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Friday, October 10, 2025

Sectoral Bargaining and the Wage Structure
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Graduate Student Research Workshop — Sectoral Bargaining and the Wage Structure
Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Alexander Busch – Ph.D. Student in Management Science, Massachussetts Institute of Technology; 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, October 8, 2025

The First 150 Days of Friedrich Merz’s Coalition Government
4:00pm - 5:15pm
European Politics Seminar — The First 150 Days of Friedrich Merz’s Coalition Government
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Vladimir Balzer – Journalist, Deutschlandfunk
  • Chair David Art – Professor of Political Science, Tufts University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Harvard University
Belonging in Transition: Concepts and Misconceptions of Multiethnicity in the Late Habsburg Empire
2:00pm - 3:15pm
New Research on Europe Seminar — Belonging in Transition: Concepts and Misconceptions of Multiethnicity in the Late Habsburg Empire
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Anna Adorjáni – Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Augsburg; German Kennedy Memorial Fellow & Visiting Scholar 2025-2026, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • 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
  • Chair Albana Shehaj – Program Manager & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Friday, October 3, 2025

Left Behind by the Left? Deindustrialization and Voting in the UK (1974-2019)
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Graduate Student Research Workshop — Left Behind by the Left? Deindustrialization and Voting in the UK (1974-2019)
Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Sung In Kim – 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 Jonathan Zait – Ph.D. Student in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Within Party Discord and Polarization
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Seminar on the State and Capitalism Since 1800 — Within Party Discord and Polarization
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Jonathan Rodden – Professor of Political Science, Stanford University; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
  • Torben Iversen – Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • 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

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France
4:30pm - 6:00pm
History Seminar — Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Hannah Frydman – Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literature, Harvard University
  • Chair Mary D. Lewis – Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History & Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard History Department, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
The Evolution of Culturalism: Laboratories and Legislatures in Illiberal Hungary
12:00pm - 1:15pm
New Research on Europe Seminar — The Evolution of Culturalism: Laboratories and Legislatures in Illiberal Hungary
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Cameron Brinitzer – Visiting Scholar 2025-2026, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Vlad Perju – Dean's Distinguished Scholar, Boston College Law School; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Chair Albana Shehaj – Program Manager & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Friday, September 26, 2025

Boundary Defense: Evidence from a Referendum Against Tracking Reform
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Graduate Student Research Workshop — Boundary Defense: Evidence from a Referendum Against Tracking Reform
Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Daniel T. Roberts – 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 Jonathan Zait – Ph.D. Student in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Shared Strength in a Divided World: Reinventing the Transatlantic Partnership – An Address by H.E. Petr Pavel, President of the Czech Republic
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Václav Havel Lecture on Human Rights, Civil Society and Democracy & Institute of Politics, Harvard Kennedy School — Shared Strength in a Divided World: Reinventing the Transatlantic Partnership – An Address by H.E. Petr Pavel, President of the Czech Republic
John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
  • Petr Pavel – President of the Czech Republic
  • Moderated by Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
Protesting Controversial Climate Policies: Avenues of Opposition
2:00pm - 3:15pm
New Research on Europe Seminar — Protesting Controversial Climate Policies: Avenues of Opposition
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
  • Kristin Strømsnes – Professor of Political Science, University of Bergen; Senior Researcher, The Norwegian Research Centre; Visiting Scholar 2025-2026, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Marshall Ganz – Rita E. Hauser Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing, and Civil Society, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
  • Chair Albana Shehaj – Program Manager & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
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