French & German Elections / Workshops for Undergraduates and Graduates
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The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) welcomes the Harvard community and general public to attend its events. While most events are held at the Center, please refer to event details for exact locations. We advise that you check the CES website for last-minute changes, additions and cancellations.

Adolphus Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way, Cambridge, MA 02138
CES Events
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Transformation of Familialist States in Italy, Japan, Korea, and Spain
12:30pm - 2:00pm

Margarita Estevez-Abe – Visiting Senior Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Associate Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University

Moderated by Susan Pharr – Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University

 
Republican Liberty and Early Modern Revolution
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Quentin Skinner – Regius Professor of Modern History, Emeritus, University of Cambridge; Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, Queen Mary, University of London

Chair Eric Nelson – Robert M. Beren Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University

 
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6:00pm - 7:00pm
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Hegel’s Theory of Recognition and Subjective Freedom  and the Ethical Challenges of a Globalized World
12:15pm - 1:45pm

Jon Stewart – Radcliffe Fellow 2016-17, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Visiting Scholar, CES, Harvard University

 
Euroskepticism in a Post-Brexit Era
2:15pm - 4:00pm

Matthew Goodwin – Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent

Armèn Hakhverdian – Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Amsterdam

Kathleen McNamara – Professor of Government and Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Thursday, November 16, 2017
The Scandal of the Budapest Orpheum: Jewish Popular Culture and Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siècle Central Europe
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Mary Gluck – Professor of History and Judaic Studies, Brown University

Friday, November 17, 2017
Friday Lunch
12:30pm - 2:00pm
 
National Parliamentarians on the International Stage: Private Diplomacy and Political Cooperation in Interwar Europe
2:00pm - 4:00pm

James McSpadden – PhD Student in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate, CES, Harvard University; Coordinator, New Directions in European History, CES, Harvard University

 
Lessons from the First Globalization 1870-1914
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Suzanne Berger – John M. Deutch Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Patrice Higonnet – Robert Walton Goelet Research Professor of French History, Emeritus & Resident Faculty, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Monday, November 20, 2017
Panel on the Implications of the French and German Elections for the Future of the European Union
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Adrien Abecassis – Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Diplomat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France

Hans-Helmut Kotz – Visiting Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Niels Planel – International Consultant, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Chair Arthur Goldhammer – Chair, Visiting Scholars Seminar: New Research on Europe, CES, Harvard University

European Events in Boston Area
Monday, November 13, 2017
What Did the Chronicles Really Mean? What Did They Really Want To Say? Revisiting the Laurentian and Hypatian Chronicle Accounts about the Raid of Prince Ihor Svatoslavic in 1185
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Harvey Goldblatt – Professor of Medieval Slavic Literature, Yale University

Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Breaking the Tongue: Mapping Language in Wartime Ukraine
1:30pm - 4:00pm

Serhii Plokhii – Mykhailo Hrushevskyi Professor of Ukrainian history, Harvard University

Kostyantyn Bondarenko – MAPA Project Manager, HURI, Harvard University

Viktoriya Sereda – MAPA Project Research Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute; Associate Professor of Sociology, Ukrainian Catholic University

Friday, November 17, 2017
Symposium: Is Demography Destiny? Japan in Comparative Perspective
4:00pm - 5:45pm

Margarita Estevez-Abe – Visiting Senior Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Associate Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University

Mary C. Brinton – Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology & Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Yoshio Higuchi – Professor, Department of Business and Commerce, Keio University

Paul Chang – Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Moderated by Susan Pharr – Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Harvard University; Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations

 
 
Adolphus Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way, Cambridge, MA 02138