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Friday, December 5, 2025

For Your Freedom and Ours: The Right of Self-Determination in the International Socialist Movement (1880-1919)
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Graduate Student Research Workshop — For Your Freedom and Ours: The Right of Self-Determination in the International Socialist Movement (1880-1919)
Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Natalie Behrends – Ph.D. Candidate in History, Harvard University; Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Harvard University
  • Chair Adrian Scheibler – Ph.D. Student in Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University and Jonathan Zait – Ph.D. Student in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Monday, December 8, 2025

Europe in a Time of War: A Conversation with Fiona Hill
5:30pm - 7:00pm
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute & Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies — Europe in a Time of War: A Conversation with Fiona Hill
Tsai Auditorium (S010), CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
  • Fiona Hill – Senior Fellow, Center on the United States and Europe, Foreign Policy Program, Brookings Institution
  • Steven Solnick – Executive Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Political Recognition of Working-Class Youth
2:00pm - 3:15pm
New Research on Europe Seminar — Political Recognition of Working-Class Youth
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Jarmo Kallunki – Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Tampere University; Visiting Scholar 2025-2026, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • David Art – Professor of Political Science, Tufts University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Harvard University
  • Chair Albana Shehaj – Program Manager & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Lecturer, Division of Continuing Education, Harvard University

Tuesday, January 6, 2026

How to Write a Winning Proposal
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Thesis Workshop for Juniors — How to Write a Winning Proposal
Virtual
  • Chair Charles Clavey – Preceptor in Social Studies, Harvard University; Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Harvard University and Matt Reichert – Preceptor on Social Studies, Harvard University; Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Harvard University

Friday, January 30, 2026

Parties of the Lower Educated? Cleavage Theory and the Far-Right
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Seminar on the State and Capitalism Since 1800 — Parties of the Lower Educated? Cleavage Theory and the Far-Right
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki – Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Vanderbilt University
  • Mark Franklin – John R. Reitemeyer Professor Emeritus of International Politics, Trinity College; Local Affiliate, 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

Friday, February 6, 2026

Day 1 | European Conference 2026
9:00am - 5:00pm
Harvard Kennedy School & Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies — Day 1 | European Conference 2026
Harvard Kennedy School
Flagship Session | Prime Minister of Luxembourg Luc Frieden
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Harvard Kennedy School & Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies — Flagship Session | Prime Minister of Luxembourg Luc Frieden
  • Luc Frieden – Prime Minister of Luxembourg
  • Chair 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

Saturday, February 7, 2026

Day 2 | European Conference 2026
9:00am - 5:00pm
Harvard Kennedy School & Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies — Day 2 | European Conference 2026
Flagship Session | Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (2021-2025) Robert Habeck
4:30pm - 5:45pm
Harvard Kennedy School & Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies — Flagship Session | Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (2021-2025) Robert Habeck
JFK Junior Forum, Harvard Kennedy School
  • Robert Habeck – Senior Analyst, Danish Institute for International Studies; Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (2021-2025), Federal Republic of Germany
Panel | Democracy in a Post-Truth World
4:40pm - 5:45pm
Harvard Kennedy School & Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies — Panel | Democracy in a Post-Truth World
Starr Auditorium, Harvard Kennedy School
  • Albana Shehaj – Program Manager & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Lecturer, Division of Continuing Education, Harvard University
  • Jakub Kalenský – Deputy Director of COI Hybrid Influence, Hybrid CoE
  • Leo Varadkar – 14th Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland (2017-2020; 2022-2024); Hauser Leader, Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School
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