On Wednesday, October 23, 2013, we had the honor of hosting Petr Gandalovič, Czech Ambassador to the US, and Peter Kmec, Slovak Ambassador to the US, for the third event in our “EU Inside Out” series of conversations with European Ambassadors. The panel discussion, which was attended by over 100 people, marked 24 years since […]
On Wednesday, April 24, the Center for the Study of Europe hosted Henrik Enderlein, Professor of Political Economy at the Hertie School of Governance and Pierre Keller Visiting Professor at Harvard University, for its final luncheon discussion of the semester. In his presentation, entitled “Federalism by Exception: The Future of Economic Governance in the Euro-area,” […]
On Thursday, April 8, Daniela Schwarzer, Fritz Thyssen Fellow at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center and Head of Research Division on EU Integration at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin, gave a lunchtime talk provocatively titled “Why Germany Will Not Run the EU?” In her remarks, Schwarzer offered an assessment of […]
On Thursday, March 28, we hosted our second luncheon discussion of the semester: “The Economics of the Eurozone Crisis” with German political economist Stefan Collignon, ordinary professor of political economy at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, since October 2007, and International Chief Economist of the Centro Europa Ricerche (CER), Roma, since July 2007. Collignon […]
As part of its contribution to International Education Week at Boston University, the Center for the Study of Europe hosted Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Professor of International Relations and director of the Center for International Studies at the University of Oxford, to speak “Europe’s Crisis and the Pathologies of Democracy.” Nicolaïdis, who has coined the term “demoicracy” to […]
Greece and the Eurozone were the subjects of Kevin Featherstone’s luncheon discussion at the Center for the Study of Europe on Tuesday, November 13. Featherstone, who is Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies and Director of the Hellenic Observatory in the European Institute at the London School of Economics, is author of The Limits […]
On Thursday, April 12, the Center for the Study of Europe hosted a luncheon discussion with Luís Miguel Poiares Maduro, Visiting Professor of Law and Gruber Global Constitutionalism Fellow at Yale Law School and Professor and Director of the Global Governance Programme at European University Institute. Maduro served as Advocate General at the European Court […]
On March 25-26, following the Council for European Studies meeting in Boston, the Center for the Study of Europe hosted a workshop entitled Resilient Liberalism: European Political Economy Through Boom and Bust [download program]. The two-day workshop brought together the contributors to a forthcoming Cambridge University Press publication on the state of European political economy, co-edited […]
On Wednesday, March 21, Maurizio Ferrera and Anton Hemerijck took part in a luncheon discussion hosted by BU’s Center for the Study of Europe on the impact of the ongoing Eurozone crisis on European social policy. Maurizio Ferrera is Professor of Comparative Public Policy at the University of Milan. He is also the President of […]
“Ireland and the Euro” was the title of Wednesday’s luncheon discussion with Professor Brigid Laffan of Ireland, a leading scholar on the European Union, at BU’s Department of International Relations. Laffan, who is principal of the College of Human Sciences and professor of European politics at University College Dublin, is currently is a visiting fellow […]