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Wednesday, October 6, 2021
12:00pm - 1:30pm
European Politics Seminar & Center for German and European Studies — The German Floods of July 2021: The New Normal or a Wake Up Call for (More) Climate Protection?
- Anja Bierwirth
– Head of Research Unit Urban Transitions, Energy, Transport and Climate Policy, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy
- Introduction by Elaine Papoulias
– Executive Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
- Chair Sabine von Mering
– Director, Center for German and European Studies, Brandeis University; Professor of German and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Friday, October 8, 2021
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Seminar on the State and Capitalism Since 1800 — The Fractured Political Economy: The Muting of Place-Based Economic Interests in the United States
- Daniel P. Carpenter
– Allie S. Freed Professor of Government & Chair, Department of Government, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
- Paul Pierson
– John Gross Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
- Sam Zacher
– Ph.D. Student in Political Science, Yale University
- Jacob Hacker
– Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science, Yale 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
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Virtual/RSVP Required
European Politics Seminar — After Merkel, Now What? Analyzing Germany's 2021 Elections
- Andreas Busch
– University Professor of Comparative Politics and Political Economy, University of Göttingen
- Hans-Helmut Kotz
– Visiting Professor of Economics, Resident Faculty, & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Member of the Executive Board, German Bundesbank (2002-2012)
- Constanze Stelzenmüller
– Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, and Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and trans-Atlantic Relations, The Brookings Institution
- Chair Laura Levine Frader
– Professor Emeritus, Northeastern University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Thursday, October 14, 2021
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Thursday, October 21, 2021
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
12:00pm - 1:45pm
Virtual/RSVP Required
Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion & Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion — The Return of Inequality
- Mike Savage
– Martin White Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics
- Miguel Centeno
– Musgrave Professor of Sociology & Vice Dean, School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
- Leslie McCall
– Associate Director, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality & Presidential Professor of Sociology and Political Science, The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)
- Branko Milanovic
– Research Professor & Senior Scholar, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, City University of New York (CUNY)
- Chair 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
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Jonathan Mijs
– Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston University; Veni Fellow, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Friday, October 29, 2021
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Virtual/RSVP Required
Seminar on Democracy: Past, Present, and Future — Democracy Without a Majority?
- Michael Koß
– Professor for the Political System of Germany and the EU, Leuphana University Lüneburg
- Thomas Zittel
– Professor for Comparative Politics, Goethe University; External Fellow, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim; Max Weber Chair in German and European Studies, NYU
- Chair 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