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Center for European Studies

The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) invites you to join our upcoming events. Please check the CES website and weekly emails regularly to ensure you don't miss the exciting and interdisciplinary events we are planning for this semester.

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Featured Event
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Jennifer Pitts – Chair and Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago; Professor, John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago

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

CES Events
Monday, March 3, 2025
Climate Change and the Courts: Limits, Role, and Potential
12:20pm - 1:20pm

Síofra O'Leary – President (2022 - 2024), European Court of Human Rights

Moderated by Tyler Giannini – Clinical Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Inequality and Economic Development in the European Periphery: The Fate of Poland
2:00pm - 3:15pm

Marcin Wroński – Assistant Professor, SGH Warsaw School of Economics; German Kennedy Memorial Fellow 2024-2025, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Visiting Scholar 2024-2025, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Yuhua Wang – Professor of Government, Harvard University; Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Chair Albana Shehaj – Program Manager & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Ageing Democracies: Grey Power and Economic Performance
12:00pm - 1:15pm

Tim Vlandas – Associate Professor of Comparative Social Policy, University of Oxford; Visiting Scholar 2024-2025, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Senior Advisor, Executive Committee, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

Chair Albana Shehaj – Program Manager & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

 
Uncivil Society and Polarization in Eastern Europe
4:00pm - 6:00pm

Lenka Bustikova – Professor of Political Science, University of Florida

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

Thursday, March 6, 2025
The German Elections: Do the Results Portend a New Direction?
4:00pm - 5:30pm

Melanie Amann – Deputy Editor-in-Chief (2023-2025) and Distinguished Author, DER SPIEGEL; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow (2025), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Benjamin Bidder – Fellow, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University; Economics and Business Reporter, Der Spiegel

Chair David Art – Professor of Political Science, Tufts University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Harvard University

Friday, March 7, 2025
Class, Country, and Cleavage: Inequality, Mobility and the Transformation of Electoral Politics over the Long Run
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Torben Iversen – Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Philipp Rehm – Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University

Devin Caughey – Class of 1949 Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chair Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Senior Advisor, Executive Committee, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

 
Why Institutions Fail: Succession, Stability, and Statebuilding
3:00pm - 4:15pm

Daniel Lowery – Ph.D. Student in Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

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Chair Lauren Bohm – Ph.D. Candidate in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Harvard UniversityAdrian Scheibler – Ph.D. Student in Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Monday, March 10, 2025
The Role of Courts in Tackling Democratic Backsliding
12:20pm - 1:20pm

Marko Bosnjak – President, European Court of Human Rights

Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Abolition on the Eve of Revolution: Cugoano and Condorcet
4:00pm - 6:00pm

Jennifer Pitts – Chair and Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago; Professor, John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago

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

Wednesday, March 12, 2025
In the Name of the Father, the Child, and Gender Equality: Fatherhood Activism in Europe
2:00pm - 3:15pm

Katarzyna Wojnicka – Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Gothenburg; Visiting Scholar 2024-2025, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Jocelyn Viterna – Chair of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Chair Albana Shehaj – Program Manager & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

 
Late Fascist Aesthetics: A Theory of the Online Forum
4:00pm - 6:00pm

Katie Ebner-Landy – Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard University

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

Monday, March 24, 2025
Dependent Territories in International Relations
3:00pm - 5:00pm

Melissa Lee – Klein Family Presidential Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania; Director, World House Student Fellows Program, Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania

Chair Daniel Lowery – Ph.D. Student in Government, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

 
Intergovernmental Negotiations in the European Union: Between Transparency and Confidentiality
3:00pm - 4:30pm

Mareike Kleine – Associate Professor in EU and International Politics, European Institute, London School of Economics; John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 2011-2012, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Visiting Scholar 2011-2012, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Christoph Mikulaschek – Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

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Chair Karl Kaiser – Fellow, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, Harvard Kennedy School; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow & Visiting Scholar (1977-1978), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Visiting Scholar (1985-1986), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard UniversityKaija Schilde – Associate Dean of Studies; Jean Monnet Chair in European Security and Defense; Associate Professor of International Relations, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University; Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Tuesday, March 25, 2025
The Solidarity Economy: Non-profits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire
4:30pm - 6:00pm

Tehila Sasson – Associate Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford

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

 
Session 2: Research Methods and Library Resources
5:00pm - 6:30pm
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Chair Charles Clavey – Lecturer on Social Studies, Harvard University; Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Harvard UniversityMatt Reichert – Preceptor on Social Studies, Harvard University; Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Harvard University

Wednesday, March 26, 2025
EU Humanitarian Aid Between Civil and Military Coordination: An Empirical Analysis
2:00pm - 3:15pm

Irene Morlino – LSE Fellow in European Security and Defense, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); Visiting Scholar 2024-2025, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Mai’a Cross – Dean's Professor of Political Science, International Affairs, and Diplomacy, Northeastern University; Director, Center for International Affairs and World Cultures, Northeastern University; Local Affiliate, CES, Harvard University

Chair Albana Shehaj – Program Manager & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

 
What Can be Expected from Social Democracy in Europe? The Possible Death of an Old Phoenix
4:00pm - 5:30pm

Christophe Sente – Cevipol Research Fellow, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Tim Vlandas – Associate Professor of Comparative Social Policy, University of Oxford; Visiting Scholar 2024-2025, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Chair Arthur Goldhammer – Writer & Translator; Local Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Harvard University

Friday, March 28, 2025
The False Choice Between Digital Regulation and Innovation
12:20pm - 1:20pm

Anu Bradford – Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organization, Columbia Law School

Moderated by Alan Raul – Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School

Monday, March 31, 2025
Who Will Rescue Us? The Lives of Jewish Children Who Fled to France and the U.S. During the Holocaust
4:00pm - 5:30pm

Laura Hobson Faure – Professor of Contemporary History and Chair of Modern Jewish History, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Chair Derek J. Penslar – William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Director, The Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University

Community Events
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Western Balkans in a Turbulent Global Landscape: Geopolitical and Geoeconomic Perspectives
6:00pm - 8:00pm

Moderated by Albana Shehaj – Program Manager & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Friday, March 7, 2025
From Empire to Federation: The Possibility of a New Global Order
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Monday, March 10, 2025
Political Posters: Demasculinizing Russian 'Politics of Loneliness'
4:30pm - 6:00pm

Sergei Akopov – Walter Benjamin Research Fellow, Free University of Berlin

Moderated by Myra Marx Ferree – Alice H. Cook Professor of Sociology (Emerita), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Friday, March 21, 2025
Spring Symposium on Envisioning Democratic Futures
9:00am - 5:00pm
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Struggle for Sovereignty: The Russo-Ukrainian War in Historical Perspective
6:00pm - 7:00pm

Yevhenii Monastyrskyi – Ph.D. Student in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Serhii Plokhii – Mykhailo Hrushevskyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University

Monday, March 31, 2025
From Isolation to Integration: Media Portrayals of Albania Towards EU with Data-Driven Insights from Time and The Economist Magazines
6:00pm - 8:00pm
 
 
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