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Director's Seminar

Chair

Grzegorz Ekiert
Grzegorz Ekiert
Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
 

Grzegorz Ekiert and Karen Donfried in conversation on Transatlantic Relations on March 7, 2016.

This flagship seminar series, chaired by the CES director throughout the academic year, highlights cutting-edge topics that often reflect breaking news and current issues affecting Europe with a year-long cycle of lectures and panel discussions. Subjects are examined from a range of disciplinary perspectives and the series brings together faculty and scholars from Harvard and other institutions as well as politicians and practitioners of public policy. Past seminars have examined human rights, Eurozone challenges and Greece’s economic crisis.

Series Events Calendar

An Address by H.E. George Gerapetritis, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic Director's Seminar — An Address by H.E. George Gerapetritis, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic
September 25, 2023
11:30am - 12:45pm
  • Speaker George Gerapetritis – Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hellenic Republic
  • Chair Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
Europe at War Director's Seminar — Europe at War
April 14, 2022
11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Chair Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
  • Speaker Radosław Sikorski – Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Poland and Angela Stent – Director, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies & Professor of Government and Foreign Service, Emerita, Georgetown University; Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Combating Racism in Europe: What Role do Legislators Play? Director's Seminar — Combating Racism in Europe: What Role do Legislators Play?
May 6, 2021
10:15am - 11:15am
  • Speaker Christiane Taubira – Minister of Justice of France (2012-2016) and Aminata Touré – Vice President, Schleswig-Holstein Parliament
  • Chair 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
Race and Remembrance in Contemporary Europe Director's Seminar — Race and Remembrance in Contemporary Europe
October 21, 2020
2:00pm - 3:00pm
  • Speaker Mame-Fatou Niang – Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Department of Modern Languages, Carnegie Mellon University and Ana Lucia Araujo – Professor of History, Howard University
  • Chair Mary D. Lewis – Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History & CES Resident Faculty, Harvard University
Poland’s Constitutional Breakdown: Authoritarian Populism Today Director's Seminar — Poland’s Constitutional Breakdown: Authoritarian Populism Today
March 4, 2020
4:30pm - 6:00pm
  • Speaker Wojciech Sadurski – Challis Professor in Jurisprudence, University of Sydney; Sidley Austin–Robert D. McLean Visiting Professor of Law, Yale Law School
  • Discussant Vlad Perju – Dean's Distinguished Scholar, Boston College Law School; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Visiting Scholar 2014-2015, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University and Jacek Zakowski – Director, Department of Journalism, Collegium Civitas; Journalist and Author
  • Chair Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Harvard University; Resident Faculty, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
The Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk: Crossroads of History, Memory and Politics 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
  • Speaker Pawel Machcewicz – Professor of History, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences; Director of the Museum of the Second World War (2008-2017)
  • Discussant David Armitage – Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Harvard University; CES Faculty Associate, Harvard University and 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, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
Brexit: What Now? Director's Seminar — Brexit: What Now?
October 29, 2019
4:30pm - 6:00pm
  • Chair Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government & CES Director, Harvard University
  • Speaker Pippa Norris – McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics, Harvard Kennedy School; CES Faculty Associate, Harvard University and Sir Paul Tucker – Senior Fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Research Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School; Deputy Governor, The Bank of England (2009-2013) and Michael Rosen – Senator Joseph S. Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government, Harvard University and Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies & CES Resident Faculty, Harvard University and Richard Tuck – Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government, Harvard University
The European Union's Authoritarian Equilibrium Director's Seminar — The European Union's Authoritarian Equilibrium
April 26, 2019
11:00am - 12:30pm
  • Speaker R. Daniel Kelemen – Professor of Political Science and Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Politics, Rutgers University
  • Chair Daniel Ziblatt – Eaton Professor of the Science of Government & CES Acting Director, Spring 2019, Harvard University
Puzzles of Populism Director's Seminar — Puzzles of Populism
April 10, 2019
2:30pm - 4:00pm
  • Speaker Stathis Kalyvas – Gladstone Professor of Government, University of Oxford
  • Chair Daniel Ziblatt – Eaton Professor of the Science of Government and Acting Director (Spring 2019), CES, Harvard University
Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust Director's Seminar — Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust
March 6, 2019
4:30pm - 6:00pm
  • Speaker Jason Wittenberg – Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley and Jeffrey S. Kopstein – Dean's Professor of Political Science, University of California, Irvine; James Bryant Conant Fellow in Germany and European Studies (1995-1996), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Discussant Laia Balcells Ventura – Provost Distinguished Associate Professor, Georgetown University and Jeffrey Burds – Associate Professor of History, Northeastern University
  • Chair Daniel Ziblatt – Eaton Professor of the Science of Government & CES Acting Director, Spring 2019, Harvard University
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