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; Local Affiliate, CES, Harvard University; Co-Chair, Contemporary Europe Study Group, CES, Harvard University

Aleksandra Sojka – Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Granada; Visiting Scholar, CES, 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 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

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 Policy Fellow, CES, Harvard University

Chair Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; Department of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty, CES, Harvard University; Co-Chair, Seminar on the State and Capitalism since 1800, CES, Harvard University; Co-Director, Program on Successful Societies, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR); Senior Advisor, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

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

Julian Bourg – Associate Professor and Associate Dean of the Core, Boston College; Local Affiliate, CES, Harvard University; Co-Chair, Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History, CES, Harvard University; Co-Chair, Contemporary Europe Study Group, CES, Harvard University

Charlotte Cavaillé – Assistant Professor of Political Science, Georgetown University

Mark Franklin – John R. Reitemeyer Professor Emeritus of International Politics, Trinity College; Co-Chair, European Election Monitor Series, CES, Harvard University; Local Affiliate, CES, 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

Karl Kaiser – Senior Associate, Program on Transatlantic Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

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; Chair, History Department, Harvard University; Co-Chair, Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History, CES, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, CES

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

Yascha Mounk – Lecturer in the Government Department, Harvard University; Local Affiliate, CES, Harvard University

Moderated by Cathryn Clüver – 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; Local Affiliate, CES, Harvard University; Co-Chair, Contemporary Europe Study Group, CES, Harvard University

Moderated by Nicholas Burns – Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School

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