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Monday, October 27, 2014

12:00pm - 2:00pm
<del>Lower Level Conference Room</del> Cabot Room
Educational Policies and Government in the EU: What can we learn from the US Approach?
  • Paul Reville – Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration, Harvard Graduate School of Education
  • Rocío Albert – Director General of Universities, Madrid State Government
  • José Antonio Marco – Director, Nace International School Group
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Swissnex Boston, 420 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
Panel Discussion: Italian Language and Bilingualism
  • Andrea Moro – Professor of General linguistics, Institute for Advanced Study, IUSS, Pavia, Italy
  • Gennaro Chierchia – Haas Foundations Professor of Linguistics; Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University
  • Suzanne Flynn – Professor of Linguistics and Language Acquisition, MIT

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

25th Anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s Collapse: The Peaceful Revolution that Sparked the Fall
4:15pm - 6:00pm
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
25th Anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s Collapse: The Peaceful Revolution that Sparked the Fall
  • Uwe Schwabe – Civil Rights Activist; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2014-2015, CES, Harvard University
  • Siegbert Schefke – Civil Rights Activist; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2014-2015, CES, Harvard University
  • Chair Mary Elise Sarotte – Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Distinguished Professor of Historical Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS); Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Introduction by Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Director (2012-2023), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

12:00pm - 2:00pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
Germany and Europe Facing the Ukraine Crisis and ISIS
  • Thomas Bagger – Head of Policy Planning, German Foreign Office, Berlin
The Political Economy of Monetary Solidarity
12:15pm - 1:45pm
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
The Political Economy of Monetary Solidarity
  • Waltraud Schelkle – Associate Professor of Political Economy, European Institute, London School of Economics
EU-Turkish Relations in Tough Times: Could Upgrading the Customs Union Become a Means to Reviving EU-Turkish Relations?
4:30pm - 6:00pm
CGIS South Building
EU-Turkish Relations in Tough Times: Could Upgrading the Customs Union Become a Means to Reviving EU-Turkish Relations?
  • Kemal Kirişci – TÜSİAD Senior Fellow and Director, Turkey Project, Center on the United States and Europe, The Brookings Institution
Gender and Violence: New research from Roma and Pakistan
4:30pm - 6:00pm
Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), S050
Gender and Violence: New research from Roma and Pakistan
  • Jacqueline Bhabha – Director of Research & Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, FXB Center of for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health; Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School; Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Jennifer Leaning – Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights; Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • Sharlene Swartz – Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town; Visiting Fellow, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights
  • Brian Heilman – Gender and Evaluation Specialist, International Center for Research on Women

Thursday, October 30, 2014

Islam's Arrival in the West: The Downfall of Christendom?
2:15pm - 4:00pm
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Islam's Arrival in the West: The Downfall of Christendom?
  • Alexander Görlach – Founder, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, The European; Visiting Scholar 2016-2017, CES, Harvard University; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2014, CES, Harvard University
  • Introduction by Sarah Bracke – Associate Professor of Sociology, Ghent University
  • Respondent Jocelyne Cesari – Professor of Religion and Politics, University of Birmingham; T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St. Cambridge, MA
Aversion to Food: Shidyaq’s Critique of the Enlightenment in 1850’s England

Friday, October 31, 2014

12:30pm - 2:30pm
Dining Room, Busch Hall
Friday Lunch
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