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Friday, October 24, 2025

Harnessing the Imperial Littoral: Land Reclamation and Maritime Agriculture in the Netherlands and Suriname (1930-1980)
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Graduate Student Research Workshop — Harnessing the Imperial Littoral: Land Reclamation and Maritime Agriculture in the Netherlands and Suriname (1930-1980)
Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Ailish Lalor – Ph.D. Student in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate & 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

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Election Day in the Netherlands: The Return of the Center?
2:30pm - 4:00pm
European Politics Seminar — Election Day in the Netherlands: The Return of the Center?
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Jonathan Mijs – Associate Professor of Sociology, Boston University; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Muriel Rouyer – Professor of Political Science, Nantes Université; Visiting Scholar 2025-2026, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Stan Veuger – Visiting Lecturer, Department of Economics, Harvard University; Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
  • Moderated by Colin Brown – Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science, Northeastern University; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Rethinking France's Age of Abolition through the Prism of Family History
3:45pm - 5:45pm
History Seminar and Harvard International & Global History Seminar — Rethinking France's Age of Abolition through the Prism of Family History
History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA
  • Miranda Spieler – Professor, American University of Paris
  • Chair David Armitage – Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University and Erez Manela – Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Harvard University
This Radical Loss: Hannah Arendt, Poetry and the Condition of Grief
5:15pm - 6:30pm
Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History — This Radical Loss: Hannah Arendt, Poetry and the Condition of Grief
CGIS Knafel, K401
  • Simone Stirner – Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Thursday, October 30, 2025

Lessons from "America's Great Power Prophet"
1:30pm - 2:45pm
The Belfer Center's Applied History Project & Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies — Lessons from "America's Great Power Prophet"
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Edward Luce – U.S. National Editor and Columnist, Financial Times
  • Graham Allison – Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School; Former Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
  • Introduction by 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

Monday, November 3, 2025

Peasants into Citizens: Suffrage Expansion and the Rise of Mass Politics
3:00pm - 5:00pm
Seminar on European Development in a Historical Perspective — Peasants into Citizens: Suffrage Expansion and the Rise of Mass Politics
Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Arturas Rozenas – Associate Professor of Politics, New York University
  • Chair Volha Charnysh – Ford Career Development Associate Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Local Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Friday, November 7, 2025

The Fate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine and Poland after WWII
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Graduate Student Research Workshop — The Fate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine and Poland after WWII
Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Anna Bisikalo – Ph.D. Student in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 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

Friday, November 14, 2025

Weil Meets Pistor: Intellectual Property and the Fissuring of Political Economy
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Seminar on the State and Capitalism Since 1800 — Weil Meets Pistor: Intellectual Property and the Fissuring of Political Economy
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Erik Peinert – Assistant Professor of Political Science, Boston University
  • Nathan Wilmers – Erwin H. Schell Associate Professor of Management & Associate Professor of Work and Organization Studies, MIT Sloan School of Management
  • 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
The Microbe and the Mafia
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Graduate Student Research Workshop — The Microbe and the Mafia
Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Zachary La Rock – Ph.D. Candidate in History, Anthropology, Science, Technology and Society (HASTS), MIT; Graduate Student Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 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

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

The Workplace as a Site of Political Preference Formation: How 'Bridging Institutions' Strengthen Democracy
2:00pm - 3:15pm
New Research on Europe Seminar — The Workplace as a Site of Political Preference Formation: How 'Bridging Institutions' Strengthen Democracy
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Paulus Wagner – Marie-Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Vienna; Visiting Scholar 2025-2026, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Richard B. Freeman – Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics, Harvard University; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research; Faculty Co-Director, Center for Labor and a Just Economy, Harvard Law School
  • Chair Albana Shehaj – Program Manager & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
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