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Friday, January 31, 2025

European Conference | A Prime Minister's View on Strengthening European Competitiveness
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Harvard IOP & Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies — European Conference | A Prime Minister's View on Strengthening European Competitiveness
John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA 02138

Saturday, February 1, 2025

European Conference | Europe's Role in Global Diplomacy: Connecting the Balkans and Beyond
12:00pm - 1:15pm
Harvard IOP & Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies — European Conference | Europe's Role in Global Diplomacy: Connecting the Balkans and Beyond
Starr Auditorium, 79 John F. Kennedy St, Cambridge, MA 02138
  • Timčo Mucunski – Minister of Foreign Affairs, North Macedonia
  • John Shattuck – Former US Ambassador to Czech Republic and US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
  • Albana Shehaj – Program Manager & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Moderated by Ilva Tare – Senior Fellow, Europe Center, Atlantic Council

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Democracy in an Age of Monarchy: The Administrative Origins of the French Revolution
2:00pm - 3:15pm
New Research on Europe Seminar — Democracy in an Age of Monarchy: The Administrative Origins of the French Revolution
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Stephen Sawyer – Ballantine-Leavitt Professor of History, American University of Paris; Visiting Scholar 2024-2025, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 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
  • Chair Albana Shehaj – Program Manager & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Thursday, February 6, 2025

Against Haste: On the Heuristic Affordances of ‘Fascism’
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Questions of Fascism and Democracy Lecture Series — Against Haste: On the Heuristic Affordances of ‘Fascism’
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Federico Marcon – Professor of East Asian Studies and History; Chair of the East Asian Studies Department, Princeton University
  • Chair Peter E. Gordon – Amabel B. James Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Department of Government; and Department of Philosophy, Harvard University

Friday, February 7, 2025

The Politics of Concentrated Advantage
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Seminar on State and Capitalism Since 1800 — The Politics of Concentrated Advantage
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Stephanie Ternullo – Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University
  • Katherine Levine Einstein – Associate Professor of Political Science & Director of Undergraduate Studies, Boston University
  • Chair Kathleen Thelen – Ford Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Faculty Associate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
A Monarch's MapQuest: How Ruler-Elite Relations Shape State Power
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Graduate Student Research Workshop — A Monarch's MapQuest: How Ruler-Elite Relations Shape State Power
Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Sima Biondi – Ph.D. Student in Government, 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 Lauren Bohm – Ph.D. Candidate in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Successful Policy Investments and Support for Government Action in the EU
2:00pm - 3:15pm
New Research on Europe Seminar — Successful Policy Investments and Support for Government Action in the EU
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Carlos Xabel Lastra Anadón – Assistant Professor and Research Director, Center for the Governance of Change, IE University; Visiting Scholar 2024-2025, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Stephen Chaudoin – Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University
  • Chair Albana Shehaj – Program Manager & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
An Anti-Global Environment? A Roundtable Discussion with Tara Zahra
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Environmental Histories of Europe Seminar — An Anti-Global Environment? A Roundtable Discussion with Tara Zahra
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Tara Zahra – Hanna Holborn Gray Professor of East European History and the College, University of Chicago
  • Lauren Bohm – Ph.D. Candidate in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Ailish Lalor – Ph.D. Student in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Nikolas Weyland – Ph.D. Student in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Chair Alison Frank Johnson – Professor of History, Harvard University; Chair, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Thursday, February 13, 2025

Trigger Points: How Divided is Germany Really?
4:00pm - 5:30pm
The Guido Goldman Lecture on Germany — Trigger Points: How Divided is Germany Really?
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Steffen Mau – Professor of Macrosociology, Humboldt University of Berlin
  • 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
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