Upcoming Events!

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.

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.

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.

Join us for a celebration of The Poems of T. S. Eliot, co-edited by Professor Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue! Participants include Bill Coyle, David Ferry Saskia Hamilton, George Kalogeris, Karl Kirchwey, Christopher Ricks, Meg Tyler, and Alissa Valles. Presented by the Editorial Institute. Sponsored by the Editorial Institute, the Center for the Study of Europe, and the Arts Initiative

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

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

Join us for a reading and conversation with José Eduardo Agualusa [Alves da Cunha] and Linda Heywood. Agualusa will read from and discuss his book, A General Theory of Oblivion (Archipelago Books, December, 2015).

José Eduardo Agualusa was born in 1960 in Huambo, Angola. He studied agronomy and forestry in Lisbon before starting his writing career as a poet. His novel Creole was awarded the Portuguese Grand Prize for Literature, and he recently received the U.K.’s Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in the U.K. for The Book of Chameleons. He lives in Luanda and Lisbon.

Linda Heywood is a professor of African History and the History of the African Diaspora and African American Studies at Boston University. She is the author of Contested Power in Angola, editor of and contributor to Central Africans Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora, and co-author with John Thornton of Central African, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of America (Cambridge University Press, July, 2007) which was the winner of the 2008 Melville Herskovits Award for the Best Book published in African Studies.

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

This year's European Voices events are organized in collaboration with the literary journal AGNI 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. José Eduardo Agualusa's visit is co-sponsored by the African Studies Center at Boston University and UMASS Lowell.

Join us for a reading and conversation with Greek writer Christos Ikonomou and translator Karen Emmerich. Ikonomou will read from and discuss his short story collection, Something Will Happen, You'll See (Polis Editions, 2010)—a wrenching yet optimistic elegy to Greece’s working classes. The collection was the most reviewed Greek book of 2010 and the recipient of the prestigious Best Short-Story Collection State Award. It has been translated into six languages and is being published in the U.S by Archipelago in March, 2016.

Christos Ikonomou was born in Athens in 1970. He has published two earlier collections of short stories, The Woman on the Rails (2003) and Something Will Happen, You'll See (2010). Described by Italy’s La Repubblica as “the Greek Faulkner,” Ikonomou writes with profound sensibility, deep humanism and astute foresight about the human condition using the Greek economic crisis as a backdrop.

Karen Emmerich's translations from the Greek include books by Margarita Karapanou, Amanda Michalopoulou, Sophia Nikolaidou, Ersi Sotiropoulos, and Vassilis Vassilikos. Her translation of Miltos Sachtouris for Archipelago was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and her translation of Yannis Ritsos's Diaries of Exile with Edmund Keeley won the 2014 PEN Literary Award. She teaches at Princeton University.

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. Christos Ikonomou's visit is co-sponsored by the Modern Greek Program at Boston University.

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

Join us for a conversation with José Ignacio Torreblanca, Head of ECFR Madrid Office and Senior Policy Fellow at ECFR and in its European Power program. Sofia Perez interviews Torreblanca on the subject of his 2014 book, Who Runs Europe? Reconstructing Democracy, Bringing Citizens Back In.

José Ignacio Torreblanca has been a Fulbright Scholar, a lecturer at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and a researcher at the European University Institute in Florence. A frequent radio, TV, press and journal contributor, his articles and views have appeared in Aspen Review, BBC.com, Bloomberg, CNN.com, Le Courier International, La Croix, European Voice, EurActiv, Financial Times, The Guardian, Internationale, The New York Times, OpenDemocracy, Gazeta Wyborcza, Politiken, PressEurop, Queries, Reuters, Der Spiegel and La Stampa.

In March 2015 Torreblanca was announced the winner of the prestigious Salvador de Madariaga award for journalism in Spain. He was also ranked amongst the ten most influential new intellectuals in Spain and Latin-America by Foreign Policy en español in May 2011.

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