The talk will take place three days after the UK’s scheduled departure from the EU but nobody knows at this stage whether the deed will have happened. Irrespective of the uncertainty, Kalypso Nicolaidis will present the themes of her upcoming book on Brexit entitled Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice: Three Meanings of Brexit. The talk will cover and update some of the book’s themes, including how archetypal myths can help us renew our democratic conversation, whether British exceptionalism is that exceptional, Brexit as bargaining pedagogy, the unveiling of liminal fates in the EU, will the UK get lost in transition, the meaning of a promise, the pervasiveness of post-Brexit endism, the price of hubris for those who stray, the value of principles and the story schisms, what is a perfect scapegoat, whether we can imagine a self-reflexive sacrifice, the importance of being former (member state), and Brexit as the ultimate proof.
Speaker: Kalypso Nicolaïdis. Director, Center for International Studies, University of Oxford.
Chair: Charles Maier Leverett. Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty, CES, Harvard University; Director (1994-2001), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.
Sponsors: RCC; Jean Monnet ad Personam Chair in European Union Law and Government; Contemporary Europe Study Group, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University; EU Law and Government Study Group, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.
LOCATION:Goldman Room, Adolphus Busch Hall, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way, Cambridge, MA STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20190401T203000Z DTEND:20190401T220000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR