European Union (EU) is considered a central pillar of the genesis and development of the EU project. However, since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the EU's enlargement, many challenges have emerged and eroded its fundamentals.
This panel will focus on the historical evolution and...
Wasserstein Hall, WCC 2012 Classroom, Harvard Law School
Please join the Human Rights Program for a talk by Michael Doyle, University Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. In this lecture, Professor Doyle will identify key features and justifications for a global convention on international mobility. Drafted by thirty-plus experts in refugee law, migration law, sociology, economics, and political science, the Model International Mobility Convention is a decade-long agenda for reform. It offers a comprehensive and cumulative set of rights and responsibilities from the minimal rights needed by...
The United Kingdom’s decision to leave the EU after the 23 June 2016 referendum is one of the most crucial turning points for the political history of the European Union in recent times. Despite the multiple attempts to investigate this political relationship from the British perspective, there have been less attempts to analyse how both the UK and Brexit are discursively constructed in the European Council’s public discourse. This study looks into the Conclusions reached by the EU Head of...
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Hoffmann Room, Adolphus Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA.
It is hard to be an optimist about democracy today. Many believe that democracy is in crisis and that "illiberal" democracies like Hungary or some form of authoritarianism, as exists in Russia or China, is the wave of the future.
Assessing the current state of democracy requires looking beyond our immediate situation...
Arthur M. Sackler Building, Room 422, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA.
Once again, the RCC is pleased to announce a series of lectures from the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University. Lectures are to be held throughout the academic year on Thursdays in the months of September, October, November 2019 and March and April 2020 plus a series of special guest lecture series in March and April of 2020. All lectures are free and open to the public.
Speaker: Robyn Radway. Assistant Professor of History, Central European University.
In this event we will discuss the possible opportunities for talent recruitment; specifically, Salvador Naya will talk about some of the current programs for the transition towards faculty positions at the UDC (Universidade da Coruña) and will analyze some of the European and Spanish tenure programs. In this case the speaker will talk about the program that the University of A Coruña has with INDITEX to recruit talent. The Intalentprogram, has recruited 6 new researchers to join the...
Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
This symposium will address the “transfer of ideas” approach in the study of the intellectual history of Europe and the United States, with a special focus on the hybridity of political and administrative ideas.
Comparative political science and public administration scholarship often refers to the notion of national political cultures and administrative traditions, to understand differences between states.
Empirical textual research shows, however, that traditions are historically hybrid, open for outside inspiration and influence through mutual learning.
Arthur M. Sackler Building, Room 422, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA.
Once again, the RCC is pleased to announce a series of lectures from the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University. Lectures are to be held throughout the academic year on Thursdays in the months of September, October, November 2019 and March and April 2020 plus a series of special guest lecture series in March and April of 2020. All lectures are free and open to the public.
Speaker: Nadia Ali. Faculty Fellow, Silsilaa: Center for Material Histories, New York University.
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way, Cambridge, MA
Large territorial and demographic disparities have constituted obstacles to the integration and development of the European Union from the very beginning. Strengthening economic, social and territorial cohesion and, especially, reducing disparities between the levels of development of its various regions is crucial for promoting the development of the Union. In her role as European Commissioner for Cohesion and...
Following a successful inaugural conference in 2019, we are pleased to announce the 2nd International Annual Conference in Innovative Teaching: Applying New Approaches to Improve Higher Education (IACIT@RCC), which will take place at the Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard on ...
