From April 15-17, 2014 the Europa-Kolleg of the University of Münster is hosting the conference “Living Europe, Writing Europe: Literary Perceptions of Urbanization and ‹Provincializing› European Identities.” Dipesh Chakrabarty’s notion of ‹provincializing› Europe is a dissection of the perception of Europe as a cradle of modernity. Its value lies with the production of innovative concepts […]
Complement your studies in International & Global Affairs with a genuinely international internship The European Parliament invites graduate students (US citizens only) to apply for a full-time internship in its Washington DC office from mid-April to mid-July 2014, with the possibility of a two-month extension[1] in Brussels and Strasbourg, if this is relevant to the […]
Applications are now being accepted for Summer and Fall study abroad programs. Visit BU Study Abroad for more information on the approaching application deadlines and the timeframe for admissions decisions. Upcoming Study Abroad Events and Information Sessions There’s always something exciting going on at BU Study Abroad! Stay up-to-date by visiting the Events Calendar. Upcoming […]
Join us for a panel discussion with Peter Hall and Michèle Lamont, co-editors of Social Resilience in the Neoliberal Era, and Vivien Schmidt and Mark Thatcher, co-editors of Resilient Liberalism in Europe’s Political Economy. The four panelists will take up the question of “resilience,” both the resilience of neoliberal ideas in policy debates and policy […]
We are delighted to announce the continuation of the popular lunch series with European Studies faculty that we launched during the fall, and we invite you join us this spring for presentations by colleagues Liah Greenfeld, Paolo Scrivano, and Kaija Schilde. The talks are open to BU faculty and staff, visiting researchers, and graduate students, […]
On Wednesday, November 20, with thanks to the Center for the Humanities, the Jewish Cultural Endowment, the Department of Modern Language and Comparative Literature, and Zephyr Press for their generous support, the Center for the Study of Europe hosted Russian Voices, a day-long celebration of Russian poetry, music, and culture. The event coincided with the […]
Join us for two upcoming events with Spanish writer Andrés Neuman. On the afternoon of Wednesday, April 23, Neuman will take part in a seminar with the poet, scholar, and writer Gustavo Guerrero. The seminar, which will be conducted in Spanish, is geared to graduate students and faculty. On the evening of Thursday, April 24, […]
Join us for a lecture and conversation with the internationally renowned writer Yoko Tawada. Tawada was born in Tokyo in 1960 and moved to Hamburg, where she received a PhD in German literature, when she was twenty-two, and then to Berlin in 2006. She writes in both Japanese and German and has published several books […]
Join us for a reading and conversation with Jenny Erpenbeck. One of Germany’s rising literary stars, Erpenbeck was born in East Berlin in 1967. Her grandfather, grandmother, and father were all published writers in a variety of genres, while her mother was a translator. She has worked on opera and musical productions in Berlin and […]
Ramón Gil-Casares Satrústegui, Ambassador of Spain to the United States, and Ryszard Schnepf, Ambassador of Poland to the United States, will discuss political developments in their countries since joining the EU and in particular, in light of the economic crisis. Questions to be pursued include what the EU is becoming, how its policies and institutions […]