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Thursday, February 18, 2021
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Virtual/RSVP Required
European Union Seminar — Populism, Democracy and Recognition
- Michèle Lamont
– Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and of African-American Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
- Pierre Rosanvallon
– Professor of Modern and Contemporary History of Politics, Collège de France
- Welcome Remarks by Arnaud Mentré
– Consul General of France in Boston
- Chair Nicolas Prevelakis
– Associate Senior Lecturer on Social Studies & Assistant Director of Curricular Development, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Friday, February 26, 2021
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Seminar on the State and Capitalism Since 1800 — The Shifting Relationship Between Postwar Capitalism and Democracy
- Peter A. Hall
– Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Senior Advisor, Executive Committee, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
- Herman Mark Schwartz
– Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of Virginia
- Chair Kathleen Thelen
– Ford Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Faculty Associate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Thursday, March 4, 2021
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Virtual/RSVP Required
Seminar on Democracy: Past, Present, and Future — Populism After Trump
- Anne Applebaum
– Senior Fellow of International Affairs and Agora Fellow in Residence, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
- Steven Levitsky
– Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University; David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government, Harvard University
- Daniel Ziblatt
– Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies & Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University; Unit Director, Transformations of Democracy, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
- Chair Grzegorz Ekiert
– Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Friday, March 12, 2021
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Seminar on the State and Capitalism Since 1800 — Integrative Institutions and Mainstream Party Collapse: The Regional Context
- Jane Gingrich
– Professor of Politics, University of Oxford
- Julia Lynch
– Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics, University of Pennsylvania
- Mark Franklin
– John R. Reitemeyer Professor Emeritus of International Politics, Trinity College; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
- Chair Peter A. Hall
– Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Senior Advisor, Executive Committee, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Thursday, March 25, 2021
11:00am - 12:00pm
Virtual/RSVP Required
August Zaleski Memorial Lecture in Modern Polish History — Confronting a Hostile State: Scholars of the Holocaust in Poland
- Barbara Engelking
– Founder and Director, Polish Center of Holocaust Research, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
- Jan Grabowski
– Professor of History, University of Ottawa
- Derek J. Penslar
– William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Director, The Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University
- Chair Grzegorz Ekiert
– Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
