Author: Elizabeth Amrien

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.” […]

1989: The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the End to an Age (10/30/24)

Join us for a panel discussion commemorating the opening of the Berlin Wall, which took place 35 years ago on November 9, 1989. Prof. Igor Lukes (Department of History, Pardee School of Global Studies), Prof. Joseph Wippl (Pardee School of Global Studies), and Prof. Jonathan Zatlin (Department of History) discuss the significance of this historic […]

Russia’s Resilience: Myth or Reality? (10/16/24)

Join us for a conversation with Russian political scientist Ekaterina Schulmann and journalist Maksim Kurnikov. Wednesday, October 16, 2024 3 to 4:30 PM Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering 610 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 101 [Add this event to your calendar!] Ekaterina Schulmann is a political scientist specializing in the legislative process in […]

Contested Nuclear Taboo in the Third Nuclear Age A lecture by Michal Smetana (11/20/24)

Join us for a Global Security Speaker Series lecture by: Michal Smetana, Associate Professor at the Institute of International Studies, Director of the Peace Research Center Prague (PRCP), Head Researcher at Experimental Lab for International Security Studies (ELISS), Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University Moderated by Sanne Verschuren, Assistant Professor of International Security, Pardee School […]