BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:2018 Summit on the Future of Europe at Harvard – Back to Square One PRODID:-//Harvard events data//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_1144360_0 SUMMARY:2018 Summit on the Future of Europe at Harvard – Back to Square One DESCRIPTION:

Once more, the RCC and the RCC Director´s Jean Monnet ad personam Chair in European Law and Government at Harvard University are proud to sponsor The Summit on the Future of Europe. The Summit is an initiative of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) at Harvard University. Since 2014, this annual conference convenes scholars and public leaders to debate critical challenges facing Europe. The fifth annual Summit is a partnership of CES, the Harvard Kennedy School’s Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, diaNEOsis Research and Policy Institute, European Stability Initiative (ESI) and Central European University (CEU).

The Summit is open to the public excluding the luncheon keynote address which will be viewable via livestream. Seating for all other panels is on a first-come, first-served basis with the following exception: Harvard students only may request a reserved seat here. For full information on this event please click here.

Speakers:

Grzegorz Ekiert – Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government; CES Director, Harvard University
Nicholas Burns – Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations and Faculty Chair of the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, Harvard Kennedy School
Karen Donfried – President, The German Marshall Fund of the United States; Senior Fellow, CES, Harvard University
Daniela Schwarzer – Director, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
Mary Elise Sarotte – Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Distinguished Professor of Historical Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS); Research Associate, CES, Harvard University
Michael Ignatieff – President & Rector, Central European University; Senior Fellow, CES, Harvard University
Monica Macovei – Member of the European Parliament, European Conservatives and Reformists, Romania
Ayşe Kadıoğlu – Professor of Political Science, Sabancı University; Acting President, Sabancı University (Oct. 2016 - Dec. 2017); Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabancı University (Sept. 2013 - Oct. 2017); Visiting Scholar, CES, Harvard University
Sigmar Gabriel – Member of the Bundestag; Vice Chancellor and Minister for Foreign Affairs (2013-2018), Federal Republic of Germany; John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow 2018, CES, Harvard University
John Dalhuisen – Senior Fellow, European Stability Initiative (ESI)
Kyriakos Pierrakakis – Director of Research, diaNEOsis Research and Policy Institute
Vivien A. Schmidt – Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Boston University; Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University; Local Affiliate, CES, Harvard University; Co-Chair, European Union, CES, Harvard University
Steven Erlanger – Chief Diplomatic Correspondent Europe, The New York Times
Stefan Kornelius – Foreign Policy Editor, Süddeutsche Zeitung
Eleni Varvitsiotis – EU Correspondent, Kathimerini
James Geary – Deputy Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University

Sponsors: Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies; RCC; Jean Monnet ad personam Chair in European Union Law and Government; Harvard University Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School; diaNEOsis Research and Policy Institute; Central European University; European Stability Innitiative. This event is made possible by the John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellowship.

LOCATION:Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way, Cambridge, MA STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20181105T134500Z DTEND:20181105T224500Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR