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Saturday, February 10, 2024

European Conference 2024 at Harvard Kennedy School
Day 2
Panel | Challenge and Opportunity: Building Momentum in Migration Policy
10:00am - 11:00am
Panel | Challenge and Opportunity: Building Momentum in Migration Policy
JFK Forum, Harvard Kennedy School
  • Anikó Bakonyi – Director, Refugee Program, Hungarian Helsinki Committee
  • Dimitris Kairidis – Minister of Migration and Asylum of Greece
  • Selim Yenel – President of Global Relations Forum and former Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Turkey to the European Union (2011–17)
  • Moderated by Elaine Papoulias – Executive Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Conservative Feminists? British Conservative Women, Voluntary Action and Gender Politics (1920s-1950s)
12:00pm - 1:15pm
New Research on Europe Seminar — Conservative Feminists? British Conservative Women, Voluntary Action and Gender Politics (1920s-1950s)
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Clarisse Berthezène – Professor of British History, Université Paris Cité; Senior Member, Academic Institute of France (Institute Universitaire de France); Visiting Scholar 2023-2024, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Rosemary C.R. Taylor – Associate Professor of Sociology and Community Health, Tufts University; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Thursday, February 15, 2024

From King to Peasant: Class Imagination in the Formative Years of Jewish Nationalism
4:30pm - 6:00pm
Jews in Modern Europe Seminar — From King to Peasant: Class Imagination in the Formative Years of Jewish Nationalism
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Rhona Burns – Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University; Editor, Eyruvin
  • Chair 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

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Session 5: Research Methodologies
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Thesis Workshop for Juniors — Session 5: Research Methodologies
William James Hall, Third Floor
  • Chair Charles Clavey – Lecturer on Social Studies, Harvard University; Thesis Workshop Organizer & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University and William Whitham – Lecturer, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University; Thesis Workshop Organizer, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Shocks Without Therapy: A Transatlantic Comparison of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Democracy
2:00pm - 3:15pm
New Research on Europe Seminar — Shocks Without Therapy: A Transatlantic Comparison of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Democracy
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Gábor Scheiring – Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics, Georgetown University Qatar; Visiting Scholar 2023-2024, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Chair Laura Jakli – Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Sojourns: German-Jewish Refugees and Survivors in Their Late 20th Century Hometowns
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Jews in Modern Europe Seminar — Sojourns: German-Jewish Refugees and Survivors in Their Late 20th Century Hometowns
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Helmut Walser Smith – Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
  • Chair 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

Thursday, February 22, 2024

Will the AfD Move Germany to the Far-Right, Again? The Evolution of a Party
4:00pm - 5:30pm
CES Special Event — Will the AfD Move Germany to the Far-Right, Again? The Evolution of a Party
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • David Bebnowski – Postdoctoral Fellow, History Department, Harvard University
  • Daniel Ziblatt – Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies & Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University; Unit Director, Transformations of Democracy, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
  • Quinn Slobodian – Professor of International History, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
  • Introduction by David Spreen – Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty and Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
  • Chair Sabine von Mering – Director, Center for German and European Studies, Brandeis University; Professor of German and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

A Discussion with Portugal's Foreign Minister João Gomes Cravinho - The EU’s Long-Awaited Defense Moment
2:00pm - 3:00pm
CES Special Event — A Discussion with Portugal's Foreign Minister João Gomes Cravinho - The EU’s Long-Awaited Defense Moment
Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • João Gomes Cravinho – Minister of Foreign Affairs, Portugal
  • Chair Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Friday, March 1, 2024

How Institutional Entrepreneurship Leads to Gradual Institutional Change in Bureaucracies
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Seminar on the State and Capitalism Since 1800 — How Institutional Entrepreneurship Leads to Gradual Institutional Change in Bureaucracies
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Alexander Hertel-Fernandez – Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
  • Daniel P. Carpenter – Allie S. Freed Professor of Government & Chair, Department of Government, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • 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 and Kathleen Thelen – Ford Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Faculty Associate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
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