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Center for European Studies

During the 2020-2021 academic year, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) welcomes the Harvard community and general public to join its events virtually as part of Harvard University’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Please check the events calendar regularly for new events. All events will take place via Zoom, and each event listing will include instructions for pre-registration and access.

We encourage you to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @EuropeAtHarvard for news and updates.

CES Events
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Ascent to Glory: How "One Hundred Years of Solitude" Was Written and Became a Global Classic
12:00pm - 1:30pm

Álvaro Santana-Acuña – Associate Professor of Sociology, Whitman College

Gisèle Sapiro – Professor of Sociology, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHSS); Research Professor, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

Diana Sorensen – James F. Rothenberg Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish), Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

Chair Michèle Lamont – Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and of African-American Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

 
How to Write a Winning Proposal
5:00pm - 6:30pm

Chair Michael Tworek – Associate, History Department, Harvard University; Thesis Workshop Organizer, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Tuesday, February 9, 2021
A Conversation with European Commissioner Elisa Ferreira
10:30am - 11:30am

Elisa Ferreira – European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms

Welcome Remarks by Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Director (2012-2023), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Chair José Manuel Martinez Sierra – Jean Monnet ad Personam Professor in EU Law and Government, Director General, UPF-Barcelona School of Management; CES Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

 
Ethnicity, Migration and Belonging in Europe
12:00pm - 1:30pm

Maurice Crul – Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Rahsaan Maxwell – Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Claire Alexander – Professor of Sociology, The University of Manchester

Chair Natasha Warikoo – Professor of Sociology, Tufts University

Thursday, February 11, 2021
The Unruly History of Freedom
12:15pm - 1:45pm

Annelien de Djin – Professor of Political History, Utrecht University; Visiting Scholar 2021-2022, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Alexander H. Gourevitch – Associate Professor of Political Science, Brown University

Sophia Rosenfeld – Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania

Chair Arthur Goldhammer – Writer & Translator; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Friday, February 12, 2021
Judging the League: The Permanent Court of International Justice and the League of Nations, 1922-1939
12:00pm - 1:15pm

Aden Knaap – Ph.D. Student in History, Harvard University

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Chair Clare Bradford Anderson – Ph.D. Student in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard UniversityArmando Miano – Ph.D. Student in Economics, Harvard University

 
The Social Rights of Citizens in an Age of Financialization
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Lawrence R. Jacobs – McKnight Professor or Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

Desmond King – Andrew W. Mellon Professor of American Government, Nuffield College, Oxford University

Cathie Jo Martin – Professor of Political Science, Boston University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Chair Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Thursday, February 18, 2021
Populism, Democracy and Recognition
2:00pm - 3:15pm

Michèle Lamont – Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and of African-American Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Pierre Rosanvallon – Professor of Modern and Contemporary History of Politics, Collège de France

Welcome Remarks by Arnaud Mentré – Consul General of France in Boston

Chair Nicolas Prevelakis – Associate Senior Lecturer on Social Studies & Assistant Director of Curricular Development, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Friday, February 26, 2021
The Shifting Relationship Between Postwar Capitalism and Democracy
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Herman Mark Schwartz – Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of Virginia

Chair Kathleen Thelen – Ford Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Community Events
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
12:00pm - 2:00pm
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Finding ‘Global Britain’: From Political Slogan to Hard Economic Policy Choices
1:00pm - 2:00pm

Sir Paul Tucker – Senior Fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Research Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School; Deputy Governor, The Bank of England (2009-2013)

Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Migrants in the Profane: Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization
5:00pm - 6:00pm

Peter E. Gordon – Amabel B. James Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University

Tuesday, February 23, 2021
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Thursday, February 25, 2021
8:00am - 9:00am
 
The Shifting Relationship Between Postwar Capitalism and Democracy
12:30pm - 1:30pm

Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

 
 
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