Upcoming Events!

Center for the Study of Europe Events

Wednesday, February 3, 2016 | Jean Monnet Activities Open Information Session
Thursday, February 11, 2016 | Europe in Crisis: Is There a Way Out?: A Conversation with Loukas Tsoukalis
Wednesday, March 2, 2016 | Broken Mirrors: A Reading and Conversation with Elias Khoury & Jocelyne Cesari
 

Other European Events at BU

Monday, February 8 | The Paris Climate Deal: An Inside Account of How It Happened
Friday, February 19 | Lawrence Venuti: Translating J.V. Foix’s Daybook 1918: The Strangeness of Minority (Translation Seminar)
February 25-27 | TransCultural Exchange's 2016 International Conference on Opportunities in the Arts: Expanding Worlds
Friday, February 26 | Virginia Jewiss: This Must Be The Place: Getting Italian Films to Speak English (Translation Seminar)

European Events Off-Campus

Wednesday, February 10 | Almost Everything Very Fast: Author Reading with Christopher Kloeble (at Goethe Institut Boston)
February 17-21 | Europe in Peril ( 31st Annual Norris and Margery Bendetson EPIIC International Symposium at Tufts University)
February 19-20 | European Conference 2016: Europe Today: Too Big To Fail, Too Divided to Succeed (at Harvard Kennedy School)
 

Please join us for an information session with Vito Borrelli, Head of Sector for the “Jean Monnet Activities” under the Erasmus+ programme. Borrelli is also in charge of the EU-China High Level People-to-People Dialogue, covering education, culture, youth and gender equality. Vito Borrelli will present and discuss the main actions of the Erasmus+ programme open to US institutions and individuals, namely join masters degrees, degree and credit mobility and Jean Monnet activities. Special focus will be put on the promotion of EU studies in the world. The session is open to the BU community and to academics and students from local universities. Refreshments available. RSVP to edamrien@bu.edu by Tuesday, February 2.

Join us for the launch of EU Futures, a series of conversations on the emerging future in Europe. Vivien Schmidt interviews Loukas Tsoukalis, Pierre Keller Visiting Professor at Harvard's Kennedy School. Tsoukalis has taught in some of the leading universities in Europe, such as Oxford, London School of Economics, Sciences Po in Paris and the European University Institute in Florence. He is presently Professor of European Integration at the University of Athens, President of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Greece's leading think tank, and Visiting Professor at King’s College in London and the College of Europe in Bruges.

Loukas Tsoukalis is author of The New European Economy, and What Kind of Europe? published by Oxford University Press (OUP) and translated into several languages; joint editor and author of the concluding chapter of The Delphic Oracle on Europe: Is there a Future for the European Union? (OUP, 2011); and author of the Annual Review Lecture (2011) of the Journal of Common Market Studies. He is also a regular contributor to the Sunday edition of the newspaper Kathimerini.

This event takes place as part of EU Futures, a series of conversations exploring the emerging future in Europe. The EU Futures project is supported by a Getting to Know Europe Grant from the European Commission Delegation in Washington, DC.

Join us for a reading and conversation with Elias Khoury. Khoury will read from and discuss his latest novel, Broken Mirrors (Archipelago Books, January, 2016), in the context of the ongoing revolutionary process in the Middle East, in particular, as regards Europe's future. The conversation will be moderated by Jocelyne Cesari, Professor of Religion and Politics at the University of Birmingham, UK, Senior research fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center on Religion, Peace and World Affairs.

Elias Khoury, born in Beirut, is the author of thirteen novels, four volumes of literary criticism, and three plays. He was awarded the Palestine Prize for Gate of the Sun, which was named Best Book of the Year by Le Monde Diplomatique, The Christian Science Monitor, and The San Francisco Chronicle, and a Notable Book by The New York Times. Khoury’s Yalo, White Masks, Little Mountain, The Journey of Little Gandhi, and City Gates are also available in English. Khoury is a Global Distinguished Professor of Middle Eastern and Arabic Studies at New York University. As Though She Were Sleeping received France’s inaugural Arabic Novel Prize.

Co-sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies, the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations, and the literary journal AGNI. Free and open to the public. Reception and book-signing to follow.