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Adolphus Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way, Cambridge, MA 02138
Thursday, October 23, 2014 12:00pm - 1:15pm
 

Sigmar Gabriel – Chairman, Atlantik-Brücke; Member of the Bundestag & Vice Chancellor (2013-2018), Federal Republic of Germany; Senior Fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow (2018), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

This week's highlights
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Hannah Arendt and the Laboring Body
7:00pm - 9:00pm

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

Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Hannah Arendt and the Problem of the Public Intellectual
5:00pm - 7:00pm

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

Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Hannah Arendt Lecture Series: Hannah Arendt: Thought Defying Evil
5:00pm - 7:00pm

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

 
Boston Area Events
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
The Legacy of Fascism in Postwar Italian Architecture
1:15pm - 2:45pm

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

 
The Refugee Crisis and the Disuniting of the Union: Europe on the Brink
5:15pm - 7:00pm

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

Wednesday, March 2, 2016
The Current State of Turkey-EU Relations: Luncheon Discussion with H.E. Volkan Bozkir, Minister for EU Affairs of Turkey
11:45am - 1:30pm

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

 
1:00pm - 3:00pm

Erik Kirschbaum – CES Speaker

 
5:30pm - 7:30pm

Joseph Livingston – CES Speaker

 
A Reading and Conversation with Elias Khoury & Jocelyne Cesari
8:00pm - 9:30pm

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

Thursday, March 3, 2016
Is Europe Running out of Time? Perspectives on the Refugee Crisis
1:15pm - 3:00pm

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

 
5:00pm - 7:00pm

Pierre Krähenbühl – CES Speaker

 
5:00pm - 1:00pm
Friday, March 4, 2016
1:30pm - 3:00pm
 
Electoral Coordination, Legislative Cohesion, and the Rise of the Modern Mass Party: The Limits of Majoritarian Representation in Germany, 1890‐1918
3:15pm - 5:00pm

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

Monday, March 7, 2016
Europe facing Crisis, America facing Elections: What Future for Transatlantic Relations?
4:15pm - 6:00pm

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

 
The Destruction of Syria and the Crisis of Universal Values
5:30pm - 7:00pm

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

Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Secession and Autonomy Movements from Domestic to Transnational Activism
1:15pm - 2:45pm

Béla Filep – Lecturer, Institute of Geography, Universität Bern

 
The Holocaust in Poland: Controversies and Explanations
5:15pm - 7:00pm

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

Wednesday, March 9, 2016
The Holocaust as History and Warning
1:15pm - 3:00pm

Alison Frank Johnson – Professor of History, 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

 
First Findings from a Camp on the Balkan Route
3:15pm - 5:00pm

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

 
Hannah Arendt and the Laboring Body
7:00pm - 9:00pm

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

 
The Political Origins of Banking Crises in Spain
7:30pm - 9:00pm

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

Thursday, March 10, 2016
10:00am - 7:00pm
 
2:30pm - 8:15pm
 
3:30pm - 5:00pm

Alexander Mattelaer – CES Speaker

Friday, March 11, 2016
10:00am - 7:00pm
 
10:00am - 7:00pm
 
1:30pm - 3:00pm
 
Cosmic Visitors: The Space Race in East and West Germany
3:00pm - 5:00pm

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

 
5:00pm - 11:00pm
Thursday, March 17, 2016
4:15pm - 6:00pm

Joshua D. Zimmerman – Professor of History, Yeshiva University

 
7:00pm - 9:00pm

Colm Toibin – Author,  

Friday, March 18, 2016
1:00pm - 3:00pm

Irina Mashinski – CES Speaker

Tuesday, March 22, 2016
The European Refugee Crisis: Policy Challenges and Perspectives
2:15pm - 4:00pm

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

 
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Democratic Representation in a Denationalized World: A Liberal-Agonistic Perspective
12:15pm - 1:45pm

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

Thursday, March 24, 2016
2:15pm - 4:00pm

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

 
The European Neighborhood Policy is Dead - Long Live the European Neighborhood Policy! The EU and the Southern Mediterranean after the Arab Spring
4:15pm - 6:00pm

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

 
Bad Neighborhoods: Europe’s Crisis and the Challenges of its Peripheries
5:00pm - 6:30pm

Jolyon Howorth – Jean Monnet Professor ad personam & Professor Emeritus of European Politics, University of Bath; Fellow, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship (2019-2022), Harvard Kennedy School; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Jacques Rupnik – Senior Research Fellow, Sciences Po

Friday, March 25, 2016
11:00am - 12:00pm

Ralf Tutsch – Principal Legal Counsel, European Central Bank

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

 
12:30pm - 2:00pm
 
5:30pm - 9:00pm
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
The Migration Crisis in the Mediterranean Region: A Humanitarian Perspective
4:15pm - 6:00pm

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

 
5:00pm - 6:30pm

Patrick Sachweh – CES Speaker

Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Challenges and Pitfalls in Writing Modern Europe Transnationally: Reconfiguring Scales, Space, and Periodization, c.1760-2000s
12:15pm - 1:45pm

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

 
Eichmann in Jerusalem: Conscience, Normality, and the Rule of Narrative
5:00pm - 7:00pm

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

 
 
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