On Tuesday, September 9, in collaboration with the Polish Cultural Foundation, we hosted a screening of Wladyslaw Pasikowski’s Jack Strong, a dramatization of the life of Col. Ryszard Kuklinski, a liaison officer between the Polish military command and the Soviet army, famous for passing secrets to the Americans during the Cold War. The film recast […]
On Thursday, November 21, we had the pleasure of hosting one of Europe’s most penetrating cultural commentators, the novelist and essayist Dubravka Ugresic, as part of our ongoing European Voices series. Her visit to the United States was funded in part by a grant to the Center for the Study of Europe from the European Commission […]
On December 1st, 2008, Boston University presented a panel discussion entitled Europe Confronts Its Past, featuring Honorary Consul of the Republic of Slovakia in Boston Peter Muzila, Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University Igor Lukes, and Editor-in-Chief of Respekt Martin Simecka. At the time, Igor Lukes was also the Honorary Consul of […]
Boston University had the distinct pleasure of hosting author Barbara Masin on September 27th, 2007. Coincidentally, BU was one of the very first stops on her book tour – Masin was taking the time to promote her groundbreaking historical thriller. Published only a year before, Gauntlet tells the epic story of Barbara Masin’s father, his […]
This week we bring you the fifth in a series of six podcasts on the “Political Cultures of the European Union”. The series of thirteen events was organized by Vivien Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Director of the Center for International Relations at Boston University, as part of the Institute for Human […]