Name: Conversations About Our Changing Democracies at Home and Abroad
Start: 2013-11-15T17:15:01+0000
End: 2013-11-15T19:00:00+0000
Location: Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall

Friday, September 14, 2012

Historical Institutionalism and the Politics of Institutional Change

2:15pm - 4:00pm

Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall

Historical Institutionalism and the Politics of Institutional Change

Giovanni Capoccia – Visiting Scholar 2009-2010, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Weimar’s Republican War Veterans and the Remembrance of the Great War, 1918-1933

4:15pm - 6:00pm

Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall

Weimar’s Republican War Veterans and the Remembrance of the Great War, 1918-1933

Benjamin Ziemann – Professor of Modern German History, Department of History, University of Sheffield

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

12:15pm - 1:45pm

Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall

European Banking Regulation

Hans-Helmut Kotz – Visiting Professor of Economics & Resident Faculty, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Member of the Executive Board, German Bundesbank (2002-2012)

Why is the EU more Precautionary than the US in Regulating Health, Consumer, and Environmental Risks?

4:15pm - 6:00pm

Guido Goldman Room

Why is the EU more Precautionary than the US in Regulating Health, Consumer, and Environmental Risks?

David J. Vogel – Solomon P. Lee Distinguished Professorship in Business Ethics, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley; Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Intentionality and Irony: The Missed Encounter of Quentin Skinner and Hayden White

2:00pm - 4:00pm

International Lounge of Usdan, Brandeis University

Intentionality and Irony: The Missed Encounter of Quentin Skinner and Hayden White

Martin E. Jay – Ehrman Professor of History, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall

The Euro Crisis and Its Impact on Central and Eastern EU Nations

Jan Fischer – Candidate for President, Czech Republic; Former Vice President, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; Former Primer Minister, Czech Republic; Former Chief of the Statistical Office, Czech Republic