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Wednesday, October 2, 2024

How do Policy Regimes Foster (Wo)men’s Work-Family Preferences as Reflected in Parental Leave Decisions?
2:00pm - 3:15pm
New Research on Europe — How do Policy Regimes Foster (Wo)men’s Work-Family Preferences as Reflected in Parental Leave Decisions?
  • Isabel Maria Habicht – Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Wuppertal; John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow & Visiting Scholar 2024-2025, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Chair Jessica Gienow-Hecht – Chair, Department of History, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free University of Berlin; Visiting Scholar 1999-2000, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 1999-2000, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Friday, October 4, 2024

Scots, Parsis, Jews, and Englishmen Aswim in a Sea of Poppies: The Opium Boom and the Decline of the English East India Company
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Graduate Student Research Workshop — Scots, Parsis, Jews, and Englishmen Aswim in a Sea of Poppies: The Opium Boom and the Decline of the English East India Company
  • Hagar Zheng Gal – Ph.D. Candidate in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Chair Adrian Scheibler – Ph.D. Student in Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University and Lauren Bohm – Ph.D. Candidate in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Racialized Socialism: Humanitarian Imaginaries in the Yugoslav Red Cross During the Nonaligned Movement
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
New Research on Europe — Racialized Socialism: Humanitarian Imaginaries in the Yugoslav Red Cross During the Nonaligned Movement
  • Čarna Brković – Professor of Cultural Studies and European Ethnology, University of Mainz; Visiting Scholar 2024-2025, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Chair George Soroka – Executive Officer, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Lecturer on Government, Department of Government, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Editor, Open Forum Series, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Thursday, October 17, 2024

Adorno and Critical Theory
1:00pm - 6:00pm
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
The Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History — Adorno and Critical Theory
  • Alexandra Colligs – Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Kassel; Visiting Scholar (Fall 2024), Department of Philosophy, Columbia University
  • Niklas Lämmel – Ph.D. Candidate, University of Kassel
  • Isolda Mac Liam – Ph.D. Candidate, University of Sussex; Visiting Researcher, University of Toronto
  • Sebastian Tränkle – Postdoctoral Researcher, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Chair Peter E. Gordon – Amabel B. James Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Department of Government; and Department of Philosophy, Harvard University

Friday, October 18, 2024

Financial Integration and the Geography of Economic Activity
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Graduate Student Research Workshop — Financial Integration and the Geography of Economic Activity
  • Leonardo D'Amico – Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Chair Lauren Bohm – Ph.D. Candidate in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University and Adrian Scheibler – Ph.D. Student in Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Monday, October 21, 2024

A Presentation by Federico Finchelstein
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Questions of Democracy and Fascism Seminar — A Presentation by Federico Finchelstein
  • Federico Finchelstein – Professor of History & Chair of History, New School for Social Research
  • Chair Peter E. Gordon – Amabel B. James Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Department of Government; and Department of Philosophy, Harvard University

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Brexit and the Trust Paradox of Sovereigntist Internationalism
11:00am - 12:15pm
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
New Research on Europe — Brexit and the Trust Paradox of Sovereigntist Internationalism
  • Tobias Wille – Assistant Professor of International Security, Goethe University Frankfurt; John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow & Visiting Scholar 2024-2025, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Chair Joshua Kertzer – John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and of Government, Harvard University

Friday, October 25, 2024

Four European Elections and their Aftermath
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
European Politics Seminar — Four European Elections and their Aftermath
  • David Art – Professor of Political Science, Tufts University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Sheri Berman – Professor of Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University; Visiting Scholar 2024-2025, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Arthur Goldhammer – Writer & Translator; Local Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • 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
  • Chair Laura Levine Frader – Professor Emeritus, Northeastern University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Monday, October 28, 2024

The Domestic Politics of International Statebuilding: Evidence from Postwar Japan
3:00pm - 5:00pm
Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Seminar on European Development in a Historical Perspective — The Domestic Politics of International Statebuilding: Evidence from Postwar Japan
  • Melissa Lee – Klein Family Presidential Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania; Director of the World House Student Fellows Program, Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania
  • Chair Volha Charnysh – Ford Career Development Associate Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Local Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Mussolini's Conquest of Ethiopia as Total Infrastructural War (1934-1936)
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Environmental Histories of Europe Seminar — Mussolini's Conquest of Ethiopia as Total Infrastructural War (1934-1936)
  • Angelo Caglioti – Assistant Professor of History, Barnard College
  • Chair Nikolas Weyland – Ph.D. Student in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
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