Aaron Donaghy – EU Marie Curie Global Fellow, Harvard, Cornell & University of Nottingham

Eva Marlene Hausteiner – Postdoctoral Lecturer and Researcher in Political Theory, University of Bonn; John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 2016-2017, CES, Harvard University; Visiting Scholar 2016-2017, CES, Harvard University

Lauri Tähtinen – Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University; Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher, Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki

Hanna Lierse – Postdoctoral Fellow, Jacobs University Bremen; John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 2016-2017, CES, Harvard University

George Papaconstantinou – Minister of Finance, Greece (2009-2011); Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change, Greece (2011-2012)

Chair Hans-Helmut Kotz – Visiting Professor of Economics, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Harvard University; Member of the Executive Board, Deutsche Bundesbank (2002-2010)

Nadia Urbinati – Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory and Hellenic Studies, Department of Political Science, Columbia University

Chair Charles Maier – Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty, CES, Harvard University; Director (1994-2001), CES, Harvard University

Welcome Remarks by Nicola De Santis – Consul General of Italy in Boston

Stephen Shay – Senior Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School

Pasquale Pistone – Academic Chairman IBFD; Jean Monnet Ad Personam Chair in European Tax Law, WU Vienna

Joao Nogueira – Adjunct Academic Chairman, IBFD

Reuven Aviyonah – Irwin I. Cohn Professor of Law, Michigan Law School

Chair José Manuel Martinez Sierra – Jean Monnet ad Personam Professor in EU Law and Government, Real Colegio Complutense, Harvard University; Local Affiliate, CES, Harvard University; Co-Chair, Southern Europe in the EU Study Grouop, CES, Harvard University; Co-Chair, EU Law and Government Study Group, CES, Harvard University

Rachel Friedman – Department of Government, Harvard University

Pippa Norris – ARC Laureate Fellow and Professor of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney; McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics, Harvard Kennedy School; Faculty Associate, CES, Harvard University

Jane Elizabeth Green – Professor of Political Science, University of Manchester; Co-Director, 2015 British Election Study

Justin Gest – Assistant Professor of Public Policy , George Mason University’s School of Policy, Government and International Affairs

Jennifer Hochschild – Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Shubhankita Ojha – Global Fellow, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History, Harvard University; Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University; PhD, Department of History, University of Delhi

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Commentary by Sugata Bose – Faculty Associate. Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Department of History, Harvard UniversityRudi Batzell – PhD Candidate in History , Department of History, Harvard University

Zahia Rahmani – Visiting Professor, Gallatin Faculty, New York University; Writer and Art Historian

Walter Stephens – Charles S. Singleton Professor of Italian Studies, Department of German and Romance Languages, Johns Hopkins University

Sarah Gensburger – Tenured Researcher in Social Sciences, CNRS - French National Center for Scientific Research, Paris Ouest Nanterre-La Défense

Gérôme Truc – Faculty Member, ENS Cachan, Département de Sciences Sociales Department, CNRS