Community Conversation
6:00pm - 7:45pm
Special Event — The War in Ukraine: A Harvard Community Conversation
Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
  • Speaker Mariana Budjeryn – Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School and Emily Channell-Justice – Director, Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and Oleh Kotsyuba – Manager of Publications, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University and Thomas Remington – Goodrich C. White Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Emory University
  • Moderated by Alexandra Vacroux – Executive Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Thursday, March 10, 2022

European Strategy on Universities
4:30pm - 5:30pm
European Strategy on Universities
Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Chair Manja Klemenčič – Associate Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Speaker Vanessa Debiais-Sainton – Head of Unit, Higher Education, European Commission

Friday, March 11, 2022

The Political Economy of Law Enforcement
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Seminar on the State and Capitalism Since 1800 — The Political Economy of Law Enforcement
  • Chair Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Senior Advisor, Executive Committee, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
  • Speaker Matias Dewey – Senior Researcher, University of St. Gallen and Lucas Ronconi – Professor of Economics, Universidad de Buenos Aires and Cornelia Woll – President and Professor of International Political Economy, Hertie School; Member of the Advisory Board of the Jacques Delors Centre, Hertie School; Visiting Scholar 2011-2012, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Discussant Alisha C. Holland – Professor of Government, Harvard University

Monday, March 21, 2022

Academic Judgment: Students’ Performance and Their Evaluation
2:00pm - 3:15pm
New Research on Europe — Academic Judgment: Students’ Performance and Their Evaluation
  • Chair Manja Klemenčič – Associate Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Speaker Herbert Kalthoff – Professor of Sociology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz; Visiting Scholar 2021-2022, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Value, Capitalism, and Politicization – A Conversation with Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion & Culture and Social Analysis Workshop — Value, Capitalism, and Politicization – A Conversation with Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre
Virtual/RSVP Required
  • Chair Michèle Lamont – Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and of African-American Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Speaker Luc Boltanski – Professor & Director of Studies in Sociology, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) and Arnaud Esquerre – Director of Research, The French National Centre for Scientific Research
  • Discussant Shai Dromi – Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Harvard University and Bo Yun Park  – Postdoctoral Scholar, Social Science Data Lab (D-Lab), University of California, Berkeley

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Europe at War
11:00am - 12:00pm
Europe in the World Seminar — Europe at War
Virtual/RSVP Required
  • Chair Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
  • Speaker Sigmar Gabriel – Chairman, Atlantik-Brücke; Member of the Bundestag & Vice Chancellor of Germany (2013-2018); Senior Fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University and Dimitris Keridis – Professor of International Relations, Panteion University of Athens; Member, Hellenic Parliament and Mary Elise Sarotte – Professor of Global Affairs and Management; Director of the Brady-Johnson Program, Jackson School of Global Affairs, Yale University; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Thursday, March 24, 2022

Feminist Troubles? Debating Islam in France and Quebec
12:00pm - 1:15pm
Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion — Feminist Troubles? Debating Islam in France and Quebec
Virtual/RSVP Required
  • Chair Myra Marx Ferree – Alice H. Cook Professor of Sociology (Emerita), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University and Michèle Lamont – Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and of African-American Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Speaker Eléonore Lépinard – Associate Professor, Institute of Social Sciences and Centre for Gender Studies, University of Lausanne
  • Discussant Zakiya Luna – Associate Professor of Sociology and Dean's Distinguished Professorial Scholar, Washington University in St. Louis and Joan Wallach Scott – Professor Emerita, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study
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