Author: Elizabeth Amrien

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 […]

European Studies Holiday Recital and Reception (12/03/24)

Welcome the holiday season with European Studies friends and colleagues. A solo recital by Latvian violinist and chamber musician Aija Rēķe, DMA candidate at BU’s School of Music, will be followed by a festive reception. RSVP using form below. Tuesday, December 3, 2024 • 5 to 6 PM Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay […]

Undergraduate Internships in the Humanities

The BU Center for the Humanities has sponsored paid summer internships for undergraduates in the humanities at important Boston institutions since 2018. In summer 2025, interns will work at The Boston Globe, Brattle Film Foundation, Beacon Press, BU CAS Communications, and BU Mugar Library Prospective applicants are encouraged to read reflections by previous summer interns to learn […]

Citizenship, Return, and Repatriation: Balkan Muslims and the Dilemmas of a New International  Order after World War I (11/19/24)

Join us for a lecture by Emily Greble, Nelson O. Tyrone, Jr. Chair in History; Professor and Chair, Department of History; and Professor of German, Russian and East European Studies at Vanderbilt University. Moderated by Aimee Genell, Assistant Professor of International History, Pardee School of Global Studies. Tuesday, November 19 • 4:30 to 6 PM […]

The UN’s Pact for the Future: Between Aspirations and Reality in the UN System: A Lecture by Ambassador Rytis Paulauskas (11/14/24)

Please join us for a lecture by Ambassador Rytis Paulauskas, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Lithuania to the United Nations. Moderated by Vesko Garčević, Professor of the Practice of International Relations at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies.  Thursday, November 14, 2024 • 5 to 6:30 PM Kilachand Honors College • 91 Bay […]

Event Highlights: The Moors of Time

On Tuesday, October 1, we were delighted to welcome French author Patrick Autréaux back to the Center for the Study of Europe. Autréaux, currently a writer-in-residence at BU’s Department of Romance Studies, read the English translation, by Tobias Ryan, of a new essay on friendship, literary creation, death and time entitled “The Moors of Time.” […]