Upcoming Events!

Center for the Study of Europe Events

Wednesday, March 2, 2016 | Broken Mirrors: A Reading and Conversation with Elias Khoury & Jocelyne Cesari
Thursday, March 17, 2016 | Lunch Talk: Eastern European Democracies and the EU Rule of Law Framework
Monday, March 21, 2016 | Lunch Talk: The Challenge of Democratic Representation in the European Union
Thursday, March 24, 2016 | Bad Neighborhoods: Europe’s Crisis and the Challenges of its Peripheries: A Conversation with Jacques Rupnik and Jolyon Howorth
Tuesday, March 29, 2016 | The Welfare State at Risk: A Conversation with Patrick Sachweh
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 | Europe in Crisis: Is There a Way Out: A Conversation with Loukas Tsoukalis
Thursday, March 31, 2016 | European Voices: A Reading and Conversation with Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki and Julia Sherwood
Monday, April 4, 2016 | Lunch Talk: Welfare markets in Europe. The Democratic Challenge of European Integration
Thursday, April 7, 2016 | The EU Refugee Crisis and the Changing Paradigm of EU Law
Monday, April 11, 2016 | Are Hard Times the Mother of Invention? Efficiency and Legitimacy of New EU Modes of Governance

Other European Events at BU

Wednesday, March 2, 2016 | Venice Studios Arts Information Session
Wednesday, March 2, 2016 | London Calling! BU Study Abroad London Programs Information Session
Thursday, March 3, 2016 | Shipping Up to Dublin - Study Abroad in Ireland! 
Thursday, March 3, 2016 | BU Study Abroad Padua Programs Information Session
Monday, March 14, 2016 | LADINO VOICES: A Symposium and Concert
Monday, March 14, 2016 | KANSION: An evening of Ladino Poetry and Music (presented in three languages!)
Friday, March 18, 2016 | Irina Mashinski: Translation as the Art of Variations: Russian Poetry and the Myth of Singularity (Translation Seminar)
Tuesday, March 29, 2016 | Italian Constitutional Justice in Global Context (Europe and Law Series)

European Events Off-Campus

Thursday, March 3, 2016 | Lady Russia with Olga Bell and Julien Labro (at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum)
Saturday, March 5, 2016 | Vincent Amigo: Flamenco Festival 2016
Tuesday, March 8, 2016 | The Holocaust in Poland: Controversies and Explanations (The Annual Zaleski Lecture in Modern Polish History at Harvard University) 
Thursday, March 10 2016 | Emel Mathlouthi - The Voice of the Tunisian Revolution 
 

Join us for a reading and conversation with Elias Khoury. Khoury will read from and discuss his latest novel, Broken Mirrors: Sinalcol (Archipelago Books, January, 2016). The novel follows Karim, a Lebanese doctor who has escaped the civil war by emigrating to France, as he returns to Beirut like a “criminal returns to the scene of his crime.”

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. It will focus on the ongoing revolutionary process in the Middle East and its impact on Europe’s future.

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 the Institute for Iraqi Studies, the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations, the Middle East and North African Studies Program, and the literary journal AGNI. Free and open to the public. Supported in part by a Getting to Know Europe grant from the European Commission Delegation. Light reception and book-signing to follow.

oin us for a lunch talk with Vlad Perju, Director of the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College and a tenured Associate Professor at Boston College Law School. Perju's primary research and teaching interests include the law of the European Union, comparative constitutional law and theory, international and comparative law and jurisprudence.

Lunch available at 12. Open to BU community and others with a research interest in the topic. RSVP to edamrien@bu.edu.

The Europe and Law Series is organized and sponsored by the Jean Monnet Chair in European Law at Boston University, in collaboration with Boston University's Center for the Study of Europe.

Join us for a lecture by Pieter de Wilde, Senior Researcher in the Department of Global Governance at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), Germany. De Wilde earned his Ph.D. in Political Science at the ARENA Center for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway. At WZB, he is involved in an interdisciplinary research project entitled "The Political Sociology of Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism," which analyses the emergence of a cleavage within Western societies as a result of globalization.

De Wilde is currently visiting researcher at Harvard's Center for European Studies where he is studying the implications of this conflict over globalization-related issues for representative democracy. While the study will have a specific focus on Germany, Mexico, Poland, Turkey and the United States, it will also assess parallel dynamics within the European Union and the United Nations.

Lunch available at 12:30 - please arrive early if you would like lunch. Open to BU community and others with a research interest in the topic. RSVP to edamrien@bu.edu.

Join us for a conversation with Jacques Rupnik, Director of Research at the Centre de Recherches Internationale (CERI) at Sciences Po, France, where he also serves as Professor of Political Science, and Jolyon Howorth, Visiting Professor of Political Science, Yale University.

Rupnik is also a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. Beyond academia, he has held numerous positions advising on Eastern and Southeastern Europe. During the Balkans wars of the 1990's, he was Executive Director of the International Commission for the Balkans and drafted its report Unfinished Peace. As member of the Independent International Commission on Kosovo, he co-drafted The Kosovo Report. Rupnik was an advisor to Vaclav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic. he has most recently published: Dernier ouvrage: 1989 as a Political World Event: democracy, Europe and the new international system in the age of globalization (Routledge, 2014) and Géopolitique de la démocratisation, l'Europe et ses voisinages (Presses de Sciences Po, 2014).

Howorth is Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics ad personam and Emeritus Professor of European Studies at the University of Bath (UK). He has published extensively in the field of European politics and history, especially security and defense policy and transatlantic relations. Recent books include: Security and Defence Policy in the European Union (Palgrave, 2nd edition 2014); Defending Europe: the EU, NATO and the Quest for European Autonomy (Palgrave, 2003, edited with John Keeler); European Integration and Defence: the Ultimate Challenge? (Paris, WEU-ISS, 2000). His current research focuses on power transition in the contemporary world with particular reference to the relative status of the European Union.

This event takes place as part of a new initiative entitled "Interferences," a series of events on issues pertinent to democratic politics in the US and Europe. Organized 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 conversation with Patrick Sachweh, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Goethe University Frankfort. Sigrun Olofsdottir, Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University, interviews Sachweh on inequality, social policy, and the future of the European welfare state.

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.

Lunch available. Open to BU Community and others with a reserach interest in the topic. RSVP to edamrien@bu.edu.

This event takes place as part of a new initiative entitled "Interferences," a series of events on issues pertinent to democratic politics in the US and Europe. Organized 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 Polish author Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki and translator Julia Sherwood. Klimko-Dobrzaniecki is a novelist and poet who has lived outside Poland for many years (formerly in Iceland, and now in Austria). His first publication was a set of short stories called Bielawa West Station (2003). He has also published: two collections of stories, Roza’s House. Krysuvik (2006), and The Lunatic (2007, a reworked version of his first book); the novella Lullaby for a Hanged Man (2007); the novels One Two Three (2007), First Things (2009) and Bornholm, Bornholm (2011); and two volumes of poetry written in Icelandic.

Julia Sherwood was born and grew up in Bratislava, then Czechoslovakia. After studying English and Slavonic languages and literature at universities in Cologne, London she settled in the UK, where she spent over twenty years working for Amnesty International. She travelled widely in Eastern and Central Europe and the former USSR following the changes in 1989, deepening her knowledge of the languages and literatures of the region.

This year's European Voices events are organized in collaboration with the literary journal AGNI and the Goethe-Institut Boston and are taking 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 to the Center for the Study of Europe at Boston University.

Free and open to the public. Reception and book-signing to follow.

 

Join us for a lecture by Amandine Crespy, lecturer in political science and European studies at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and a member of the Centre d’études de la vie politique (CEVIPOL) and the Institut d’Etudes Europennes (IEE). She was also a visiting researcher at the Freie Universitaet Berlin, Science Po in Paris, Harvard University, the London School of Economics and Queen Mary University of London. Her research interests deal with political conflict over European integration, especially in relation with social and economic policies. She is the co-editor of L’Europe sous tensions. Appropriation et contestation de l’Union européenne (Paris, L’Harmattan, 2010) and Social Policy and the Eurocrisis. Quo Vadis Social Europe (London, Palgrave, forthcoming). She has also authored Qui a peur de Bolkestein? Conflit, résistances et démocratie dans l’Union européenne (London, Economica, 2012) and Capitalism, democracy and European integration. The contentious politics of public services in the European Union (London, Palgrave, forthcoming).

Lunch available at 12:30 - please arrive early if you would like lunch. Open to BU community and others with a research interest in the topic. RSVP to edamrien@bu.edu. 

Join us for a lunch talk with Iris Goldner Lang, Jean Monnet professor of European Union law and a UNESCO Chairholder at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law. Goldner Lang works in the Department of European Public Law at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law. She is the module leader of two Jean Monnet Modules "EU Migration Law and Policy" and "EU Internal Market Law" granted by the European Commission. She holds a UNESCO Chair on Free Movement of People, Migration and Inter-Cultural Dialogue at the University of Zagreb. She has held a number of visiting lectures (LSE, University of Stockholm, University of Vienna, University of Lisbon, Court of Justice of the EU, European Parliament, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Office of the President of the Republic of Croatia, Alpbach Forum Summer School, etc.). She is the editor of three books and the author of a number of articles, chapters in books and a book entitled From Association to Accession: How Free is the Free Movement of Persons in the EU? She is Editor-in-Chief of the Croatian Yearbook of European Law and Policy (CYELP).

Lunch available at 12. Open to BU community and others with a research interest in the topic. RSVP to edamrien@bu.edu.

The Europe and Law Series is organized and sponsored by the Jean Monnet Chair in European Law at Boston University, in collaboration with Boston University's Center for the Study of Europe.

Speakers include: Vivien SCHMIDT, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Founding Director of BU’s Center for the Study of Europe; Laszlo ANDOR, Professor of European Economic Governance at the Institute for European Studies of the ULB and Former EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion; Mario TELO Professor of International Relations at the Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB and at the LUISS Guido Carli di Roma; Emeritus President of the Institute for European Studies of the ULB and Member of the Belgian Royal Academy; and Daniela CARUSO, Jean Monnet Professor of European Law at Boston University.

Free and open to the public | Reception to follow.

This activity acknowledges the support of the H2020 RIA research project ENLIGHTEN - European Legitimacy in Governing through Hard Times: the role of European Networks European Commission Project Number: 649456

 Photo - Roman Forum - by Benson Kua