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Friday, February 9, 2024

European Conference 2024 at Harvard Kennedy School
Day 1
Panel | Challenges to European Democracies: The Rise of Populism and Democratic Backsliding
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Allison Room, Harvard Kennedy School
Panel | Challenges to European Democracies: The Rise of Populism and Democratic Backsliding
  • Jérôme Gautheret – Editor-in-chief, Le Monde
  • Juan Luis Manfredi – Professor at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown 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
  • Moderated by Kelly Agathos – Founder and Host, The Schuman Show
The Empty Space: Territory, Jewish Nationalism, and the Second International, 1880-1919
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Dissertation Workshop — The Empty Space: Territory, Jewish Nationalism, and the Second International, 1880-1919
  • Natalie Behrends – Ph.D. Candidate in History, Harvard University; Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 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

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
JFK Forum, Harvard Kennedy School
Panel | Challenge and Opportunity: Building Momentum in Migration Policy
  • 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
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
New Research on Europe Seminar — Conservative Feminists? British Conservative Women, Voluntary Action and Gender Politics (1920s-1950s)
  • 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
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Jews in Modern Europe Seminar — From King to Peasant: Class Imagination in the Formative Years of Jewish Nationalism
  • 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
William James Hall, Third Floor
Thesis Workshop for Juniors — Session 5: Research Methodologies
  • 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
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
New Research on Europe Seminar — Shocks Without Therapy: A Transatlantic Comparison of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Democracy
  • 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
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Jews in Modern Europe Seminar — Sojourns: German-Jewish Refugees and Survivors in Their Late 20th Century Hometowns
  • 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
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
CES Special Event — Will the AfD Move Germany to the Far-Right, Again? The Evolution of a Party
  • 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
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