Schmidt Gives Series of Talks on Eurozone
Vivien Schmidt, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Europe, an affiliated Center of the Pardee School, has had a busy start to the summer, giving several talks over the last month on a wide-range of topics related to the European Union.
Schmidt was invited to give a talk in Madrid on May 5, 2016 by the BBVA Foundation on her contribution on the EU’s impact on national democracy for their new collection of essays, The Search for Europe. The book is also available on the BBVA OpenMind website for free download.
On May 19, 2016, Schmidt was in Rome to participate on a panel entitled “German Dominance of the Eurozone?” during the conference “Germany and Italy in the European Union: Divergence or Convergence?” The conference was organized by the Luiss School of Government and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
Schmidt was in Paris on May 20, 2016 to give a talk in French entitled “Rethinking the Future of the European Union: Differentiated Integration With More of Europe and More of the Member-States?” for the a joint conference of PHILéPOL, Université Paris Descartes, CEVIPOF, Sciences Po. Paris and ICEE, Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle.
On June 6, 2016, Schmidt was in Mannheim to give a talk entitled: “Europe’s Crisis of Legitimacy: Governing by Rules and Ruling by Numbers in the Eurozone” at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), in their political science seminar series.
Schmidt then traveled to Brussels on June 16, 2016 to give a talk at a seminar hosted by the Open Society European Policy Institute and the Istituto degli Affari Internazionali for her contribution to the IAI’s essay collection Governing Europe: How to Make the EU More Efficient and Democratic, entitled “The New EU Governance: New Intergovernmentalism, New Supranationalism, and New Parliamentarism.” In the piece, she explains how governance in the EU has changed in recent years, what its problems are, and how it could be governed in the future. You can read more here.
Prof. Schmidt is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at Boston University. Her research focuses on European political economy, institutions, democracy, and political theory. She has published ten books, over 100 scholarly journal articles or chapters in books, and numerous policy briefs and comments, most recently on the Eurozone crisis. Her current work focuses on democratic legitimacy in Europe, with a special focus on the challenges resulting from the Eurozone crisis, and on methodological theory, in particular on the importance of ideas and discourse in political analysis (discursive institutionalism). You can learn more about her here.