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Monday, November 18, 2019

Europe Was Not Always Free and United: A Conversation with Lech Wałęsa
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Europe Was Not Always Free and United: A Conversation with Lech Wałęsa
John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum, 79 John F. Kennedy Street Cambridge, MA 02138
  • Lech Wałęsa – Solidarity Movement Leader; President of Poland (1990-1995); Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (1983)
  • Chair Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

The Current State of Eastern Europe
12:00pm - 1:30pm
European Politics Seminar — The Current State of Eastern Europe
Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government & CES Director, Harvard University
  • Ioana Petrescu – Minister of Economy and Finance, Romania (2014); Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government; Visiting Research Fellow, Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School
  • Jacques Rupnik – Senior Research Fellow, Sciences Po
  • Albana Shehaj – Program Manager, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Visiting Scholar 2019-2021, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Chair Arthur Goldhammer – Writer & Translator; Local Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Emergency Powers of International Organizations
4:30pm - 6:00pm
European Union Seminar — Emergency Powers of International Organizations
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Christian Kreuder-Sonnen – Assistant Professor for International Organizations, Friedrich Schiller University Jena; Visiting Scholar 2019-2020, CES, Harvard University
  • Joel P. Trachtman – Professor of International Law, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
  • Chair 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

Thursday, November 21, 2019

Emigration from Paradise: Jewish Stories from Interwar Hungary
4:30pm - 6:00pm
Jews in Modern Europe Seminar — Emigration from Paradise: Jewish Stories from Interwar Hungary
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • llse Josepha Lazaroms – Lecturer, Graduate Gender Program, Utrecht University; Research Fellow in Jewish Studies, Martin Buber Chair, Goethe University Frankfurt; German Kennedy Memorial Fellow & Visiting Scholar 2019-2020, CES, Harvard 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

Friday, November 22, 2019

Is EU Law Still a Pillar of the European Union? From the Costa v ENEL Case to Brexit
10:00am - 11:00am
European Legal Order Seminar — Is EU Law Still a Pillar of the European Union? From the Costa v ENEL Case to Brexit
Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Amedeo Arena – Associate Professor of European Union Law, University of Naples, Federico II
  • Álvaro Renedo Zalba – Rafael del Pino-Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Fellow, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, Harvard Kennedy School
  • Chair José Manuel Martinez Sierra – Jean Monnet ad Personam Professor in EU Law and Government, Director General, UPF-Barcelona School of Management; CES Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University
Individual Support for Civil Resistance: Evidence from a Survey Experiment
11:00am - 12:30pm
New Research on Europe — Individual Support for Civil Resistance: Evidence from a Survey Experiment
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Tore Wig – Associate Professor in Political Science, University of Oslo; Visiting Scholar 2019-2020, CES, Harvard University
  • Chair Arthur Goldhammer – Writer & Translator; Local Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
CES Friday Lunch
12:30pm - 1:30pm
CES Friday Lunch
Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
The Inheritance of Slavery: Re-enslavement within Family
1:30pm - 3:00pm
CES Dissertation Workshop — The Inheritance of Slavery: Re-enslavement within Family
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall

Thursday, December 5, 2019

Confessions of the Flesh: Michel Foucault’s Final Volume of "The History of Sexuality"
9:00am - 6:00pm
Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History & European Politics Seminar — Confessions of the Flesh: Michel Foucault’s Final Volume of "The History of Sexuality"
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • James Bernauer, S.J. – Kraft Family Professor of Philosophy, Boston College
  • Julian Bourg – Associate Professor of History, Boston College; CES Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University
  • Rey Chow – Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature, Duke University
  • Agustin Colombo – Postdoctoral Researcher, Boston College & University of Paris, VIII
  • Bernard Harcourt – Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law School; École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
  • Lynne Huffer – Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Emory University
  • Mark D. Jordan – Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Christian Thought & Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School; Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University
  • Austin Sarfan – Graduate Student, Program in Literature, Duke University
  • Annabel Kim – Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
  • Edward McGushin – Professor of Philosophy, Stonehill College
  • Durba Mitra – Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and Carol K. Pforzheimer Assistant Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
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