Fifty years ago, a young graduate student named Guido Goldman joined his admired professor, Stanley Hoffmann, in a modest venture that would eventually grow into today's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES). Since that time, CES has advanced the study of Europe in all corners of the globe and has built a community of thousands of faculty, scholars, and students who have made great achievements as educators, researchers, journalists, entrepreneurs, and leaders in every sector imaginable. The collective accomplishments of the CES community over the past 50 years provide reasons to celebrate and give thanks, and inspire us to continue to advance the Center’s timeless mission.

We invite you to help commemorate the Center’s semi-centennial through a series of special anniversary events that have been planned throughout this academic year. Below we share just the initial few events in the year-long anniversary series, and hope you will join us to celebrate and deliberate in CES style!

CES 50th Anniversary Events Series — CANCELLED - The Three Body Problem: Fresh Perspectives on America, Britain and Europe

April 30, 2020
11:00am - 12:00pm

Chair Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Director (2012-2023), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

CANCELLED - 2020 Summit on the Future of Europe at Harvard - Europe in a Changing World

April 6, 2020
9:00am - 7:00pm

European Legal Order Seminar - CES 50th Anniversary Series — CANCELLED - 50 Years of European Union Law, Democracy, and Fundamental Rights

March 30, 2020
4:30pm - 6:00pm

Jan Wouters – Professor of International Law and International Organizations; Jean Monnet ad Personam Professor in EU and Global Governance; Founding Director of The Institute for International Law & The Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven
Rui Tavares – Visiting Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Member of European Parliament (2009-2014)
Chair José Manuel Martinez Sierra – Jean Monnet ad Personam Professor in EU Law and Government, Director General, UPF-Barcelona School of Management; CES Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

The Stanley Hoffmann Annual Lecture on France and the World - A CES 50th Anniversary Event — Capital and Ideology: An Address by Thomas Piketty

March 6, 2020
5:00pm - 6:30pm

Thomas Piketty – Professor, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) and the Paris School of Economics.
Welcome Remarks by Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government & CES Director, Harvard University
Opening Remarks by Louise Richardson – Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford & CES Senior Fellow, Harvard University
Chair Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies & CES Resident Faculty, Harvard University

CES 50th Anniversary Events Series — The Soccer Stadium: Europe’s Unfettered Ugly Space

February 14, 2020
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Andrei Markovits – Arthur F. Thurnau Professor & Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies, University of Michigan
Chair Bruno Carvalho – Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

CES 50th Anniversary Events Series — The Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk: Crossroads of History, Memory and Politics

February 13, 2020
4:30pm - 6:00pm

Pawel Machcewicz – Professor of History, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences; Director of the Museum of the Second World War (2008-2017)
David Armitage – Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Harvard University; CES Faculty Associate, Harvard University
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth – William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts & Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
Chair Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Director (2012-2023), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

CES 50th Anniversary Events Series — Reinventing Athens – A Conversation with Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis

February 4, 2020
4:30pm - 6:00pm

Kostas Bakoyannis – Resident Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School; Mayor of Athens (2019-2023), The Hellenic Republic
Chair Elaine Papoulias – Executive Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

CES 50th Anniversary Series — Poland in the Global Wave of Populism

November 13, 2019
4:30pm - 6:00pm

Anna Grzymała-Busse – Douglas Professor of International Studies, Stanford University; Senior Fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Bart Bonikowski – Past Resident Faculty
Chair Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty & Director (2012-2023), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion – A CES 50th Anniversary Event — Troubling Times for Gender Equality Politics: German and European Experiences

October 11, 2019
2:00pm - 5:00pm

Caitlyn Collins – Assistant Professor of Sociology and of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
Angelika von Wahl – Chair, International Affairs Program, and Associate Professor, Lafayette University
Mary C. Brinton – Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Kathrin Zippel – Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University; CES Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University
Louise Davidson-Schmich – Professor of Political Science, University of Miami
Myra Marx Ferree – Alice H. Cook Professor of Sociology (Emerita), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Sarah Wiliarty – Associate Professor of Government, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and German Studies, and Tutor, College of Social Studies, Wesleyan University
Laura Levine Frader – Professor of History, Northeastern University; CES Local Affiliate Harvard University

The Guido Goldman Lecture on Germany - A Worldwide Week at Harvard Event — Challenges to Democracy in the European Union: An Address by Sergey Lagodinsky

October 7, 2019
4:30pm - 6:00pm

Sergey Lagodinsky – Member of the European Parliament, Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance
Chair Karl Kaiser – Fellow, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, Harvard Kennedy School; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Seminar on the State and Capitalism since 1800 — The Great Re-Concentration: The Political Economy of American Asset Manager Capitalism

October 4, 2019
2:00pm - 3:30pm

Benjamin Braun – Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies & Princeton University Institute for Advanced Study
Chair Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, CES Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University and Kathleen Thelen – Ford Professor of Political Science, MIT; CES Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

CES 50th Anniversary Series — Justification and Alienation: Kant, Marx and Contemporary Critical Theory

September 27, 2019
4:30pm - 6:00pm

Rainer Forst – Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy, Goethe University Frankfurt
Chair Peter E. Gordon – Amabel B. James Professor of History; CES Resident Faculty & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

CES 50th Anniversary Series — Exhibit Opening - Remember Yugoslavia? Photographs by Martin Karplus

September 25, 2019
6:00pm - 7:00pm

CES 50th Anniversary Series — Yugoslavia Revisited

September 25, 2019
4:30pm - 6:00pm

Marie-Janine Calic – Professor of Eastern and Southeastern European History, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich; Visiting Scholar 2023-2024, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Vesko Garčević – Professor of the Practice of International Relations, The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
Susan Woodward – Professor of Political Science, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Closing Remarks by Martin Karplus – Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, Harvard University; Nobel Laureate (2013)
Chair Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government & CES Director, Harvard University

CES 50th Anniversary Series — Transformations of European Ideologies: A Discussion to Mark the Retirement of Charles S. Maier and Patrice Higonnet

September 11, 2019
4:30pm - 6:00pm

Suzanne Berger – John M. Deutch Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Patrice Higonnet – Robert Walton Goelet Research Professor of French History Emeritus & CES Resident Faculty, Harvard University
Charles Maier – Leverett Saltonstall Research Professor of History, CES Resident Faculty & Director (1994-2001), Harvard University
Adam Nossiter – Paris Bureau Chief, The New York Times
Opening Remarks by Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government; CES Director & Resident Faculty, Harvard University
Chair Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, CES Resident Faculty & Director (2001-2006), Harvard University

Event Series

CES 50th Anniversary Events Series