"European Union: Re-assessing an Ambitious Project"

Speakers:

Servaas Deroose, Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General Economics and Financial Affairs (ECFIN), European Commission.

Thomas Wieser, Chairman, Euro Working Group, Council of the European Union.

Co-sponsored by the European Union Study Group, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu

Chairs:

Hans-Helmut Kotz, Visiting Professor of Economics, Department of Economics; Resident Faculty, Center for European Studies, Harvard University; former Member of the Board, Bundesbank; Professor of Economics, Freiburg University.

Dante Roscini, Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School.... Read more about European Economic Policy Forum

"Political Consequences of the Eurozone Crisis"

Speakers:

David Marsh, Director, Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum.

Marina Costa Lobo, Professor of Political Science, University of Lisbon.

Jonathan Hopkin, Reader in Comparative Politics, Department of Government, London School of Economics.

Jose Ignatio Torreblanca, Director, European Council on Foreign Relations, Madrid.

Loukas Tsoukalis, Pierre Keller Visiting Professor, Harvard Kennedy School.

Chairs:

José Manuel Martínez, Sierra Jean Monnet ad Personam Professor in EU Law and Government, Harvard University.

Sofia A. Perez, Associate Professor of Political Science, Boston University.

Co-sponsored by A Center-Periphery Europe? Perspectives from Southern Europe Study Group, Boston University.

Contact:

Sofia Perez
sperez@bu.edu

For the program, please visit https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/files/events/20160419_Provisional_Program.pdf... Read more about European Union Study Group Panel

“Are Hard Times the Mother of Invention? Governing Europe After the Crisis: Efficiency and Legitimacy Challenges”

Speakers:

Joaquin Almunia, Former EU Commissioner for Competition.

Loukas Tsoukalis, Pierre Keller Visiting Professor, Harvard Kennedy School.

Ramona Coman, Professor of European Governance, Institute for European Studies, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

Frederik Ponjaert, Researcher, Institute for European Studies; Head, Waseda University Desk, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

Laszlo Andor, Professor of European Economic Governance, Université Libre de Bruxelles; Mercator Senior Fellow, Hertie School of Governance, Germany; Former EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu

Chair:

Vivien Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Boston University.

“Welfare Markets in Europe: The Democratic Challenge of European Integration”

Speaker:

Amandine Crespy, Assistant Professor of Political Science and EU Studies; Research Affiliate, Cevipol at the Université libre de Bruxelles.

Discussant:

Andrew Martin, Affiliate, Center for European Studies, Harvard University.

Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard...

“Which European Union?”

Speaker:

Sergio Fabbrini, Director, Luiss School of Government; Professor of Political Science and International Relations, LUISS Guido Carli.

Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu

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“An Uncertain Idea of Europe? Ideas in Post-Crisis Europe and How to Study Them”

Speaker:

Mark Blyth, Professor of International Politics, Brown University.

Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu

“The Refugee Crisis and the Disuniting of the Union: Europe on the Brink”

Speaker:

Seyla Benhabib, Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Yale University.

Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History, Harvard Center for Jewish Studies, and The Political Theory Colloquium.

Contact:

Sarah Banse
sarahbanse@wcfia.harvard.edu

"Imagining Europe: Culture, Legitimacy and the EU in Crisis”

Speaker:

Kathleen McNamara, Associate Professor of Government and Foreign Service, Georgetown University.

Discussant:

Jason Beckfield, Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.

Contact:

Sarah Banse
sarahbanse@wcfia.harvard.edu

“German Foreign Policy Facing the Crises in Europe”

Speaker:

Norbert Roettgen, Member of the German Bundestag and Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Contact:

Sarah Banse
sarahbanse@wcfia.harvard.edu

"The Refugee Crisis in the EU: Root Causes, Current Challenges, and Future Implications"

Speaker:

Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia, Professor of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers-State University of New Jersey.

Contact:

Sarah Banse
sarahbanse@wcfia.harvard.edu

“Looking Back at German Unification”

Speaker:

Tereza Novotna, FNRS Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for European Studies, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

Discussant:

Charles S. Maier, Senior Adviser, Executive Committee; Faculty Associate. Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@fas.harvard.edu

Co-sponsored by the Contemporary Europe Study Group, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.

“How the Euro Transformed National Politics”

Speaker:

Carlo Bastasin, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Senior Fellow, LUISS University in Rome, Italy; author of Saving Europe.

Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.

A light lunch will be available at 11:30am.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@fas.harvard.edu

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"The State of the Euro"

Panelists:

Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, Visiting Scholar, Program on Transatlantic Relations; Former member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank.

Richard N. Cooper, Faculty Associate. Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Jeffrey A. Frankel, Faculty Associate. James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth, Harvard Kennedy School.

Jeffry A. Frieden, Faculty Associate. Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Hans-Helmut Kotz, Senior Fellow, Center for Financial Studies, Goethe University; Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Economics and Behavioral Sciences, Freiburg University; Former member of the Bundesbank Board.

Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.

A light lunch will be available at 11:30am.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@fas.harvard.edu... Read more about European Union Study Group

"The Future of the EU: A Perspective from Spain”

Speaker:

José Maria Beneyto, Jean Monnet Professor of International Business Law and European Community Law, San Pablo CEU University, Spain; Chairman, Foreign Affairs Committee of the Spanish Parliament; Vice Chairman, Assembly of the Council of Europe.

Contact:

Jessica Barnard
jbarnard@fas.harvard.edu... Read more about Study Group on the Future of the European Union

"Is the Euro Area Heading back into Crisis?"

Speaker:

Erik Jones, Director of European and Eurasian Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University.

Discussant:

Daniela Schwarzer, Senior Director for Research and Director of European Programs, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Berlin; Senior Research Professor, Department for European and Eurasian Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University.

Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.

Contact:

Ann Townes
atownes@wcfia.harvard.edu