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Monday, November 5, 2018

2018 Summit on the Future of Europe at Harvard – Back to Square One
2018 Summit | Welcome & Introduction
8:45am - 9:00am
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
2018 Summit | Welcome & Introduction
  • Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government & CES Director, Harvard University
  • Nicholas Burns – Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations and Faculty Chair of the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, Harvard Kennedy School
Summit 2018 | Panel 1: The Transatlantic Freeze
9:00am - 10:30am
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Summit 2018 | Panel 1: The Transatlantic Freeze
  • Nicholas Burns – Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations and Faculty Chair of the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, Harvard Kennedy School
  • Karen Donfried – Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School; Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Department of State (2021-2023); President, German Marshall Fund of the United States (2014-2021)
  • Daniela Schwarzer – Pierre Keller Visiting Professor of Public Policy & Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School; Executive Director for Europe and Eurasia, Open Society Foundations
  • 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
Summit 2018 | Panel 2:  Authoritarianism in the EU
10:45am - 12:15pm
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Summit 2018 | Panel 2: Authoritarianism in the EU
  • Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government & CES Director, Harvard University
  • John Shattuck – Professor of Practice in Diplomacy, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; Senior Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Harvard Kennedy School; President Emeritus, Central European University
  • Monica Macovei – Member of the European Parliament, European Conservatives and Reformists, Romania
  • Chair Ayşe Kadıoğlu – Visiting Scholar, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University (2017-2019); Professor of Political Science, Sabancı University
Summit 2018 | A Keynote Address by Sigmar Gabriel, Vice Chancellor of Germany (2013-2018)
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street
Summit 2018 | A Keynote Address by Sigmar Gabriel, Vice Chancellor of Germany (2013-2018)
  • Sigmar Gabriel – Chairman, Atlantik-Brücke; Member of the Bundestag & Vice Chancellor (2013-2018), Federal Republic of Germany; Senior Fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow (2018), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Chair Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government & CES Director, Harvard University
Summit 2018 | Panel 3:  Challenges of European Integration and Disintegration
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Summit 2018 | Panel 3: Challenges of European Integration and Disintegration
  • John Dalhuisen – Senior Fellow, European Stability Initiative (ESI)
  • Kyriakos Pierrakakis – Minister of Digital Governance, Cabinet of the Prime Minister of Greece
  • Vivien A. Schmidt – Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Chair José María Beneyto – Professor of International Public Law and International Relations and Director, Institute for European Studies
Summit 2018 | Panel 4: The Current  State of Europe: Views from the Newsroom
4:15pm - 5:45pm
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Summit 2018 | Panel 4: The Current State of Europe: Views from the Newsroom

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

The Concept of Terrorism: A Modern History
12:15pm - 1:45pm
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Visiting Scholars Seminar: New Research on Europe — The Concept of Terrorism: A Modern History
  • Julian Bourg – Associate Professor of History, Boston College & CES Visiting Scholar 2018-2019 and Local Affiliate, Harvard University
Transnational Nationalism: The Imagined Global Community of Muslims in Europe
4:30pm - 6:00pm
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Contemporary Europe Study Group — Transnational Nationalism: The Imagined Global Community of Muslims in Europe
  • Riva Kastoryano – Visiting Professor of Sociology and Government & CES Resident Faculty, Harvard University (Fall, 2018); Senior Research Fellow, CNRS; Professor, Sciences, Po, Paris
  • Chair Laura Levine Frader – Professor Emeritus, Northeastern University; Seminar Co-chair & Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Thursday, November 8, 2018

Kristallnacht as Crescendo and Overture
4:30pm - 6:00pm
Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Jews in Modern Europe Study Group — Kristallnacht as Crescendo and Overture
  • Peter Hayes – Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor of Holocaust Studies Emeritus, Northwestern University
  • Respondent Alex Sagan – Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
"It is Our Court": Defending the Rule of Law in Poland – An Address by Adam Bodnar, Commissioner for Human Rights, Republic of Poland
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
August Zaleski Memorial Lecture in Modern Polish History — "It is Our Court": Defending the Rule of Law in Poland – An Address by Adam Bodnar, Commissioner for Human Rights, Republic of Poland
  • Adam Bodnar – Ombudsman for Human Rights, Republic of Poland
  • Respondent Vlad Perju – Professor, Boston College Law School; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Chair Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government & CES Director, Harvard University
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