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Thursday, November 2, 2023

Germany, America, and Ukraine: Lessons Learned From 20 Months of War in Europe
5:00pm - 6:15pm
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Guido Goldman Lecture on Germany — Germany, America, and Ukraine: Lessons Learned From 20 Months of War in Europe
  • Karen Donfried – Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School; Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Department of State (2021-2023); President, German Marshall Fund of the United States (2014-2021)
  • 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

Friday, November 3, 2023

The Financialization of Housing and Its Political Consequences
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Seminar on the State and Capitalism — The Financialization of Housing and Its Political Consequences
  • Rafaela Dancygier – Professor of Politics and Public and International Affairs & Director, Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, Princeton University
  • Torben Iversen – Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, 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
Picnics, Peppers, Pak Choi: Immigrants in Allotment Gardens in the Netherlands, 1960-1990
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Dissertation Workshop — Picnics, Peppers, Pak Choi: Immigrants in Allotment Gardens in the Netherlands, 1960-1990
  • Ailish Lalor – Ph.D. Candidate in History, Harvard University
  • Chair Lauren Bohm – Ph.D. Candidate in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Rigor or Flexibility: Conflict over EU Governance Architecture
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
European Economic Policy Forum — Rigor or Flexibility: Conflict over EU Governance Architecture
  • Ignazio Angeloni – Member of the Supervisory Board, Single Supervisory Mechanism (2014-2019), European Central Bank; Professor, Robert Schuman Center, European University Institute in Florence; Senior Policy Fellow, Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE, Goethe University Frankfurt
  • Jeffry Frieden – Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Department of Government, Harvard University, Harvard University
  • Vivien A. Schmidt – Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Chair 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)

Thursday, November 9, 2023

The European Union and the War in Ukraine
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
European Union Seminar — The European Union and the War in Ukraine
  • Jolyon Howorth – Jean Monnet Professor ad personam & Professor Emeritus of European Politics, University of Bath; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Oxana Shevel – Associate Professor, Political Science & Director of International Relations Program, Tufts University
  • Stephen Walt – Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
  • Chair Karl Kaiser – Fellow, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, Harvard Kennedy School; Local Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University and Nicolas Prevelakis – Associate Senior Lecturer on Social Studies & Assistant Director of Curricular Development, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University and Vivien A. Schmidt – Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Monday, November 13, 2023

The Madman in the White House
4:30pm - 6:00pm
Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
European Politics Seminar — The Madman in the White House
  • Patrick Weil – Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Senior Research Fellow, French National Research Center, University of Paris
  • Elizabeth Lunbeck – Chair, Department of the History of Science; Professor of the History of Science in Residence, Harvard University
  • Chair Arthur Goldhammer – Writer & Translator; Local Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Geoff Dyer in Conversation with Maya Jasanoff
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Thompson Room (Barker Center 110)
Mahindra Humanities Center & History Seminar — Geoff Dyer in Conversation with Maya Jasanoff
  • Geoff Dyer – Author
  • Chair Maya Jasanoff – X.D. and Nancy Yang Professor of Arts and Sciences and Coolidge Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Session 3: Senior Thesis Writers Panel and Q&A
6:00pm - 7:30pm
William James Hall, Third Floor
Thesis Workshop for Juniors — Session 3: Senior Thesis Writers Panel and Q&A
  • 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, November 15, 2023

Fallout from the Green Transition? Regional Political Discontent from Employment Declines in the Metals, Non-metallic Minerals and Chemicals Sectors
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
New Research on Europe — Fallout from the Green Transition? Regional Political Discontent from Employment Declines in the Metals, Non-metallic Minerals and Chemicals Sectors
  • Zhen Jie Im – Postdoctoral Researcher, Copenhagen Business School; Visiting Scholar 2023-2024, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Chair Elaine Buckberg – Senior Fellow, Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, Harvard University; Chief Economist, General Motors (2018-2023)

Thursday, November 16, 2023

Demographic Changes and Democracy in Europe – A Conversation with EU Vice-President Dubravka Šuica
12:15pm - 1:15pm
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall Room 3018
Europe in the World Seminar & Harvard European Law Association (HELA) — Demographic Changes and Democracy in Europe – A Conversation with EU Vice-President Dubravka Šuica
  • Dubravka Šuica – European Commission Vice President for Democracy and Demography
  • Chair Ofrit Liviatan – Lecturer on Law and Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University; Director, Freshman Seminar Program, Harvard University
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