and

Chair Michael Tworek – Associate, History Department, Harvard University; Thesis Workshop Organizer, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard UniversityWilliam Whitham – Lecturer, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University; Thesis Workshop Organizer, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Sergio Fabbrini – Dean, Political Science Department; Professor of Political Science and International Relations, LUISS Guido Carli

Metin Hakverdi – Member of the Bundestag, Federal Republic of Germany; Board Member, Atlantik-Brücke; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

and

Chair Karl Kaiser – Fellow, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, Harvard Kennedy School; Local Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard UniversityNicolas 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

Elena Militello – Researcher, University of Messina; Visiting Scholar 2022-2023, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Chair Prithwiraj Choudhury – Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Metin Hakverdi – Member of the Bundestag, Federal Republic of Germany; Board Member, Atlantik-Brücke; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Chair Daniel Ziblatt – Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies & Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University; Unit Director, Transformations of Democracy, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Kojo Koram – Senior Lecturer, Department of Law, Birkbeck University of London

Jamie Martin – Assistant Professor of History and of Social Studies, Department of History, Harvard University

Chair Mary D. Lewis – Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Edward Baring – Associate Professor of History and Human Values, Princeton University

Chair Charles Clavey – Lecturer on Social Studies, Harvard University; Thesis Workshop Organizer & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Nadifa Mohamed – Author

Chair Maya Jasanoff – X.D. and Nancy Yang Professor of Arts and Sciences and Coolidge Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Mairead McGuinness – European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, European Commission

Chair Howell Jackson – James S. Reid, Jr., Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Lorenza Antonucci – Associate Professor, University of Birmingham; German Kennedy Memorial Fellow & Visiting Scholar 2022-2023, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 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 Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Mário José Gomes de Freitas Centeno – Governor, Banco de Portugal; Former Minister of Finance (2025 to 2020), Portuguese Republic; Former President of the Eurogroup (2018 to 2020)

Gabriel Felbermayr – Director, Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO); University Professor, Vienna University of Economics and Business

Dalia Marin – Professor of International Economics, TUM School of Management, Technical University of Munich

Cornelia Woll – President and Professor of International Political Economy, Hertie School; Member of the Advisory Board of the Jacques Delors Centre, Hertie School

Chair Hans-Helmut Kotz – Visiting Professor of Economics, Resident Faculty, & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Member of the Executive Board, German Bundesbank (2002-2012)

Justin Vaisse – Founder and Director General, Paris Peace Forum

Chair Mary D. Lewis – Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Opening Remarks by William Whitham – Lecturer, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University; Thesis Workshop Organizer, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Commentary by Rachel Gillett – Assistant Professor of Cultural History, Utrecht University; Visiting Scholar 2022-2023, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

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

Daniel Ziblatt – Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies & Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University; Unit Director, Transformations of Democracy, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Klaus Larres – Richard M. Krasno Distinguished Professor of History and International Affairs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Visiting Scholar 2022-2023, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Chair Charles Maier – Leverett Saltonstall Professor Emeritus of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Director (1994-2001), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Andrew Port – Professor of History, Wayne State University

David Spreen – Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty and Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

Chair Charles Maier – Leverett Saltonstall Professor Emeritus of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Director (1994-2001), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Dirk Witteveen – Departmental Lecturer, University of Oxford; Visiting Scholar 2022-2023, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Chair David Pedulla – Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University; Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

Ilir Dugolli – Ambassador of Kosovo to the United States

Hedwig Fijen – Founding Director, Manifesta; Executive Director, Manifesta 14 Prishtina

Daniele Belleri – Head of Communications and Curatorial Projects, Carlo Ratti Associati

Chair Alex Fisher – Master’s Student in Design Studies (Domain: Narratives, Trajectory: Power and Place), Harvard Graduate School of Design; Graduate Student Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Timothy Colton – Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Chair Sebastián Royo – Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs & Professor of Political Science, Clark University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Taylor Boas – Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science, Boston University

Daniel Gingerich – Professor of Politics and Director of UVa’s Quantitative Collaborative, University of Virginia

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

David Barkhausen – Research Associate and Graduate Student in Political Science, Heidelberg University

Chair Nikolas Weyland – Ph.D. Student in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Charles Maier – Leverett Saltonstall Professor Emeritus of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Director (1994-2001), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University