We are delighted to announce the continuation of the popular lunch series with European Studies faculty that we launched during the fall, and we invite you join us this spring for presentations by colleagues Liah Greenfeld, Paolo Scrivano, and Kaija Schilde. The talks are open to BU faculty and staff, visiting researchers, and graduate students, […]
During the fall of 2013, the Center for the Study of Europe launched a series of faculty lunch talks as a way of facilitating conversation across disciplines and creating community among European Studies faculty and graduate students. On Tuesday, September 17, Alya Guseva, Associate Professor of Sociology, gave the first talk on the subject of […]
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 […]
Yesterday afternoon, Anton Hemerijck, Dean at the VU University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Social Sciences, and former director of the Netherlands Council for Government Policy (WRR), joined us for a presentation of his new book, Changing Welfare States. Following an overview of welfare state performance over the last two decades and the differential impacts of […]
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 Friday, October 19, the Center for the Study of Europe hosted a luncheon discussion and afternoon seminar on “NATO’s European Allies” with Norwegian political scientist Janne Haaland Matlary and her colleague Magnus Petersson. Matlary, who served as Norway’s State Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 1997 to 2000, is Professor of International Politics at the […]
On Tuesday, October 9, the Center for the Study of Europe, in cooperation with the Center for International Relations and the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations at Boston University and the Goethe Institut Boston, hosted a presentation by prolific German blogger Kübra Gümüsay, an active member of the Muslim blogosphere and […]