Simon Erlanger – Professor of Judaic Studies and Theology, University of Luzern

Olivier Roy – Research Director, Unit on the 'Iranian World,' Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris

Tarek Masoud – Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Introduction by Muriel Rouyer – Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School; CES Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Aleksandra Sojka – Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Social Sciences, University Carlos III of Madrid; CES Visiting Scholar 2016-2017, Harvard University

Timothy Goering – Postdoctoral Researcher, Ruhr University Bochum ; Visiting Fellow, History Department, Harvard University

Erik Jones – Professor of European Studies and International Political Economy, Johns Hopkins University, SAIS; Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford University

Pärtel Piirimäe – Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study; Associate Professor of History, University of Tartu

Michael Berkowitz – Professor of Modern Jewish History, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College, London

Odette Lienau – Associate Professor of Law, Cornell University

Lydia Walker – Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University

David Armitage – Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History & Chair, History Department, Harvard University; CES Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-Chair

Peter E. Gordon – Amabel B. James Professor of History, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-Chair

Mary D. Lewis – Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty & Study Group Co-Chair

Charles Maier – Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty

Terry Martin – George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies, Harvard University

Derek J. Penslar – Visiting Professor of History, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty & Study Group Co-Chair

Chair Maya Jasanoff – Coolidge Professor of History, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty & Study Group Co-Chair

Eva Schliephake – Assistant Professor, Institute for Financial Economics and Statistics, University of Bonn; John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 2016-2017, CES, Harvard University

Henning Meyer – Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Social Europe; Managing Director, New Global Strategy; Research Associate, Public Policy Group, London School of Economics and Political Science; John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 2017, CES, Harvard University

Chair Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Emile Chabal – Chancellor's Fellow in History, University of Edinburgh

Julian Bourg – Associate Professor of History, Boston College; CES Seminar Co-chair & Local Affiliate, Harvard University

Charlotte Cavaillé – Assistant Professor, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan

Mark Franklin – John R. Reitemeyer Professor Emeritus of International Politics, Trinity College; CES Seminar Co-chair & Local Affiliate, Harvard University

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

Peter Wolodarski – Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Dagens Nyheter

Stefanie Stantcheva – Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Christopher Smart – Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School; Special Assistant to the US President for International Economics (2013-2015); Deputy Assistant Secretary of Treasury for Europe and Eurasia (2009-2013)

Sinem Akgul Acikmese – Professor of International Relations, Kadir Has University, Istanbul; Visiting Researcher, Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Stefan Fröhlich – Senior Fellow, GMF Transatlantic Academy; Professor of International Politics, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg

Chair Richard Cooper – Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University

Wang Hui – Professor of Literature and History , Tsinghua University

David Armitage – Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Harvard University; CES Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Malika Zeghal – Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, CES, Harvard University

Madhav Khosla – B. R. Ambedkar Academic Fellow, Columbia Law School; Ph.D. candidate in political theory, Harvard University

James Kloppenberg – Charles Warren Professor of American History, Harvard University; Co-Chair, Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History, CES, Harvard University

Moderated by Peter K. Bol – Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Yascha Mounk – Associate Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University; Senior Fellow, SNF Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University; Local Affiliate, CES, Harvard University

Moderated by Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook – Executive Director, The Future of Diplomacy Project, Harvard Kennedy School

Boris Ruge – Deputy Head of Mission, German Embassy to the US

Muriel Rouyer – Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School; CES Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Moderated by Nicholas Burns – Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations and Faculty Chair of the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, Harvard Kennedy School

Sara Lorenzini – Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History; Associate Professor, School of International Studies, University of Trento