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Wednesday, September 16, 2015

4:00pm - 5:30pm
CGB Conference Room, Belfer 503, Harvard Kennedy School
Europe, the Geopolitics of Energy, and the Energy Union
4:15pm - 6:00pm
Carpenter Centre for the Visual Arts (Room B-04)
Jerry White: “Autonomists, Mensheviks, and Social Democrats, oh my! The Cinema of Georgia’s First Independence Period”
  • Jerry White – Canada Research Chair in European Studies, Dalhousie University

Thursday, September 17, 2015

Is Capitalism Compatible with Democracy?
4:15pm - 6:00pm
Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Is Capitalism Compatible with Democracy?
  • Wolfgang Merkel – Visiting Researcher, Research Unit Democracy and Democratization, Berlin Social Science Center (WZB); Director of the Research Unit Democracy and Democratization, Berlin Social Science Center (WZB); John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2016-2017, CES, Harvard University; John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 1988-1989, CES, Harvard University; Visiting Scholar 1988-1989, CES, Harvard University
  • Commentary by Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
4:15pm - 6:00pm
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
From Ottoman Empire to Italian Colonialism: The Jews of Rhodes 1900-1944
  • Aron Rodrigue – Charles Michael Professor in Jewish History and Culture, Stanford University

Friday, September 18, 2015

12:30pm - 2:00pm
Dining Room, Busch Hall
Friday Lunch

Monday, September 21, 2015

Soccer's Unique Global Cultural Appeal and the Sport's Structure Give FIFA Its Power
2:15pm - 4:00pm
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Soccer's Unique Global Cultural Appeal and the Sport's Structure Give FIFA Its Power
  • Andrei Markovits – Arthur F. Thurnau Professor & Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies, University of Michigan
  • Chair Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Director (2012-2023), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

The State of the Euro
12:00pm - 2:00pm
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
The State of the Euro
  • 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)
  • Jeffry Frieden – Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Department of Government, Harvard University, Harvard University
  • Richard Cooper – Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University
  • Lorenzo Bini Smaghi – Chairman, Société Générale; Member of the Executive Board (2005-2011), European Central Bank
  • Jeffrey A. Frenkel – James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth, Harvard Kennedy School
2015 Summit on the Future of Europe
Day 1
Opening Address: Greece & Europe: Beyond the Financial Crisis
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Loeb House, Harvard University
Summit on the Future of Europe 2015 — Opening Address: Greece & Europe: Beyond the Financial Crisis
  • Gikas Hardouvelis – Chief Economist and Director of Research, Eurobank Group; Professor of Finance and Economics, University of Piraeus; Minister of Finance (2014-2015), Greece
  • Chair Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Director (2012-2023), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University and Vuk Jeremić – President, Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD); President, 67th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, (2012-2013); Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia, (2007-2012)

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

2015 Summit on the Future of Europe
Day 2
Migration Panel
9:00am - 10:30am
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Summit on the Future of Europe 2015 — Migration Panel
  • Patrice Higonnet – Robert Walton Goelet Research Professor of French History, Emeritus & Resident Faculty, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Jytte Klausen – Lawrence A. Wien Professor of International Cooperation, Brandeis University; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Michèle Lamont – Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and of African-American Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • 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
  • Chair Bart Bonikowski – Past Resident Faculty
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