Author: Elizabeth Amrien

Montenegro and Serbia: A Velvet Divorce? (04/08/25)

Join us for a book launch & discussion of Montenegro and Serbia: A Velvet Divorce? with co-authors Vesko Garčević, Director of the Center for the Study of Europe and Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Pardee School of Global Studies, and Kenneth Morrison, Professor of History (Chair in Modern Southeast European History) […]

Decentering Europe • Europe & Africa (Spring 2025)

The aim of the Decentering Europe initiative at BU’s Center for the Study of Europe is to promote a critical understanding of Europe through its complex heritage, which owes its richness to countless contributions from other regions of the world, including Africa. In an increasingly multipolar world, we believe Europe can only be understood in […]

Truth, Memory, Reconciliation in the Balkans: An EU Agenda? (02/25/25)

Join us for a panel discussion with Andrea Cayley, Executive Director of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law’s Washington D.C. Programs,  and Jelena Subotic, Professor in the Department of Political Science at Georgia State University, on “Truth, Memory, and Reconciliation in the Balkans: An EU Agenda?” Tuesday, February 25 • 5 to 6:30 PM […]

Religion and the Republic: Book Launch & Discussion (02/13/25)

Join us for a book launch and discussion with Carol Ferrara, sociocultural anthropologist and assistant professor at Emerson College and author of  Muslim and Catholic Experiences of National Belonging in France (September 2024), and Kirsten Wesselhoeft, Associate Professor of Religion at Vassar College and author of Fraternal Critique: The Politics of Muslim Community in France […]

11th Annual European Conference at Harvard Kennedy School

We’re thrilled to announce the 11th Annual European Conference at Harvard Kennedy School on January 31 and February 1 at the Harvard Kennedy School. The European Conference is one of the most important events focused on Europe in the United States and brings together political leaders, CEOs, world-class experts, and practitioners from both to explore […]

2025 Lecture Series in Literary Translation

Please join us on Friday afternoons in the spring semester for the 45th BU Translation Seminar Lecture Series. This year’s series is curated by Margaret Litvin and includes eleven literary translators working in Turkish, Bulgarian, Kurdish, Spanish, German, Norwegian, Russian, Portuguese, Arabic, French, Korean, and Japanese. All lectures take place on Fridays at 2:30 in […]

Event Highlights: Contested Nuclear Taboo in the Third Nuclear Age

This lecture by Michal Smetana took place on Wednesday, November 20, 2024. Smetana is Associate Professor at the Institute of International Studies, Director of the Peace Research Center Prague (PRCP), and Head Researcher at Experimental Lab for International Security Studies (ELISS) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University. The event was moderated by Sanne […]

European Parliament Liaison Office Internships

Applications for the next round of traineeships at the European Parliament Liaison Office in Washington DC are open. These are paid, full-time traineeships for US graduates from March 1st – May 31st, 2025, with the possibility of extension until end of July, 2025. The traineeship requires office presence in DC with the option of working […]