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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Efficiency and Legitimacy Challenges
5:30pm - 7:00pm
Governing Europe After the Crisis — Efficiency and Legitimacy Challenges
  • Loukas Tsoukalis – Pierre Keller Visiting Professor, Harvard Kennedy School
  • Joaquín Almunia – Vice President and Commissioner for Competition, European Commission (2010-2014); Short-Term Fellow, CES, Harvard University
  • Ramona Coman – Professor of European Governance and Director, Institute for European Studies, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
  • Frederik Ponjaert – Researcher, Institute for European Studies; Head of the Waseda University Desk, Universite Libre de Bruxelles
  • Laszlo Andor – Prof. of European Economic Governance, Université Libre de Bruxelles; Former EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
  • 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

Monday, April 11, 2016

The Emerging European Disunion
4:15pm - 6:00pm
CES Director's Seminar — The Emerging European Disunion
  • Jacques Rupnik – Senior Research Fellow, Sciences Po
  • Loukas Tsoukalis – Pierre Keller Visiting Professor, Harvard Kennedy School
  • Ed Balls – UK Shadow Chancellor (2011-2015); Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
  • Chair Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director (2012-2023), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
12:00pm - 2:00pm
From Hard to Soft Power: Public Service and Civic Engagement in the Age of Geopolitics, Religious Strife, Democratic Discontent and Propaganda
  • Mario Nicolini – Director, Parliament of the World’s Religions, Slovakia; Former Advisor to the Minister of Defense, Slovakia; Consultant, McGuireWoods LLP, Washington, DC

Friday, April 8, 2016

Conservative Political Parties and the Birth of Democracy in Europe
2:15pm - 4:00pm
Conservative Political Parties and the Birth of Democracy in Europe
  • Noam Gidron – Assistant Professor of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Daniel Ziblatt – Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University; Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Unit Director, Transformations of Democracy, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Friday Lunch
9:00am - 5:30pm
God and the Philosophers in the Seventeenth Century
  • Lisa Downing – Faculty Member, Department of Philosophy, Ohio State University
  • Daniel Garber – Stuart Professor of Philosophy and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University
  • Craig Martin – Associate Professor of History, Oakland University
  • Jeff McDonough – Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University
  • Steven Nadler – Chair of the Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Deborah Shuger – Literary Historian, Department of English, UCLA
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