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Center for European Studies

The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) invites you to join us for our upcoming events. Please check the CES website and weekly emails regularly to ensure you keep informed of the many exciting and interdisciplinary events CES is planning this semester. We look forward to your participation in the Center’s programming!

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Featured Event
Wednesday, November 29, 2023 1:30pm - 6:00pm

Radosław Sikorski – Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Poland

Maciej Kisilowski – Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Business, Central European University (CEU); Faculty Director, CEU Executive Master of Business Administration in Global Executive Management

Marta Kotwas – School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London

Radosław Markowski – Professor of Political Science, Polish Academy of Sciences; Director, Center for the Study of Democracy, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities

Marek Naczyk – Associate Professor of Comparative Social Policy, University of Oxford; Visiting Scholar 2023-2024, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Karolina Wigura – Assistant Professor, Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw; Member of the Board, Kultura Liberalna Foundation; Senior Fellow, Center for Liberal Modernity

Anna Wojciuk – Associate Professor, Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw

and and

Chair Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard UniversityGeorge Soroka – Executive Officer, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Lecturer on Government, Department of Government, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Editor, Open Forum Series, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard UniversityThục Linh Nguyễn Vũ – Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET), University of Vienna; German Kennedy Memorial Fellow & Visiting Scholar 2023-2024, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

CES Events
Sunday, October 29, 2023
German American Conference | Day 3
9:00am - 5:00pm
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
CANCELLED: Between Testimony and Trial: A Transnational History of the Kamenets-Podolsk Massacre of 1941
4:00pm - 5:30pm

Anastasia Fairchild – Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science & Comparative Politics, Center for International Studies, SciencesPo

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

Wednesday, November 1, 2023
To See and Write Vietnam: Socialist Regimes of Visibility in Poland
2:00pm - 3:15pm

Thục Linh Nguyễn Vũ – Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET), University of Vienna; German Kennedy Memorial Fellow & Visiting Scholar 2023-2024, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Chair Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

 
Bystander Society: Conformity and Complicity in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
4:30pm - 6:00pm

Mary Fulbrook – Professor of German History, University College London

Chair 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

Thursday, November 2, 2023
Germany, America, and Ukraine: Lessons Learned From 20 Months of War in Europe
5:00pm - 6:15pm

Karen Donfried – Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School; Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Department of State (2021-2023); President, German Marshall Fund of the United States (2014-2021)

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

Friday, November 3, 2023
The Financialization of Housing and Its Political Consequences
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Rafaela Dancygier – Professor of Politics and Public and International Affairs & Director, Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, Princeton University

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

and

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

 
Picnics, Peppers, Pak Choi: Immigrants in Allotment Gardens in the Netherlands, 1960-1990
2:00pm - 3:30pm

Ailish Lalor – Ph.D. Candidate in History, Harvard University

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

 
 
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