Patchen Markell – Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago

Benjamin Wurgaft – History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society, MIT

Richard Bernstein – Vera List Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research

Lucy Mason Maulsby – Associate Professor of Architectural History, School of Architecture, Northeastern University

Seyla Benhabib – Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Yale University

H.E. Volkan Bozkir – Minister for European Union Affairs of Turkey

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

Erik Kirschbaum – CES Speaker

Joseph Livingston – CES Speaker

Jocelyne Cesari – Professor of Religion and Politics, University of Birmingham; T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Elias Khoury – CES Speaker

Tom Feeley – Policy Advisor, Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE Group), European Parliament; Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs; ALDE Short-Term Fellow (Spring 2016), CES, Harvard University

Itziar Muñoa – Policy Adviser, Euromed, Mashreq and Arab Peninsula delegations, EuroLat and Latin American delegations, Networking Unit, Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE Group), European Parliament; Committee on Foreign Affairs and Subcommittee on Human Rights; ALDE Short-Term Fellow (Spring 2016), CES, Harvard University

Chair Saime Ozcurumez – Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Bilkent University; Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

Pierre Krähenbühl – CES Speaker

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

Valentin Schröder – Professor of Political Science, University of Bremen

Phillip Manow – Professor of Comparative Political Economy, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Bremen

Karen Donfried – President, The German Marshall Fund of the United States

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

Michael Ignatieff – President & Rector, Central European University (2016-2021); Senior Fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Béla Filep – Lecturer, Institute of Geography, Universität Bern

Timothy Snyder – Bird White Housum Professor of History, Yale University

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

Alison Frank Johnson – Professor of History, Harvard University; Chair, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Terry Martin – Faculty Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies; George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies, Harvard University

Timothy Snyder – Bird White Housum Professor of History, Yale University

Roman Szporluk – Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Emeritus, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

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

Danilo Mandić – Associate Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Harvard University; Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Patchen Markell – Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago

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

Alexander Mattelaer – CES Speaker

Colleen Anderson – PhD Student in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate, CES, Harvard University

Joshua D. Zimmerman – Professor of History, Yeshiva University

Colm Toibin – Author,  

Irina Mashinski – CES Speaker

Klaus F. Zimmermann – Founding Director, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA); Professor of Economics, Bonn University; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2015-2016, CES, Harvard University

Chair Antje Vetterlein – Associate Professor, Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Pieter de Wilde – Associate Professor in European Politics, Department of Historical Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU); Research Fellow of the Research Unit Global Governance, Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), 2011-2016; Visiting Scholar, CES, Spring 2016; WZB Fellow, CES, Spring 2016

Jessica Tollette – PhD Candidate in Sociology, Harvard University

Kristina Bakkær Simonsen – Visiting Fellow in Sociology and PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science at Aarhus University, Denmark

Tobias Schumacher – Chair in European Neighborhood Policy, College of Europe; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2016, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Jolyon Howorth – Jean Monnet Professor ad personam & Professor Emeritus of European Politics, University of Bath; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Jacques Rupnik – Senior Research Fellow, Sciences Po

Ralf Tutsch – Principal Legal Counsel, European Central Bank

Barend Jansen – Assistant General Counsel, Head of Financial and Fiscal Unit, Legal Department, International Monetary Fund

Peter Maurer – President, International Committee of the Red Cross

Melani Cammett – Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University; Professor, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

Jennifer Leaning – Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights; Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Introduction by Negeen Darani – Executive Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

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

Patrick Sachweh – CES Speaker

Bernhard Struck – Associate Professor in Modern European History, University of St Andrews

Dana Villa – Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame