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Monday, November 3, 2008

Religion and Rivalry: Catholicism, Islam, and French Rule in Senegal, 1890-1900
9:00pm - 11:00pm
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Religion and Rivalry: Catholicism, Islam, and French Rule in Senegal, 1890-1900
  • Elizabeth A. Foster – Assistant Professor of History, Tufts University; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Reading the Returns: A European Perspective on the U.S. Presidential Election
9:00pm - 11:00pm
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Reading the Returns: A European Perspective on the U.S. Presidential Election
  • Guido Goldman † – Founding Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Peter Schneider – Novelist; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2016 & 2008, CES, Harvard University

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

1:15pm - 2:45pm
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
British Business, the London Financial Sector, and the Euro
5:30pm - 7:00pm
Leaders in World Shipping Business: Greek Shipping Family Firms
  • Gelina Harlaftis – Professor of History, Ionion University, Greece
  • Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. – Visiting International Scholar, Harvard Business School

Thursday, November 6, 2008

3:15pm - 5:00pm
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Challenges Surrounding Public Health
  • Androulla Vassiliou – European Commissioner for Health
5:15pm - 7:00pm
Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Notes on the History of Scandal: Violette Nozière, 1933
  • Sarah Maza – Jane Long Professor in the Humanities, Northwestern University

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

To the Guillotine: the Pre-Modern Roots of Modern European Capital Punishment
1:15pm - 2:45pm
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
To the Guillotine: the Pre-Modern Roots of Modern European Capital Punishment
  • Paul Friedland – Visiting Scholar 2009-2010, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
5:15pm - 7:00pm
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Cambridge Historians and the Contextual Approach to the History of Political Thought
  • Mark Bevir – Professor of Political Science, University of California-Berkeley
We have some raw nerves about totalitarianism - How Eastern Europeans feel about the European Union
5:15pm - 7:00pm
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
We have some raw nerves about totalitarianism - How Eastern Europeans feel about the European Union
  • Peter Schneider – Novelist; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2016 & 2008, CES, Harvard University

Thursday, November 13, 2008

5:15pm - 7:00pm
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
'Glimpses in the Blinding Light': Holocaust Victims Reflect on Their Tormentors
  • Mark Roseman – Pat M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies, Indiana University
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