October 2015 Upcoming Events
Free and open to the public unless otherwise indicated.
Center for the Study of Europe Events
Tuesday, October 6 | Saving Europe with Carlo Bastasin
Wednesday, October 7 | Ask Me More About Brecht! A Theatrical Reconstruction of Conversations Between Hanns Eisler and Hans Bunge
Thursday, October 8 | Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Moving Towards Transatlantic Economic Integration with Ambassador David O'Sullivan, Head of EU Delegation to the US
Tuesday, October 13 | European Studies Lunch Talk: How Germany Unified and the EU Enlarged: Negotiating the Accession
Thursday, October 29 |European Studies Lunch Talk: Brodsky in Italy
Thursday, October 29 |The Crime and the Silence with Anna Bikont and Irena Grudzinska Gross
Saturday, November 7 | Romanticism in the Atlantic World
Other European Events at BU
Tuesday, October 6 | Poetry Reading: Karl Kirchway, Glyn Maxwell, Derek Walcott
Thursday, October 8 | Poetry Reading: Paul Breslin
Tuesday, October 20 | The Launch of AGNI 82
European Events Off-Campus
Thursday, October 8 | Understanding France's Response to the Events of 1914 (Boston Public Library)
Thursday, October 8 | A Conversation with Author Tatiana de Rosnay (French Cultural Center)
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Saving Europe
A Lecture by Carlo Bastasin
Join us for a lecture by Italian economist and journalist Carlo Bastasin, author of Saving Europe: How National Politics Nearly Destroyed the Euro. Bastasin is a senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development and Foreign Policy programs at Brookings. His work focusses on European political and economic analysis. Saving Europe reveals how the nexus of international economics and national politics pushed monetary union to the brink of a breakup, how that disastrous development was avoided, and why the long-term viability of a common currency challenges politics as we know it. Refreshments will be served. More Info
4 to 6 PM
Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Ask Me More About Brecht!
A Theatrical Reconstruction of Conversations Between Hanns Eisler and Hans Bunge
Join us for a dramatic reading and multimedia performance by Paul Clements and Sabine Berendse, editors of Brecht, Music and Culture: Hanns Eisler in Conversation with Hans Bunge. This book, about the friendship and collaboration between the playwright Bertolt Brecht and the composer Hanns Eisler, has been a sensation in Germany since the 1970s. At long last it has been translated into English. In addition to the book, Clements and Berendse (Hans Bunge’s daughter) have created a performance to make the audience experience first-hand what Eisler has to say about his friend Brecht. The committedly left-wing Eisler reflects on their exile from Nazi Germany in Los Angeles and recalls their bruising encounters with the House Committee on un-American Activities. Humorously and lively he talks about philosophical themes concerning the future of the arts, artists and the lives of ordinary people.
What would a show about a composer be without his music? The performance includes recordings of Eisler’s music in different genres as well as recordings of Eisler himself singing and playing the piano. Rarely seen photographic images of Eisler and others illustrate the show.
Moderated by Minou Arjomand, Assistant Professor of English, Boston University. Reception and book-signing to follow. More Info
7 to 8:30 PM
Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Moving Towards Transatlantic Economic Integration
A Symposium on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with keynote address by Ambassador David O'Sullivan, Head of the EU Delegation to the US
The Center for the Study of Europe, in collaboration with the Consulate of Portugal in Boston and the Delegation of the European Union in the United States, presents Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Moving towards Transatlantic Economic Integration.
The keynote address will be given by Ambassador David O'Sullivan, Head of the EU Delegation to the United States. Welcome remarks by Consul General José Caroço and Center for the Study of Europe Director Vivien Schmidt. Panelists include Tereza Novotna, Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Institute for European Studies, Free University of Brussels; Roberto Dominguez, Associate Professor in the Department of Government at Suffolk University; Michelle Egan, Professor in the School of International Service at American University; Fernanda Nicola, Professor of Law at the Washington College of Law, American University, and Kaija Schilde, Assistant Professor of International Relations at Boston University.
A networking reception will follow the event. The public is cordially invited, but RSVP is required.
12 to 5 PM
Boston University Castle, 225 Bay State Road
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
How Germany Unified and the EU Enlarged: Negotiating the Accession
European Studies Lunch Talk
Please join us for a summer lunch talk with Tereza Novotna, a Post-Doctoral Researcher based at the Institute for European Studies, Université libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium. Tereza received a Ph.D. in Politics and European Studies from Boston University and under graduate and postgraduate degrees from Charles University Prague. Her doctoral dissertation compared and contrasted the unification of Germany with the Eastern Enlargement of the EU and its revised version is being published by Palgrave Macmillan this month: How Germany Unified and the EU Enlarged. More Info
Lunch provided. Open to BU community and others with research interest. RSVP to Elizabeth Amrien
12 to 1:30 PM
Pardee School of Global Studies, 152 Bay State Road, Conference Room (1st floor)
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Brodsky in Italy
European Lunch Studies Talk
Please join us for a lunch talk by Zakhar Ishov on Joseph Brodsky and Italy. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Ishov received his PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Yale University. His research interests include 18th - 20th century Russian literature, the concept of "world culture" and its Russian dimensions, Brodsky's art and translations, and more.
Event takes place as part of the Educational Bridge Project's 28th Russian-American Festival.
Lunch provided. Open to BU community and others with research interest. RSVP to Elizabeth Amrien
12:30 to 1:50 PM
Pardee School of Global Studies, 154 Bay State Road, 2nd floor (Eilts Room)
Thursday, October 29, 2015
The Crime and the Silence
A Conversation with Anna Bikont, Alissa Valles, and Irena Grudzinska Gross
Join us for a conversation with Polish-Jewish journalist Anna Bikont, author of The Crime and the Silence (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, September 2015), Alissa Valles, poet, translator, and PhD student at the Editorial Institute, and Irena Grudzinska Gross, Resident Scholar and Lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University.
Part history, part memoir, The Crime and the Silence is the journalist's account of these events: both the story of the massacre told through oral histories of survivors and witnesses, and a portrait of a Polish town coming to terms with its dark past. Including the perspectives of both heroes and perpetrators, Bikont chronicles the sources of the hatred that exploded against Jews and asks what myths grow on hidden memories, what destruction they cause, and what happens to a society that refuses to accept a horrific truth.
Free and open to the public. Reception and book-signing to follow.
6 to 7:30 PM
Boston University Castle, 225 Bay State Road
Saturday, November 7, 2015
Romanticism in the Atlantic World
A One-Day Symposium and Lunch
Please join us for an exciting one-day symposium here at BU, “Romanticism in the Atlantic World,” on November 7, 2015, from 9:30am-6pm. Registration is free, and lunch will be provided. Register by November 1.
Schedule of papers:
9:30am Jared Hickman (Johns Hopkins) “Back to the American Romance, Forward to a Transatlantic History of Secularity”
11:00 Elizabeth Bohls (University of Oregon) “Romantic Exploration and Atlantic Slavery: Mungo Park’s Coffle”
1 :30pm Denise Gigante (Stanford) “On Borrowing Books”
3:00 Virginia Jackson (UC-Irvine) “American Romanticism Five Ways”
4 :30 Jennifer Baker (NYU) “Hawthorne, Romantic Ruins, and the Civil War”
Brought to you by the Boston Area Romanticist Colloquium and sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities, Studies in Romanticism, Boston University’s Center for the Study of Europe, and the Departments of English, African American Studies, History, and Modern Languages and Comparative Literature.
9:30 to 6 PM
The Castle, Boston University 225 Bay State Road, Boston MA 02215
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